At least one firefighter was shot when a gunman opened fire on paramedics in East Dallas late Monday morning. Dallas Police are currently searching for an active shooter in the neighborhood east of the Dallas Fire Rescue Training Academy. The shooting happened at about 11:30 a.m. at the facility which is near Dolphin Road near Interstate 30.
- PUB DATE: 5/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas - Fort Worth

Cove Creek Pearson Volunteer Fire Chief Doug Deckard died after being struck by a car while checking water lines early Sunday during severe storms. The Arkansas State Police says Deckard, 51, was working along Highway 25 just west of the Faulkner-Cleburne County line near Quitman. He was outside of his vehicle checking doing work when he was hit.
- PUB DATE: 5/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNWA-TV & KFTA-TV NWAHomepage

An 83-year-old Austinburg firefighter died Friday evening from injuries he sustained when he was struck by a vehicle late Thursday, according to firefighters from around the area. Austinburg firefighter Dave Lemponen was with the Austinburg department for about 60 years, said fire Chief William Wilms.
- PUB DATE: 5/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ashtabula Star Beacon

It's been the talk of the town for weeks: Three firefighters and a dispatcher in hot water for their alleged "sexual misconduct" in the fire station. While shocking many in the community, it's not the first time that fire departments have been at the center of sex scandals. For instance, seven Philadelphia firefighters faced discipline in 2015 for having sex with a paramedic on duty.
- PUB DATE: 5/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lowell Sun

When Joseph Ruhlin was supposed to be watching over the Akron fire union’s funds the past six years, detectives say he instead was stealing them. And, detectives now say, the extent of this theft was much larger than the union originally thought — totaling more than $600,000. “It’s a staggering amount,” said Russ Brode, president of the 322-member fire union.
- PUB DATE: 5/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Akron Beacon Journal

Juvenile offenders shine the trucks, spiff up the hall, assist at bingo fundraisers and even help roll up the hoses sometimes when trucks pull back into one of Latrobe's five fire stations after a call. A juvenile probation program that gives teens community service work at the stations has benefited the youths and the all-volunteer fire company over the past five years, said city fire Chief John Brasile.
- PUB DATE: 5/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

VIDEO: The Eau Claire fire department also responded to a home fire this morning just before 5 a-m. It happened on Hartzell lane on the city's north side. When crews arrived, they found heavy smoke and fire coming from the windows, and doors of the front of the building. Fire damage was contained to one apartment, but there was smoke and water damage to all 4 units.
- PUB DATE: 4/30/2017 11:32:06 PM - SOURCE: WLAX & WEUX-TV Fox 25 & 48

Fire Chief Brad Bowen, one of the architects of the Western Lakes Fire District, readily admits that he eats, breathes and lives fire and emergency medical service in Lake Country. At 31, Bowen is the region’s youngest fire chief and is in charge of its largest department, based on number of emergency calls and square miles of service area.
- PUB DATE: 4/30/2017 2:38:25 PM - SOURCE: Lake Country News

An autopsy completed Wednesday came back inconclusive in identifying human remains found inside a shed that caught fire Monday morning, Jefferson County officials said. Human remains were found inside a shed that caught fire in the town of Ixonia, but officials are working on additional DNA testing to identify the body, according to a release.
- PUB DATE: 4/28/2017 9:20:03 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

Gateway Technical College hopes to start using the Village of Waterford’s indoor fire training center in the fall for its Fire Medic program if the Gateway board approves a lease with the village. Gateway and the village are currently drawing up a lease for the college to use the training center, a repurposed fire station at 122 N.
- PUB DATE: 4/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

The Osceola Village Board approved the purchase of the former Fullerton Lumber property last week, with the intent of repurposing the site as a fire hall. With the full support of all members of the board, the five members attending a special board meeting on April 17 unanimously approved the purchase of the former Fullerton Lumber property.
- PUB DATE: 4/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Osceola Sun

The firefighters union in New Orleans confirmed Wednesday that a handful of its members played a role in the removal of the Liberty Place monument early Monday. Nick Felton, New Orleans Fire Fighters Association president, said the union has concerns over firefighters who were seen wearing masks and bulletproof vests during the removal of the Confederate-era monument.
- PUB DATE: 4/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDSU-TV NBC 6 New Orleans

A veteran paramedic and fire chief says he worries that people with health emergencies might start calling for an Uber ride rather than an ambulance due to high costs. That aversion to an ambulance bill can cost lives, said Mark Becraft, chief of the North Davis Fire District. “It puts the community at risk,” Becraft said.
- PUB DATE: 4/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ogden Standard-Examiner/StandardNET

An Eagan firefighter is suing the city and its fire chief, claiming he was demoted from a battalion chief position because he is gay. In a civil lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court, firefighter Dan Benson alleges discrimination based on his sexual orientation and violation of his constitutional rights by Eagan Fire Chief Mike Scott and the city.
- PUB DATE: 4/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pioneer Press

Milwaukee Alderman Bob Donovan and others reacted with anger and concern after a Milwaukee Fire Department station near Teutonia and Locust was shot at on Sunday, April 23rd. A bullet penetrated the window of Station 30 during the shots fired incident. It happened around 6:45 p.m. as the firefighters at Station 30 were getting dispatched to a car fire.
- PUB DATE: 4/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

A Lake Wales man is accused of biting a chunk of skin out of an firefighter who was helping a deputy restrain him, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. According to an affidavit, on Tuesday night deputies responded to a crash in the area of Thornhill Road and Moonlite Pass. When a deputy asked Breonski Gardner, 26, for his license, Gardner threw the keys at him and told him to get it himself.
- PUB DATE: 4/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU.com

Milton and Milton Township Fire Department interim chief Chris Lukas at last week’s joint fire commission meeting provided an introductory overview of a transitional project plan. In the past six months, the department’s transition team, which includes RW Management Group consultants, fire department members (including deputy chiefs) and Janesville Fire Department members, has met several times.
- PUB DATE: 4/27/2017 11:06:17 AM - SOURCE: Milton Courier

The Madison City Council will have to decide whether or not to reimburse Chief Mike Koval over $21,000 in legal fees fees without direction from the Police and Fire Commission. The city Finance Committee recommended paying fees Koval incurred while defending himself against a series of complaints. But alders questioned the PFC’s language in its decision to not penalize Koval.
- PUB DATE: 4/27/2017 3:13:16 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com-Wisconsin State Journal-Capital Times

Altoona’s first full-time fire chief was just sworn in Wednesday morning, and the city’s police chief already has a nickname for the two emergency services leaders. “I already refer to us as the dynamic duo,” police Chief Jesse James said after Mark Renderman officially began his duties as fire chief.
- PUB DATE: 4/27/2017 2:14:53 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

VIDEO - An off-duty Milwaukee firefighter heading home from work helped saved the life of a young woman threatening to jump off the Hoan bridge. Deputy chief John Litchford was heading south down the Hoan bridge Tuesday night when he saw the young woman outside of her car on at the highest point of the bridge.
- PUB DATE: 4/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee