A city firefighter who resigned after hanging up on a 911 caller attempting to save a wounded friend has filed a lawsuit alleging he was terminated days into a new job with the Bernalillo County Fire Department when a commissioner expressed concern over his hiring.
Matthew Sanchez was a 10-year veteran of the Albuquerque Fire Department when he fielded a call June 26, 2015, from a frantic teenage girl attempting to render aid to Jaydon Chavez-Silver.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Albuquerque Journal
For 3 1/2 hours on July 18, when somebody called 911 in Cincinnati, they couldn't reach a dispatcher.
Police, firefighters and paramedics don't know how many people needed help but didn't get it. It was the worst failure in years for the city's 911 emergency system.
But it wasn't the only one.
Since the middle of 2016, the system that residents count on to get help quickly for life and death emergencies has suffered a series of blackouts and breakdowns.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cincinnati Enquirer & Cincinnati.com
Firefighters are always looking out for each other, even if they haven’t answered an alarm in more than three decades.
A 90-year-old retired FDNY firefighter who had been missing for 36 hours was safely returned home early Saturday after a keen-eyed smoke eater — 63-years his junior — saw him wandering down a Bronx street.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News
Firefighters and national chemical safety groups are praising Maine's new law banning flame retardants in furniture.
Maine lawmakers this week overrode Republican Gov. Paul LePage's veto of a law that supporters said would reduce firefighters' exposure to carcinogens.
Starting in 2019, a person can't sell upholstered furniture whose materials contain more than one percent of a flame-retardant chemical.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MainePublic.org
A fire damaged a building early Sunday on Winnebago County GG.
Winnebago County Sheriff's Lt. Jeff Meyer said police responded to reports of a man screaming and flagging down motorists just before 1 a.m. near Green Valley Road and County GG.
When they arrived, authorities found a home on fire in the 2500 block of County Road GG, Meyer said.
- PUB DATE: 8/6/2017 9:41:27 AM - SOURCE: Oshkosh Northwestern
Hundreds showed up to fire station five today in Madison for the team's fourth annual Firefighter Fun Day. Organizers say it's a chance for first responders to meet and interact with the people they serve everyday.
The firehouse had lots of things for people and their families to do. The station gave tours, showed off their fire trucks and let people get a look inside their ambulances.
- PUB DATE: 8/6/2017 6:20:17 AM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC
A possible blown transformer sparked a fire on Milwaukee’s northwest side early Friday, August 4th. Milwaukee firefighters were called to the garage fire near 89th and Thurston. Nobody was hurt. Milwaukee police and firefighters are investigating this incident.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 3:43:58 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6
The rising misuse of opioids in Rock County has been labeled an epidemic by local health officials, and multiple groups have supported ways to combat the problem through state and federal legislative changes. Rock County officials are looking for ways to provide greater treatment access and an increase in overall funding to combat opioid abuse.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 3:19:15 AM - SOURCE: Beloit Daily News
Flight for Life was called Thursday to a crash involving two semitrailers and two smaller vehicles near the intersection of highways 31 and KR. Authorities responded just after 11:30 a.m. to the crash, which occurred at the railroad tracks west of the intersection of highways 31 and KR, in the 6500 block of Highway KR (also known as County Line Road and 1st Street).
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 2:24:03 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times
The Rhinelander Fire Department made a total of 1,568 ambulance calls for service in 2016, resulting in bills totaling $582,761.26 sent out to either the persons treated, their insurance carriers or Medicaid and Medicare, the city's public safety committee learned Tuesday. Rhinelander fire chief Terry Williams also presented the committee with the breakdown by payor for those runs, as well as some other interesting statistics regarding medical runs his department made last year.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 1:57:27 AM - SOURCE: Northwoods River News
Houston firefighters are accusing Mayor Sylvester Turner of standing between them and a voter-approved pay raise by failing to ensure a petition they submitted last month is certified in time to appear on the November ballot.
Turner rejected any suggestion that he has involved himself in the City Secretary's effort to verify their petition, and his office on Thursday said an offer by the fire union to cover any staffing costs needed to count their signatures is being examined as a possible attempt to improperly influence a public official.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
The turf war is back on between the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and the Orange County Fire Authority over whose helicopters should respond to rescue calls.
A proposed agreement in which both agencies would share rescue calls was pulled from next week’s Board of Supervisors agenda because of opposition from fire officials and city council members in Santa Ana, Tustin and Yorba Linda.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register
PHOTO - Sometimes, when a tree falls in the woods, someone is there to see it.
In the case of a Richmond volunteer firefighter, he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Fortunately, the 45-year-old Richmond resident, a 13-year veteran of the department, escaped serious injury after a large branch suddenly broke off of a tree along the north side of Division Road at about 7:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Voice
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
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