The Phoenix Fire Department responded to more than 250 mountain rescue calls in 2019, more than one every other day.
Working with numbers provided by the Phoenix Fire Department, 12 News broke that number down by mountain and focused on the four busiest mountains in the area: Camelback Mountain, Piestewa Peak, South Mountain, and Papago Park. - PUB DATE: 2/4/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPNX-TV NBC 12 Phoenix
VIDEO: From blazes, to crashes and medical emergencies, firefighters risk life and limb everyday to serve their communities, and Great Falls Fire Rescue is no different, tackling all sorts of emergencies since the late 1800s.
In its 136 years of service, the Electric City's fire department is no stranger to the history books, scoring statewide firsts in firefighting over the decades, as they tackle both minor and major situations. - PUB DATE: 2/4/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTMF-TV ABC/FOX 23 Missoula
VIDEO: Austin Fire Department Chief Joel Baker says the Department is at fault for the foamy water as many as 300 South Austin neighbors had come through their sinks more than a week ago, citing issues with one engine’s foam eductor pump as the culprit.
On January 22, crews put out a fire at a church, but needed to use Class A foam because of how intense the fire got. - PUB DATE: 2/4/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KEYE-TV CBS 42 Austin
The city intends to hire a professional fire service consultant to conduct an examination and analysis of the administration, operations, training and deployment practices of the Fire Department.
The study will include a master plan for the Fire Department that will assess its internal operations and staffing, and provide a gap analysis of its current situation against national standards and best practices, according to City Manager Edward M. - PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Telegram & Gazette
VIDEO: It’s not just for video games anymore. The Myrtle Beach Fire Department is now using virtual reality as a way to better educate the community on what it’s like to be a firefighter.
Firefighters plan to debut the technology to students at Pathways to Possibilities next week at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. - PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMBF-TV NBC 32 Myrtle Beach
After a photo believed to have been taken last year of a D.C. Fire recruit class showed three white men making what looked like an “OK symbol” with their hands, an internal investigation found they were not aware the hand gesture is associated with white supremacy.
Weeks before an internal investigation cleared three members of recruit class 387, D. - PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOP-AM 1500 Washington
Paramedic Trent Bowers received a call on a recent January night: A woman had been beaten at a St. Louis Family Dollar store.
When Bowers arrived, the woman showed him injuries across her body.
“This looks like it’s out of place,” he said, looking at her knee. He suggested she take the ambulance to the hospital, but the woman said she couldn’t afford it without insurance. - PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
When firefighter Richard “Dick” Boyer responded to a fire call at the Reading YMCA on a bitter cold morning in January 1985, he immediately sensed something wasn’t right.
“The fire hose on the sidewalk was burning, and the handle on the Knox box had melted,” recalled Boyer, 76, a retired Reading fire chief. - PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Reading Eagle
The City of Chicago is suing a Rockford-based coffee company for trademark infringement, claiming the company’s logo is an imitation of the Chicago Fire Department’s symbol.
Fire Department Coffee and the Fire Department both feature logos that consist of the letters D, F and C intertwined in a stylized monogram, which is likely to confuse consumers into thinking the city has endorsed or sponsored the business, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday. - PUB DATE: 1/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Sun Times
A Vancouver firefighter is heading across the state to become Kennewick’s new fire chief.
Chad Michael is leaving a spot as the deputy chief of operations at the Vancouver Fire Department to return to his roots in Eastern Washington. He starts March 16 and will be sworn in at the March 17 city council meeting. - PUB DATE: 1/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tri-City Herald
Top Fire Department officials told a City Council committee Jan. 28 that the department’s policy of “promoting” Emergency Medical Technicians to become Firefighters, who are paid tens of thousands of dollars more a year, had produced a major gap in Emergency Medical Service staffing.
As a consequence, they conceded that even as the city continued to set records for EMS call volume, and response times for those calls were rising, there had been a decline in the number of ambulance crews available, a circumstance they said would take “a couple of years” to rectify. - PUB DATE: 1/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Chief Leader - Metered Site
When Brian Kernohan complained to his doctor of merciless headaches two summers ago, he expected to get a prescription for a sinus infection, not a diagnosis of brain cancer. The 37-year-old firefighter’s eardrums were curved inward, so his doctor suggested a CT scan.
It found a tumor the size of a golf ball sitting on his right cerebral artery, daring a stroke with every heartbeat. - PUB DATE: 1/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUFT-TV PBS 5 Gainesville
Residents displaced when flames tore through a 1960s-era Los Angeles apartment tower and injured 13 people this week are wondering why the management company didn't install sprinklers after another destructive blaze seven years ago.
City officials said after the 2013 fire “that it shouldn’t take another tragedy” to get sprinklers into older buildings that are exempt from retrofitting rules, City Councilman Mike Bonin said Thursday. - PUB DATE: 1/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles
VIDEO: Two adults were critically injured after a massive fire tore through part of a high-rise in the Brentwood area Wednesday morning, the same building which was the site of a fire more than six years ago. Helicopters were used to rescue several residents who fled up to the roof for safety.
The blaze broke out at Barrington Plaza, a 25-story residential building located at 11740 Wilshire Blvd. - PUB DATE: 1/30/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCAL-TV CBS 9 Los Angeles
To better protect the residents of Lower Pottsgrove Township and nearby communities, Ringing Hill Fire Company has launched a comprehensive volunteer recruitment campaign.
A new slogan, “Reach New Heights at the Hill,” will be used to promote all the opportunities volunteers can gain at Ringing Hill Fire Company, or as volunteers call it, The Hill. - PUB DATE: 1/30/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Mercury
Jester Estates is a scenic neighborhood of about 900 homes in northwest Austin, surrounded by walking trails and just 10 miles from downtown.
It is also one of the areas of central Texas that is most vulnerable to wildfires, according to firefighters.
But it is not the only high risk area in Austin. - PUB DATE: 1/30/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAN-TV NBC 36 Austin
The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) has responded to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, which has affected at least five people in the United States, by compiling a list of resources and guidelines for fire and EMS leaders.
The IAFC encouraged chiefs to review documents prepared by agencies and organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and World Health Organization (WHO), and added that the list would be updated as new information is made available. - PUB DATE: 1/30/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue 1
When the roster of Niagara Falls firefighters is posted later today, for the first time in 50 years there won’t be a Fontanella on the list.
The half century run of the Fontanella family as Cataract City blazebusters came to an end on Wednesday with the retirement of Battalion Chief Mark Fontanella. - PUB DATE: 1/30/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Niagara Gazette
When Ed Parkinson was named the acting CEO of the First Responder Network Authority in October of 2018, his assignment related to public safety broadband that has represented a full cycle from a committee policy staffer to overseeing the program he helped legislatively create.
During the fifteen months after the new post, he manages a program with a federal budget of $81 million as monitor of a contract with AT&T. - PUB DATE: 1/29/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: All Things FirstNet
The Sunbury Steam Fire Engine Co. Number 1 is facing a 60-day shutdown because the firefighters need more training, city Fire Chief Brad Wertz said.
Wertz told City Council that he decided to pull the company, located at Center and Penn St., out of service because he discovered that six of the eight volunteer firefighters were not properly trained. - PUB DATE: 1/29/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Daily Item
