The Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association sought a court order Tuesday aiming to force the city to pay firefighters the same as police officers of corresponding rank and seniority, one day before Mayor Sylvester Turner and the union are set to discuss ideas for implementing pay raises.
The move comes more than two months after voters approved Proposition B, a November ballot measure granting pay parity to Houston firefighters, which would amount to a massive raise that Turner says the city cannot afford. - PUB DATE: 1/16/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
Paid or unpaid, that is the question.
Beaver County officials are considering whether to pay firefighters who are given excused absences for responding to emergency calls under a proposed policy. After a September pipeline explosion in Center Township, Commissioners Chairman Daniel Camp requested the county develop a policy that would allow volunteer firefighters who work for the county to take unpaid time off without penalty if they respond to an emergency prior to their shifts. - PUB DATE: 1/16/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Beaver County Times
A new Orange County firefighter had barely started his first shift when his crew gave him a surprise from his father and his new Fire Rescue family Monday night.
Firefighter Greg Ferone was among the 41 new OCFR’s recruits who graduated Friday at Valencia College. As part of the ceremony, members of Class 84 were honored with ceremonial pins given to them by family members who served in the military, fire rescue or law enforcement. - PUB DATE: 1/16/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orlando Sentinel
VIDEO: An Ohio firefighter saved an American flag from a Vietnam veteran's burning home, telling "Fox & Friends" Monday that he could not bear to watch Old Glory be incinerated.
Allen Skomer, an eight-year Navy veteran and member of the Toldeo Fire and Rescue Department, was battling the early morning blaze Friday when he spotted the flag on the home's front porch. - PUB DATE: 1/16/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox News Insider
VIDEO: Three firefighters and a police officer were injured Tuesday night, when a four-alarm fire gutted a 122-year-old building in Hobart, Indiana.
The fire started around 9:15 p.m. in a tanning salon at 3rd and Center streets. Flames quickly spread to the apartments above.
Everyone inside the building got out safely, but three firefighters were injured while extinguishing the blaze. - PUB DATE: 1/16/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS Chicago
VIDEO: Florida lawmakers will try once again this year to create a system to help a particular group with a higher risk of developing cancer: firefighters.
The Centers for Disease Control found in a study that firefighters are at a 15 percent greater risk of developing cancer than the average person. - PUB DATE: 1/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spectrum Bay News 9
VIDEO: Buncombe County authorities said a fire truck ended up in a creek on the way to a fire early Sunday morning.
Firefighters were responding to a house fire on White Bridge Road, near Upper Flat Creek Road in Weaverville, about 12:40 a.m. Sunday. Firefighters say the home involved was engulfed in flames when they arrived. - PUB DATE: 1/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC 13 WLOS
On Jan. 27, the Wilmington Fire Department will participate in the third annual BFit First Responder Challenge at T.D. Garden. The challenge is put on by the Boston Bruins Foundation, and is intended to raise awareness of health and wellness within New England.
The challenge is comprised of three divisions: the Firefighter/EMT division, the Law Enforcement division, and the Civilian division. - PUB DATE: 1/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilmington Town Crier
Workplace bullying is a serious national problem. According to a survey done by the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) in 2017, nearly 20 percent of American workers have personally experienced being bullied at work. Another 19 percent have directly witnessed bullying taking place. More than two-thirds of all workers are certain that bullying exists in their place of employment. - PUB DATE: 1/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
Nineteen cadets from the 34th Fire Training Academy Class took the oath of office in Cleveland on Friday.
According to a release, the new firefighters will serve in neighborhoods throughout Cleveland in an effort to improve service to residents.
One of the new firefighters is Justin Leon, who is the son of Wayne Leon, the Cleveland police officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty in 2000. - PUB DATE: 1/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox 8 Cleveland
VIDEO: Florida lawmakers will try once again this year to create a system to help a particular group with a higher risk of developing cancer: firefighters.
The Centers for Disease Control found in a study that firefighters are at a 15 percent greater risk of developing cancer than the average person. - PUB DATE: 1/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spectrum Bay News 9
VIDEO: Buncombe County authorities said a fire truck ended up in a creek on the way to a fire early Sunday morning.
Firefighters were responding to a house fire on White Bridge Road, near Upper Flat Creek Road in Weaverville, about 12:40 a.m. Sunday. Firefighters say the home involved was engulfed in flames when they arrived. - PUB DATE: 1/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC 13 WLOS
On Jan. 27, the Wilmington Fire Department will participate in the third annual BFit First Responder Challenge at T.D. Garden. The challenge is put on by the Boston Bruins Foundation, and is intended to raise awareness of health and wellness within New England.
The challenge is comprised of three divisions: the Firefighter/EMT division, the Law Enforcement division, and the Civilian division. - PUB DATE: 1/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilmington Town Crier
Workplace bullying is a serious national problem. According to a survey done by the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) in 2017, nearly 20 percent of American workers have personally experienced being bullied at work. Another 19 percent have directly witnessed bullying taking place. More than two-thirds of all workers are certain that bullying exists in their place of employment. - PUB DATE: 1/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
Nineteen cadets from the 34th Fire Training Academy Class took the oath of office in Cleveland on Friday.
According to a release, the new firefighters will serve in neighborhoods throughout Cleveland in an effort to improve service to residents.
One of the new firefighters is Justin Leon, who is the son of Wayne Leon, the Cleveland police officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty in 2000. - PUB DATE: 1/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox 8 Cleveland
A 40-year-old corporate jet pilot, is the new chief of the city’s 115-member volunteer fire department.
Mayor Richard Dziekan administered the chief’s oath to Robert Laskowski, Jr., a 22-year member of the East End Hose company, before more than 100 people Saturday morning at Derby Middle School.
Laskowski’s wife, Melissa, pinned the chief’s badge on her husband’s uniform. - PUB DATE: 1/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Connecticut Post
As Engine 33 of the Buffalo Fire Department battled an intense fire in the attic of an East Side home Thursday night, a firefighter became separated from his hose, disoriented and couldn't find his way out.
He tried to press the "man-down" button on his portable radio but was unable to. He took his gloves off in an effort to activate the button but could not, causing severe burns to his hands and wrists. - PUB DATE: 1/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Buffalo News
Paramedic Rob Ravndal went on hundreds of emergency calls before the one response that ultimately ended his career at Lincoln Fire and Rescue.
The trauma of that call, a 3-year-old's drowning in 2015, sent the father of young children into a spiral.
Nightmares. Breakdowns. A general sense of fear.
Even after his bosses pulled him off the ambulance, Ravndal struggled at work and at home as he grappled with post-traumatic stress disorder. - PUB DATE: 1/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lincoln Journal Star
A city medic is temporarily off the job after being bitten, kicked and spit on by a 17-year-old girl with reported mental issues, while police officials and the president of the Detroit firefighters union dispute whether there was a proper police response to the incident.
Police on Tuesday were called about a woman causing a disturbance in the 16000 block of Washburn on Detroit's west side. - PUB DATE: 1/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit News
An 11-year-old boy was rescued by Naperville firefighters and police officers after he fell through the ice of an artificial lake Sunday afternoon in the west suburb.
At 4:49 p.m., first responders got a call from someone who saw a child slipping into the water of a frozen retention pond near an apartment complex in the 1300 block of McDowell Road, according to a statement from the Naperville Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 1/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFLD-TV MyFox 32 Chicago
