A sexually explicit video of a Las Vegas firefighter was circulated among her coworkers without her knowledge, according to a human resources complaint obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The woman learned in June that her colleagues had the video, according to the complaint. She said in the complaint that the video was sent last year to her ex-boyfriend, a Henderson firefighter. - PUB DATE: 11/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal
The call load for firefighters has tripled and variety of their training and responsibilities has significantly expanded in the last few decades, while the personnel population at the Peoria Fire Department has remained relatively flat.
Those factors, combined with the continued dwindling of tax revenue flowing into city coffers, create a stark reality, according to the president of the local firefighters union, Ryan Brady. - PUB DATE: 11/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Peoria Journal Star
The cast-iron natural gas main that served Dr. Richard Williams' turn-of-the-century home in this Southern college town was as old as the house itself: It was built during Shreveport's first gas-fueled boom in 1911.
When that pipeline cracked in 2016, the gas built up slowly and silently in a shed behind Williams' home. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today
For decades, Devil's Night in Detroit was a horror story -- a night when arsonists ran amok, and when homeowners stood on their lawns with garden hoses running while the city reeled amid hundreds of fires that firefighters couldn't douse.
Now? The plague of arson seems to be over. As trick-or-treaters made the rounds Wednesday night, Detroit Fire Commissioner Eric Jones released a statement about Devil's Night at the Free Press' request. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit Free Press
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors held a special meeting to get answers from Verizon about fire crews getting their data speeds throttled as they battled the Mendocino Complex Fire over the summer. Santa Clara Fire Chief Tony Bowden and Verizon representatives gave status reports at the meeting. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPIX-TV CBS 5 San Francisco
The Otsego County Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Town of Oneonta Fire District Board of Commissioners on Oct. 31, dismissing the requested injunction by the Town of Oneonta.
The Fire Commission may now proceed with its dissolution Friday, Nov. 2 as planned.
The Commission voted to dissolve in September following more than a year of stalled budget negotiations between the town, commission and city. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Oneonta Daily Star
A San Francisco paramedic and a police officer have lost their jobs after an alleged assault last year on a woman who was restrained in the back of an ambulance on an involuntary mental health hold, officials said Wednesday.
The paramedic, Raymond Lee, resigned from the San Francisco Fire Department on Friday after being criminally charged earlier this year for allegedly grabbing the victim’s throat while she was restrained and sedated, officials said. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle
Southern California Edison said Tuesday its equipment likely sparked one of two ignition points for the massive wildfire that tore through California’s central coast last year.
Witnesses reported flames near the company’s power poles in Ventura County last December and the utility “believes that its equipment was associated with this ignition,” Edison said. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOVR-TV CBS Sacramento
When, in the afternoon of Sept. 13, Lawrence Fire Chief Brian Moriarty first got the call about house explosions and fires across the south side of his city, he was driving back up to the Merrimack Valley from Boston after taking an emergency medical service class, hoping to meet a few guys after work. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lawrence Eagle Tribune
The Chicago Police Department has been holding frequent entrance exams — in May and June of this year with a third coming up in December — as it wraps up a two-year hiring surge to add 970 additional officers over and above attrition.
But the Chicago Fire Department is a different story. There was a firefighters entrance exam in 2014. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
Have you ever thought of being a first responder for the supernatural?
Mary Barrett and her husband, Sean, a 33-year veteran of the Indianapolis Fire Department, launched Paranormal 911 in 2009 after being inspired by an evening of ghost touring. The couple now leads a team mainly consisting of firefighters, EMS providers and police officers on ghost investigation adventures, and has even gained national attention on the A&E show, “My Ghost Story. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
Three South Portland firefighters were training with a new $1.1 million ladder truck Tuesday morning when they accidentally hit a power line with the truck’s aerial, according to a statement released by City Manager Scott Morrelli Tuesday night.
The contact with the electrical line caused a fire to the truck’s front right tire and shorted the controls of the aerial, keeping the firefighters from moving the extendable ladder away from the line, Morrelli said. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bangor Daily News
A jury has awarded more than $11 million in damages to a Country Club Hills firefighter who sued the city over alleged gender discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation, according to a court order.
Dena Lewis-Bystrzycki, who filed suit against the city in 2012, had alleged she was passed over for a promotion and retaliated against for reporting misbehavior. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
More than 50 fire districts across Colorado are requesting the same thing from their voters this fall: Give us a legal workaround to a property tax law that’s set to slash our budgets again.
Lives are at stake, they say.
“We’re way past the crisis point,” West Metro Fire Chief Don Lombardi said. “The fire districts have called 911, and no one is answering. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Denver Post
Several firefighters responded to a large house fire in north St. Louis. It was the second vacant house that was fully engulfed in flames in the area Sunday.
Just before 2 p.m., firefighters responded to the 4500 block of Cottage Avenue, which is on the line of the Greater Ville and The Ville neighborhoods. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSDK-TV NBC 5 St. Louis
The wife of the French Settlement fire chief was arrested Monday and accused of embezzling $225,000 after her husband reported her confession to him, according to the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office.
Melissa Guitreau, 46, who acted as the secretary and treasurer of Livingston Parish Fire Protection District No. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baton Rouge Advocate
From Arcata on the North Coast to Hemet in the Inland Empire, California cops and firefighters are chipping in more money to pay for their pensions while the cities that employ them struggle to manage fast-rising retirement costs.
The new pension charges – a 12 percent paycheck deduction in Sacramento, an extra 8 percent deduction in Clovis, a pay cut and 12 percent pension contribution in Oroville, for example – reflect a calculus at local governments that workers are better off in the long run putting money into the California Public Employees’ Retirement System today rather than banking on the $350 billion pension fund earning its way out of its recession losses. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sacramento Bee
VIDEO - A Sacramento firefighter is recovering at home after being pulled from the roof of a commercial building Wednesday.
“Shock, disbelief a little bit,” is how Sacramento Fire Department spokesperson Capt. Keith Wade described the moment a fellow firefighter nearly fell through the roof of a children's store in the Arden area. - PUB DATE: 10/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCRA-TV NBC Sacramento
A few years back, there were hundreds of people applying to be a Springfield firefighter — but that’s dropped off dramatically.
“Our last test — we only had 27 applicants,” said Capt. Brian Leciejewski of the Springfield Fire/Rescue Division.
To get more people in the door, the division is eliminating a preliminary requirement for applicants. - PUB DATE: 10/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Springfield News-Sun
Five firefighters are suing the Unified Fire Authority and two of its former top administrators for allegedly hiring less-qualified family members of command staff instead of them in 2011.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, says the men were experienced firefighters seeking full-time positions with the agency that spring. - PUB DATE: 10/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Salt Lake Tribune
