As states in Hurricane Dorian's path are sending out calls for help, some of San Antonio's most skilled firefighters are answering that call. The crews are part of an elite state team called Texas A&M Task Force 1. Though the mission is dangerous and overwhelming, it's one they've taken on many times before.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSAT-TV News 12

VIDEO: The Indiana Volunteer Firefighters Association and Ivy Tech are giving Hoosiers the chance to get a two-year degree at no charge. Earlier this year, House Bill 1064 established that a public safety officer may be eligible for a scholarship for educational costs. The bill didn’t pass so Ivy Tech stepped in.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFIE-TV NBC 14 Evansville

VIDEO: Firefighters came all the way from Knoxville, Tennessee to learn more about wildland fires. The 3-team crew got here on Monday and will be here until September 9. Right now, Rural Metro Fire is teaching them wildland suppression tactics used to fight Oregon wildfires. One technique they are learning is how to get 400 feet of hose on the ground with as little as just two or three people working.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KDRV-TV ABC 12 Medford

With more than 50 East Haven firefighters and supporters in the audience, the Town Council voted unanimously Tuesday night, with one abstention, to increase the tax abatement volunteer firefighters receive from $1,000 to $1,500 — and eventually to $2,000. The only council member who didn’t vote in favor of the increased abatement was Chairman Ken McKay, R-1, a retired career firefighter and five-decade member of the volunteer Foxon Company 3.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register

Firefighters in La Crosse continued a long-standing tradition on Wednesday, helping raise money for those with Muscular Dystrophy in Southern Wisconsin. For over 10 years, members of the La Crosse Area Professional Firefighters Local 127 Fire Department have teamed up with the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) to hold boots in their hands and collect spare change.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2019 8:14:41 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

In his 30 years as Fall River fire chief – including 47 total on staff – Gene Adam has seen ups and downs when it comes to staffing. As a small town, volunteer-based organization, the Fall River Fire Department has never had an over-abundance of personnel, but in recent years, numbers have been especially low.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2019 2:08:41 PM - SOURCE: Columbus Journal

VIDEO: Cal Fire has opened an investigation into how a local fire department’s fire engine was burnt over, leaving two firefighters hurt during the Country Fire in the community of Cool Thursday. The twisted and burnt front end of a Garden Valley Fire Department engine sits in the middle of a blackened property.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOVR-TV CBS 13 Sacaramento

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol released dramatic dashboard camera video from a few weeks ago, when two firefighters in southeast Oklahoma were hit by a trailer along the side of a wet road. The video shows two men with the Stringtown Fire Department standing in a grassy area off a road in the rain when the driver of an SUV heading in the opposite direction lost control.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOCO-TV ABC 5 Oklahoma City

The City of Spokane is considering adding locks to its fire hydrants, and adding fill stations throughout the city for third-party companies to use after water was contaminated in a Hillyard neighborhood. In July, residents in some Hillyard neighborhoods were without water after a hydroseed truck was using the city's water hydrant to fill their truck and contaminated it.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

During an extreme weather emergency such as Hurricane Dorian, hundreds of first responders, law enforcement and county personnel work around the clock overseeing evacuations, shelters, flooded roads and securing the community from harm. At the Martin County Emergency Operations Center, they also must eat.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: TCPalm

After reports from EMS personnel raised questions about the frequency of field officer assault by patients, Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services conducted an internal survey. The results showed that the majority of Austin EMS personnel say they’ve been assaulted on the job in the last two years.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Austin Monitor

The Suring Village Board has appointed Mark Zahn as chief of the Suring Volunteer Fire Department. Zahn had been a captain prior to his appointment. He followed in his father’s footsteps by joining the fire department in January 1980. A lifelong resident of the community and graduate of Suring High School, Zahn succeeds David “Chummy” Wagner, who retired from the department this spring.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2019 11:26:19 PM - SOURCE: Shawano Leader

A fire that started in a shed where a person was living spread to a nearby garage, destroying both buildings, authorities confirmed. Firefighters responded around 9 p.m. Monday to a report of a shed on fire on North Lincoln Avenue. The fire started in an 8-by-8-foot shed where a person had been staying for four to five years and spread to a nearby garage filled with manicure and pedicure supplies, Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue Division Chief Troy Haase said.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2019 10:45:48 AM - SOURCE: Fond du Lac Reporter

Divers with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department joined the U.S. Coast Guard Monday in an effort to find as many as 30 people feared dead resulting from a 75-foot commercial diving boat that caught fire and sank near Santa Cruz Island early Monday. Twenty-five bodies have been located, and at least nine other people were missing and likely deceased, authorities said.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox 5 San Diego

An assistant fire chief has been severely burned while fighting a fire in Okanogan County that began over the weekend. The Spring Coulee Fire was sparked Sunday afternoon south of the town of Okanogan, county emergency officials said. The fire spread quickly to the north. During the fire fight, Assistant Chief Christian Johnson with Okanogan County Fire District No.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

The Baltimore City Fire Department’s (BCFD) new response reduction policy, which lowers the number of vehicles and battalion chiefs responding to initial fire alarms, went into effect on Sunday, September 1. Barely a day passed before an incident that the city’s rank-and-file firefighters’ union said shows the policy’s critical weaknesses.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Captial Gazette

Mount Sinai Fire District officials unnecessarily raised taxes more than 4 percent over a four-year period after overestimating expenditures by more than $300,000, state auditors said in a report released last week. The district, which runs business operations for the fire department, also failed to seek bids for about $27,000 worth of purchases, the office of state Comptroller Thomas P.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Newsday

Poisonous chemicals killed one woman in an apparent suicide and sickened eight people, prompting the evacuation of three floors of the Hotel Fairmont in San Jose Saturday, fire officials said. About 10 a.m., firefighters were dispatched to the hotel on a report of an attempted suicide on the 19th floor using chemicals.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco CBS Local

Most people didn't have to work on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2, and got to enjoy some time with family and friends, but for first responders, it was another day working to keep our community safe. To say, "Thank you," Olive Garden officials delivered a complimentary lunch, including fresh pasta, salad, and bread sticks at fire stations and police departments.
- PUB DATE: 9/2/2019 3:46:02 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

A structure fire at a Chippewa Falls home leaves behind thousands of dollars in damages on Labor Day. The Chippewa Falls Fire and Emergency Services Department says it happened around 2:30am on Beaver Street. Upon arrival, firefighters found heavy fire and smoke coming from the second floor of a single family home.
- PUB DATE: 9/2/2019 11:52:46 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News