A City of Newburgh Fire Department union leader is denouncing what he described as a new structure for the impending layoffs of first responders on Dec. 31, but City Manager Joe Donat contends this method is the fair and right way to do business.
The 2020 city budget calls for 14 firefighters to lose their jobs at the end of the year. - PUB DATE: 12/11/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Times Herald Record - Metered Site
Easton's Fire Department is going gender-neutral, at least in the ordinance that governs operations.
Easton City Council's Public Safety Committee reviewed ordinance changes Tuesday that include converting "men" in the ordinance to "firefighters," and "he" will become "the Fire Chief."
For example, the current language, "When answering an alarm of fire, he shall be in complete charge of all officers, men and apparatus'' will be "When answering an alarm of fire, the Fire Chief will have complete charge of all officers, firefighters …. - PUB DATE: 12/11/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFMZ-TV 69 News
In 2016, Denton (Texas) Fire/Rescue (DFR) Department Firefighter Gary Weiland had knee surgery, and for two years, everything seemed fine.
Then, in 2018, while playing football in the yard with his family and friends on Thanksgiving Day, his entire life changed without warning.
“I was literally running around the field, throwing a ball, and my knee started to swell up,” Weiland said. - PUB DATE: 12/11/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman asks “why does an All-Electric Fire Engine make sense for a municipal Fire Agency like ours?” Some answers:
Typically, Fire Engines only travel short distances before returning to their home base, or Fire Station, so electric motors make perfect sense.
Most emergencies only last 30 minutes or less and this Engine can be shut down once it arrives at the incident, so an electric motor is very practical, efficient and environmentally responsible. - PUB DATE: 12/11/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: In Menlo
The financial future of the family of a 51-year-old Buffalo Grove firefighter who died of colon cancer will soon be decided by a trio of appellate court judges who on Tuesday began considering a decision to award his widow and their four children her late husband’s full pension benefits.
The case involves the village of Buffalo Grove’s appeal to the Second District Appellate Court to overturn a 100% line of duty death pension benefit award to the family of late firefighter Kevin Hauber. - PUB DATE: 12/11/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune - Metered Site
The City Council supported city firefighters Monday night and voted to roll back unpopular work shift changes the mayor imposed last weekend.
Council members passed — by an 8-1 vote on first reading — an ordinance that would return firefighters to a work schedule of 24 hours on duty and 48 hours off. - PUB DATE: 12/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Northwest Times
The city’s third memorial sculpture for a firefighter who died in the line of duty was unveiled Monday evening at the Webster Square Fire Station.
Dignitaries, fellow firefighters and family members stood for an hour in the cold rain to honor Firefighter Christopher J. Roy of Shrewsbury, 36, who died a year ago, after he was pulled from a burning apartment at 7 Lowell St. - PUB DATE: 12/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram
Three firefighters were terminated Monday after an investigation found they verbally and physically abused a part-time firefighter. The allegations came to light in September; today the Orange Township trustees voted to accept the recommendations of investigators who said a firefighter, a lieutenant, and a captain should lose their jobs. - PUB DATE: 12/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSYX-TV ABC 6
On Monday Montgomery County Police released new information on what led a 911 dispatcher to send firefighters to the wrong house in the wrong city during a fire.
The trouble happened on Friday night when a fire began at 2005 Prichard Road in Wheaton.
Police say the 911 dispatcher misunderstood the person who called and sent firefighters to 2005 Piccard Drive in Rockville – 10 miles away from the actual fire. - PUB DATE: 12/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJLA-TV ABC 7
Richard Wilson was sitting in a hotel hot tub with his two young sons when he heard the scream. It was the kind of scream that any parent knows, he said, and he leapt into action.
Leaving his kids with his wife, he ran to the edge of the Huntington Beach pool where a mother had just spotted her 4-year-old son, Hudson, motionless on the bottom. - PUB DATE: 12/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Union
Faced with an unprecedented string of wildfires across California, overtime costs for firefighters have surged by 65% in the last decade, pushing annual wages to nearly $5 billion, according to a Times analysis of state payroll records.
The overtime spending is further evidence of a statewide toll: Wildfires have destroyed thousands of homes, killed scores of residents and disrupted power supplies across large swaths of the state — and, increasingly, they are chewing through government budgets. - PUB DATE: 12/9/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Times - Metered Site
Summit Fire & EMS firefighter Ken Jones, 46, died after falling about 60 feet from the roof of a Copper Mountain condo building early Saturday, when crews were working to battle a fire at that location, according to Summit Fire & EMS officials.
The fire at Bridge End — 860 Copper Road, near the base of Copper Mountain Resort — was first reported by a call to 911 at 1:51 a. - PUB DATE: 12/9/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Summit Daily
Five minutes ago, Kassie Scott was driving the ambulance down Main Street with lights on and siren blaring, but now she and paramedic Steve Smith are parked in front of the response address, sitting in silence, waiting for the police to arrive.
The caller said the person was violent. Scott and Smith are trained and equipped to save lives, not defend their own. - PUB DATE: 12/9/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse
The firefighter and EMT union president in Washington D.C. is disputing recent claims by the East Chicago city administration as it justified controversial new shifts for city firefighters.
Mayor Anthony Copeland and Fire Chief Anthony Serna recently told The Times the firefighters shifts were being changed to save taxpayer dollars, a move they claimed was successful in Washington, D. - PUB DATE: 12/9/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Northwest Times
One person was hit and injured by a vehicle in Arroyo Grande on Friday morning — and the incident happened right in front of a Five Cities Fire Authority station.
Five Cities Fire Authority Chief Steve Lieberman told The Tribune a woman was crossing the street where there was no marked crosswalk in Arroyo Grande outside of the Village when she appears to have been hit by a car. - PUB DATE: 12/9/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Tribune
Two hundred fire fighters have now reportedly died from illnesses related to the September 11th attacks, according to a charitable organization that assists 9/11 first responders with medical needs not covered by insurance.
The Ray Pfeifer Foundation confirmed on Twitter Wednesday that two more New York City fire fighters have died due to "9/11 illness," marking the 199th, and 200th FDNY deaths related to the World Trade Center attacks. - PUB DATE: 12/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS News
After voters rejected a city charter amendment Nov. 5 that would have allowed 2 additional mills for public safety, the council is considering options as funds in the annual public safety budget are exhausted halfway into the second quarter of the fiscal year.
The rising number of medical runs the Davison-Richfield Fire Department is being dispatched for is considered to blame for the city’s public safety budget being $80,000 in the red last year. - PUB DATE: 12/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Davison Index
Belgrade residents will face the question of whether they want to create their own fire department in the spring.
City officials say it'll be costly -- roughly $3.3 million -- so they have another option on the table.
If residents vote to create their own department, taxes will have to be raised, but if they vote to annex themselves to the Central Valley Fire District, city officials say there won't be much of a fiscal change. - PUB DATE: 12/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KECI-TV NBC 13 Missoula
A recently released CalFire report reveals how one fire captain narrowly escaped death and banded together with two civilians to save themselves by using a fire shelter — a last resort meant to protect from a blaze burning all around — during the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County.
Around 3:45 p.m. on Oct. - PUB DATE: 12/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Red Bluff Daily News - Metered Site
In the aftermath of several public sexual harassment cases, Austin EMS and the police and fire departments are updating their sexual harassment policies to create consistency across city emergency services.
The action comes in the wake of Austin Fire Department Lt. James Baker’s guilty plea to hiding a camera and filming firefighter Kelly Gall in the fire station restroom. - PUB DATE: 12/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Austin Monitor
