Owensboro Fire Chief Steve Mitchell told members of the city-county 911 board Tuesday that firefighters need a better way to communicate with dispatch when firefighters are confronted by a disturbed person during an emergency run. Mitchell told 911 board members that when firefighters face disturbed or intoxicated people on some runs, they ask dispatch to send city police officers to assist.
- PUB DATE: 3/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse

On March 14, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Ingram council took the first step toward dropping the volunteer fire company that has served the borough for more than 100 years. Council voted 5-1 Monday night to legally advertise an intergovernmental agreement between the borough and the city of Pittsburgh for fire protection services. By law, the legal ad must run in a newspaper for 30 days before the borough council can formally vote on a contract.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh post-gazette

Neil Kayser knows the damage a wildfire can cause livestock operations. Kayser, a fourth-generation rancher from the Goldendale area, lost several head of cattle in last year’s Cougar Creek fire near Mount Adams. He’s also bypassed roadblocks to save his livestock from advancing fires. “A cow, to us, is like a factory,” Kayser said in a phone interview last week.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: yakima herald

A man stabbed two San Diego firefighters who were tending to an intoxicated man at an East Village trolley station last year, a prosecutor said Monday, but a defense attorney said his client was trying to help the drunk man and stabbed the firefighters in self-defense after being pushed over a bench by a fire captain.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSWB-TV Fox 5 San Diego

VIDEO - Eight firefighters were injured when the front of a burning townhome collapsed onto them. Firefighters were called to the 3-alarm fire on Churubusco Lane about 1 a.m. Monday. When they arrived, they found the townhome completely engulfed in flames. Video from the scene shows firefighters battling the fire from the front of the home when they front wall collapsed on top of them.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nbc washington

The town of Georgia's fire department is now seven members short. One firefighter quit and six others were asked to turn in their equipment Friday afternoon. The firefighter flap started at a meeting last October when members of the department were asked to sign a new confidentiality agreement. "We, in October, were told we had to sign a policy that we could only speak about certain things in the fire service that we find out about in the fire service if we have permission from our chief," said Chris Gonyeau, former firefighter.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCAX-TV CBS 3

On March 13, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 12, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 11, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A veteran Hanover firefighter died after responding to a fire in West Manheim Township Saturday morning. Around 9:30 a.m., Earl J. Shoemaker, 68, was the driver of Hanover Fire Department's Air 46 unit when the truck went off Brunswick Drive and into a field -- traveling as far as several hundred yards.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the evening sun

An overnight three alarm town house fire in Germantown has sent several firefighters to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. According to Pete Piringer, spokesman for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue, crews were called to a town house fire in the 19300 blk of Churubusco Lane around 1:00 a.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wusa 9

Six weeks into his tenure as Hartford's fire chief, Reginald Freeman has started to personalize his office at the public safety complex on High Street.Among the plaques and framed pictures is a photograph on the shelf behind his desk. It's a snapshot of Freeman and retired Hartford firefighter Frank Zazzaro taken in Zazzaro's West Hartford home shortly after Freeman started work.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: hartford courant

I recently read an article about a large fire department's concern regarding retention of its members. This department is in the process of hiring 75 new firefighters to replace members who have left the department in the past year. Other fire departments of all sizes are facing the replacement of significant numbers of firefighters in the coming years.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

The two reports, one federal, the other produced by the Boston Fire Department, about the 2014 Beacon Street fire that killed Boston Fire Lieutenant Ed Walsh and firefighter Mike Kennedy make for tough reading. The communications timeline, with Walsh repeatedly calling for water that didn’t come because their hose had been burned through, is especially hard to read.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the boston globe

On March 10, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

RAW VIDEO - Firefighters battled a greater-alarm structure fire at a commercial building in Boyle Heights on Thursday that sent huge flames and black smoke high into the air. The fire was reported around 7:45 p.m. at 1566 S. Rio Vista Ave., according to Erik Scott with the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTLA-TV WB 5 Los Angeles

How do you thank a man you don't even know for saving your life? That's the question on the lips of a D.C. great-grandmother when she thinks about the firefighter who gave up his own oxygen mask so she had a chance to survive. Both rescuer and fire victim are now recovering, thanks to the quick-thinking and self-sacrifice of DC firefighter Danny Lovato.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wusa 9

Two Columbus fire lieutenants and a captain have been suspended for their roles in an alcohol-fueled party dubbed “kegs and eggs” at a shuttered Downtown fire station last summer. Another disciplinary incident in the next year could result in demotion. Dozens of firefighters, including some in uniform, showed up at Fire Station 2 at 150 E.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: columbus dispatch

Fire officials, hit with a scathing federal report criticizing the department in the deaths of two firefighters in 2014, said they are preparing to sue the manufacturer of a diesel engine now in more than a dozen problem-plagued city fire trucks in order to thwart future disasters. Fire Commissioner Joseph E.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: boston herald