On October 2, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Several of the rural firefighters and paramedics who first confronted the carnage at Umpqua Community College haven't returned to work yet or else they've tried to return only to request time off. Some can't shake the smells and sounds they encountered in classroom 15 in Snyder Hall last Thursday. One described having to help move a lifeless body to get to someone who was still alive, said Rob Bullock, deputy fire chief of Douglas County Fire District 2.
- PUB DATE: 10/9/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the oregonian

The Board of Public Safety is considering cutting funding for the Burrville Fire Department for the rest of the fiscal year upon the recommendation of Corporation Counsel Raymond Rigat, following the unauthorized purchase of a fire truck by the head of the department earlier in the year. Rigat made the recommendation Wednesday evening as part of the regular meeting of the board.
- PUB DATE: 10/9/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Torrington Register Citizen

Deputy U.S. Fire Administrator Glenn A. Gaines had a thirst for knowledge. He was a familiar face in classrooms at the National Fire Academy. Often, he wasn’t there as the instructor or guest lecturer, but as a student. The retired Fairfax County Fire and Rescue chief’s passion for education never waned.
- PUB DATE: 10/9/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse

A document obtained by WUSA9 indicates Engine 28 had an air leak on the day it crashed into a police car, breaking the arm of a firefighter and hospitalizing a police officer. The 30-ton fire truck relies on air brakes to operate safely. "It should have been taken out of service we believe there was a braking issue that occurred," said Scott Hudson with the firefighters union said when told about the log.
- PUB DATE: 10/9/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wusa 9

Shocking dash cam footage revealed a BMW driver intentionally blocking the path of an ambulance as it headed down a highway. Mirror.co.uk reported that the footage was taken from the dashboard of the ambulance, capturing the moment the driver swerved into the ambulance’s path and slammed on the brakes.
- PUB DATE: 10/9/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

Citing recent clashes between civilian drone encounters that slowed recent firefights, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, introduced the Safe Drone Act on Wednesday to address the growing problem of jeopardizing public safety by flying too close to wildfires and airports. In announcing the legislation, Boxer cited the fiery July 17 incident on Interstate 15 in the Cajon Pass.
- PUB DATE: 10/8/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Bernardino County Sun

A Grandview firefighter used an 8-foot hooked pole to pull a trapped colleague to safety this week. A pile of plaster from a building’s ceiling had fallen on a fire captain who had been trying to find a second-floor resident. He issued a “mayday” call, firefighter language for “man down.” The rescue was part of the drama associated with the fast-moving Grandview fire on Monday morning that killed one person, displaced eight and left the trapped firefighter with second-degree burns.
- PUB DATE: 10/8/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kansas city star

City firefighters brought a 9-month-old boy to safety from a raging Brooklyn inferno on Wednesday. Smoke-eater Rhyan Wischertch, of Engine 283, carried infant Gerard DeBellot Jr., dressed in a maroon T-shirt with white stripes and swaddled in a baby blue towel, to awaiting EMS after the 2:59 p.m. blaze.
- PUB DATE: 10/8/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york daily news

A pile of mattresses on top of a cargo van sprang loose onto the New Jersey Turnpike Wednesday afternoon, forcing a tanker truck driver to swerve so suddenly that his truck flipped over a guardrail and instantly burst into flames, killing him, authorities and witnesses say. The fire on the northbound side of exit 15W in Kearny sent thick black smoke into the air that was visible from New York City as firefighters worked to douse the flames that raged around the charred carcass of the truck.
- PUB DATE: 10/8/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nbc washington

A chunk of granite from the facade of the Murrah building in Oklahoma City now has a place in the National Fire Heritage Center here. It was delivered Tuesday afternoon by a contingent of Oklahoma City fire and state officials including Oklahoma Fire Marshal Robert Doke. On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb blew up in front of federal building leaving 168 dead and hundreds injured.
- PUB DATE: 10/8/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse

The orange jump-suited rescuers are first seen leaving the ground, suspended beneath a helicopter. They land near the crumpled figure of a 61-year-old Stillwater woman, injured on rugged terrain during a hike near Lake Superior. The two rescuers wrap her in a mummy-shaped carrier, then the three are lifted and carried to safety.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Minnesota Public Radio

An alleged cheating ring involving Orange County firefighter made use of a website sources described as a collection of test questions. The website has the same questions that would show up during certification in pediatric advanced life support, according to those sources. That means it was allegedly designed to help firefighters avoid having to study the actual procedures for keeping a young child alive in an emergency.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFTV-TV ABC 9 Orlando

Monday afternoon a District of Columbia fire truck smashed into a city police cruiser while on an emergency call and investigators are now looking into a possible brake issue. The fire engine was responding to a call for a report of a fire in a residential area of Northwest D.C. prior to the accident taking place.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the daily caller

Grand Forks officials will have to look elsewhere to fund its emergency response training center. The city did not receive a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant worth nearly $2 million that would have assisted in building the training center. The grant was instead awarded to five other projects.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: grand forks herald

Coming at a time when we are raw from its association as a symbol of hate in the massacre of nine worshippers at a historic South Carolina Church, discussions about the history, meaning and display of the Confederate battle flag are passionate and divisive. In July, a Minnesota firefighter was suspended pending an investigation arising from flying the Confederate flag alongside the Stars and Stripes on a department truck in a 4th of July parade.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

Overwhelmed by spot fires in bone-dry pine needles and leaf litter at their feet, a Cal Fire captain and three firefighters retreated to a patch of bare earth on a Cobb Mountain ridgetop during the first hour of the voracious Valley fire on Sept. 12. But they were not safe for long in the fenced goat pen where they took refuge.
- PUB DATE: 10/6/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: santa rosa press democrat

A state agency has dismissed the last of several unfair labor practice complaints filed by the union representing Toledo's firefighters. All four such disputes submitted since last year by Toledo Firefighters Local 92 to the State Employment Relations Board were dismissed. The most recent denial of these complaints against the city of Toledo was issued Thursday.
- PUB DATE: 10/6/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: toledo blade

Hours after shaking hands with President Obama, an Arkansas firefighter stopped along a Maryland highway to help save a life. Brody Channell spotted the Montgomery County police officer stopped along I-270 treating child. Channell identified himself to the officer as an out-of-state firefighter, but no one caught his name in the midst of the roadside incident, police said in a statement.
- PUB DATE: 10/6/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse

The consolidation of seven municipal fire and rescue departments on the North Shore 20 years ago has saved the communities millions of dollars while providing a superior level of service, the Public Policy Forum says in a new report. Those seven municipalities together would have paid a total of $2.
- PUB DATE: 10/6/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel