Former Fire Chief Anthony Goode has been demoted, but not fired, the city announced Tuesday, a move that will allow him to work the additional months required to collect an early pension. Goode will become a senior firefighter when he returns from vacation this spring, according to Mayor Mike Purzycki's office.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilmington News Journal (Delaware Online)

A massive condo fire, a man trapped inside, and firefighters climbing a 35 foot ladder and battling through flames to reach him. All as a bystander recorded amazing video of the rescue. It’s video thousands of people saw on Facebook, of a large fire inside a Sea Cloisters condo. But what it’s like to be inside that fire, fighting it and trying to save the elderly man inside.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSAV-TV

This past summer, a bicyclist slapped a firefighter who tried to stop her from passing a fire truck that was backing up. The woman was arrested and charged with aggravated battery on a peace officer. This incident reminded me of something that happened to me and my crew near the end of my fire department career.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

Harford County fire and emergency medical services leaders, stung by critical and negative social media posts, have limited how much incident information is broadcast via an app, which all of the county's roughly 1,100 fire and EMS volunteers and workers can use to follow emergency calls. The anonymous administrator of the Harford Fire Facts page on Facebook made a series of posts between Dec.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Carroll County Times

On January 10, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Firefighters on Tuesday night, January 10th were called out to a fire at the Nestle plant in Burlington. The Nestle plant is located on Pine Street near Durand Avenue in Burlington. Several departments were called to the scene. At this point, no details have been released as to how the fire started, how much damage it has caused, or whether there have been any injuries.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 8:37:30 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

The former fire chief of the Eldorado Fire Department was found dead at the fire station early Tuesday morning. An Eldorado firefighter and plow driver came into the fire station on Fond du Lac County N shortly before 2 a.m. Tuesday to get a head start on the day’s work when he found Rodney Menne, the first assistant chief of the Eldorado Fire Department, dead, said Sgt.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 2:42:13 PM - SOURCE: Fond du Lac Reporter

On January 9, 8 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 8, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

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

A woman is in serious condition after suffering burns inside a room at The Cove in Lake Geneva. Lake Geneva police responded to the hotel around 3:15 a.m. on Monday, January 9th for an “activated fire alarm.” While en route, officers received a second call for service of a female yelling for help at a hotel nearby.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 8:34:41 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

Forty-eight people died from fires in New York City last year, the fewest at any point in more than a century, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday. The decline — with the total far below the peak of 310 people in 1970 — was attributed by officials to a combination of initiatives undertaken by the Fire Department, including improved response times, fire inspections, a program to hand out smoke alarms and expanded fire education programs.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Times

A City Council committee decided Monday that Minneapolis will pay $175,000 to a former firefighter cadet who sued the city for discrimination. Dominique Sabas, of St. Paul, was a probationary firefighter cadet in 2013, but in the final week of training the Fire Department dismissed her, arguing that she had failed to disclose a previous medical condition.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Washington Twp. is offering a $1,000 signing bonus to new firefighter recruits, in an effort to help fill approximately 30 part-time positions. Deputy fire Chief Scott Kujawa said the need to fill the positions in the department comes out of necessity with there being a shortage of available firefighters in the region.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Dayton Daily News

City Manager Sharon A. Addison has given Fire Chief Dale C. Herman an ultimatum about his involvement in a bitter contract fight between the city and the firefighters’ union. In a heated telephone call on Friday, Ms. Addison threatened his job if he didn’t become more of a team player in the city’s ongoing contract battle with the Watertown Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 191.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times

A former Birmingham firefighter mailed a flier to 1,000 homes this week that’s critical of a captain on the city’s fire department. In a series of emails, Mike McIntyre admits he’s responsible for sending out the flier. McIntyre became a Birmingham firefighter in June 2015 and served with the department until several weeks ago, when he accepted a resignation settlement.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit Free Press

VIDEO: The true gift of Christmas came a day later for one West Allis family when firefighters helped deliver a baby girl inside the home. On Monday, the team of first responders revisited the growing family and played Santa Claus, dropping off gifts for 5-year-old Marcianno, his 2 week old sister, Milan, and their parents.
- PUB DATE: 1/9/2017 10:43:59 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

On January 9, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: Many of us are looking forward to the day we can finally wake up, not have to go to work, and enjoy the life of being retired; and that's what's happening for one local firefighter. Monday, the nation's first-ever Hmong firefighter worked his last shift in Eau Claire, leaving his mark in firefighting history.
- PUB DATE: 1/9/2017 8:04:58 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

VIDEO: Officials with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in conjunction with the Milwaukee Police Department have released photos and video of a suspect who may be responsible for arson to the BP gas station during the unrest in August in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood.
- PUB DATE: 1/9/2017 3:39:23 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6