New developments unfolded Tuesday in the Austin bomber case regarding how emergency responders will handle future requests by police to be on standby -- before they raid a suspect's home.
It comes after investigators feared medics may have inadvertently tipped off the bomber before officials made contact with him. - PUB DATE: 4/4/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KVUE-TV ABC Austin
Today the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) have announced the theme for the 2018 Safety Stand Down, which takes place June 17-23. “Be Aware – Get Checked” focuses on understanding, implementing and monitoring a comprehensive annual medical/physical for firefighters and navigating the Road Map to Firefighter Health and Wellness. - PUB DATE: 4/4/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs
The city and the firefighters’ union may be headed for more legal action, this time over abolishing the battalion chief’s position made vacant by the recent death of David M. Lachenauer.
City Manager Sharon A. Addison is recommending cutting the number of department battalion chiefs from five to four and reassigning Mr. - PUB DATE: 4/4/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times
A Madison Fire Department firefighter and paramedic died Sunday morning shortly after his shift ended.
A release from the department said Richard Garner, 29, collapsed suddenly in Mount Pleasant.
He joined the department in 2012 and became a paramedic in 2017. He first served as a firefighter/EMT at Fire Station 5 on Cottage Grove Road, serving the Southeast Side of Madison, then moved to Fire Station 10 on Troy Drive, serving the North Side. - PUB DATE: 4/3/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com-Wisconsin State Journal-Capital Times
Two firefighters from Elwood were killed when two planes collided at the Marion Municipal Airport Monday afternoon, according to the Grant County coroner.
Authorities were called to the scene near 5904 S. Western Ave. shortly before 5:30 p.m.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the planes involved were a single-engine Cessna 150 and a Cessna 525 Citation Jet. - PUB DATE: 4/3/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIN-TV Fox 59 Indianapolis
VIDEO - A dramatic body camera video posted on Facebook by the San Bernardino County Fire Department shows a firefighter’s view as he and a partner enter a burning house in Victorville and douse flames as they move through burning rooms.
There were no injuries from the March 25 fire at the family home in the 14000 block of Coalinga Road. - PUB DATE: 4/3/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Bernardino County Sun
The Schenectady City Fire Department filed a total of 14 reports with the city Codes Department regarding 104 Jay St. in the two years that preceded a fatal fire there -- reports that apparently were ignored, according to a report released Monday.
The Fire Department's reports focused on issues central to the fire's spread and residents' response to the March 6, 2015 blaze. - PUB DATE: 4/3/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Schenectady Daily Gazette
VIDEO - Family members recorded the precious moment when a military father surprised his young daughters after returning from deployment in Afghanistan.
Sergeant First Class Terry Gottke, a National Guardsman, was stationed in Afghanistan for the last year and returned home over Easter weekend, according to KTVU. - PUB DATE: 4/3/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJW-TV MyFox Cleveland
Not long after Greg Altland was promoted to assistant fire chief, commanding a shift of firefighters in York City's fire department, he found himself standing on Texas Avenue at the top of a hill at the city's north end.
From that vantage point, he could see much of the city. At night, it's a beautiful view, the lights like stars, the universe being the 5. - PUB DATE: 4/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCEN TV
After more than a year of intense criticism following two deadly fires, Oakland Fire Marshal Miguel Trujillo resigned Friday, marking another major shift at the top of the city’s embattled fire department.
Trujillo is leaving to become the fire marshal for the Gilroy Fire Department, city spokeswoman Karen Boyd said Friday. - PUB DATE: 4/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times
Three people are dead after an ambulance crash in west suburban Bellwood.
The ambulance was transporting 48-year-old Larry Marshall Jr. home from dialysis treatment when police say the driver apparently lost control of the ambulance around 3:45 p.m. Saturday and slammed into a building at 28th Avenue and Washington Boulevard. - PUB DATE: 4/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago
There were challenges getting water Saturday morning to a trailer fire that killed one and injured a firefighter in a mobile home park off McDevitt Avenue in Summit Township.
Firefighters tried four hydrants within the park, which maintains its own system, and they were broken or disabled, township fire Acting Lt. - PUB DATE: 4/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mlive.com
More than 12 hours of painstaking and methodical searching paid off for firefighters today when they found a 13-year-old boy who fell 25 feet into a sewage pipe in Griffith Park “alive and talking.”
Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Erik Scott made the announcement at 5:41 a.m.
“We have found Jesse Hernandez,” he said. - PUB DATE: 4/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Daily News
After vetting more than 100 applicants in the past year, the city of Charleston has announced who will take the helm of the fire department.
The city released a statement Thursday that Daniel Curia, fire chief in Durham, N.C., has accepted the job as chief of the Charleston Fire Department.
Curia will speak at a press conference at 1:30 p. - PUB DATE: 3/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Charleston Post and Courer
The Orange County Fire Authority broke department protocols in its response to the Canyon 2 Fire by not deploying enough equipment after receiving early reports of flames, an independent investigation has determined.
The report bolsters concerns that a bungled response might have allowed a small blaze to grow into the county’s most destructive wildfire in at least a decade. - PUB DATE: 3/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register
A Senate bill to pay for firefighter cancer benefits was sent to the House after being stripped of its funding source last week, but the governor and bill’s sponsor believe the legislation could still result in the benefits being funded.
SB 541, which would have used a surcharge on insurance policies to fund benefits for firefighters presumed to have gotten cancer from their work, passed the Senate March 22 after being amended to remove the surcharge funding approach, said state Sen. - PUB DATE: 3/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seacoast Online
A Utica firefighter pleaded not guilty Thursday to three misdemeanor charges stemming from a Jan. 6 incident in which he allegedly harassed a female co-worker.
The defendant, Richard Forte, was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief, offering a false written statement and third-degree criminal tampering. - PUB DATE: 3/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Utica Observer-Dispatch
The blame for a series of Cabell County wild fires has been laid at the feet of two former area firefighters.
Former Ona Volunteer Fire Department firefighter Landy Chapman and former Salt Rick Volunteer Fire Department firefighter Allen Black have both been charged with felonies, surprising people in Salt Rock. - PUB DATE: 3/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCHS-TV ABC 8
Firefighters battled a three-alarm blaze inside a church in North Philadelphia on Thursday.
The blaze started before 2:30 p.m. Thursday inside The Original Apostolic Faith Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the 1500 block of North Broad Street. Crews arrived at a fully engulfed building located near Temple University. - PUB DATE: 3/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPVI-TV 6 ABC.com
The roar of sirens and engines gave way to the wail of bagpipes and the thunder of bass drums.
Eyes watered, but not from smoke.
Shined shoes and dress blues replaced soiled boots and water-soaked jackets.
All this, as hundreds of firefighters from across Pennsylvania and as far away as Boston, Toronto, Kentucky and Chicago gathered to bid a formal farewell to fallen York City firefighters Ivan Flanscha, 50, and Zachary Anthony, 29. - PUB DATE: 3/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: PennLive
