On the heels of a historically safe Angels' Night weekend, the Detroit City Council today confirmed Mayor Mike Duggan's choice for executive fire commissioner, Eric Jones. The council voted 8-1 to confirm Jones' appointment. Council President Brenda Jones voted no, she said, because Eric Jones lacks experience as a firefighter.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: detroit free press

Four firefighter positions were restored in Green Bay’s 2016 budget by the city’s joint personnel and finance committee on Tuesday. The four-person committee opted to keep the positions and instead reorganize fire department administration, slash overtime pay for public works staff and shave off a number of other small expenses to make up for a projected $819,300 revenue loss.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

The foundation for a successful grant application begins by reading the program guidelines. In layman's terms, these are the instructions for the grant process. FEMA now calls this document the Funding Opportunity Announcement, or FOA. This document provides all of the information concerning grant eligibility, program priorities, filing deadlines and application assistance.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

Los Angeles County supervisors today unanimously approved a 10 percent pay raise for firefighters, deputy sheriffs, criminalists, correction officers, coroner investigators, probation officers, supervising child support officers and deputy district attorneys. The raise will be spread out over three years, according to labor pacts the county reached with unions representing those workers.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: los angeles daily news

On November 1, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On October 29, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Banks District Volunteer Fire Department announced the passing of their Fire Chief Gary Bonnett, who passed away early Thursday morning after a lengthy battle with cancer. Chief Bonnett was a fire chief who was highly respected by his peers and everyone in and connected to the fire service throughout West Virginia.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDTV-TV CBS 5

PHOTO - Channel 11’s Melanie Gillespie has learned that one person was taken to a hospital Monday after an accident at the Clymer Volunteer Fire Department in Indiana County .Chopper 11 flew over the scene where a fire truck ladder got twisted, fell over and collapsed on a man standing on the ground, Gillespie reported.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPXI-TV NBC 11 Pittsburgh

Fairbanks Fire Chief Warren Cummings officially ended his 43-year career with a well-attended ceremony at the department’s Cushman Street headquarters Friday afternoon. Cummings began his firefighting career in 1972 and worked his way up through the ranks to become the fire chief in 2000. Along the way he saw major changes in the safety culture and worked tirelessly to improve the equipment and working conditions at the department.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fairbanks News-Miner

Jeff Lyon, a battalion chief accused of using the term "no bitch Tuesdays," was fired Friday amid allegations of harassment — claims he denies. The investigation also revealed that Lyon, 48, had made inappropriate comments about women, minorities and lesbians, according to an Oct. 30 He asked some of his women subordinates about their sexual orientation.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel & SouthFlorida.com

An East Helena man who started wildfires that caused nearly $1 million in damage to bolster his work as firefighter received a 40-year suspended sentence in district court Monday. Frederick J. Maw was 18 years old when authorities arrested him for sparking 20 fires in May 2013. Included in his sentence is that Maw cannot participate in any firefighting efforts.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: independent record

On November 1, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On October 31, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On October 30, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On October 29, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Dallas Fire-Rescue Chief Louie Bright III announced Friday that he will soon end a career that started in his hometown when he was 19 years old. Bright’s retirement, effective March 30, will end a quiet four-year tenure marked by relative peace — excluding his leadership after a controversial line-of-duty death — in a department that had experienced strife in the prior decade.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: dallas morning news

A workers compensation case against a volunteer firefighter is being closely watched across the state, both prosecutors and defense attorneys say. The case pits Niagara County prosecutors against a 66-year-old man who collected about $45,000 in workers’ compensation over two years after being injured on the job for a blacktopping company.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: buffalo news

A fired Cal Fire official who lost his job amid scandal says Director Ken Pimlott ordered him to withhold death-benefits information from grieving families of fallen fire pilots, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in a Sacramento court. The complaint contends that Pimlott and his No. 2, Janet Barentson, knew that state law requires Cal Fire pay death benefits when a contracted fire pilot is killed in the line of duty.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: sacramento bee

City officials are asking voters Tuesday to approve a measure allowing Harper Woods to join the growing number of Metro communities that combine their police and fire departments. The City Council on Oct. 5 unanimously approved a public safety implementation plan, which officials say will save the cash-strapped community millions of dollars, allow more police to patrol, and keep the city from having to hire an emergency financial manager.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: detroit news

When Edward Moriarty drove up to the Jasper Highlands development earlier this month to check on the construction of his retirement home, his car caught fire. He called 911 and two Marion County sheriff's deputies responded, but no fire services arrived. "No fire truck," Moriarty said. "No fire support whatsoever.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: times-free press