The Lewiston Fire Department’s new Engine 3, a Pierce Ascendant with aerial ladder, is an impressive beast no matter how you look at it. But the rig cost the city nearly $1 million dollars and there are people who want to know how this truck is better than the old one, which lasted the city 22 years.
- PUB DATE: 11/20/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sun Journal

All members of the Medical Control Board voted to start testing a pilot program that would allow Charlotte firefighters to leave the scene of a call if the patient is OK and MEDIC is already on its way. "You call 911 and you're going to get a red truck coming pretty fast in a short time frame,” said CFD Chief Reginald Johnson.
- PUB DATE: 11/20/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSOC-TV

No one was injured Monday night as Paterson firefighters battled a structure fire on Rosa Parks Boulevard that spread to an adjacent building. The fire was broadcast live on national television as part of a three-hour version of A&E's "Live Rescue." Paterson Fire Chief Brian McDermott told TV viewers, "We had a pretty advanced fire on arrival.
- PUB DATE: 11/20/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Northjersey.com

Seven people were displaced after a young woman used a lighter to burn loose strings on a box spring at a Racine home on Tuesday morning, Nov. 19. It happened shortly before 11 a.m. on Frank Avenue near 6th Street. Officials with the Racine Fire Department said the 19-year-old woman was using the lighter on the box spring in a bedroom on the second floor when fire got inside the box spring and quickly grew out of control.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2019 7:35:55 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

A fire at a mechanic's garage on 10th Street in Green Bay destroyed a car and a tractor, causing $45,000 damage. Emergency dispatchers were told a vehicle exploded in a two-stall garage on the 300-block of 10th St. just before 5 p.m. Tuesday. Firefighters arrived to find heavy fire coming from one of the stalls.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2019 5:29:06 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

The Village Board has tentatively approved borrowing $1.3 million to build new sleeping quarters and training facilities for the Waterford Fire Department. The new construction would be built as an addition to the Fire Department’s station No. 2, 819 Mohr Ave. It would enable the Fire Department to continue its current level of training after station No.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2019 3:05:49 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

One student suffers minor injuries when a bus slides off a county road and tips on its side Tuesday morning near Arcadia. The bus ended up on its side off of County Road JJ near Kukowski Lane southwest of Arcadia. About 20 students were on the bus according to Arcadia Schools Superintendent Lance Bagstad.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9 News

It was the beginning of a hero’s sendoff. Worcester fire officials promised Tina Menard and her three children a hero’s sendoff for Lt. Jason Menard. It’s a promise no fire department wants to fulfill, and one Worcester firefighters have had to deliver eight other times in the last 20 years. Firefighters, police officers and paramedics from across Massachusetts lined up outside Mercadante Funeral Home in Worcester on Sunday afternoon, paying their respects to Menard, who was killed in a four-alarm fire early Wednesday morning at 7 Stockholm St.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Masslive.com

The firehouse on Foulkrod and Darrah streets in Philadelphia's Frankford section has been without its engine for a decade, leaving some neighbors feeling vulnerable. "Because of all the families that are around here, all the people around here, they need the engine to save lives," said Sylvia Pickens, who lives across the street from the firehouse.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPVI-TV ABC 6 Philadelphia

A recent report on the Durham Fire Department’s response to the April 10 gas explosion downtown could bolster the department’s request for 75 more firefighters. The Fire Department has about 385 people who fight fires. Having more would improve response times and on-scene efficiency, reducing injuries and property loss, according to a presentation the department gave the city in March, about a month before the explosion.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The News & Observer

Corporations can be held legally responsible for the state’s costs in investigating and fighting fires that are carelessly started or spread by corporate employees, a state appeals court ruled Monday. There has been no dispute that corporations can be required to pay compensation for deaths, injuries and property damage from fires caused by their employees, the source of at least $18 billion of the debt that drove Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle - Metered Site

Capt. Shawn Campana needed an escape. The stress and pressures of working in Miami-Dade Fire Rescue were beginning to weigh on her. Enter Charlie, a 3-year-old Greyhound she adopted in 2015. “There’s light again,” Campana said of Charlie, “and there hasn’t been in some time. He was the only thing that made that happen.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Miami Herald

A Milwaukee fire station and surrounding neighborhood were evacuated Monday night after a suspicious package was found. Station 36 located at 4060 N. 27th St. was evacuated shortly before 8 p.m. along with nearby businesses. Milwaukee police responded and were being assisted by Milwaukee firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2019 6:41:37 PM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A Minocqua Fire and Rescue Department official said it “was a slap in the face” after the town board refused to add additional money to the fire department’s budget for 2020 and to make the fire chief a full time, paid position. Charlie Ouimette, a 39-year member and captain of the volunteer department, made the comment during last week’s annual town meeting where the levy was approved.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2019 3:25:33 AM - SOURCE: WXPR-FM 91.7 Public Radio

While it's not unusual for local employers to find it challenging to find qualified applicants to fill open positions, it's even more complicated when you are seeking to fill vacancies in the Rhinelander police or fire departments, the chiefs of both departments told the city's Police and Fire Commission (PFC) Nov.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2019 2:19:24 AM - SOURCE: The Rhinelander Daily News

VIDEO: The Fairbanks International Airport Police and Fire Department is unique in that their employees are 'cross trained' -- meaning every police officer is a firefighter, and every firefighter is a police officer. "We are both a police and fire department, along as EMS as well. So we are a true public safety, kind of all hazards approach,” Chief Aaron Danielson said.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Webcenter 11

The City of Cleveland Fire Department has been charged with discrimination by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after an investigation uncovered evidence that it discriminated against black, Hispanic and female applicants, violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The U.S. EEOC determined that since at least 2009, the Cleveland Fire Department has displayed a pattern of failing or refusing to hire and promote black, Hispanic and female applicants through the use of discriminatory hiring tests and procedures.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEWS-TV ABC 5 Cleveland

VIDEO: The victim of a car fire punched two firefighters because he thought they were taking too long to put out the fire. The incident happened near the intersection of Shreve and Natural Bridge Friday evening. Firefighters said they were trying to put the fire out when the car's owner thought they were working too slowly, so he started punching two of them.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMOV-TV CBS 4 St. Louis

The local fire union wants to know why a multi-million dollar surplus, found by Metro government from last year's budget, can't be used to reverse cuts made this year. The city found an extra $4 million in an audit of the last fiscal year, which ended this past June. Now, it’s up to Metro Council to decide where that money will go.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAV-TV NBC 3 Louisville

VIDEO: Roanoke’s Fire Station 7 was recently demolished after nearly a century of serving Grandin Village, but people got to take a piece of its history home for free this weekend. Roanoke Fire EMS gave away more than 1,000 bricks salvaged from the historic structure, which had stood since 1922. The fire department tore down the firehouse to make way for a new, larger fire station on the same site.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSLS-TV NBC 10 Roanoke