VIDEO - It is a colorful way to add some pep to your step. Color runs are all the rage right now. Joggers and walkers are caked in a tsunami of brilliant powder. "You look like a giant ornament," said runner Rachel Suddeth. "It's fun!" An event scheduled for this summer in Oklahoma City is billed as "10,000+ pounds of colorful food-grade cornstarch transforms you into a vibrant rainbow.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFOR-TV NBC 4 Oklahoma City

A Cleveland firefighter who lost his job after pleading guilty to paying co-workers to cover his shifts is suing the city to get his position back, arguing that his race was a factor in his firing. Calvin Robinson, 55, says in his lawsuit that the city, in firing him, discriminated against him because he is black.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland Plain Dealer & Cleveland.com

On June 15, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On June 10, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A firefighter was critically injured Tuesday in a rough water training accident off Diamond Head. A second firefighter was taken to the hospital for evaluation, and was subsequently released. The two were apparently training on Jet Skis in rough surf and police sources say they were knocked down by a large wave.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFVE-TV 5 The Home Team

Brendan McDonough survived one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history, an inferno near Yarnell, Ariz., that killed 19 of his fellow Granite Mountain Hotshots on June 30, 2013. For the next year, he went to memorials, gave speeches and raised money for wildland firefighting. But the constant reminders of the fire wore on him.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: los angeles times

A dispute between homeless people living together in an abandoned office building led one of them to set a fire that killed five others, authorities alleged Tuesday. Just one man was declared dead during the fire on Monday night, but two more men and two women were found dead in the rubble by a search team with dogs on Tuesday afternoon, city fire officials said.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: abc news

Other than an emergency situation, one of the few times the community interacts with its fire department is at city or town council meetings during budget season. During these meetings, the fire department is often making requests for equipment and apparatus purchases, discussing code enforcement issues, or addressing citizen complaints.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: in public safety

The EMTs who were apparently caught live-streaming their choice to stay on a fast food drive-thru line while calls for emergency service were coming in have resigned, as a hospital investigation into the incident continues. "The individuals involved in this matter have resigned their employment with University Hospital as a result of their inappropriate conduct, which violated numerous Hospital policies, including our clear guidance on emergency response protocols, the use of social media, and our code of conduct," hospital spokeswoman Stacie Newton said in a statement to NJ Advance Media Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Newark Star-Ledger/NJ.com

On June 14, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On June 13, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On June 12, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On June 10, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Plainfield Township Fire Chief Dave Peterson is retiring with lots of praise from township officials but also with a black mark on his record. Peterson, township officials have confirmed, agreed to retire under pressure after receiving a second warning that he had not followed township procedures for submitting grant applications -- an act he had been told was cause for dismissal.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: mlive.com

An American national working at Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey died Monday after falling from the roof of his apartment building as he attempted to enter using a 10th floor window, Turkey's state-run news agency reported. Thaddeus Borowicz, 61, of Traverse City, Michigan, died after tying an electrical cable to a chimney to access his apartment using an open window, the Anadolu Agency reported.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

We’ve obtained new dispatch recordings that show why rescuers were forced to wait for hours a block away from the wounded trapped with the gunman inside the Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning. Tegna investigative reporter Brendan Keefe also discovered at one point, Orlando Regional Medical Center turned patients away, fearing the gunman had stormed the hospital.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIA-TV NBC 11 Atlanta

When Deborah Gaudet and Sheila Wanner joined the fire service in the 1990s, neither of them thought their career could cause cancer. But it did. Wanner, a retired Newport News master firefighter-medic, and Gaudet, fire department safety officer in Virginia Beach, were part of a regional information session held in Newport News Monday to bring awareness to the problem.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: newport news daily press

An independent study of the Tulsa Fire Department is recommending several efficiency changes at the department, including reductions in response to both fires and medical calls. City officials received a draft version of a study this week, looking primarily at Tulsa Fire Department operations but also at the department’s relationship with EMSA on medical responses.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: tulsa world

On June 13, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On June 10, 8 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.