Emmaus Borough Council has decided to take its three-and-a-half-year legal battle with organized firefighters to the state's court of last resort. Borough Council voted unanimously Monday to authorize its solicitor to appeal to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania a lower court ruling that Emmaus firefighters have an unusual employment relationship with the borough allowing them to form a union and negotiate contracts.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Allentown Morning Call

It was nearly 100 degrees outside when the emergency call reached Engine Company 39. A triple-decker in Savin Hill had erupted in flames, and a haze of thick black smoke was all but blanketing the sky. Firefighter Glenn Preston, a burly father of four who had only recently returned to action after breaking his neck on the job, was among the first to arrive.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Magazine

New video shows Highland Park firefighters battling intense flames inside their own fire truck. It happened last week near Woodward and 6 Mile in Detroit. Highland Park Fire Chief Kevin Coney said fire officials were responding to numerous calls due to last week's wild wind storm. Coney said their engine caught fire as they were returning from a scene assisting with downed power lines.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXYZ-TV ABC Detroit

An 18-year-old from Harrisburg is facing charges for causing the crash that killed Lt. Dennis DeVoe of the Harrisburg Harrisburg Bureau of Fire. Khanyae S. Kendall, of the 1900 block of Bellevue Road, faces more than a dozen charges, including six felonies and one count each of homicide by vehicle and homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, according to charging documents.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: York Dispatch

On March 19, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 18, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 16, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: An early morning house fire on Pickard Circle in Allouez sent one person to the hospital. According to firefighters, the call came in at about 5:30 Monday morning, from a person inside the house. That person was transported to the hospital. It is unclear if there are any injuries. When firefighters arrived flames were coming from the first level of the home, but once inside they realized there were also flames in the attic.
- PUB DATE: 3/20/2017 5:34:35 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

On March 19, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A veteran of the Watertown fire department died today during a two-alarm blaze while helping rescue an elderly man, the man's niece and their dogs as flames shot out an upstairs window, city officials and a neighbor said. Joseph A. Toscano, 54, a firefighter with the department since Sept. 26, 1996 and a married father of five children, succumbed to injuries after rushing into the single-family home on Merrifield Avenue, the city's deputy fire chief said.
- PUB DATE: 3/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald

Two Snohomish County fire commissioners apologized Friday night for making racially insensitive comments when they joked about hiring “cheaper” Mexican laborers for a paramedic position. But an attempt to impose disciplinary action failed on a 2-2 tie vote by the commissioners for Fire District 1. Commissioner Jim Kenny asked that the two board members, David Chan and Bob Meador, receive a written reprimand.
- PUB DATE: 3/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seattle Times

A federal judge today ruled against Rivada Mercury’s protest against the FirstNet procurement protest, a move that is expected to set the stage for AT&T to be awarded the 25-year contract to build and maintain the much-anticipated nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN). U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Elaine Kaplan issued rulings denying Rivada Mercury’s motion to have the proposal from its bidding consortium considered in the “competitive range” stage of the procurement process for the FirstNet contract.
- PUB DATE: 3/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Urgent Communications

PHOTO - Two firefighters from the Dunkirk Volunteer Fire Department were injured Saturday morning after their tanker overturned while responding to a house fire in Huntingtown. The fire department reports both men have since been released from the hospital. At about 8:10 a.m. March 18, deputies from the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office responded to Robinson Road in Huntingtown for an overturned tanker.
- PUB DATE: 3/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Southern Maryland Newspapers Online

Two Gibson County firefighters had a gun pulled on them after responding to a two car wreck in Kenton Saturday afternoon, police said. Gibson County Fire Chief Bryan Cathey said a station chief was the first to respond to the wreck near Baseline Road and Morilla Road. The chief checked on a woman in a vehicle that had rolled over to make sure she wasn't trapped inside.
- PUB DATE: 3/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Jackson Sun

In an escalating legal feud over the investigation into the Ghost Ship tragedy, Alameda County prosecutors have tried without success in recent weeks to pry the completed draft report of the deadly fire from the city’s hands. The District Attorney’s Office has been seeking the critical report for the past month from the Oakland Fire Department and City Attorney’s Office, and legal experts contacted for this story say the city’s delay in handing it over may violate the law.
- PUB DATE: 3/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times

VIDEO: When firefighters got to the scene flames were shooting out of the roof. It happened in the 5500 block of Larry Lane. According to the Sun Prairie Fire Department, the residents were not hurt, but a Sun Prairie firefighter was treated and released after suffering a leg injury. The side of the duplex the family lives on is a total loss and there is concern from the fire department that the entire duplex could be a total loss.
- PUB DATE: 3/19/2017 9:22:13 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

Eleven people and a dog are displaced after a duplex fire in the 900 block of South 33rd Street in Milwaukee. A CBS 58 crew on scene spoke to someone who lives at the property who said that someone they didn't know broke into the house and started a fire. CBS 58 observed someone being put into a squad car.
- PUB DATE: 3/19/2017 6:42:13 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

A woman who fell into the Wisconsin River from the Kilbourn Bridge in Wisconsin Dells on March 12 was quickly rescued by Wisconsin Dells and Lake Delton first responders in what was termed a “lifesaving” effort. Clinging to the “cable and barrel” warning system in front of the Kilbourn Dam on the Upper Dells, the woman was pulled from the river by Kilbourn Fire Department firefighters in their emergency boat.
- PUB DATE: 3/19/2017 6:23:54 PM - SOURCE: Madison

On March 18, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 17, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.