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Standard yellow wildfire gear not passing muster

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The standard-issued "yellows" and cargo-style pants for wildland firefighters don't have much sympathy for the human body, particularly if the firefighter's body type isn't the norm. How comfortable the traditional yellow shirts and green pants are is not typically a forefront concern for firefighters, said Sonya S.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse.com

Woman jumps from second story window, three firefighters burned in Indiana apartment fire

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A woman jumped from a second story apartment window and three firefighters were burned in an apartment fire on the south side of Indianapolis. IFD was called to the Laurel Lake Apartments in the 8700 block of South Keystone Avenue around 2:47 p.m. on a report of heavy fire and black smoke showing from the second floor.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: www.fox59.com

Colorado metro-area firefighters ordered to change uniforms to look less like police officers

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Metro-area fire departments have ordered changes to uniforms in light of recent threats against law enforcement and as a way to keep personnel safe on the job. The West Metro Fire Department is having firefighters wearing a more casual look. The blue T-shirt has the words "Fire-Rescue" in large letters on the back and is the department's class "C" uniforms.
- PUB DATE: 9/11/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KDVR-TV FOX 31 Denver

Report: Warning written on shaft door before Cincinnati firefighter fell

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Firefighters wrote a warning on the door to the elevator shaft just two minutes before their their colleague Daryl Gordon opened the door, stepped in and fell to his death in March. "Do not enter, open shaft," the firefighters wrote on the light colored door in what looks like black marker. Smoke and poor visibility in the tight hallway may have prevented Gordon, 54, from seeing the warning written in what looks like black marker on the the light colored door.
- PUB DATE: 9/11/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cincinnati Enquirer

Police: Florida man planned bombing in Kansas City during 9/11 memorial stairclimb

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A 20-year-old Florida man has been arrested on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack using explosives at a Kansas City 9/11 memorial event this weekend. The FBI raided Joshua Ryne Goldberg’s home near Jacksonville and took him into custody. He’s accused of sending instructions on how to make a pressure cooker bomb.
- PUB DATE: 9/11/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMBC-TV ABC 9 Kansas City

How fast is fast enough? - NFPA 1710 and the controversy over response times

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Recently, some fire departments have found themselves under scrutiny by the media and elected officials over the issue of response times. NFPA 1710, Organization and Deployment of Fire Suppression Operations, Emergency Medical Operations, and Special Operations to the Public by Career Fire Departments, requires specific times for the response of fire and emergency services.
- PUB DATE: 9/11/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Fire Protection Association

Seattle firefighter, acquitted in park attack, fails to win his job back

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Although he was acquitted of criminal charges in the alleged assault on homeless people last year, a former Seattle firefighter will not get his job back after an arbitrator determined he instigated the attack and then lied to police about it. The ruling by labor-management arbitrator and mediator Howell L.
- PUB DATE: 9/11/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: seattle times

Burned Fresno Fire Captain leaves hospital to continue rehabilitation at home

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After nearly six months in the hospital, Pete Dern is home. The Fresno fire captain received severe burns when he fell through the roof while trying to put out a house fire. A huge crowd turned out to cheer him on as he left Community Regional Medical Center Wednesday afternoon. This day for Pete Dern started like the past 163 others, with a round of treatment and physical therapy.
- PUB DATE: 9/11/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFSN-TV ABC 30 Frenso/Visalia

Michigan firefighter dies after hit and run while collecting for MDA

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Dennis Rodeman survived a tour of duty in Iraq with the U.S. Marines. He was killed on Wednesday while collecting donations for a charity in Lansing, the victim of what police are calling a deliberate hit-and-run crash on the city's south side. Rodeman, 35, was a seven-year veteran of the Lansing Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 9/10/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: lansing state journal

North Texas volunteer firefighters indicted in chorizo sausage sexual assault

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An Ellis County grand jury indicted seven volunteer firefighters, including the department's chief and assistant chief, on Wednesday in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a fellow male firefighter with a chorizo sausage in January, according to media reports. Five firefighters with the Emergency Service District Number 6 Volunteer Fire Department in Waxachachie have been indicted on charges of aggravated sexual assault and attempted aggravated sexual assault: Keith Edward Wisakowsky, 26; Casey Joe Stafford, 30; Preston Thomas Peyrot, 19; Alec Chase Miller, 28; and Blake Jerold Tucker, 19.
- PUB DATE: 9/10/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: beaumont enterprise

Alaska firefighters threaten walk-off in snit with borough officials

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Tension between the Talkeetna Fire Department and Matanuska-Susitna Borough fire chiefs potentially threatens to leave this Susitna Valley climbing and tourist destination without a hometown firefighting force. Eric Chappel, a Talkeetna fire captain and 17-year responder, got sideways last week with Mat-Su chiefs when he was preparing to use his pickup to pull upright an overturned trailer blocking the Parks Highway.
- PUB DATE: 9/10/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Alaska Dispatch News

Texas fire chief stabbed multiple times responding to call

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On Tuesday around 11 p.m., a Mitchell County Sheriff’s Deputy was called out to report of a man waving a shot gun in the road. The Deputy, called and asked Brandon Hale, Westbrook Fire Chief to keep an eye on the suspect from a distance until he got there. When the deputy had arrived the suspect had already made his way back to his residence, the deputy went to locate him.
- PUB DATE: 9/10/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCBD-TV NBC 11 Lubbock

New York firefighter: Arsonist ‘expected me to die’

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Nearly 20 feet inside the smoke-filled former synagogue, the words of fellow firefighter Darin Lewis stopped David Abell in his tracks: “I think this is booby-trapped.” That’s when Abell spotted the trip wire connected to two gallon-sized jugs of gasoline. Abell recounted on Tuesday the chilling details of entering the building at 117 Jefferson Ave.
- PUB DATE: 9/10/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ithaca journal

Texas firefighters pay out of pocket to keep department going

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Jimmy Ellis said he spent at least $3,500 out of his pocket last year to keep the West Odessa Volunteer Fire Department, noting that fighting fires in the county is one of his passions. Ellis, fire chief for the department, said without the firefighters infusing their own money, everything from maintenance to bunker gear suffers.
- PUB DATE: 9/9/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Odessa American

Connecticut Deputy Fire Chief Suspended 15 Days Without Pay

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Deputy Fire Chief James McLoughlin has been suspended for 15 days without pay by fire officials who said he endangered firefighters under his command at a fire in April. McLoughlin was suspended Friday after an investigation found that he disobeyed orders and failed to exercise due care in providing for the safety of personnel under his charge at a fire, fire officials said.
- PUB DATE: 9/9/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: hartford courant

Ohio firefighter tells others of cancer, their risk

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Mark Rine no longer runs into burning buildings or performs emergency medical procedures. Instead, the Columbus firefighter spends his days standing in front of other firefighters and warning them about a danger he knew nothing about until Sept. 11, 2012. That was the day a doctor told him he had melanoma.
- PUB DATE: 9/9/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: columbus dispatch

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