After months of controversy, the Valencia County fire chief has been fired.Steven Gonzales is facing charges of impersonating an officer and false imprisonment after he pulled over a person for driving erratically in Los Lunas. Authorities say that as fire chief, Gonzales had no authority to pull people over.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: koat.com

A borough resident has made an official complaint to Hightstown's council about a hip hop video partially filmed at the borough's volunteer fire station that features its apparatus. The video is for a song called "IDK" by New Jersey performer Elite Motivated, and it was filmed and directed by Patrick Byas, an actor and director from Hightstown.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nj.com

After years of discussion and shared services, Clark County Fire District 2 might merge with Clark County Fire & Rescue. Residents of District 2 will decide whether to merge during a vote on Aug. 2. To pass, the vote will require a simple majority. District 2 covers a small portion of Clark County between Woodland and La Center.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Columbian

Last October, longtime Somerville Firefighter Robert Quinn died suddenly at the age of 57 of a heart attack. Two months later, 48-year-old Somerville Fire Lieutenant Paul Sullivan died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Today, two other Somerville firefighters are on leave, diagnosed with cancer, and over the past year, many others have missed time with other injuries.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Somerville Journal

Washington State is preparing for wildfire season, but one man is prepping for his 50th and final season as a firefighter. Brock Shero is on the Northwest Incident Management team and has decided to retire after he finishes his fifth decade of service later this year. “I’ve seen a lot of challenges, I’ve seen a lot of changes, the one thing that hasn’t really changed is the hand tools we use, they’re the same we started with 50 years ago,” Shero told NBC K5.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1.com

On July 6, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A photograph of firefighters folding an American flag outside a fire-damaged Libertyville home turned heads on social media Wednesday. The scene unfolded Tuesday — just one day after Americans celebrated the country's independence — when a fire started at a house in the 500 block of Fairhill Road about 2 p.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune

A D.C. firefighter is under investigation for inflammatory posts he made on Facebook in response to the fatal police shooting of a 37-year-old black man in Louisiana. Sources told FOX 5’s Paul Wagner that D.C. police were informed about the posts made Wednesday on the Facebook page of firefighter Norman Brooks and reported it to D.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fox5dc.com

A 43-year-old Chicago firefighter died Tuesday, nearly a month after he was struck by a minivan in a hit-and-run crash in the North Side Rogers Park neighborhood. On June 12, Lorenzo Douglas was outside of his parked vehicle about 7:30 p.m. when a minivan going north in the 6500 block of North Ashland moved into the southbound lanes and hit him, his vehicle and two other parked vehicles, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: abc7chicago.com

A homeless man suffered life-threatening injuries in downtown San Diego Wednesday morning in what police say is the fourth in a series of grisly attacks that has already left two homeless men dead and another severely injured. Arson investigators were dispatched to 900 block of State Street around 5 a.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fox5sandiego.com

More than 500,000 balancing scooters — better known as hoverboards, though they do no hovering — are being recalled because of the risk of fire or explosions. The devices were extremely popular gifts this past holiday season. Online, they were hits in viral dance videos ... and in less-impressive videos of people falling off their new toys.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NPR

On July 5, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 1, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 5, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Mike Kehren, Goodhue's fire chief and member of the Lions and Goodhue School Board, was killed early Monday when he fell off the tow bar between two hay wagons and was run over, according to Mike Lodermeier, a former fire chief and a member of the department. "The whole town is in shock," said Dick Banidt, a fire captain and lifelong friend of Kehren, 58.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: post-bulletin

There are Fireworks and fire fears in one local community today. That's because Lorain laid off nearly 2 dozen firefighters as it fights to close a 3-point-6 million dollar deficit. As we've been telling you, the fire department, is upset over the decision. Members now explain the layoffs couldn't have come at a more inconvenient time.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEWS-TV IBS 5 Cleveland

PHOTOS - The Great Cacapon Volunteer Fire Department is a total loss and at least half of its firefighting equipment has been destroyed after a fire earlier today ripped through the fire hall on Spring Street, authorities said. Firefighters from four states battled the blaze in Morgan County for several hours.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Martinsburg Journal

Firefighters responding to reports of a grass fire in Parleys Canyon may have saved a woman's life after they happened to come across a man who they say was trying to hang her. "They took action where they saw it needed to be," said Sgt. Randy Riches with the State Bureau of Investigations. "They didn't hesitate.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSL-TV NBC 5

Six firefighters were hospitalized Tuesday after being exposed to a "chemical haze" emitted from a warehouse on Port Carteret Drive, officials said. Borough firefighters responding to the warehouse around 2 a.m. found smoke, but no flames, said Carteret fire Chief Mark Hruska. "It was smoke from a chemical reaction," he said.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Newark Star-Ledger/NJ.com

A Lucas County judge on Tuesday rejected the contention by attorneys for Ray Abou-Arab, who was accused of arson, that investigators intentionally discarded a preliminary report that may have pointed to their client's innocence. Common Pleas Judge Stacy Cook denied a motion filed more than a year ago by attorneys for Mr.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: toledo blade