On January 20, 11 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 18, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A firefighter was killed while responding to a patient with a seizure Friday morning in Pulaski County, a spokesman with the sheriff's office said. The East Pulaski firefighter, whose name was not immediately released, responded to a report on Dortch Loop Road outside North Little Rock around 5 a.m.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NWAOnline - Northwest Arkansas News

Though wearing an air pack, Mount Marion Fire Department Capt. Jack Rose inhaled “superheated gases” and suffered “irreversible respiratory failure,” causing his death while fighting a house fire, town police said Thursday. Rose, 19, died Dec. 19, 2015, after going into distress while helping fight a chimney fire in a home at 11 Fel Qui Road in the Centerville Fire District.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the daily freeman

A retired Middletown firefighter and U.S. Marine battled to the end, his mother said. “He was a fighter,” said Ginger Bruggeman. “He was a Marine and he never gave up. He’d be at death’s door one day and one hour later, he’d be telling jokes.” Her son, Scott D. Bruggeman, 45, of Middletown, died Monday after battling heart disease for almost two years.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hamilton journal-news

Detroit Fire Department has been, and continues to go through challenging times as the Motown city recovers from bankruptcy and an unprecedented de-population of what was once the fourth largest city in the nation. Until November, Craig Dougherty, a 38-year veteran of the department, served as the second deputy fire commissioner in charge of operations and apparatus.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse

Former Olmsted Township Fire Chief John Rice has accused Fire Chief Patrick Kelly of conduct violations, and a group of residents is collecting signatures asking the township board of trustees to investigate Kelly. Kelly, the former Cleveland fire chief who took over the small department in September, placed Rice, now assistant chief, on paid administrative leave this month.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland Plain Dealer & Cleveland.com

On January 20, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 19, 18 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The Chicago Fire Department could save at least $1.2 million a year and potentially millions more in overtime by hiring civilians to perform 34 administrative jobs that have nothing to do with firefighting or emergency medical service, Inspector General Joe Ferguson said Wednesday. Three years after urging Mayor Rahm Emanuel to civilianize police jobs to save up to $16.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: chicago sun-times

Denver Fire Chief Eric Tade stood outside his station Wednesday and talked about what it was like to be stabbed in a random attack the day before. "It was a very surreal experience — the scariest part was being trapped and restrained in the car," he said. Denver police say the woman accused of stabbing Denver's top firefighter Tuesday afternoon had no connection to him.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Denver Post

PHOTOS - Two people were injured Wednesday when a fire engine slammed into a North Texas Dairy Queen. City officials said Greenville Fire-Rescue Unit 4 crashed into the restaurant located on the 200 block of Highway 380 East in Farmersville at about noon. The truck was headed east on U.S. 380 when it left the road for an unknown reason.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Dallas - Fort Worth

The health and safety risks and hazards of firefighting on the men and women that make up the profession is increasingly well studied and documented. Meaningful and sound research has led to changes in individual fitness priorities, personal protective equipment, first responder personnel activities on the fire-ground, and a better understanding of the overall health risks increasingly associated with firefighting.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firefighternation.com

I don’t know what happened up there 27 years ago this past November, the morning six firefighters died on a windswept hill in south Kansas City. Maybe no one will ever know, except for the arsonists responsible for their deaths. But I do know this. The federal government — the same federal government that imprisoned five people for life in the case — has acknowledged that it never fully solved the crime.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kansas city star

On January 19, 16 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 18, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Denver Fire Chief Eric Tade was stabbed Tuesday afternoon just outside of his department's headquarters at Colfax Avenue and Speer Boulevard. Investigators said a woman jumped into Tade's unmarked city SUV as it was stopped and attacked him. Doug Schepman, a police spokesman, declined to speculate on what spurred the stabbing.
- PUB DATE: 1/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: denver post

Fresno firefighters who responded to a house blaze where Capt. Pete Dern fell through a roof and was severely burned failed to properly access the fire’s dangers, reflecting a Fire Department in which personnel are “picking and choosing” which procedures to follow, an investigative report released Tuesday says.
- PUB DATE: 1/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fresno bee

A firefighter has been suspended following an investigation by the Clay County Fire Rescue Monday that unearthed he did not disclose a 2015 DUI arrest to county officials, the agency said. David A. Nettles has been placed on administrative leave following the investigation into an unrelated January 15 crash on Blanding Boulevard when the fire engine Nettles was driving was struck by a vehicle that reportedly ignored the emergency lights on his vehicle.
- PUB DATE: 1/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTLV 12 NBC & WJXX 25 ABC - First Coast News

Diesel emissions, regeneration and maintenance shouldn’t be as scary as some firefighters believe. Ever since the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) started cracking down on black soot spouting diesel engines about five years ago, firefighters flinch at new regulations and have been trying to push them back.
- PUB DATE: 1/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse