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Two firefighters dead after building collapse in Kansas City

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Two firefighters were killed and two hurt after a burning building on Independence Avenue collapsed on them Monday night, Kansas City fire officials said. Firefighters were dispatched to a building in the 2600 block of Independence Avenue about 7:30 p.m. and found the structure heavily damaged by smoke and flames.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kansas city star

Detroit Executive Fire Commissioner to retire

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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan gained a new administrator and lost one Monday as he announced a new director of immigrant affairs while the city's fire chief announced his retirement from the force. Executive Fire Commissioner Edsel Jenkins, appointed to the job by Duggan in April 2014, had been a city firefighter for nearly 30 years.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: detroit free press

California may allow inmate firefighters with violent pasts

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California officials are considering allowing inmates with violent backgrounds to work outside prison walls fighting wildfires, and the idea is generating concerns about public safety. The state has the nation's largest and oldest inmate firefighting unit, with about 3,800 members who provide critical assistance to professional firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCRA-TV NBC 3 Sacramento

Florida fire chief terminated over hostile workplace claims

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Fire Chief Dan Sullivan was fired by letter Monday, six months after being sent home on paid leave amid allegations he had presided over a department that tolerated discrimination and spawned a good old boys environment that belittled minorities and women. Sullivan, who was hired as a firefighter more than 32 years ago and spent 18 years as chief, declined to comment Monday.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: sun-sentinel

Judge finds former California assistant fire chief illegally 'double-dipped'

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A former Alameda County fire assistant chief illegally collected a $60,000 salary as a part-time Sacramento area chief, while also receiving his East Bay $137,000-a-year pension, intentionally deceiving the state retirement system, a state administrative law judge has found. David Wheeler, who retired from the Alameda County Fire Department on Jan.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: san jose mercury news

Military tech is helping fight wildfires

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Military technology used to track terrorists and insurgents while keeping American troops safe is making its way to the blazing battlefields of wildfires. From heat-seeing cameras to drones to night-vision goggles and satellite trackers pinpointing firefighters’ exact locations, military technology is helping fire managers better deploy air tankers above, and fire crews on the ground.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: usa today

Georgia city's fire marshal indicted on extortion charges

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Augusta Fire Marshal Jason Beard has been indicted on extortion charges. According to the federal indictment returned by a grand jury Thurs­day, Beard is accused of extorting money from nightclub owners and managers with threats of economic harm. The indictment, which contains six counts of extortion and one count of attempted extortion, accuses Beard of making threats to enforce overcrowding regulations and ignoring such violations if owners did pay, which allowed the clubs to operate in an overcrowded and dangerous manner.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: augusta chronicle

After fatal fire, Virginia family pushes city for new fire station

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On March 7, twin babies and a 3-year-old boy died after a fire erupted in their home in Truxtun. The community, near the intersection of Portsmouth Boulevard and Deep Creek Boulevard, does not have a fire station. Without a station in Truxtun, according to a recent report from fire officials to City Manager Lydia Pettis Patton, the department cannot meet "minimum response times for fire and emergency medical calls" there.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: hampton roads

Los Angeles Firefighter Hurt in Fall Through Roof

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A Los Angeles firefighter was injured Saturday after falling through a roof of a paint supply business while battling a fire in Sylmar, authorities said. The firefighter fell between 10 and 20 feet through the roof of the one-story commercial building at 15513 Cobalt St, said LAFD spokesman Erik Scott in written statements.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Daily News

FDNY EMT faked 911 call to avoid traveling to sick kid: officials

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A Queens EMT who was dispatched to Brooklyn for a sick toddler used a pay phone to call 911 with a fake emergency closer to his post in a pathetic attempt to avoid the cross-borough schlep, officials said on Friday. William Medina, 27, had just dropped off a patient at a hospital on Aug. 19 when he got the call for the ill child, according to the Department of Investigation.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york post

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