A former fire chief has filed a federal lawsuit against the Center Township Fire Department for more than 330 hours of overtime. Ernie Campbell alleges in his suit that he was fired over a time-off request and did not receive his compensatory time or pay for more than eight weeks since he began working for the department in 1989.
- PUB DATE: 12/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lebanon Reporter

The Burlington Rescue Squad will hire temporary workers to help fill time slots for emergency medical technicians. In an agreement between the nonprofit squad and the city, the city will handle the hiring of the temporary workers but their salary will be paid for by the volunteer squad. The squad, a private entity run under the auspices of the Burlington Rotary Club, also serves the Town of Burlington.
- PUB DATE: 12/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

Retired Worcester firefighter John Griffin recalled how much it meant nearly two decades ago when other city employees stepped in to relieve the city’s fire personnel while they mourned their six colleagues killed in the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. fire. Saturday, Mr. Griffin and some of his fellow retirees from the department will pay that favor forward to the city’s current firefighters when they grieve for Christopher J.
- PUB DATE: 12/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette

VIDEO: Orlando firefighters are being credited with helping to save a woman and her car after they got stuck on railroad tracks in downtown as a freight train approached. The rescue was captured on cellphone video by Nolan Thompson on Wednesday night. According to Orlando fire officials, people started banging on the doors to Fire Station 1 at approximately 11:20 p.
- PUB DATE: 12/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKMG-TV CBS 6 Click Orlando

No one was home when Randolph and Fox Lake fire departments battled a house fire in Randolph on Saturday night. Randolph Fire Chief Ed Hoksbergen said the fire at 121 Tamarack St. was a single-family rental unit. The fire department was dispatched to the home at 9:45 p.m. “It started on the first floor,” Hoksbergen said.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2018 6:45:06 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

Faulty venting of a wood stove was blamed for causing $10,000 in fire damage to a garage Sunday morning. It happened about 6 a.m. at 1164 Harvey St. Fire crews arrived to find the rear wall and roof in flames on the four-stall, detached garage. Firefighters saved several vehicles inside after being on the scene for about two hours.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2018 10:24:46 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

The Burlington Rescue Squad will hire temporary workers to help fill time slots for emergency medical technicians. In an agreement between the nonprofit squad and the city, the city will handle the hiring of the temporary workers but their salary will be paid for by the volunteer squad. The squad, a private entity run under the auspices of the Burlington Rotary Club, also serves the Town of Burlington.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2018 5:31:33 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

On December 15, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 14, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 12, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Firefighters on Friday morning, Dec. 14 responded to the scene of a house fire in Brookfield. Four people were treated for smoke inhalation. It happened around 2:30 a.m. near North Avenue and Cloverhill Road. First arriving fire units reported a well-involved fire on the first floor — with extension into other areas of the structure.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2018 7:33:33 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

A ceiling collapsed on top of firefighters battling a duplex fire in Green Bay. Officials say they were able to self-rescue and no firefighters were injured. Fire crews were called to the duplex fire on Beach Tree Drive around 5:40 a.m. The right side of the duplex was fully engulfed in flames and the cars inside the garage were destroyed.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2018 6:43:15 AM - SOURCE: NBC26

For years, they’ve watched from across the street as the trucks go in and out of the Park Avenue fire station, protecting the city and its residents. Now Harris Auto Body is returning the favor, giving two fire trucks a final detailing in preparation for Firefighter Christopher J. Roy’s funeral services.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette

At 6:33 a.m. on Nov. 8, a Butte County dispatcher answered what was among the first emergency calls in what would become the deadliest wildfire in California history: A “powerline transformer sparked and there is a fire,” the Magalia caller reported. By just after 8 a.m., residents of Concow and Magalia were phoning in a panic — some of them trapped and needing rescue and others frantically alerting authorities to parents and grandparents in harm’s way, according to Butte County dispatchers’ logs.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle

Two more top Baltimore County officials are leaving as County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. sets up his new administration. Fire Chief Kyrle Preis and planning director Andrea van Arsdale announced this week that they are retiring. They were two of the department heads who were not included in a list of appointments and reappointments that Olszewski sent to the Baltimore County Council last week.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

Southwest Airlines recently found itself in hot water and had to apologize for the actions of one of its employees. That person, a gate agent, had joked with coworkers about the unusual name of one of the passengers on the flight, and later posted a picture of that passenger’s boarding pass to her personal social media account.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

The city of Houston has alleged in a legal claim that the voter-approved charter amendment granting firefighters equal pay to police officers is unconstitutional and preempted by Texas’ local government code, echoing a similar contention from the Houston Police Officers’ Union. The claim, filed in state district court as part of the police union’s lawsuit against the Houston Professional Fire Firefighters Association and the city, comes 10 days after a judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking implementation of Proposition B, which passed with 59 percent of the vote last month.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle

VIDEO: One person was injured Thursday night in a house fire in the 8400 block of West Front Street in Hanover Township near Orfordville. The call came in just after 8 p.m. Thursday evening. Dispatchers are sending units from a number of area departments to assist Orfordville Fire Department personnel.
- PUB DATE: 12/13/2018 9:58:21 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

VIDEO: A 29-year-old man from Delavan has been taken into custody in connection with two house fires that happened on Dec. 10 and Dec. 12 in the Town of Delavan. The suspect told authorities he was involved in three others as well. Daniel Zitella is described as having severe learning disabilities. He now faces serious charges.
- PUB DATE: 12/13/2018 3:20:18 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

VIDEO: Newswatch 12 spoke with a man who got two scam calls from someone pretending to be an Eagle River police officer and another pretending to be a firefighter. Both scam calls asked for donations. Eagle River Fire Chief Michael Anderson says he thinks the caller is a local because the department is taking donations for a second station, but not over the phone.
- PUB DATE: 12/13/2018 2:08:12 PM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander-Wausau