Greensboro City Councilwoman Sharon Hightower boycotted a graduation ceremony last week for new firefighters.
The reason? Not enough minority recruits in the class.
Hightower, who represents District 1 in mostly black East Greensboro, said she skipped the graduation ceremony June 23 on purpose.
She said Thursday that she was “very disappointed” to learn that only one of the 18 new firefighters is black. - PUB DATE: 7/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: greensboro.com
An Irvington fire chief who stopped a man's vicious knife attack on his girlfriend last April has received national recognition for his heroism.
Christopher T. DePaoli is one of 23 recipients of a medal for heroism from the Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.
DePaoli was with his two daughters near the Irvington train platform when he saw a man repeatedly stab a woman in the back and near area. - PUB DATE: 6/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Journal News (Lohud.com)
They can't shake the images from their minds.
Bodies and blood in a sea of chaos.
Off-duty Orlando police Officer James Hyland was working private security the morning of June 12 when he heard the call over his radio.
He drove his pickup truck into the parking lot as terrified patrons spilled out of Pulse nightclub about 2 a. - PUB DATE: 6/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: cnn
An EMT and former military police officer videotaped himself swallowing a bullet with a beer chaser before prosecutors say he fatally shot a rookie Stoneham firefighter at point-blank range during a drunken game of dare between friends.
When first responders found David Atherton, 24, dead on his back and drenched in blood late Tuesday night on the kitchen floor of his Congress Street apartment in Stoneham, authorities said his childhood pal Patrick Riccardi-O’Connor told them through tears Atherton had killed himself after asking him, “Do you trust me?”
“They were drinking in the deceased’s home. - PUB DATE: 6/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: boston herald
VIDEO - It was a ride at least a dozen passengers on board the Silver Bullet say they'll never forgot. Just as the Frontier City roller coaster reached the top, something went wrong.
Frontier City told News 9 a malfunction was the result of the lift stalling Wednesday afternoon. The car simply didn't have enough momentum to make it over the first hill. - PUB DATE: 6/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KWTV-TV Oklahoma City
A woman walking around Beaver Creek Reservoir Tuesday evening died after being struck by a Green Springs Volunteer Fire Department truck. The Seneca County Sheriff’s office, who is handling the investigation into the death, has not released her identity pending positive identification by the woman's husband. - PUB DATE: 6/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: sandusky register
A member of the Dakota City Fire Department has died after suffering a heart attack while in the line of duty.
Capt. Eric Speck, 38, died Monday after suffering from a heart attack on Thursday after responding to a medical call.
Dakota City Fire Chief Clint Rasmussen said Speck had been complaining of chest pains during the call and traveled to the hospital afterward, where it was found he had suffered a heart attack. - PUB DATE: 6/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: sioux city journal
A member of the Dakota City Fire Department has died after suffering a heart attack while in the line of duty.
Capt. Eric Speck, 38, died Monday after suffering from a heart attack on Thursday after responding to a medical call.
Dakota City Fire Chief Clint Rasmussen said Speck had been complaining of chest pains during the call and traveled to the hospital afterward, where it was found he had suffered a heart attack. - PUB DATE: 6/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: sioux city journal
Akron will no longer use a test for fire department promotions.
The city will instead rely on education and seniority.
A three-year contract recently approved by the fire union includes a new promotional process that is aimed at avoiding a repeat of years of legal challenges over promotional tests that caused a depletion of the department’s ranks. - PUB DATE: 6/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: akron beacon journal
Six firefighters were transported to the hospital after deploying their fire shelters while battling the Cedar Fire near Show Low on Tuesday.
There was a sudden and unexpected change in the fire, according to Candy Lupe with the Bureau of Indian Affairs Fire Management.
A group of fire crews had to deploy their fire shelters. - PUB DATE: 6/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KASW-CW6 & KTVK-3TV
The absence of volunteers at the Colonial Volunteer Fire Co. has led to fire apparatus being unable to respond to emergency calls during the evening and overnight hours recently, officials say and documents show.
The turnout has been so low in the past few months that the company's volunteer fire chief, Joseph Scharnitz Jr. - PUB DATE: 6/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Trenton Times
Donald Farley, leader of the Bristol Fire Department’s Swift Water Rescue team, had barely made it into Rainelle when he ran out of road.
Little Sewell Creek had already enveloped the small town in Greenbrier County with four to eight feet of muddy, turbulent water, leaving the few local emergency officials that were available nearly helpless. - PUB DATE: 6/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Charleston Gazette-Mail
A veteran Austintown firefighter died while on duty Monday morning.
John Fritz, a member of the Austintown Fire Department since 1992, is believed to have died in his sleep at Austintown Fire Station #1.
Fritz was working a 24 hour shift which started at 8 a.m. Sunday morning, according to Fire Chief Andrew Frost. - PUB DATE: 6/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFMJ-TV Youngstown NBC 21
VIDEO - A 27-year-old man broke into a firehouse, crashed through the bay doors and took a stolen fire truck speeding through Paulding County.
Firefighters at Station #3 were participating in a training session a few blocks from the firehouse Monday morning when Paulding County Fire Dispatch started receiving unauthorized distress transmissions over the department's secure radio network. - PUB DATE: 6/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIA-TV NBC 11 Atlanta
The town of Camden Point in northern Platte County is celebrating its new state-of-the-art fire facility, but the community’s lottery millionaires are humble about what they did to make it happen. The building, which took more than a year to build, houses both the ambulance service and the community’s fire trucks. - PUB DATE: 6/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMBC-TV 9
Butler County fire departments have long shared purchasing and equipment testing, but a new study shows there are other avenues to pursue that could save more taxpayer money.
Officials in all nine jurisdictions that participated in the two-year study agree sharing testing results in the part-time personnel hiring process is the most valuable observation to come out of the 115-page study. - PUB DATE: 6/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hamilton Journal-News
Over the last three days, 12 firefighters and 10 instructors have been taking part in live burns as researchers collect data for a new study the effects of firefighter training on their health.
Teams from Skidmore College, UL’s Firefighter Safety Research Institute, The University of Illinois – Champaign and NIOSH have been taking part in the collaborative Cardiovascular and Chemical Exposure Project at the Illinois Fire Service Institute. - PUB DATE: 6/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse
Since the 2008 financial crisis, private equity firms have increasingly taken over public services like emergency care and firefighting, often with dire effects. A Tennessee woman slipped into a coma and died after an ambulance company took so long to assemble a crew that one worker had time for a cigarette break. - PUB DATE: 6/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york times
Wildfires continued to burn in California Sunday, scorching nearly 60,000 acres and claiming two lives as 4,500 firefighters battled the six blazes, which stretched from the Klammath National Forest in Northern California to the Mexican border in San Diego County, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, The Los Angeles Times reported. - PUB DATE: 6/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fox news
It’s a rumor that started within a week of Congress passing the legislation that created FirstNet, and it’s one that just won’t die, particularly during in the heated political environment that exists during the months leading up to a presidential election.
There are multiple versions with different wrinkles offered, but the basic premise is fairly straightforward: Republicans will want to kill FirstNet quickly, if the party gains control of the presidency and Congress in November. - PUB DATE: 6/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: urgent communications
