One child has died and five other children are presumed dead after a fiery house collapse that injured four others who escaped from the home in Northeast Baltimore's Cedmont neighborhood Thursday morning, the city Fire Department said. Heavy construction equipment arrived after sunrise to clear debris and aid crews in searching for the children, but Baltimore Fire Department spokesman Chief Roman Clark said the missing are presumed dead.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

Everybody in this fire station was sleeping one recent morning when the alarms started blaring. Six firefighters hopped out of their bunks and pulled their gear over their pajamas. The sun was still coming up when they reached a house where smoke was rising from the basement. Afterward, back in their pajamas, the young men gathered in the station’s control room.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Pew Charitable Trusts

VIDEO - A ladder truck malfunctioned as city firefighters responded to a “deep-seated” fire at a building housing a paper recycling company on 7th Street on Tuesday evening, authorities said. No one was injured in the blaze, Chief Patrick Trentacost said. Firefighters responded to a paper recycling factory on 7th Street at approximately 6:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: North Jersey.com (Bergen County Record & Herald News)

Mayor Lenny Curry, pushing for Jacksonville to become the first major city in America without pensions for its future employees, made a remarkable counteroffer to the city’s public-safety unions Wednesday that would restore more costly pension benefits to current employees, while creating 401(k)-style investment accounts for new employees with hefty 25 percent matching contributions from the city.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Florida Times-Union

Pittsburgh police records indicate that a city firefighter suffered a drug overdose while on duty in a Brookline fire station on New Year's Eve. A police officer was dispatched at 6:23 a.m. to Station 26 on Brookline Boulevard to investigate the report of an overdose, according to a police incident report.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

On January 11, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 10, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

One person was injured after a fire in Oshkosh Tuesday night. At 6:01 p.m., crews were dispatched to the 300 West 6th Avenue for a fire. Heavy smoke and flames were seen coming from the back of the home, but firefighters were able extinguish the fire quickly. All eight people in the home were able to make it out of the house, but a man was treated for a hand injury on scene.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 8:46:56 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

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

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

Metro asked a court to dismiss legal claims against it for a deadly smoke incident at L'Enfant Plaza in 2015, arguing that it has immunity from the lawsuits -- and putting the blame on D.C. first-responders. In a filing in federal court Monday, Metro denied all liability, arguing it is a government-created agency that can't be sued and adding that the D.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Washington

A potential battle over firefighters, cancer and who is responsible for paying the treatment bills could be brewing in the Arizona Legislature. In Arizona, if a firefighter develops one of seven types of cancer, state law assumes the disease was caused by his or her job. That means the firefighter is eligible for workers’ compensation.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTAR News

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.