Former Kinloch Mayor Darren Small, 51, and his wife, Jayna Small, 40, have pleaded guilty to a federal charge and admitted stealing money from the city’s fire protection district, the U.S. attorney’s office said Thursday. Darren Small pleaded guilty Thursday to two felony counts: conspiracy to commit access device fraud and access device fraud.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A fire department participated in a viral trend that involves getting out of your vehicle to attempt a slam dunk in a basketball hoop and driving away. Arlington Fire Department tweeted a video of one of their crewmembers wearing a T-Rex costume and attempting to slam dunk at a neighborhood basketball hoop as part of the #DriveByDunkChallenge.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

On August 3, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: A 42-year-old man says he doesn't remember how he ended up more than 10 miles from his house after his garage caught fire, Taylor County's chief deputy sheriff said Thursday. Firefighters were called to Shane Ziegel's house on State Highway 64 in Goodrich on the evening of July 27. Ziegel was not home and was considered missing.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2017 3:45:54 PM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9-Wausau

Kelly Heise hasn’t felt at all out of place at her new job. But Heise, 24, is only the second woman ever to work as a firefighter and paramedic at the Stevens Point Fire Department. The other, Tracey Kujawa, a former chief, left the department in 2014. Heise, who grew up in Rhinelander, joined the department last month.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2017 7:39:50 AM - SOURCE: Stevens Point Journal

VIDEO: A group of Ben Franklin Junior High School students raised $10,000 to restore a 9/11 memorial in Plover. They raised the money all in one day at the Celebrate Plover fest. "It's a really good feeling," said student Sarah Adams. "Shows we can actually do something and change." The students have been working with two mentors for five months to make the fundraiser happen.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2017 6:11:40 AM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC

A Silsbee volunteer firefighter was killed Wednesday after being struck by a car while working a traffic accident. 12News has been asked to withhold the name of the firefighter until all family members have been notified. The firefighter was struck while working an accident along FM418 just east of Highway 92 according to Hardin County Sheriff Mark Davis.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KBMT-TV ABC 12

A firefighter was killed while working the Lolo Peak fire Wednesday afternoon — the second firefighter death in Montana this fire season. Missoula County Sheriff T.J. McDermott said an official investigation to determine the cause of death is still underway. Dispatchers at the Lolo Peak fire said the man was given CPR after apparently being struck by a falling snag.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Missoula Missoulian

Authorities pulled a second body from the rubble Wednesday night, after a building exploded and collapsed at Minnehaha Academy earlier in the day. At just before 10 p.m., Fire Chief John Fruetel announced that searchers had been able to locate and remove the body of the missing male victim, who had been identified by the school as 81-year-old school custodian John Carlson, at about 8 p.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KARE-TV NBC 11

A D.C. firefighter was critically injured after he was struck by another fire department vehicle late Wednesday night. The accident happened as firefighters were responding to a rowhouse fire on the 800 block of F Street NE at 11:30 p.m. Fire officials say 28-year-old Dane Smothers Jr. was preparing hose lines and other equipment when he was struck by a ladder truck arriving at the scene.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Washington

The Orange County Fire Rescue Department is attempting to reduce response times with a new GPS technology that uses locations of its vehicles to dispatch firefightersThe department started using Automatic Vehicle Location for dispatch in June to make its operations more efficient, Fire Rescue Chief Otto Drozd III said.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orlando Sentinel

The St. Paul fire chief recently suspended a captain for five days, saying he “engaged in fraudulent and deceptive conduct related to requests and use of sick leave with pay.” The city said Mike Hamburger’s use of sick time cost it $14,000. The figure doesn’t include the cost of having firefighters fill the open posts, which is frequently at overtime rates.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Paul Pioneer Press - Twin Cities.com

On August 2, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: It's a donation that is sure to save lives. The Milwaukee Fire Department (MFD) received on Wednesday, August 2nd a generous gift from one of its own. When Paul Conway first suited up more than 30 years ago, thermal imaging wasn't around. It would be years before the technology was developed for firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2017 3:20:14 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

VIDEO: Crews said they believe a fire near Augusta may have been caused by sparks while work was being done on a grinder machine. Ken Zich, the fire chief of Augusta-Bridge Creek Fire Department, said they responded around 11 a.m. Wednesday to a fire at a property on County Road M in the Town of Bridge Creek, southeast of Augusta.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2017 10:48:14 AM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire

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

Jeff Dykes told Ivanka Trump and U.S. Small Business Administration leader Linda McMahon on Tuesday that he has been a firefighter for more than 20 years and knows the job inside and out. Given the opportunity to ask a question on a visit to the White House during a discussion about small businesses that in part celebrated the 64th anniversary of the SBA, the Eau Claire fire captain asked for advice to finding success after President Donald Trump remarked that the nation is “on the verge of a golden age for small business.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2017 2:14:37 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

Two people remain unaccounted for after a gas leak caused building to explode and catch fire at Minnehaha Academy Wednesday morning, CBS Minneapolis reports. One person who was previously missing was found uninjured, the Minneapolis Fire Chief Bryan Tanner said in a press conference several hours after the blast, which occurred just after 10:30 a.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS News

When the ATF held a press conference in West, Texas more than a year ago to announce a big finding in the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion, there was a lot riding on it. Hundreds of lawsuits had been filed against the fertilizer manufacturer. Much further reaching, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was working on a rewrite of one of two major sets of federal rules governing chemical plant safety.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle

People tell their doctors about family history of cancer, heart disease and other common conditions that have a genetic link. But when Dr. Matilde Castiel, Worcester’s commissioner of health and human services, asked seven city firefighters attending a training on opioid addiction Tuesday whether any of their relatives had an addiction, none raised his hand.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette