A projected $624,000 budget deficit has the South Tucson City Council considering the possibility of having to lay off all of its firefighters or its police officers. Officials said they would look to contract with another agency or agencies to handle court services, patrol city streets and handle other emergency services in the one-square-mile city.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tucson Arizona Daily Star

It's rare that Sharon Johnson misses church on Sunday mornings. But last Sunday was a painful exception. "My whole face was swollen, and I needed to go to the hospital," the 58-year-old from Fort Worth said. A nasty toothache had her calling MedStar for help. But instead of sending an ambulance, they sent something else.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA ABC Dallas-Fort Worth

San Luis Obispo fire Chief Garret Olson and City Manager Katie Lichtig received a written reprimand and were fined for their participation in a spoof video played at the city’s Chamber of Commerce annual dinner on Jan. 21, the city announced Monday. Complaints alleged that they violated city workplace-related policies.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Luis Obispo County Tribune

Today, Natasha Rivera honored her father, firefighter Manny Rivera, at a Trenton City Hall ceremony for those who died in the line of duty. Tomorrow, she takes the oath of office as a Trenton firefighter. "It's a lot right now," Rivera said of the two days of emotion her family is experiencing. "A lot of it is because of him.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Trenton Times

On April 11, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: The La Crosse Fire Department is entering the final stages in its search for a new fire chief. Current Chief Gregg Cleveland announced his retirement earlier this year after nearly 11 years on the job. Tuesday morning, The La Crosse Police and Fire Commission, along with Mayor Tim Kabat and the city's human resources department, sat in on the interviews of the two finalists.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 4:03:01 PM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 LaCrosse

Nearly six years after an Amherst garage was damaged by fire, one of its owners faces criminal charges. Online court records show Barbara Maslowski-Day will be charged with arson at her first court appearance on May 1. According to court documents, a neighbor reported the fire around 2 p.m. on May 18, 2011 at 8088 Standing Rocks Road in the Town of Stockton, near Amherst.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 2:18:56 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

On April 10, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On April 7, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A smoky kitchen fire in an apartment building in Beaver Dam left 15 people injured early Tuesday morning, with five people needing to be rescued, several hanging out of second-floor windows. The fire was reported at 12:10 a.m. at a 24-unit, two-story apartment building on Lake Crest Drive, the Beaver Dam Fire Department said.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 5:51:07 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com-Wisconsin State Journal-Capital Times

A group of city leaders led by Mayor Jeff Williams has banded together to oppose a voter proposition seeking to establish a civil service system for firefighters, warning that it could lead to reduced response times and cuts in city services. In recent days, pamphlets from a political action committee called Safety First Arlington PAC have landed in Arlington mailboxes, contending that adopting Proposition 2 would put the city’s firefighters “under labor union control” and add costs that could prompt cuts to the police force and street repairs.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Three off-duty Georgia firefighters were injured, one of them fatally, when the car in which they were traveling was struck by a suspected DUI driver Monday evening in Venice, authorities have confirmed. The three-vehicle crash took place about 10 p.m. at the intersection of Ocean Avenue and Washington Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles

VIDEO - A witty parody video by the New Gloucester Fire Rescue has gone viral. The video about recruitment called “I Got Hose,” inspired by the song “Area Codes” by Ludacris and Nate Dogg, was posted Friday on the fire department’s page on Facebook. The video has been viewed over 311,000 times and has almost 5,000 shares.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGME.com

The Layton Volunteer Fire Department, with more than a half-century of history in the tiny Long Key community around mile marker 68.5, will soon become history. “We’re just running out of people, especially younger people,” said Philip “Skip” Haring, Layton city administrator and lieutenant of the volunteer department that formed in the late 1950s.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FL Keys News

Cincinnati firefighers are making a plea to the city council to get new bulletproof vests. "It makes sense to me," Councilmember Christopher Smitherman said. "It's unfortunate that it's the new reality." Last October, the city made the first step, buying more than 180 bullet vests for firefighters in anticipation of the Ray Tensing trial.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCPO-TV ABC 9 Cincinnati

On April 10, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: The La Crosse police and fire departments are working together to investigate a string of suspicious fires that they say could be arson. Fox 25/48's Erin O’Brien has more on the fires and why investigators say they could be connected. Ten fires over the last six months in La Crosse have police and firefighters wondering if they're all connected.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2017 8:23:17 PM - SOURCE: WLAX & WEUX-TV Fox 25 & 48

Several residents of a far east side duplex are temporarily displaced after a fire spread through the building Monday afternoon, officials said. Madison Fire Department spokesperson Bernadette Galvez said firefighters were called to the duplex in the 3800 block of Sunbrook Road at 3:02 p.m. for a report of a fire in the back of the home.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2017 8:21:53 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

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

On April 8, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.