Long Beach City Council voted Tuesday, Nov. 20 to rename a Fire Department training center after David Rosa, the captain who was killed on duty earlier this year. The facility, at 2249 Argonne Avenue in the Stearns Park neighborhood, will now be called the “Captain David Rosa Regional Training Center.
- PUB DATE: 11/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Long Beach Press-Telegram

A former town fire lieutenant charged last week with two counts of computer trespassing deleted hundreds of thousands of files from the department’s computer system, according to Fire Chief Kevin Robinson. Robert Warner, who was fired from the Fire Department in July, was charged last week by the Attorney General’s office after an investigation by the East Greenwich police.
- PUB DATE: 11/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Providence Journal

Long before he opened fire at a Near South Side hospital, Juan Lopez had a documented history of abusive behavior that he sometimes backed up with a gun. While a trainee at the Chicago Fire Department Academy nearly five years ago, Lopez faced dismissal after being accused of “aggressive and improper conduct” toward women, according to the department.
- PUB DATE: 11/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune

The U.S Department of Justice has ended its oversight of Austin Fire Department’s hiring processes after allowing a legal settlement regarding racial discrimination to expire. Federal officials could have continued their oversight of the Fire Department’s hiring of new firefighters for four years, according to a memo sent from interim Fire Chief Tom Dodds to the Austin City Council on Tuesday, but the Justice Department did not find “good cause” to extend the settlement, also known as a consent decree.
- PUB DATE: 11/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman

Some D.C. firefighters have been using their own money to buy auto parts and perform minor repairs on their vehicles themselves at their stations to avoid lengthy delays and shoddy workmanship at the fire department’s garage, five department sources have told The Washington Times. The station repairs violate D.
- PUB DATE: 11/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Washington Times

VIDEO: A special holiday proposal happened during Appleton's Christmas parade. "I held a secret the whole time from buying the ring, to me lying about working, it's been a whole secret this whole time," says firefighter Bryce Sternhagen. Bryce and Samantha have been a couple for 7 years. Little did she know the surprise that awaited her when the Appleton Fire Department's float stopped in front of her.
- PUB DATE: 11/20/2018 9:23:05 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

VIDEO: Two unattended cooking fires in just four days has the Madison Fire Department sending out a warning ahead of the holiday season. On Wednesday, a tenant in an apartment complex on Brentwood Pkwy left a pan of oil heating on the stove. Fire Chief Steven Davis said when the woman returned to find a fire had started, she tried to put it out by throwing water on it.
- PUB DATE: 11/20/2018 8:37:17 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will not hear Donald Tappa’s appeal, leaving his conviction in place for setting fire to the Log Jam Saloon in Oconto County. Tappa, 43, was convicted of nine counts, including arson, for the Dec. 25, 2013 fire. He is serving a 20-year prison term. Earlier this year, a state appeals court rejected his arguments for a new trial.
- PUB DATE: 11/20/2018 6:45:30 AM - SOURCE: WLUK TV Fox 11

New video released Monday shows Los Angeles fire officials pause their work dropping water on the Woolsey Fire to rescue three people and two dogs who were stuck in a remote area of the Santa Monica Mountains one day after the deadly blaze broke out, officials said. Pilots David Nordquist and Joel Smith were battling the blaze in an L.
- PUB DATE: 11/20/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTLA-TV WB 5 Los Angeles

The city's fire union has filed an unfair labor charge over a controversial response policy that dictates when firefighters use lights and sirens. The union contends the policy was unilaterally imposed without regard for the bargaining unit or the public. The Detroit Fire Fighter Association filed its complaint Friday with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission alleging the city violated its duty to bargain under the Public Employment Relations Act with unilateral changes to terms and conditions of employment without bargaining in good faith.
- PUB DATE: 11/20/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit News

Three people died Sunday night when a Bismarck Air Medical plane crashed northwest of Mandan. According to a release from CHI St. Alexius Health, the plane, which was flying to Williston to assist in a patient transport, went down prior to arrival. A Bismarck Air Medical pilot and paramedic, along with a CHI St.
- PUB DATE: 11/20/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bismarck Tribune

Eighth Utilities District firefighters petitioned the agency’s board of directors Monday for sweeping changes, including appointment of a new chief, a financial audit and “the redevelopment and rebuilding of the department.” “We, the volunteer members, want to reclaim the department and form it into the department and family it once was,” the petition, signed by 27 current and former firefighters, said.
- PUB DATE: 11/20/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hartford Courant

State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said Monday a team from his office will begin auditing the Delmont Volunteer Firemen’s Relief Association as four former members of the fire department are charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars in recent years. “I was deeply troubled by the theft charges filed against several former members of the fire department,” DePasquale said.
- PUB DATE: 11/20/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

VIDEO: As California firefighters continue to battle wildfires that have left at least 80 people dead, Eau Claire County firefighters are keeping them in their thoughts while also asking for the community's support locally. The Township Fire Department says 70-percent of our nation's firefighters are volunteers.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2018 5:14:04 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

On Monday, a volunteer from the Wisconsin Red Cross will fly out to California to help with wildfire efforts. Several volunteers have already traveled to California to help with evacuations - that includes four people from the Milwaukee area. The Camp Fire is the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2018 8:36:16 AM - SOURCE: NBC26

On November 18, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On November 17, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

A lack of training, an unclear strategy and flawed communication contributed to the 2016 deaths of three Wilmington firefighters in Canby Park, according to a report published by federal investigators on Friday. The report from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is the result of an investigation launched within weeks of the Sept.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilmington News Journal (Delaware Online)

More than two dozen people were hospitalized Friday afternoon after an FDNY engine and a city bus collided in the Bronx, officials said. Firefighters from Engine 46 were responding to medical emergency about 12:15 p.m. in Mount Hope when it turned left from E. 175th St. onto Webster Ave. — right into the path of a BX41 bus.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

While hundreds of families wait in agony to learn the fate of missing loved ones, officials gave a gut-wrenching forecast on the fate of California's Camp Fire: It's not even halfway done burning yet. Since the Camp Fire erupted November 8 in Butte County, it has killed 77 people, destroyed more than 10,500 homes and torched an area the size of Chicago.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN