The top three emerging trends in EMS grants reflect the shift in health care toward value amid political uncertainty. EMS organizations will need to adapt, innovate and build new programs. This is a different approach for EMS providers who are widely seen as transport for emergent and non-emergent patients to the hospital.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

The search for Altoona's first, full-time fire chief is over. The Altoona Police and Fire Commission said it made a decision Wednesday night, but the new chief's name won't be released until Thursday morning. A total of 12 people applied for the position. The commission spent Wednesday interviewing three finalists: David Daken, Chad Peterson, and Mark Schwartz.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2017 11:16:24 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

The five towns in the Beaver Dam Community Fire and Rescue Association are closing in on agreement for a new three-year contract. “From our end we are pretty much happy,” Neal Stippich, chairperson for the Beaver Dam Town Board said over the phone. At the moment, the contract is making its way through the Beaver Dam, Calamus, Lowell, Westford and Trenton town boards.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2017 6:42:22 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

On January 31, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 30, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 27, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 25, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The volunteer fire department in this Morgan County village was mourning for one of their own on Tuesday after an early-morning fire swept through a firefighter's home, killing his wife and two small children. Jonathan Austif, a U.S. Marine veteran and a volunteer firefighter for about four years, was injured when he jumped out of a second-story window after fire broke out at his home at 409 Main St.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Springfield State Journal-Register

Proposed changes to state regulations that would reduce requirements for electrical protections and sprinklers in new homes, college dorms, hotels and other buildings fly in the face of reason, state firefighters and building inspectors said during a public hearing Tuesday in Eau Claire. The proposal would halt nationally required expansion of devices used to prevent fires and electrocutions in new building projects.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

Linda and Michael Hart met retired Prince George’s County firefighter Stu Newman for the second time. The first was nearly 58 years ago. “I handed Linda off to the police officer on the ladder in the back of the house and I carried Michael down,” said Newman. Michael was unconscious. “I got onto the stairwell and took my air mask off and put it on his face,” said Newman.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJLA-TV ABC 7 Washington

A former Clark County Fire & Rescue employee alleges she was forced out of the department because she was married to another employee, despite the fact multiple related men have worked at the district without reproach. In a notice for a tort claim, which are filed before formal lawsuits, attorney Robert S.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Columbian

New Jersey lawmakers are attempting to jump-start a bill that would provide fire-safety education grants to colleges. The bill was first introduced following the deadly Seton Hall dormitory fire in 2000, and has languished in Congress since. The blaze at Boland Hall killed three students and injured 58 in January 2000.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NorthJersey.com

The Oshkosh Fire Department is conducting training sessions this week, and firefighters say those sessions may compliment a busy month of fishing events scheduled on the ice. With an icy burst of horsepower, the Oshkosh Fire Depatment took to the frozen waters of Lake Winnebago Tuesday. "Every year, we try and get out on the ice and do some different water rescue training.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2017 8:43:21 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

On January 30, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 26, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: A state proposal to lower requirements for fire prevention devices in new buildings in Wisconsin sparked a heated debate at a public forum hosted by Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services in Eau Claire. One of the proposed changes is to reduce the number of buildings requiring a sprinkler system.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2017 5:42:54 PM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire

On January 27, 11 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 30, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

It’s a tight squeeze fitting fire trucks and other equipment into the Eagle Point Fire Station, which was built in the 1970s. Things will get much tighter once the fire department gets a new 18-foot-plus trailer with a hitch. “Right now we can fit it in here, but you wipe out the meeting space,” said Joel Woodruff, deputy fire chief.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2017 4:34:02 AM - SOURCE: Chippewa Herald

The city of Chula Vista is on the hook for more than $1 million after losing a lawsuit filed by a former fire chief. Former Deputy Fire Chief James Garcia sued the city after he claimed he found himself the victim of discrimination. "I was one of those little boys who was 8 years old that decided I wanted to be a firefighter when he grew up," said Garcia.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGTV ABC 10 San Diego