The city’s fire chief considered firing or demoting an Austin Fire Department lieutenant based on his attitude toward Austin-Travis County EMS medics and dispatchers, according to a memo she wrote to the civil service director. Austin fire Lt. James Crowther was ultimately suspended from duty for 60 days, a time period that ends Sept.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: statesman

On July 22, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 21, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The top fire official in Tioga County was killed Wednesday when a county pickup truck struck him while backing up, officials said. Tioga County Fire Coordinator John Scott, 71, of Campville, was one of several employees who were performing maintenance at a county radio tower on Carmichael Road in the Town of Owego when he was struck around 3 p.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: press connects

In the wake of killings of police officers in Baton Rouge and Dallas, the New Orleans firefighters union is pushing back against sending its members door-to-door to install smoke detectors, arguing that the practice could put them at risk of being targeted. Fire Superintendent Tim McConnell said Thursday, however, that the policy has put no one in danger and will not be changed.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The New Orleans advocate

A new mobile rehabilitation clinic in Rock County is helping emergency responders stay safe and healthy while on the job. “We have about 100 fire service-related deaths on duty in the country,” Mercy Health Associate EMS Medical Director Christopher Wistrom said. “That’s unacceptable.” Town of Beloit Fire Chief Gene Wright said more than half of those deaths are from overexertion or heart attack.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison

A former Denver fire captain is suing the city with allegations of gender discrimination. In her federal lawsuit, Colley Fisher said she worked for the Denver Fire Department for 23 years. During her tenure, she said she became one of the department’s first female engineers before eventually being promoted to captain.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMGH-TV ABC 7 Denver

Fire and police departments are dancing to raise surgery funds for a 2-year-old girl with cerebral palsy. Finley Smallwood, 2, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy after being born nine weeks premature. Her parents, Christina and Josh Smallwood, adopted Finley at birth when they learned pregnancy could be difficult and risky.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

On July 20, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department firefighters at a Moreno Valley station were ordered Monday, July 18, to take down a pro-law enforcement flag from one of the engines. The flag - which was black and white with a blue stripe through the middle - features the "thin blue line," which is commonly used to commemorate fallen police officers.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the press enterprise

A Commonwealth Court panel has ruled the widow of a Williamsport fire chief who died from gastric cancer is not entitled workers' compensation benefits that would amount to about $40,000 a year. The panel Monday in a 2-1 decision found the October 2011 death of Platoon Chief Jeffrey Cole was not related to cancers suffered by firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pennlive.com

Augusta’s personnel board has upheld the terminations of two firefighters who admitted picking up items from a Columbia County wreck scene. After a two-hour hearing Wednesday, the board quickly voted 8-0 to affirm. Member J.R. Riles said the board wanted to send a message. “The fire department and the police department, you’ve got to be able to trust them to take care of your personal stuff when you’re in a difficult situation,” Riles said.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: augusta chronicle

In the latest volley involving a two-year contract dispute, the city and the firefighters’ union are squabbling over whether firefighters were forced to work on a new community garden located behind the South Massey Street fire station. The Watertown Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 191 filed an improper practice charge with the state Public Employees Relation Board against the city, claiming firefighters were told by the city that they must work on the vegetable garden behind the city’s Emma Flower Taylor Fire Station.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: watertown daily times

A Nashville district fire chief is in trouble after several of his Facebook posts were published on a local blog. District Chief Tim Lankford has been pulled from the field and is now doing administrative work while the Nashville Fire Department continues its investigation. In a letter to Lankford from Deputy Director Steve Holt, the department began investigating when the posts were published on the blog EastNashville.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKRN-TV ABC 2 Nashville

A woman was seriously burned and a home was destroyed in the small desert community of Shelter Valley on Tuesday after it took firefighters roughly 30 minutes to respond because the local Cal Fire station was virtually unmanned. Residents say the Shelter Valley station has been mostly empty the past few weeks and they’ve been told the situation won’t change for a while because of staffing shortages.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the san diego union-tribune

On July 20, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 19, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 18, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

A new fire chief took office last week just days after five police officers were killed in an ambush and the city was reeling from tragedy. “You don’t expect to get hired on a job and have five funerals to attend immediately, and that’s heart-wrenching,” said enw Chief David Coatney. Coatney was hired as chief of Dallas Fire-Rescue after serving as the chief for Round Rock near Austin.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas - Fort Worth

The small Susitna Valley city of Houston lost its top emergency official this month when Fire Chief Tom Hood abruptly resigned with just two days' notice. Houston, the only place in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough where marijuana businesses are currently allowed, is a city of more than 2,000 residents but no active police department.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: alaska dispatch news