The chief said Monday that a six-figure deficit appeared in the Fire Department budget recently because the acting city auditor miscalculated the number of firefighters' salaries that had to be funded in relation to when a grant expired.
The budget was supposed to fund 72 firefighter salaries with the help of a federal SAFER (Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response) grant but a routine analysis showed that with expiration of the grant, only 67 were funded, Fire Chief John A. - PUB DATE: 1/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Springfield Union-News & Sunday Republican
The fire chief who played a pornographic video during a training session in Spaniard's Bay has been removed from the position by the board that oversees a regional fire department in eastern Newfoundland.
CBC News had confirmed that Jeremy Hall was replaced as chief of the regional Bay de Grave fire department, following a series of meetings over the weekend by the 10-member board of directors. - PUB DATE: 1/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: cbc news
Damages from two destructive Northern California wildfires that killed six and sent thousands fleeing their homes topped $1 billion in insured losses, according to a preliminary estimate by the state’s insurance department.
The two fires started days apart in September, burning more than 200 square miles of remote, mountainous territory north and northeast of San Francisco. - PUB DATE: 1/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: modesto bee
As gray smoke rose from the burning condo building on U Street, D.C. Fire Chief Gregory M. Dean circled the block, talking with battalion chiefs and paramedics standing ready to treat anyone who was injured.
He didn’t assume command. Instead, Dean kept his eye trained on the grunt work of firefighters, hauling hoses and training water on hot spots. - PUB DATE: 1/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the washington post
Pulaski County Sheriff authorities have arrested Mark Pruitt, 47, for manslaughter in the shooting death of Jason Adams. Adams was a volunteer with the East Pulaski County Volunteer Fire Department and responded to a 911 medical emergency call at Pruitt's residence.
Authorities have not released the details of what transpired inside the home that led to the shooting. - PUB DATE: 1/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KARK-TV NBC 4 Little Rock
Research out of Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health determined that emergency medical technicians and paramedics are 14 times more likely to be violently injured on the job than the firefighters they work alongside.
By comparing statistics gathered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency-funded Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trends (FIRST) project and speaking with a group of paramedics who had been injured by patients, the Drexel researchers found that assault-related injuries are often not reported, not acknowledged by administration and therefore they are internalized by the workers as a “part of the job. - PUB DATE: 1/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Drexel University
Augusta firefighters are due even more back pay after city officials acknowledged Friday a software glitch shorted them a portion of overtime pay for 11 months last year. Fire Chief Chris James told personnel in a Friday letter, obtained by The Augusta Chronicle, that a software module correcting a previous miscalculation of overtime pay “did not carry over and perform as designed” when the city upgraded payroll software last February. - PUB DATE: 1/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: augusta chronicle
The Independent Volunteer Fire Company and five of its members have filed a lawsuit, alleging town officials violated their civil rights and state law in handling allegations against them.
The suit against the town, filed in Atlantic County Superior Court, alleges that Station 2 firefighters were denied due process and that town officials broke the law in suspending them. - PUB DATE: 1/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: press of atlantic city
The family of a Fresno paramedic who was killed in the Skylife air ambulance helicopter crash in Kern County has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Rogers Helicopters, claiming it was negligent in the maintenance and operation of the Bell 407 aircraft that crashed in a field nine miles east of McFarland last month. - PUB DATE: 1/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fresno bee
A firefighter was killed while responding to a patient with a seizure Friday morning in Pulaski County, a spokesman with the sheriff's office said.
The East Pulaski firefighter, whose name was not immediately released, responded to a report on Dortch Loop Road outside North Little Rock around 5 a.m. - PUB DATE: 1/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NWAOnline - Northwest Arkansas News
Though wearing an air pack, Mount Marion Fire Department Capt. Jack Rose inhaled “superheated gases” and suffered “irreversible respiratory failure,” causing his death while fighting a house fire, town police said Thursday.
Rose, 19, died Dec. 19, 2015, after going into distress while helping fight a chimney fire in a home at 11 Fel Qui Road in the Centerville Fire District. - PUB DATE: 1/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the daily freeman
A retired Middletown firefighter and U.S. Marine battled to the end, his mother said.
“He was a fighter,” said Ginger Bruggeman. “He was a Marine and he never gave up. He’d be at death’s door one day and one hour later, he’d be telling jokes.”
Her son, Scott D. Bruggeman, 45, of Middletown, died Monday after battling heart disease for almost two years. - PUB DATE: 1/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hamilton journal-news
Detroit Fire Department has been, and continues to go through challenging times as the Motown city recovers from bankruptcy and an unprecedented de-population of what was once the fourth largest city in the nation.
Until November, Craig Dougherty, a 38-year veteran of the department, served as the second deputy fire commissioner in charge of operations and apparatus. - PUB DATE: 1/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse
Former Olmsted Township Fire Chief John Rice has accused Fire Chief Patrick Kelly of conduct violations, and a group of residents is collecting signatures asking the township board of trustees to investigate Kelly.
Kelly, the former Cleveland fire chief who took over the small department in September, placed Rice, now assistant chief, on paid administrative leave this month. - PUB DATE: 1/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland Plain Dealer & Cleveland.com
The Chicago Fire Department could save at least $1.2 million a year and potentially millions more in overtime by hiring civilians to perform 34 administrative jobs that have nothing to do with firefighting or emergency medical service, Inspector General Joe Ferguson said Wednesday.
Three years after urging Mayor Rahm Emanuel to civilianize police jobs to save up to $16. - PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: chicago sun-times
Denver Fire Chief Eric Tade stood outside his station Wednesday and talked about what it was like to be stabbed in a random attack the day before.
"It was a very surreal experience — the scariest part was being trapped and restrained in the car," he said.
Denver police say the woman accused of stabbing Denver's top firefighter Tuesday afternoon had no connection to him. - PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Denver Post
PHOTOS - Two people were injured Wednesday when a fire engine slammed into a North Texas Dairy Queen.
City officials said Greenville Fire-Rescue Unit 4 crashed into the restaurant located on the 200 block of Highway 380 East in Farmersville at about noon. The truck was headed east on U.S. 380 when it left the road for an unknown reason. - PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Dallas - Fort Worth
The health and safety risks and hazards of firefighting on the men and women that make up the profession is increasingly well studied and documented. Meaningful and sound research has led to changes in individual fitness priorities, personal protective equipment, first responder personnel activities on the fire-ground, and a better understanding of the overall health risks increasingly associated with firefighting. - PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firefighternation.com
I don’t know what happened up there 27 years ago this past November, the morning six firefighters died on a windswept hill in south Kansas City. Maybe no one will ever know, except for the arsonists responsible for their deaths.
But I do know this. The federal government — the same federal government that imprisoned five people for life in the case — has acknowledged that it never fully solved the crime. - PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kansas city star
Denver Fire Chief Eric Tade was stabbed Tuesday afternoon just outside of his department's headquarters at Colfax Avenue and Speer Boulevard.
Investigators said a woman jumped into Tade's unmarked city SUV as it was stopped and attacked him. Doug Schepman, a police spokesman, declined to speculate on what spurred the stabbing. - PUB DATE: 1/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: denver post
