The city of Charleston is having trouble retaining employees, especially those outside of the police and fire departments.
These workers, often referred to as “non-sworn” or “civilians,” are leaving at a higher rate than in years past, according to an internal survey conducted by the city.
So far in 2022, 62 percent of exiting employees cited pay as their main reason for leaving. - PUB DATE: 5/27/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Post & Courier - Metered Site
A bill to ensure condominium safety passed both chambers of the legislature and was signed Thursday by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Within days of the special legislative session starting this week, both chambers passed bills to reform property insurance and increase safety measures for condominiums. Both bills, Senate Bill 2D, Property Insurance, and Senate Bill 4D, Building Safety, were sponsored by state Sen. - PUB DATE: 5/27/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Center Square
VIDEO: A school bus driver running their routes Wednesday morning spotted a house fire and quickly called 911 about 6:00am.
The house fire, in the 3900 block of Hooker Road, was in Walker County, but Chattanooga firefighters assisted in the task of extinguishing the fire and shared helmet cam video. - PUB DATE: 5/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRCB-TV NBC 3 Chattanooga
Throughout the trailer for the upcoming CBS drama series, “Fire Country,” the words Cal Fire are written on fire trucks, uniforms, shirts and paperwork.
But Joe Tyler, director and 31-year veteran of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), wants Cal Fire staff to know that the department is not affiliated in any way with the television show. - PUB DATE: 5/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Press Democrat - Metered Site
In the wake of the Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting, KOIN 6 News talked to a former Oregon fire chief who responded to the 1998 Thurston High School shooting who also pioneered a program that worked to prevent school shootings for nearly a decade.
On May 21, 1998, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, a freshman at Thurston High School in Springfield shot and killed two student and wounded 25 more. - PUB DATE: 5/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOIN-TV NBC 6 Portland
VIDEO: What started as a way to connect with kids during the pandemic has evolved into a national award-winning cable access show.
"Storytime with Chief Cassidy," starring Fire Chief Michael Cassidy and produced by Holliston Cable Access and station manager Bruce Gilfoy, was recently honored with an "Award of Excellence," at the 28th Annual Communicator Awards, presented by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts. - PUB DATE: 5/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Metro West Daily News - Metered Site
Gov. Dan McKee had a special guest at his COVID-19 briefing Thursday morning.
White House COVID-19 Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha joined McKee virtually to announce the nation’s first federally backed test-to-treat site is opening at the Clínica Esparanza/Hope Clinic in Providence.
The new site comes as the White House announced more steps Thursday to make the antiviral treatment Paxlovid more accessible across the United States. - PUB DATE: 5/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV CBS 12 Providence
VIDEO: The 18-year-old gunman who slaughtered 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school barricaded himself inside a single classroom and “began shooting anyone that was in his way,” authorities said Wednesday in detailing the latest mass killing to rock the U.S.
Law enforcement officers eventually broke into the classroom and killed the gunman, who used an AR-style rifle. - PUB DATE: 5/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Fort Worth
VIDEO/PHOTOS: The Reno Fire Department fights hundreds of fires each year. There's a team focused on the dozens of fires that are intentionally set.
Arson cases are the least often, least effectively prosecuted criminal offenses in America even though they are the largest dollar loss crime, exceeding burglaries, thefts and armed robberies combined, according to the interFire website. - PUB DATE: 5/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRNV-DT NBC 4 Reno
VIDEO: An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers as he went from classroom to classroom at a Texas elementary school, officials said, adding to a gruesome, yearslong series of mass killings at churches, schools and stores.
The gunman, armed with an "AR-style rifle," was also killed when law enforcement confronted him at Robb Elementary School. - PUB DATE: 5/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Fort Worth
Firefighters have a 9 percent higher risk of being diagnosed with cancer and a 14 percent higher risk of dying from the disease than the general adult U.S. population, according to studies by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and other agencies.
Recent research by scientists at Duke University could give doctors and public health officials a new tool for tracking firefighters’ exposures to cancer-causing chemicals and determining where and when the risks might be greatest. - PUB DATE: 5/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Duke - Nicholas School of the Environment
VIDEO/PHOTOS: The Memphis Fire Department is showing its Tiger Pride.
Monday, Mayor Jim Strickland, Memphis Tigers head basketball coach Penny Hardaway, and Fire Chief Gina Sweat helped to unveil a special new truck hitting the Memphis streets.
The fire engine is blue striped with the Tiger logo on the side. - PUB DATE: 5/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WATN-TV ABC 24 Memphis
Firefighters are still working to extinguish hotspots after a massive fire broke out inside a Newport hotel Monday evening.
Crews responded to the Wayfinder Hotel on Admiral Kalbfus Road shortly after 8 p.m. as heavy flames and smoke could be seen for miles pouring from the roof and windows.
Departments from six different communities were called in as mutual aid to help put out the flames at the four-story hotel, which is across the street from the old Newport Grand Casino. - PUB DATE: 5/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV CBS 12 Providence
Traditional weddings are, you know, traditional — and they don't typically include things like setting yourself on fire as you head off into the night.
For one Utah couple, however, being sprayed with a fire extinguisher to douse errant flames is commonplace, so doing the same on their wedding day was just par for the course. - PUB DATE: 5/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Deseret News
The1930 American LaFrance Tiller Truck is now back home. The Middletown Fire Department used the truck from 1930 to about 1963 and recently got a call from someone in Binghamton, New York – the old truck was sitting on a lot there.
Jim Loewenthal, a retired Middletown firefighter, enlisted his friends and fellow former firefighters and had the 75-foot fire truck brought back to Middletown. - PUB DATE: 5/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTIC-TV FOX 61 Hartford
The IAFF has been collaborating with the U.S. Navy on a program to improve the fitness, health and wellness of Navy fire fighters by encouraging them to become more active.
In January 2022, the IAFF launched Integrated Group Navy Fire Instruction, Training and
Education (IGNITE), a comprehensive 18-month wellness-fitness program, in collaboration with fire fighters from Navy Region Mid-Atlantic (NRMA). - PUB DATE: 5/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: IAFF.org
The Kissimmee Fire Department will begin integrating telemedicine and patient navigation into the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system with the Tele911 program beginning Monday, June 6.
The use of Tele911, Inc. by Kissimmee Fire Department is intended to reduce ambulance transports to the Emergency Room for residents who call 911 with non-emergency medical issues. - PUB DATE: 5/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Positively Osceola
VIDEO: A major scrapyard fire has been put out after Phoenix Fire Department and several other agencies worked early Sunday morning to contain it near the I-10 stack.
Fire crews were called out to the scene near 22nd Avenue and Willetta Street, south of McDowell Road around 5:45 a.m. Video from the scene showed massive plumes of black smoke over central Phoenix as firefighters worked to put out the flames. - PUB DATE: 5/23/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPHO-TV CBS 5 Phoenix
VIDEO: Jackie Lam joined the Detroit Fire Department a few years ago because of the department’s reputation of being the best of the best. And without even knowing it, Lam ended up doing a lot more than just fighting fires as she instead paved the way for future generations to follow in her footsteps. - PUB DATE: 5/23/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDIV-TV NBC 4 Detroit
PHOTOS: Sickness and death stalk firefighters who put out a massive blaze in 1975 that destroyed the New York Telephone Exchange in the East Village.
“I have leukemia. Everybody got something,” said retired FDNY Firefighter Danny Noonan.
“We lost about 18 guys in the first 10 to 12 years,” Noonan said. - PUB DATE: 5/23/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News - Metered Site
