Fire investigators discovered two illegal hash-oil extraction operations inside the Nederland home that caught fire following an explosion Monday afternoon, seriously burning two people inside. Steve Pischke, who works with the Multi-Agency Fire Investigations Team, said investigators found one of the operations inside the garage — where the explosion occurred and the fire started — and another in a separate room.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Colorado Daily

On July 13 the U.S. House of Representatives adopted an amendment increasing funding for the Volunteer Fire Assistance program from $13 million to $15 million. The amendment was offered by Reps Jared Polis (D-Colo.), Peter King (R-N.Y.) and Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.) to the FY2017 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

The first national system intended to prevent hobby drones from interfering with planes and helicopters fighting wildfires has launched, federal authorities say. The U.S. Interior Department announced the kickoff of the pilot project Monday that uses a smartphone app and real-time wildfire information to create virtual boundaries, or geofences, that drones can't cross.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPVI-TV NBC 6

One city firefighter has been fired and two others have been suspended from their jobs. City officials said the termination of firefighter Scott Graham stemmed from an arrest last fall. Firefighters Todd Guertin and Daniel Goudreault have been placed on unpaid leave while the city investigates alleged improprieties.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: eagle-tribune

The city of Woodbury has filed a lawsuit against a former firefighter to get him to stop using pictures allegedly identifying himself as a Woodbury firefighter on the website of a nonprofit company that he started. The lawsuit, filed in Washington County District Court against William Braun and EdQuest Inc.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Paul Pioneer Press

The death of Sonia Bray and the Columbus Fire Division's subsequent investigation of paramedics’ role have exposed weaknesses in the division’s ability to hold its employees accountable when they make mistakes. The Dispatch found that the division’s investigation into why Bray died in early 2011 went dormant for nearly a year, that internal investigators were unwilling to ask necessary questions and that a turnover in investigators led to light punishments for two paramedics and a lieutenant.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: columbus dispatch

VIDEO - For Kim Bonney, becoming a firefighter was always the plan. At age 16 she started working as a call firefighter in Ashburnham, though she'll point out that it wasn't until she was 18 that she was allowed to go into any burning buildings. Originally, it had just been a way to fight off the boredom that inevitably comes with growing up in a small town, but it quickly developed into a passion for helping others.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise

On July 25, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 24, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 20, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 24, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 23, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 22, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 21, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 24, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Don Ishman, the former chief of the Hilltop Volunteer Fire Department, was killed Saturday afternoon when he was accidentally struck by a tanker apparatus at the firehall on Saturday afternoon. Kane-based state police said Ishman, 60, of Cyclone, was one of several firefighters assisting with a public service detail on Saturday.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bradford Era

An Orford firefighter died in the line of duty, according to the State Fire Marshal's Office. Charles Waterbury was an active member of the Orford Fire Department for about 10 years. While fighting a brush fire in Lyme, Waterbury suffered a medical emergency and was taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMUR-TV ABC 9 Manchester

Police, firefighters and other first responders sign up for inherently dangerous work, but that doesn't give citizens or businesses a blank check to harm them without financial consequences, a federal judge has ruled in the case of a Maryville train derailment. Chief U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan has turned aside a bid by CSX Transportation Inc.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: knoxville news sentinel

Firefighter Gabriel Lee, who died during a night shift in North Philadelphia Saturday, was a kind and soft-spoken father of three who had worked in the department for more than 20 years, his family said Sunday. Lee, 42, of East Germantown, was also an accomplished amateur boxer, said his mother-in-law Faustine Myers, and he was recently baptized at Second Baptist Church of Germantown, the same church where his son sings in a choir.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: philly.com

The Missouri Fire Service is reporting a death in the line of duty for a firefighter responding to a call Sunday morning in rural Livingston County. The fire service reported the death of Ed Cosgrove of the Green Township Fire Protection District, five miles west of Chillicothe. Cosgrove is described as a 15 year veteran of the fire department.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kttn.com