She's in charge of five fire stations in the north end of Miami and also oversees the Miami Fire-Rescue's dive team and technical rescue team. But Melissa Llera is even more than that at Miami Fire-Rescue, she's the department's first female chief fire officer.
"I spent time as a fire fighter and as a lieutenant and as a captain before getting to the rank of chief," Chief Fire Officer Llera said.
- PUB DATE: 5/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nbc miami
On May 26, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.
On May 19, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.
VIDEO - It’s a warm afternoon in late May. The skies are partly cloudy over Portland Fire & Rescue’s Northeast Portland training center, but closer to the ground new recruits are feeling 100 percent humidity.
“Grab hold of it!” Yells one firefighter-in-training as he pounces atop a flailing fire hose.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGW-TV Northwest News Channel 8
As firefighters braved the smoke and flames from the ground and rooftops, a small object soared above their heads Wednesday morning, trying to assist their efforts as a five-alarm fire ripped through a Santa Clara, California, strip mall.
The drone was sent up by the Santa Clara Fire Department volunteers to try to pinpoint how to best fight the blaze, which affected about a dozen small shops and restaurants in the Koreatown mall.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nbc washington
The former bookkeeper for the Pinckneyville Rural Fire Protection District has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for defrauding the district of over $444,000, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
Tammy L. Kellerman, 53, of Pinckneyville, used district checks to pay her credit card bills and other expenses from 2004-2013, prosecutors said, covering up the theft by making false entries.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: st. louis post-dispatch
The National Interagency Fire Center has mobilized over 200 firefighters to help fight a massive wildfire burning in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
Five of the crews flew out of Boise this morning and another five flew out of Missoula, Montana.
NIFC spokesperson Jessica Gardetto says Canadian crews have helped fight U.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVB-TV NBC 7
Capt. Paul Phillips has been long gone, but Lt. Jason Brod can still hear his voice whenever he visits the training grounds next to Bonita Springs Fire Station 4.
"Every time I've been out here since he left us — come out here to train, come out here to do stuff — I hear that voice echoing off these walls," said Brod, standing in front of the station's redbrick training tower, surrounded by Phillips' friends, family and former colleagues.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: naples daily news
On May 25, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.
On May 20, 8 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.
On May 22, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.
On May 20, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.
Seven months after two firefighters died fighting a fire on Independence Boulevard, the Kansas City Fire Department produced a report on the deaths and a set of recommendations to improve firefighter safety.
Kansas City firefighters John Mesh and Larry Leggio died when a brick wall collapsed and fell on them during the Oct.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kansas city star
When a big fire occurs in Garner, the Raleigh Fire Department sends three firefighters to help.
That move was part of a verbal agreement created between both fire departments’ former chiefs years ago, that the current Raleigh fire chief says he will put an end to. It’s move that could cost Garner taxpayers either $500,000, or a lower level of service.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the news & observer
Seven months after two firefighters died fighting a fire on Independence Boulevard, the Kansas City Fire Department produced a report on the deaths and a set of recommendations to improve firefighter safety.
Kansas City firefighters John Mesh and Larry Leggio died when a brick wall collapsed and fell on them during the Oct.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kansas city star
The head of the Apopka Fire Department has left his post after ratifying a separation agreement he previously said the city was pressuring him to sign. Former chief fire administrator Lee Bronson will get 20 weeks of severance pay and compensation for his accumulated leave under the agreement. "This is his second retirement from the city, and we certainly wish him well," Apopka spokesman Robert Sargent said Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: orlando sentinel
When a big fire occurs in Garner, the Raleigh Fire Department sends three firefighters to help.
That move was part of a verbal agreement created between both fire departments’ former chiefs years ago, that the current Raleigh fire chief says he will put an end to. It’s move that could cost Garner taxpayers either $500,000, or a lower level of service.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the news & observer
VIDEO - A young Tempe girl impressed firefighters recently, by remaining calm and aiding in her own rescue.
Malaysia Iwebema, a 4-year-old, found herself locked inside a bathroom with her 3-year-old cousin, RJ.
"It got jammed," she said of the lock.
"I got a hammer and tried to bang it, but it didn't work," she recalled, adding, "I wasn't that calm.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPHO-TV CBS 5 Phoenix
PHOTO - Clay County Fire Chief Lorin Mock said Lt. Anthony Myrick was on administrative leave while the Department of Public Safety investigated.
Hours after Action News Jax broke news of the photo and investigation, Myrick resigned.
Mock confirmed the picture was taken in the bathroom inside Station 20 in Green Cove Springs.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTEV-TV 47
On May 22, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.
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