On December 17, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The ex-con accused of beating a FDNY firefighter to death in a road-rage incident faced a line of angry Bravest on Tuesday as cops walked him out of a Brooklyn police station. Joseph Desmond, 29, a reputed Latin Kings gang member, kept his head down as he exited the 62nd Precinct stationhouse in Bath Beach and filed past the silent firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

A former Marine diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after combat service in Afghanistan filed a discrimination lawsuit against the city last week after being rejected for a job as a city firefighter. Brett D’Alessandro claimed in his lawsuit that he finished third on a civil service test for one of the Paterson Fire Department jobs in 2017 and was then sent to the Institute for Forensic Psychology, which is based in Oakland, for an evaluation.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: North Jersey.com (Bergen County Record & Herald News)

Investigators on Tuesday arrested a 28-year-old woman suspected of posing as a firefighter’s wife and collecting more than $2,000 in donations for firefighters battling the Holy fire that she then kept for herself, authorities said. Ashley Bemis, of San Juan Capistrano, posted photos on multiple social media pages of herself and her “fictitious firefighter husband” asking for donations, said the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Times

A state district judge on Tuesday dissolved a temporary restraining order blocking implementation of the voter-approved charter amendment granting pay parity to Houston firefighters and denied further attempts by the city and police union to delay the measure. State District Judge Randy Wilson, ruling in favor of the Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association, decided that voters were informed of the amendment’s price tag — more than $100 million a year — before the election and approved it anyway.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle

An Orange County doctor has been arrested on suspicion of illegally selling powerful narcotics to a man who is suspected in a DUI crash that killed a Costa Mesa fire captain, as well as selling drugs to five people who went on to fatally overdose, local officials with the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTLA News 5

VIDEO: Body camera video shows a dramatic rescue as two Brookfield Police officers pull a disabled woman from a burning home. The fire happened in the early morning hours of December 14th. The two officers were closest to the fire when the call came in, and they went into the home without any oxygen or special gear to make the rescue.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2018 9:08:41 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Christmas is the most magical time of the year. Unfortunately, some children must spend their holidays in the hospital. And that's why Green Bay Metro firefighters spent this day playing Santa at HSHS St. Vincent Children’s Hospital. With arms full of gifts meant to make any child smile - Green Bay Metro firefighters walk the halls of St.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2018 4:27:03 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

Three Beloit residents were recognized Monday for their heroism in saving lives during an Oct. 12 house fire on Tenth Street. Brian Brewster, Savvas Mourtzis and Christine Rowlett were honored with the award from Beloit Fire Chief Brad Liggett at Monday night's Beloit City Council meeting. Brewster, Mourtzis and Rowlett are credited by the department for successfully saving the lives of the six residents of 1015 Tenth St.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2018 8:56:59 AM - SOURCE: Beloit Daily News

On December 17, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 13, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Firefighters responded to a large fire on Monday afternoon at a defunct grain elevator in Superior. Formerly the Globe Elevators, the fire was located at 2 Banks Ave., in Superior adjacent to the operational General Mills elevators. Large flames and smoke plumes were visible from places throughout the Twin Ports, blowing the trail of smoke northeast for all to see.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MPR

A firefighter who was run over by a pickup truck during last month's deadly Southern California wildfire was sleeping in an unmarked area but received prompt care for his minor injuries, a new state fire report said. South Kitsap Fire & Rescue Lt. Terry Geiselman, 46, was with a team from Washington state that had arrived to help battle the Woolsey Fire that ripped through communities west of Los Angeles from Ventura County southward to Malibu.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Luis Obispo County Tribune

Two Columbus firefighter-paramedics were suspended without pay for taking photographs of medical patients without their permission and sending them to others. The Department of Public Safety announced the suspensions Monday afternoon. Firefighter-paramedic Mike McConnell, an eight-year veteran of the division, admitted to taking photographs and video in 2016 of a patient.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Columbus Dispatch

When Christine Uhlhorn was in kindergarten and was asked to draw a picture of what she wanted to do when she grew up, she drew a firetruck. “My family has over 250 years in the fire service,” said Uhlhorn, 50. “I never questioned it. There was nothing else I ever wanted to do.” Uhlhorn, a third generation firefighter, was named Monday by County Executive Calvin Ball as the new fire chief of Howard County’s Department Fire and Rescue Services.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

The Board of Supervisors in Patrick County declined to pull funding from the JEB Stuart volunteer rescue squad, but it did pass a motion stating the county condemns acts of hate and white supremacy. This comes after the entire country now knows a part-time paid emergency medical technician in the county frequently co-hosts a podcast, the Daily Shoah, that routinely makes racist jokes and pro-white comments.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSLS-TV

Ron Herrera could have stopped fighting fires years ago. But what exactly, he wonders, would he do with himself then? Honored Monday for wrapping his 45th year with Albuquerque Fire Rescue, the 66-year-old lieutenant has now logged the equivalent of more than two full careers with the department. He once worked alongside the fathers – and, in at least one case, the grandfather – of some of his current peers.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Albuquerque Journal

On December 17, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Members of Beaver Dam Police Department and Fire Department completed a training program this week in order to offer Project Lifesaver to Beaver Dam residents. “It is very important program that will better help us serve the community,” Beaver Dam Police Department Sgt. Erik Smedema said. “Project Lifesaver is geared toward assisting individuals in the community that have a tendency to wander.
- PUB DATE: 12/17/2018 6:27:44 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

With a vote last Wednesday night of the Southern Door Fire Board, there are now two fire departments in Door County with chiefs named Vandertie. The board selected 35-year fire department veteran Gary Vandertie to lead the department that provides fire protection and emergency medical response services in the village and town of Forestville as well as the towns of Clay Banks and Nasewaupee.
- PUB DATE: 12/17/2018 2:10:43 PM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette