Thousands of web searches for pornography were found on four Country Club Hills fire department computers, according to testimony from a forensic expert. Andrew Garrett — who performed the imaging Jan. 26 on behalf of Dena Lewis-Bystrzycki, a female firefighter involved in a lawsuit against Country Club Hills — testified last month to the presence of porn on the devices.
- PUB DATE: 3/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune

"I love the Milton Fire Department. I love the fire service. I've done it all my life," said 63-year-old Lynn Rogers. He recently filed lawsuits against both the MFD, an organization of which he has been a member for 48 years, and secretary John Bushey. Rogers has been president of Rogers Sign Company in Milton for 45 years and has held leadership positions in a number of organizations throughout his life.
- PUB DATE: 3/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sussex Countian

In between calls for service, amid a dozen reminders of the tragedy that left Fire Capt. William "Iron Bill" Dowling mortally wounded, the firefighters and paramedics at Houston Fire Station 68 watched the two-hour funeral service Wednesday morning on a TV in the upstairs common area. On either side of the TV hung fire axes memorializing the two first responders from this station who died on May 31, 2013.
- PUB DATE: 3/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle

On March 14, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Firefighters helped a woman who was trapped under a heavy piece of furniture at work in downtown Madison Tuesday afternoon. The Madison Fire Department said an employee at a business in the 300 block of East Wilson Street was rearranging files alone in a locked room when the top drawer of the file cabinet caused it to become top-heavy and tip over.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 9:59:01 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

On March 14, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 13, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 12, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

It was a busy Sunday for the Mauston Fire Department as the volunteer service responded to three calls on March 12, including a house fire. A fire reported at W3728 Partridge Lane totaled the second story of a home owned by Keyslyna Iwanska. The first floor suffered heavy smoke and water damage. Mauston Fire Chief Kim Hale said Iwanska and a pet escaped the fire without any injuries and some possessions were recovered.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 2:09:38 AM - SOURCE: Juneau County-Star Times

The Portage Fire Department put out a house fire on Hamilton Street on Tuesday afternoon, responding with the benefit of some great fortune, and at the same time, not quite enough. “I was heading to work and I drove by the house and something didn’t look right,” said department Capt. Robert Wood, who happened by 826 Hamilton St.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 1:53:59 AM - SOURCE: Portage Daily Register

On March 14, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

House Captain Daniel Radandt, 55, of Station 7 of the Kenosha Fire Department, has been a hockey goalie for more than 40 years. He learned the sport as a child and continues to play competitive hockey in Kenosha. Q. How did you get into hockey? A. It was at age 8. My dad made a rink on a pond. We used to live on KR and Highway 31.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News

A little more than three months after the deadly Ghost Ship fire and with the investigative report still pending, the city’s first African American female fire chief Teresa Deloach Reed filed retirement papers Tuesday, days after her city pension vested, the city administrator said. Reed, a 59-year-old Oakland resident, filed retirement paperwork Tuesday with an effective date of May 5, City Administrator Sabrina Landreth confirmed.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times

The city of Lexington will pay firefighters $17.7 million for back overtime and pension. The payment stems from a 2005 lawsuit filed by Lexington firefighters alleging that the city owed them money for overtime worked. The details of the settlement are being worked out and must be approved, city and firefighter union officials said.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lexington Herald-Leader

To look around the Kingwood apartment of Robert Yarbrough is to know a man who found his calling. "If I could be back at the fire station, I'd be back tomorrow," he said. Yarbrough worked for the Houston Fire Department for 32 years, and he was there that fateful day in 2013 at the Southwest Inn on Rescue Truck 42.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU-TV CBS 11 Houston

A company officer repeatedly makes inappropriate postings to social media. Another gets into a physical altercation with a firefighter at the station. Yet another actively supports hazing of new firefighters. And another is arrested after getting into an argument with a police officer after a traffic stop.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

The Alaska House on Monday unanimously approved a bill to guarantee health coverage for family members of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. House Bill 23, sponsored by Anchorage Democratic Rep. Andy Josephson, is the latest attempt at passing such legislation, which died in the Senate during a special session last year.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Alaska Dispatch News

On March 13, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Authorities are still trying to identify a person who died early Monday morning in what they call a suspicious house fire in Green Lake County. The Princeton Fire and Police departments, along with the Green Lake County Sheriff's Office, responded to a report of a house fire at 12:50 a.m. Monday in the 100 block of South Farmer Street in Princeton, according to a police department news release.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2017 8:46:24 AM - SOURCE: Oshkosh Northwestern

On March 13, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.