Five Escambia County fire stations are operating with reduced staffing because of budget constraints.
Escambia County Interim Fire Chief Paul Williams sent a memo Friday to all firefighters announcing several changes, including the reduction in staffing levels at the five stations in an effort to cut down on the amount of overtime. - PUB DATE: 2/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pensacola News Journal
A Carroll County commissioner with decades of firefighting experience testified in Annapolis on Tuesday in support of a Maryland bill that would require the state fire marshal to enforce residential fire sprinkler requirements.
Commissioner Stephen Wantz, R-District 1, who has 30 years of experience as a career firefighter in the state and 44 years as a volunteer firefighter, said Tuesday the Maryland State Firemen’s Association asked if he would speak to the importance of House Bill 823 at a hearing of the House Environment and Transportation Committee, and he did. - PUB DATE: 2/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun - Metered Site
VIDEO: Over the years, Hoboken has evolved from a gritty, working-class enclave to a town with the highest rents in the state of New Jersey. Hoboken’s Hispanic population has dropped by 50% during that time.
The gentrification of Hoboken wasn’t just the result of market forces and economics. It was fueled by evictions, intimidation, violence, arson and murder. - PUB DATE: 2/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News 12 New Jersey
San Francisco’s women firefighters are exposed to higher levels of certain toxic PFAS chemicals than women working in downtown San Francisco offices, shows a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, San Francisco, and Silent Spring Institute. - PUB DATE: 2/26/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: UC Berkeley
The Georgia Senate passed legislation Tuesday aimed at loosening training requirements for volunteer fire departments in the state.
Senate Bill 342 would create a council tasked with establishing training and certification rules for volunteer fire departments in Georgia that are separate from those required for full-time professional fire departments. - PUB DATE: 2/26/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Augusta Chronicle
Ambulances with flashing sirens trying to weave their way through congested city streets. Traffic poses challenges to EMTs rushing to treat patients.
To improve response times, some EMTs in San Diego use scooters get around faster.
City Councilman Joe Borelli wants the FDNY to test the scooter idea here in New York. - PUB DATE: 2/26/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spectrum News NY1
Not only is somebody going to respond, but they are going to respond quickly.
That’s how Deputy Chief of Quakertown Fire Company Brad Patkochis described the North Hunterdon Fire Alliance’s Squad 51 program, through which the communities of Quakertown (Franklin Township) as well as High Bridge, Lebanon, Clinton and Annandale are each serviced by the fire companies of all five towns. - PUB DATE: 2/26/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NJ.com
VIDEO: It's easy to see and hear a firetruck when it's driving past but unless you are up close you might have missed a special marking.
Small stickers line the doors of Davenport Fire Department trucks symbolizing an accomplishment achieved by the crew on board.
"Those calls they go on, the saves they have or bringing a child into the world it's kinda a pride thing to recognize that they did something like that," Lt. - PUB DATE: 2/26/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WQAD-TV ABC 8 Moline
VIDEO: Dr. Reed Smith knows that when it comes to active shooter emergencies, seconds matter.
That’s why the emergency room doctor, who also serves as the medical director of the Arlington County Fire Department, began studying hundreds of autopsies from victims of mass shootings years ago. With other medical researchers at George Washington University, he found as many as 15 percent of victims might have lived had they gotten care quickly. - PUB DATE: 2/25/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRC-TV NBC 4 Washington, D.C.
Every year at the end of March, firefighters and the family of fallen firefighter Brian Carey meet at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery for a memorial service.
It will be 10 years ago on March 30 when 28-year-old Carey, a rookie firefighter for the Homewood Fire Department, was killed after he rushed into a burning home in an effort to rescue a resident trapped inside. - PUB DATE: 2/25/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune - Metered Site
The Wyoming Senate spent nearly an hour discussing a bill that would affect the lives of first responders across the state on Monday, Feb. 24.
SF 117 would allow first responders, law enforcement officers and search and rescue workers to apply for workers’ compensation if they receive a mental injury while performing official duty. - PUB DATE: 2/25/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Oil City News
Some Cleveland city council members expressed their disappoint and concern after they said they learned there weren't any minority candidates in the upcoming city fire department cadet class.
Councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland told News 5 the current fire class applicants are made up of 42 white male candidates and no minorities, which is a violation of city guidelines, which require at least one out of every 10 candidates be a minority. - PUB DATE: 2/25/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEWS-TV ABC 5 Cleveland
Firefighters with Dallas Fire Rescue are doing more than just fighting fires.
They’re also working on growing a free program that they're calling the ultimate form of fire prevention.
It's called the Home Fire Safety Survey Program, where firefighters go into your home and look for all the things that could start a fire, as well as the hazards that would make it hard for you to get out. - PUB DATE: 2/25/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
A new bill has been introduced in the South Carolina legislature that would create new a supplemental insurance policy for some firefighters diagnosed with cancer.
Cancer is the leading cause of deaths in career firefighters, according to the Firefighter Cancer Support Network.
While most fire departments – including the Aiken Department of Public Safety – provide cancer health care benefits to their employees, some firefighters believe the Firefighter Cancer Health Care Benefit Plan currently being discussed in the S. - PUB DATE: 2/24/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Aiken Standard - Metered Site
What seemed like an eternity was actually 19 seconds.
After Ryan Newman’s battered race car came to rest last Monday at the end of the tri-oval in a brutal wreck at the finish of the Daytona 500, it took only 19 seconds for the first emergency vehicle to arrive, according to a chronology provided by NASCAR officials during a question-and-answer session with reporters on Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. - PUB DATE: 2/24/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sporting News
The first responders’ biggest fear was realized one night in December when someone called 911 for help in rural Erie County and nobody came.
The first dispatch went to Union City Fire Co. When Union City couldn’t crew its ambulance, the call rolled over to neighboring Waterford Volunteer Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 2/24/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Morning Call
A retired firefighter who pulled his brother's body from the rubble at Ground Zero died Saturday of 9/11-related pancreatic cancer, officials said.
Daniel Foley watched his firefighter brother respond to 9/11 and not come back, FDNY Lt. Mickey Conboy said. Foley promised his parents he wouldn't come home until he found his brother. - PUB DATE: 2/24/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPIX-TV CW 11 New York
On North Main Street stands a historic little two-story brick building that once was Aberdeen Fire Station No. 2.
It was built in 1930 to provide protection to the city’s north side, expanding coverage of the downtown Fire Station No. 1. It still looks much like it did back then, but No. 2 now is privately owned. - PUB DATE: 2/24/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Aberdeen News
An overpass was set aflame after a semitrailer hauling thousands of gallons of fuel overturned in Indianapolis on Wednesday.
The tanker hit a guardrail on an on-ramp from Interstate 465 to I-70, which split the tank and overturned the semi, according to the Indianapolis Fire Department.
Witnesses told the fire department that the driver of the truck exited the tanker on his own with his clothes on fire. - PUB DATE: 2/21/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC News
For FDNY Firefighter Robert Thomas and his three sons, fighting fires and saving lives has become a family affair.
All four are city firefighters stationed throughout Brooklyn, joining a growing number of the department’s black “legacy” families, where children follow their mothers and fathers into the FDNY. - PUB DATE: 2/21/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News - Metered Site
