On March 24, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

San Francisco Fire Department’s Deputy Chief of Operations, Mark Gonzales, said a “rogue wave” hit the rescue boat and caused it to capsize, despite calm conditions on the water. The San Francisco Fire Department rescue boat was on a training mission Saturday morning, when it flipped over, said officials.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ktvu San Francisco

The state has cited Stafford’s Fire and Rescue Department for four violations after a February incident in which volunteer firefighters transported an 18-month-old girl having a seizure to the hospital in a fire engine. The two firefighters at the center of the controversy are still working at the Falmouth Fire Station.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Charlottesville Daily Progress

“The only thing I was thinking was, ‘holy hell I gotta get out,'” Lieutenant Nicholas Hudek with Penn Hills VFD Station 221 said. Hudek was one of three firefighters injured while fighting flames at a vacant restaurant in Penn Hills Saturday. He injured his hand while trying to find a way into the building.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KDKA-TV CBS 2 Pittsburgh

When the local union of the Naples Fire-Rescue Department said last October its members had lost confidence in their chief, Steve McInerny, the group's action highlighted evidence of his troubled tenure. City Council members had expressed concerns about McInerny for years. There were public spats during annual budget talks when the council rejected McInerny's expensive requests for new equipment, and McInerny was accused of over-reporting fire incidents to justify new spending.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: naples daily news

Ohio has become the fifth state to require photoelectric smoke alarms in new homes. In the state’s first official acknowledgement that traditional ionization alarms are insufficient, new building codes require both ionization and photoelectric alarms on all floors of homes. The rule applies to new homes.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the columbus dispatch

On March 24, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 23, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

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

Nicholas Scoppetta, who served in top city government posts spanning six decades and four mayors, has died. Scoppetta, 83, served as the city’s fire commissioner just months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks under then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg. He had the formidable task of rebuilding an agency that lost 343 firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 3/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york post

A jury on Thursday convicted a man accused of stabbing two San Diego firefighters of two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter, but acquitted him of the more serious attempted murder charges. The jury also found Ryan Allen Jones guilty of assault with a deadly weapon and another count of battery related to an assault of MTS officers.
- PUB DATE: 3/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nbc san diego

PHOTO - A photo of a Phoenix-area firefighter carrying an American flag over his shoulder while walking from a huge recycling plant fire went viral on Wednesday. The photo, originally posted by Adrienne Berman, shows Tempe Fire Department Capt. Nick Ells walking away from a fire near 36th Street and University Drive with the flag.
- PUB DATE: 3/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ktar

A battalion chief has become short-tempered and erratic in his decision making. A company officer is rumored to be going through a bad divorce and drinking heavily when off duty. A firefighter who was involved in a particularly bad medical call has been calling in sick a lot since then. As a fire chief, should you say or do anything in response to these circumstances? Should anyone? And if someone does take action, exactly what should that person do? Firefighters sometimes hesitate to get involved when a colleague might be having problems related to behavioral health, because they don't want to intrude.
- PUB DATE: 3/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

Mayor Tony George has decided to scrap a 4½-year-old ambulance mutual aid agreement with three neighboring towns and instead return to using for-profit Trans-Med Ambulance as the primary backup unit for the entire city, multiple people familiar with the plan said Thursday. Fire Chief Jay Delaney would only say in an email that George gave him a directive “to change the dispatch procedures when city ambulances are already committed to calls.
- PUB DATE: 3/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilkes-Barre Citizens' Voice

Lexington got its first female fire chief Thursday with the appointment of Kristin Chilton, a 23-year veteran of the department. Chilton, 48, was an assistant chief until Mayor Jim Gray selected her for the top job. She was one of 32 applicants for the position. “This is an important day for our city,” Gray said.
- PUB DATE: 3/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: lexington herald-leader

A representative from the Governor’s Communications Office has said Governor Matt Bevin will sign the firefighter cancer bill into law. On Monday the House passed Senate Bill 195, a proposal that will give families of firefighters who die from certain types of cancer, $80,000 as an in-the-line-of-duty death benefit.
- PUB DATE: 3/24/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVQ-TV Lexington

Three members of the Elgin Fire Department are each facing month-long suspensions and demotions after an internal investigation into sexually explicit photos and videos made while they were at work, according to documents obtained by the Courier-News. Lt. Amanda Bruce, Firefighter Eric McMahon and Firefighter John Sardina also could be fired if they engage in similar actions at work over the next three years or if they violate any other terms of the disciplinary agreements each signed Tuesday after a lengthy investigation that started in August 2014, according to the documents obtained Wednesday via a Freedom of Information request.
- PUB DATE: 3/24/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: chicago tribune - metered site

All charges against former Shreveport Fire Chief Craig Mulford in connection with allegations that he interfered with the Fire Station 8 investigation have been dropped. Mulford was fired in September 2014, after he was indicted on the five counts of malfeasance in office for allegedly violating administrative policies while handling complaints about several firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 3/24/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPLC-TV NBC 7 Lake Charles

The Congressional Fire Services Institute (CFSI) and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) have selected the Fire Department Safety Officers Association (FDSOA) as the recipient of the 2016 Senator Paul S. Sarbanes Fire Service Safety Leadership Award. The award will be presented at the 28th Annual National Fire and Emergency Services Dinner on May 5, 2016 in Washington, DC.
- PUB DATE: 3/24/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fire engineering

PHOTO - The Torch Lake Township Fire Department responded to an accident involving their own truck this afternoon. The tanker rolled into the ditch right in front of the station on US 31 The tanker was heading north bound on US 31 and tried to make a left too fast. The Antrim County Sheriff's Department says the driver lost control causing the truck to flip over.
- PUB DATE: 3/24/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFQX-TV Fox 32