VIDEO: The Merrill Fire Department does more than just battle structure fires within city limits. It covers 141 square miles in southern Lincoln County. In the spring, the department helps control forest or wildland fires about every day or every other day. But it needs better tools to help do that job.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 4:41:57 PM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander-Wausau

For 32 years, James "Rick" Beale put his life on the literal line, battling blazes to keep homes, properties and most importantly, lives safe. Although not injured or disabled himself, over those years, Beale knows other fellow firefighters around Polk County, Florida and the United States weren't as fortunate and ended their careers permanently disabled from a work-related incident.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Ledger

Stevens Point firefighters are doubling their fundraising efforts this year to provide new winter coats to local kids in need. The Stevens Point Firefighters Union partnered for the first time last year with Operation Warm, a national organization that provides students with brand new winter coats made in the United States.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Stevens Point Journal

PHOTO - Two Shreveport firefighters were taken to the hospital with minor injuries early Monday afternoon after their fire truck rolled over on Kings Hwy. It happened just after 12 p.m. near Linwood Ave. It was not immediately clear what caused the ladder truck to wind up on its side, but Shreveport Fire Chief Scott Wolverton said they were responding to an EMS call when it happened.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSLA-TV Shreveport News 12

The Kansas Court of Appeals has ruled an area woman cannot be prosecuted for drugs found during a warrantless search of her purse by a Shawnee Heights firefighter. Lt. Brian Dodds responded to a home east of Topeka on Sept. 19, 2014, after the homeowner complained a woman she didn’t know was showering in her basement.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Topeka Capital-Journal

Ten months after hiring an outside consultant to review staffing in the city’s fire department, the Providence City Council is refusing to release the much-anticipated findings from the report. Records reviewed by Eyewitness News show Massachusetts-based MMA Consulting Group was paid $37,600 on June 22, but the report remains in “draft form,” according to the city’s law department.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Providence 12

The veteran firefighter who committed suicide Saturday aggressively fought post-traumatic stress disorder for years, his father said. Indian River County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief David Dangerfield, 48, drove to a rural area of the county and shot himself, the Sheriff's Office said. Before his death, he made a Facebook post about the perils of PTSD for firefighters and advised family and friends of firefighters to assist their loved ones with getting help.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: TCPalm.com

Research over the past couple decades has reported some mixed results about the relationship between firefighting and cancer, which has been used to argue against supporting firefighters who contract the disease. Recent research that has reviewed and combined data from previous studies, weighing the studies based on the size of the sample, has found increased risks for several different types of cancer.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

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

A townhome in the 500 block of Sutherland Court was the scene of a structure fire in the early morning hours of Oct. 16. Strong lightning and thunder traveled through the area before the 2 a.m. call to Oconomowoc Fire Department. The resident told dispatch that she heard “a loud bang followed by the smell of smoke and the smoke alarms sounding,” according to a news release from the fire department.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 1:04:11 PM - SOURCE: Lake Country News

On October 16, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The tires spun beneath me on the wet pavement as I stepped on the gas. I took off toward a row of orange cones. I had two options as I approached: left or right. The only problem, though, was I didn’t get to decide which direction I took. That was up to the police officer sitting in the passenger seat.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 11:38:13 AM - SOURCE: Stevens Point Journal

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

On October 15, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The Weyauwega Area Fire District recently held training on grain-rescue safety for volunteer firefighters at CHS Larsen Cooperative in Weyauwega, Wisconsin. Harvest is well underway and farmers will soon be filling grain bins. Working in grain bins can be a dangerous activity. Thus it's important to be prepared for any unforeseen emergencies during harvest and tp have the proper training and equipment.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 1:45:50 AM - SOURCE: Agri-View

A University of Connecticut student was hit and killed by a university fire vehicle on the Storrs campus, early Sunday morning. Police say 19-year-old Jeffny Pally, of West Hartford, was killed after sitting on the ground with her back against the garage door to the public safety complex, just after 1 a.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTNH-TV ABC 8 New Haven

Oct. 17 is a sad day for the New York Fire Department. Monday is the 50th anniversary of the fire that, until the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, claimed more firefighters’ lives than any other disaster in the city. The short trip that the firefighters made from nearby firehouses on Oct. 17, 1966, started around 9:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Times

Firefighters and paramedics are mourning the death of a man who worked alongside them for nearly three decades. Indian River County Sheriff deputies went to a wooded area off State Road 60 west of Interstate 95 about 10:30 p.m. Saturday following a 911 call from Indian River County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief David Dangerfield, Sheriff's spokesman Lt.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: TCPalm.com

It was supposed to be a routine training session for Tom Albert, who has been fighting fires for 25 years. Albert and other members of Boulder Fire Rescue were near the area of 17th Street and King Avenue on June 13 to do some wildland fire training. "We were just going through what we would do in case there was a real fire," Albert said.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Camera

Baltimore County officials say they are using firefighters, paramedics and police officers to temporarily fill staffing gaps at its 911 center. Eight employees from other departments were transferred to the 911 center in September and will be working there until March, county spokeswoman Ellen Kobler said.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun