An off-duty firefighter who sprang into action during last fall's massacre at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas -- where a gunman killed 58 people and injured hundreds -- spoke about his harrowing experience yesterday to a room full of Massachusetts firefighters and urged those struggling after bouts of trauma to get professional help.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald

The city plans to spend $3.2 million to adjust the pay of more than 6,000 employees next year. The one-time allocation will boost salaries to bring workers in line with their peers, or to ensure that managers aren’t making less than people they supervise. Public safety staff – especially firefighters – have asked the city to deal with the problem for more than a decade.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Virginian-Pilot

Questions arise in the Detroit Fire Department after a woman was electrocuted by a downed power line. Should Detroit firefighters stay with downed power lines until utility crews arrive with a fix? Protocol says yes, but a recently-issued policy says no. Now, a woman is dead after touching an unattended line in an alley.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fox2detroit.com

Gov. Phil Murphy said Thursday he's ready to hand over control of police and firefighters' pensions -- but only if state lawmakers agree to some minor changes to the controversial spinoff. The governor conditionally vetoed the bill (S5) on Thursday, calling for "technical changes" to protect the pension fund and New Jersey taxpayers.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NJ.com

Cedar Hammock firefighter Michael Dunn started wondering what happened to his patients after an overdose call. "We would get these calls and save their lives and essentially jump back into the fire truck and leave for the next one,” said Dunn. He wanted to give people the resources they need to get clean.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: abcactionnews.com

On May 10, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: The day after records were released regarding complaints against former Mosinee Fire Chief Doug Jennings and former Deputy Chief Emily Dobeck, one person who wrote a complaint to the mayor is speaking out. "I just felt in my heart I had to do something about it," said the source, who asked to remain anonymous because she's completing her fire training at a different department.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2018 9:12:44 PM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9

A man was arrested for arson near the east side of Madison early Wednesday morning. Two parked trucks were set on fire in front of a house on Jacobson Avenue just after 4:30 a.m., according to the Madison Police Department. The 51-year-old homeowner discovered accelerants had been poured near the front of his house.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2018 4:43:17 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

A Waterloo woman has been arrested for allegedly setting fire to a recreational vehicle parked behind her home last week. Sharice Demetria Schoonover, 25, of 325 Reber Ave., was arrested Tuesday for first-degree arson. Her bond was set at $25,000. Police said the fire followed an ongoing dispute with roommate Damarius O’Neal.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2018 3:15:40 PM - SOURCE: Lacrosse Tribune

As the top fundraiser for the Riverside Elementary School’s Walk-a-Thon, Abigail Hanke, a third-grader, earned a ride to school on one of Fond du Lac’s fire trucks. Abigail was picked up at her home where she boarded the fire truck and saw firsthand all the technology that firemen use when responding to an emergency, and could feel how it is to ride in a truck this size.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2018 1:26:56 PM - SOURCE: Fond du Lac Reporter

On May 9, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On May 8, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

University of Wisconsin-Madison officials declined to release an administrative review that led them to shift the management of a Lake Mendota rescue service scrutinized after the death of a windsurfer in a collision with a rescue boat a year ago. The UW-Madison Police Department announced Wednesday that it had taken over operation of UWPD Lake Rescue and Safety.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2018 5:43:05 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com-Wisconsin State Journal-Capital Times

Around 30 people were displaced after a fire broke out in an apartment building in Milwaukee Wednesday night. Authorities say it happened near 39th and Hopkins. Firefighters say the fire was located on the first floor of the building. Crews initially were told several people were trapped inside, but after searching the building, one person was found inside and was able to walk out without assistance.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2018 5:28:46 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

A veteran firefighter from a community south of the New York state capital has died after responding to two fires the previous day. Hudson volunteer firefighter Mark A. Graziano, 47, was found unresponsive at his home shortly after 8 a.m. Thursday, less than 12 hours after he responded to a fire call that was his second in the 24 hours preceding his death.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

In Chula Vista, firefighters and paramedics respond to low-priority 911 calls even though less than one percent of those calls require emergency medical services. By not sending firefighters to those calls, the Chula Vista Fire Department believes it can respond to high-priority calls faster. The department is currently considering sending only ambulances to what are officially known as level three calls.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Diego Union-Tribune

Fire Chief Mike Beyerstedt will keep his job after an internal investigation over a head-butting incident reported at Central Fire Station downtown. The city released a short statement Wednesday morning: "The administration has completed its investigation of the incident involving Fire Chief Mike Beyerstedt and two other firemen from the department.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sun Herald

Wildland firefighters operate in a difficult environment where a variety of factors including topography, vegetation and quickly changing weather and fire conditions can lead to great risk of injury or death from burnovers or entrapment. There are various models that provide firefighters with estimates of safe separation distance: the distance between themselves and the flames necessary to reduce the risk of burn injury.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: U.S. Fire Administration

The Chicago Fire Department has already been accused of creating a hostile work environment where women are sexually harassed with impunity by their superiors and a “code of silence” covers it up. Now, the department faces yet another embarrassing incident — this time involving an allegation of violence in the workplace against a woman.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times

VIDEO: The Stratford Area Fire Department honored and celebrated Chief Bill Griesbach, who retired Wednesday after 32 years with the department. "When Stratford Fire Department became Stratford Area Fire Department, that was 32 years ago. When they started is when I started," said Bill Griesbach, the retiring fire chief.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2018 10:44:21 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau