After EMS response times for life-threatening emergencies jumped by more than 20 seconds last year, the FDNY plans to spend $5 million on two pilot programs to handle what it calls a record number of emergency calls.
Starting this summer, the FDNY plans to use 10 “fly cars” — fire supervisor SUVs carrying a paramedic — to emergencies in the Bronx ahead of ambulances, fire officials told the Daily News on Monday. - PUB DATE: 2/23/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News
Bad guys, beware. Woody Williams is not playing around when it comes to his neighborhood fire station. He will be there to protect the men and women who work there.
A photo of Williams in his plaid jacket and pajama pants has gone viral after he went out to his local fire station to keep an eye on the place while firefighters were out on a call. - PUB DATE: 2/23/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMBF
California's new corrections chief is backing off a plan to lower standards for inmate firefighters, focusing instead on persuading county sheriffs to send more jail prisoners to the state program.
Scott Kernan, who took over last month as secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said in an interview with The Associated Press that he expects California will have enough inmate firefighters for this year's fire season despite a dwindling pool of candidates from state prisons. - PUB DATE: 2/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee
More than 40 fire departments from seven counties battled a fire Friday at a warehouse owned by FutureX Industry in the small town of Marshall in Parke County.
Fire departments from Parke, Montgomery, Fountain, Vermillion, Putnam, Clay and Vigo counties answered the call at 226 E. Guion St. with tanker trucks, aerial trucks and manpower. - PUB DATE: 2/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Journal Review
The application for SAFER grant applications is now open.
Fire and EMS agencies have until 5 p.m. March 25 to submit grant applications.
Information on the program can be obtained here.
The SAFER grant was established to:
Assist local fire departments improve and restore staffing and deployment capabilities so they may more effectively and safely respond to emergencies. - PUB DATE: 2/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse.com
A Marble volunteer firefighter was injured Friday afternoon when the fire engine he was driving was hit from the side by a Walmart semi-truck on Highway 412 in Marble. According to Marble Fire Department Chief Ron Pfeiffer, who was at the scene, the engine was leaving the Marble Fire Station on Madison 2405 to respond to a field fire that had been reported on Highway 21. - PUB DATE: 2/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Madison County Record
South Dakota is on the leading edge for 9-1-1 dispatch services with a new network that will link all dispatch centers in the state, and Mitchell was among the first to implement the new technology.
Dispatch centers, officially known as public safety answering points, around the state are implementing a system called Next Generation 9-1-1, which is a system of hardware, software, data and operational policies that includes a statewide digital telephone system and an IP-based network that links all dispatch centers together. - PUB DATE: 2/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mitchell Republic
The northern portions of Oklahoma saw several fires break out Thursday.
Washington County fire crews battled a large fire in the Wann area. And in Nowata County, fires broke out along Highways 169 and 60.
One firefighter is recovering after troopers say a man hit him while driving through the smoke. - PUB DATE: 2/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOTV-TV CBS 6 Tulsa
The fire department has launched a pilot program to make ambulances healthier for the environment.
EMS crews save lives while on the move, but idling ambulances could be doing harm.
“Each ambulance, when running, we found put forty-five tons of carbon emission into the atmosphere per year,” FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. - PUB DATE: 2/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS New York
In November of last year, Liberty Volunteer Fire Department was asked by Walton County Fire Rescue for assistance in a rural part of the county.
"One of the firefighters there decided not to send tanker support for Walton County," said Fire Chief Bobby Martin for Walton County Fire Rescue.
The person who made the decision was Assistant Fire Chief Tony Roy with the Liberty Volunteer Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 2/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMBB-TV My Pan Handle.com
Michael Kiddy was stocking shelves at his job at Food Lion in Valdese when his heart stopped beating.
The 60-year-old man collapsed in a back aisle of the store. That spot would have marked the place he died, had it not been for quick thinking witnesses and first responders, including Michael’s own son. - PUB DATE: 2/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNCN-TV NBC 17
VIDEO - A private helicopter with five people on board crashed Thursday into Hawaii's Pearl Harbor, leaving a teenage passenger in critical condition, officials said.
The Bell 206 aircraft made a hard landing and sank near the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center, a popular tourist destination on Oahu, U.S. Navy spokeswoman Agnes Tauyan said. - PUB DATE: 2/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1
Derlyn Vance would fix your car, lend you money, cook you a meal or give you his last dollar, no matter who you were, friends and neighbors in Homewood said Wednesday.
“It pained him to see people down on their luck. That's one thing I learned from him — never turn down anybody,” said Bob Cravener, as he stood across the street from the burned-out shell of the home he said Vance opened to anyone in need. - PUB DATE: 2/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!," shouted a firefighter last week on call in Roanoke County. It's a call you never want to hear.
"Active mayday on the fire ground, a firefighter fallen through the floor," said another firefighter.
But it happened to one Roanoke County firefighter last week.
"I fell through the second floor, through the first floor, and ended up hanging upside down from the basement ceiling," said Firefighter and Paramedic Robert Mauck. - PUB DATE: 2/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBDJ7 Roanoke News
Four children were killed when a Pensacola home caught fire early Thursday morning.
The victims were two boys, 11 and 5, and two girls, 3 and 11 months. The mother of the children and her 14-year-old daughter were able to escape without injuries.
The blaze was reported around 5:30 a.m. at a little wooden house on the corner of Baylen and Scott streets. - PUB DATE: 2/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: pensacola news journal
A deal to put the woman suspected of starting the fire that severely injured Fresno Fire Capt. Pete Dern behind bars for seven years was derailed in Fresno County Superior Court on Wednesday, and the case now appears to be headed for trial.
Judge Don Penner rejected the seven-year prison term previously agreed to by both the Fresno County District Attorney's Office and counsel for Julia Harper, 52. - PUB DATE: 2/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fresno bee
PHOTO - More than a dozen Columbus firefighters could face punishment for a farewell party at a closed fire station this past summer.
Photos obtained by 10TV show what investigators call deliberate damage to the old Station 2 building. Firefighters say the pictures don't tell the whole story.
The photos were taken inside Station 2 days after the now notorious ‘kegs and eggs’ party. - PUB DATE: 2/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBNS-TV Columbus 10
The 2016 Official White House Christmas Ornament was unveiled last week featuring an antique fire truck to commemorate a fire that damaged the West Wing on Christmas Eve 1929.
President Hoover, the 31st President of the United States, was hosting a Christmas party for his staff and their children in the Entrance Hall of the East Wing when the fire was reported. - PUB DATE: 2/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse
PHOTO - A new fire truck being delivered to a Long Island department crashed on Interstate 84 East in Hopewell Junction on Tuesday, state police confirmed.
"It was a brand new fire truck being delivered" to the Islip Terrace Fire Department, said Melissa McMorris, a state police spokeswoman. The delivery driver was "transported to Danbury Hospital" in Connecticut. - PUB DATE: 2/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: poughkeepsie journal
Augusta Fire Chief Chris James was rehired by the city Tuesday after losing a job offer in York County, S.C.
James had accepted a position as the county’s deputy manager but lost the job offer, several Augusta Commission members confirmed.
Commissioner Bill Lockett said York officials rescinded the offer after receiving “all this erroneous information” from the Augusta firefighters union. - PUB DATE: 2/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1
