Two firefighters, one with just a few months on the job, pulled a critically injured man from a burning Washington Heights apartment building Sunday night, an FDNY spokesman said. The blaze broke out just before 5:30 p.m., on the fourth floor of a building in the Rangel Houses along the Harlem River Drive.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

State Sen. Dan Laughlin is exploring the possibility of tapping into Pennsylvania’s prison system to help generate new firefighters for the state’s staff-starved volunteer service. Laughlin, of Millcreek Township, R-49th Dist., said last week that he is in the process of setting up an appointment with Department of Corrections Secretary John E.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Erie Times

Ask Fort Worth’s retiring Fire Chief Rudy Jackson about the fires he’s fought during his career and he’ll tell you there are too many stories to tell. Or, ask him about how he’s achieved such a low turnover rate among firefighters since he’s been chief and he’ll tell you he credits the good people he has working for him.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

A high-ranking state firefighter with 24 years of experience was compelled to resign last month because his department believed he helped a fire captain cheat on a test that the captain failed. Jeff Isaacs’ ouster as an assistant chief for the department’s Fresno unit is a sign of the tough line Cal Fire has taken on discipline since a 2014 investigation revealed sex-related misconduct and inappropriate drinking at its fire academy.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Modesto Bee

VIDEO - The Palmyra Fire Department has released video of an incident that injured two of its firefighters and resulted in the filing of reckless endangerment and other charges against a 21-year-old Palmyra woman earlier this month. In the Jan. 9 incident, the Palmyra Fire Department was extinguishing a fire at an apartment complex on the 1300 block of Park Drive.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPMT-TV Fox 43

Bickering between sheriff’s deputies and firefighters over which agency should conduct air rescues in Orange County has led to delays in getting injured people to hospitals, raising concerns that the running feud could impair medical care and put taxpayers at risk of unexpected legal payouts. In one 2016 incident, detailed in a letter by the county’s Emergency Medical Services director obtained by The Orange County Register, a conflict between sheriff’s deputies and Orange County Fire Authority paramedics delayed the transport of an elderly woman with a serious head injury.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register

Honored for his act of heroism, a young boy from Milwaukee was posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal Sunday, Jan. 28 for risking his life to save others. With only 18 civilians recognized nationally this year, he's the youngest in the nation to receive this honor. Family members gathered Sunday morning at Hephatha Lutheran Church, where they honored the Lord and Kevin Little.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2018 3:44:13 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

Amanda Larson was co-recipient of the 2017 First Responder of the Year award presented by Sister Bay Liberty Grove Fire Chief Chris Hecht. Amanda says that she has never had a problem working a field traditionally held by men. According to the American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) database, approximately 30 percent of emergency medical technicians & paramedics in the US are women.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2018 4:35:23 AM - SOURCE: Door County Daily News

At a recent meeting with Mount Pleasant’s Fire/EMS Oversight Board, South Shore Fire Chief Robert Stedman was asked why South Shore’s personnel and vehicle from Station 10, located in the Franksville area, responded to fire calls throughout all of the Village of Caledonia. Meanwhile, Caledonia’s Station 10 personnel and vehicles only responded to calls within Station 10’s service area, which dips below Spring Street in Mount Pleasant and out west to the interstate.
- PUB DATE: 1/27/2018 2:17:22 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

VIDEO: A longtime member of La Crosse's fire department is getting a promotion. Jeff Murphy was officially promoted from Battalion Chief to Assistant Chief of Operations Friday morning. After more than 20 years of working 24-hour shifts, Murphy says he's looking forward to moving to a '9-to-5' schedule, and shifting into a more administrative role.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2018 11:36:59 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

VIDEO: Paramedics and EMTs are always expected to perform at their best. But the training, and technology, they have to be familiar with is constantly evolving. "We have to constantly adapt to that," said Kevin DeBauche, a firefighter and paramedic with the Kenosha Fire Department. DeBauche said the desire to keep current is why he was attending the annual Wisconsin EMS Association (WEMSA) Conference in Milwaukee this week.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2018 6:59:40 PM - SOURCE: Today's TMJ4

After more than 20 years of service and over five years as fire chief at the Kilbourn Fire Department, Chief Scott Walsh is getting ready to move on. “I kind of lost the desire and didn’t feel I was able to give 100 percent of my time to the fire department,” he said. “You get to that point where it’s time to let the younger guys and the guys coming up take over and carry on the tradition.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2018 6:42:13 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

On January 25, 11 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 24, 13 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On the evening of Friday, Jan. 12, as citizens began their weekend, the City of Sheboygan Fire Department began a different activity. For the second time in the department’s history, a MABAS alarm was activated. MABAS is an acronym for Mutual Aid Box Alarm System and it started in northern Illinois in the late 1960’s.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2018 6:04:38 AM - SOURCE: Sheboygan Press

VIDEO: Rudolph firefighters called to a barn fire near the intersection of Portage County P and O were delayed for about 15 to 20 minutes while they waited for a train, according to the fire chief. Firefighters received the call to the fire, which was just east of Junction City, around 2 p.m. Tuesday, Rudolph Fire Chief Tony Konkol said.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2018 5:42:33 AM - SOURCE: Wausau Daily Herald

Mosinee Fire Chief Doug Jennings turned in his resignation Thursday after he was put on paid suspension, according to the city's mayor. The Mosinee Fire District suspended Jennings Wednesday evening, Mayor Brent Jacobson said. Jacobson said the suspension was a personnel issue and he could not give any information about it.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2018 4:44:46 AM - SOURCE: Wausau Daily Herald

The dream of having the Marshall Emergency Medical Services District provide sustainability to the program has come to reality. Two career-staff members, Erika Mabrey and Herfrank Loyo, started working for EMS District No. 14 Friday, Jan. 19. With the two employees, EMS Director Scott Allain stated that response times would be quicker, there would be more sustainability and stability in the department, the EMS and fire department would continue to work together and there would be more support for volunteers and on-call staff.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2018 1:41:45 AM - SOURCE: Waterloo / Marshall Courier

In December, Baltimore County police evacuated their Woodlawn precinct overnight after three officers needed treatment for exposure to fentanyl, a potent opioid responsible for the skyrocketing number of deaths among drug users. Months earlier, a Harford County deputy needed the overdose reversal drug naloxone and two paramedics were treated for exposure after responding to an overdose call.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

South Korea's deadliest fire in almost a decade has ripped through a hospital in the city of Miryang, killing at least 37 people and injuring more than 100. Authorities revised the death toll down from 39 on Friday afternoon, but a Miryang City official warned it could rise as at least 18 patients remained in critical condition.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN