A firefighter with the Homer Fire Department died Saturday after falling ill at a training, according to the fire chief. Firefighter Robert Bush was feeling ill during a training, and his fellow firefighters offered him medical help immediately, chief Mahlon Irish Jr. said in a Facebook post. “Bush was transported to the local hospital where revival efforts continued.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Syracuse.com

Over the last few years, national firefighter organizations have put an emphasis on cancer preventions. Firefighters face higher rates of cancer diagnosis and cancer-related deaths than the general population. Innovative work by the Xenia Fire Department will help them be more diligent about keeping gear clean to prevent the inhalation of carcinogens as suggested by many national firefighter organizations.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDTN-TV NBC 2 Dayton

Two national experts on firefighter safety were at the Vermont Fire Academy Saturday sharing what they know with leaders in the state’s firefighting and emergency services community. “The entire class today is focused on firefighter health and safety,” Chief Craig Haigh, a 36-year veteran of the Hanover Park, Illinois, Fire Department, and a field staff instructor at the University of Illinois Fire Service Institute.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Rutland Herald - Metered Site

San Francisco’s Marina was ravaged by fire during the Loma Prieta earthquake, centered 60 miles away. Thirty years later, experts say, as much as a third of the city is still largely unprotected against the massive fires they fear will be sparked by the Big One. “The way the situation is now, we are going to have some major conflagrations in the city,” said Charles Scawthorn, an engineer and earthquake fire modeling expert, who predicts as many as 100 separate fires across the city, fueled by broken natural gas lines.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNTV NBC 11 San Jose

VIDEOS: Firefighters are battling a three-alarm fire at an auto body shop in Philadelphia’s Cobbs Creek neighborhood. Crews were called to the the area of 59th and Irving Streets for a fire around 10:10 a.m. Monday. Arriving crews found heavy fire conditions coming from a second-story building. The fire caused parts of the building to collapse.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KYW-TV CBS 3 Philadelphia

VIDEO: A local fire station held an info session for its explorers program on Sunday. The Altoona Fire Department Explorers Post 800 is a program that helps kids from 6th grade to age 21 learn the techniques and skills of a firefighter. The program helps the youth decide if they want to become firefighters by giving them hands-on experience.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2019 5:07:03 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

It'll be the 16th annual "Fired Up for Fire Safety" event in Marshfield this weekend, and assistant fire chief Pete Fletty says it all starts at 12:00 noon on Sunday with the popular "Fire Engine Parade" down Central Avenue. "The fire engine parade begins at the fairgrounds here in Marshfield and it goes up to Central Avenue and continues north up to the Festival Foods parking lot," Fletty explained.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2019 2:05:26 AM - SOURCE: WRIG-AM Fox Sports 1390

A piece of history is returning to Wausaukee, Wisconsin, after some work by the brotherhood of firefighers. The fire chief there now has the keys to a 1930 REO Speed Wagon fire truck that was Wausaukee's first motorized truck. The exchange took place on Thursday at the Minnesota State Fire Chiefs Association conference at the DECC.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wdio.com

Two city EMS veterans were in critical condition Thursday after a bizarre episode where one suffered a stroke behind the wheel — and the other an aortic aneurysm while headed to assist his colleague, authorities said. The double dose of tragedy began when Liam Glinane, a 28-year FDNY veteran, was stricken while driving around 1 p.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

VIDEO: One year ago, a man shot himself after setting a fire that destroyed several homes in Springfield, and today the first responders are looking back. “We started getting ready to fight fire. As we were pulling up on scene, glass exploded through the cab and something hard hit me in the left chest," said Captain Craig Degarlais with Eugene Springfield Fire.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KEZI-TV ABC 9

The Burlington Rescue Squad will dissolve at the end of the year due to difficulties keeping up with increased call volume and a decline in volunteerism, Mayor Jeannie Hefty has announced. The dissolution will leave the City of Burlington Fire Department to pick up rescue services for city residents.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Journal Times

As an emergency medicine resident at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Zachary Wettstein, MD, has seen the effects of wildfires firsthand. On days when it’s really smoky, he says, “I’m not surprised that I’m seeing more people with shortness of breath.” Densely smoky days certainly are growing as wildfire season worsens, experts say, spurred in part by such environmental changes as earlier snowmelts that can cause drier, hotter conditions.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: AAMCNews

In 2020 Arkansas' minimum wage goes up 75 cents: from $9.25 an hour to $10 an hour. For firefighters starting out in Harrison, they currently only make $9.40 an hour. “Roughly 10 members of our department were going to fall below that minimum wage if we didn’t do something," said Harrison Fire Chief Marc Lowery.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KYTV NBC 3

Some law enforcement officers and first responders in our area now have a better understanding of how to identify autism and how to help those who have it. It’s all thanks to the efforts of one Marshfield man. Harry Dolan may not be a professional when it comes to speaking about autism awareness, but he does have first-hand experience.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2019 8:36:02 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

A new training center in the Fox Valley will help future firefighters learn specialized skills. Fox Valley Technical College's Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Training Center opened Thursday. It's the only training center of its kind in the Midwest. It will have two complete airplane props, including a Boeing 777, designed to be used over and over for training.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2019 6:42:52 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

A bill to rename a post office in Sun Prairie in honor of fallen firefighter Capt. Cory Barr has passed the U.S. House of Representatives. The Senate passed bipartisan legislation earlier this summer to make the change. Barr died when a gas leak caused an explosion in downtown Sun Prairie in July 2018.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2019 8:05:36 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

A Shawano County home is destroyed following a fire Wednesday afternoon. Fire crews say it happened at just before 3 p.m. on Oak Lane in the Town of Navarino. It took firefighters about an hour to fully extinguish the flames. However, the house was deemed a total loss. Nobody was home at the time of the fire.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2019 6:54:37 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

The Burlington Rescue Squad will dissolve at the end of the year due to difficulties keeping up with increased call volume and a decline in volunteerism, Mayor Jeannie Hefty has announced. The dissolution will leave the City of Burlington Fire Department to pick up rescue services for city residents, and the Town of Burlington — at this point in time — without a clear rescue and EMS service provider after Dec.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2019 4:44:34 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

Three Texas first responders were struck and killed by vehicles while on duty in a week's time — prompting officials to remind motorists to move over and slow down for roadside emergency vehicles. On October 7, 2019, two Louise Volunteer Fire Department firefighters, having cleared a previous call, stopped in their lane of travel on Farm-to-Market (FM) 647, south of Highway 59 near Louise, Texas, to check the fire engine's front tires, believing something was wrong.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: My Texas Daily

Full-time firefighter/paramedic Wendy Ashworth made history last week in the Acushnet Fire and EMS Department when she became the first female member of the department to command an incident. Ashworth, 56, is the only full-time female firefighter in the department, according to Chief Kevin Gallagher.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Standard-TImes