At fire house 12 in Waipahu, firefighters aren't just worried about their own health. They're worrying about their kids. In the last five years, children of three firefighters at the station have been diagnosed with bone cancer. The third case was diagnosed this month. In the wake of the cancer cluster, Honolulu's fire chief and the firefighters union are calling for an investigation.
- PUB DATE: 1/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHNL/KGMB-TV Hawaii News Now

Legislation permitting properly trained first responders to carry firearms unanimously passed the West Virginia House of Delegates Thursday, and is now on its way to the Senate. House Bill 2916, introduced by Delegate David Pethtel, D-Wetzel, would allow emergency service personnel, ambulance drivers and firefighters to carry weapons when performing their duties if they successfully pass an equivalent firearms training course provided by the West Virginia State Police Academy and maintain their certification.
- PUB DATE: 1/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Intelligencer

A young boy was rescued by emergency responders on Monday afternoon after a car submerged into Brush Creek. According to Kansas City police, officers were called to the scene at 4725 Prospect Avenue on an accident. Police say a child inside a running vehicle knocked it into gear, causing the car to roll down the hill and into the creek.
- PUB DATE: 1/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCTV-TV CBS 5 Kansas City

A Santa Maria firefighter who helped rescue 62 children and camp staff from the Whittier fire last year will be an honored guest at the president’s State of the Union speech Tuesday. David Dahlberg, a fire prevention technician with the U.S. Forest Service, is one of 11 people chosen to be President Donald Trump’s honored guest at his speech before Congress.
- PUB DATE: 1/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Luis Obispo Tribune

Two firefighters, one with just a few months on the job, pulled a critically injured man from a burning Washington Heights apartment building Sunday night, an FDNY spokesman said. The blaze broke out just before 5:30 p.m., on the fourth floor of a building in the Rangel Houses along the Harlem River Drive.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

State Sen. Dan Laughlin is exploring the possibility of tapping into Pennsylvania’s prison system to help generate new firefighters for the state’s staff-starved volunteer service. Laughlin, of Millcreek Township, R-49th Dist., said last week that he is in the process of setting up an appointment with Department of Corrections Secretary John E.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Erie Times

Ask Fort Worth’s retiring Fire Chief Rudy Jackson about the fires he’s fought during his career and he’ll tell you there are too many stories to tell. Or, ask him about how he’s achieved such a low turnover rate among firefighters since he’s been chief and he’ll tell you he credits the good people he has working for him.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

A high-ranking state firefighter with 24 years of experience was compelled to resign last month because his department believed he helped a fire captain cheat on a test that the captain failed. Jeff Isaacs’ ouster as an assistant chief for the department’s Fresno unit is a sign of the tough line Cal Fire has taken on discipline since a 2014 investigation revealed sex-related misconduct and inappropriate drinking at its fire academy.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Modesto Bee

VIDEO - The Palmyra Fire Department has released video of an incident that injured two of its firefighters and resulted in the filing of reckless endangerment and other charges against a 21-year-old Palmyra woman earlier this month. In the Jan. 9 incident, the Palmyra Fire Department was extinguishing a fire at an apartment complex on the 1300 block of Park Drive.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPMT-TV Fox 43

Bickering between sheriff’s deputies and firefighters over which agency should conduct air rescues in Orange County has led to delays in getting injured people to hospitals, raising concerns that the running feud could impair medical care and put taxpayers at risk of unexpected legal payouts. In one 2016 incident, detailed in a letter by the county’s Emergency Medical Services director obtained by The Orange County Register, a conflict between sheriff’s deputies and Orange County Fire Authority paramedics delayed the transport of an elderly woman with a serious head injury.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register

In December, Baltimore County police evacuated their Woodlawn precinct overnight after three officers needed treatment for exposure to fentanyl, a potent opioid responsible for the skyrocketing number of deaths among drug users. Months earlier, a Harford County deputy needed the overdose reversal drug naloxone and two paramedics were treated for exposure after responding to an overdose call.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

South Korea's deadliest fire in almost a decade has ripped through a hospital in the city of Miryang, killing at least 37 people and injuring more than 100. Authorities revised the death toll down from 39 on Friday afternoon, but a Miryang City official warned it could rise as at least 18 patients remained in critical condition.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN

Rockville Centre residents will continue receiving top care despite the state downgrading the fire department’s emergency medical services’ advanced life support, or ALS, certification to basic life support, BLS, earlier this month. The change came as the result of a new regulation that mandates narcotics to be on hand in all ALS ambulances, which requires special equipment and licensing.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: LIherald.com

Christine Jameson fought back tears at the State Senate Tuesday as she recounted the death of her husband Kyle, 33, a Hampton firefighter. Her devastating loss was compounded by massive bills she didn’t know how she could pay. She shared her story with the Senate Finance Committee in support of a bill that would prevent other firefighters’ families from having to go through the same ordeal.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seacoastonline.com

A blinking green light could mean the difference between life and death the next time fire targets a house in town. The lights are located on the side of the new masks firefighters began wearing on the job earlier this month. With funding approved by Town Meeting last year, Plymouth is the first town in the state to outfit all of its firefighters with the thermal imaging technology.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Plymouthwickedlocal.com

City officials and Kokomo firefighters added another chapter to their ongoing contract dispute saga Wednesday with a heated exchange between a board president and a retired firefighter. The incident followed the Kokomo Board of Public Works and Safety’s passing of a measure that approved the city’s HR Policy Manual as the standard for all non-contractual employees, including the fire department, which is currently acting without a contract for the first time.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kokomo Tribune

West, the town where a fertilizer plant exploded after a fire, killing 15, has settled its claims with manufacturers and distributors of the product that exploded, according to a news release. CF Industries, El Dorado Chemical Company, International Chemical Company and Adair Grain will pay the city $10.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Plainview Daily Herald & My Plainview

PHOTO - A Normal Fire Department truck caught fire and was destroyed Wednesday morning on eastbound Interstate 74 near Knoxville. "Today, on the interstate on the way back from refurbishment, Engine 15 suffered some kind of mechanical failure in the rear end, which then caught fire," the fire department said in a Facebook post.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Pantagraph

When the 2018 Oscar nominations were read off on Tuesday morning, Heroin(e), the Netflix documentary about the opioid crisis in Huntington, West Virginia, was amongst the films on the list to run for the prestigious movie award. Heroin(e), with its 40 minute running length, was among five films in the Best Documentary Short category.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ironton Tribune

Local officials say the state is playing with fire by yanking funding to train some of Connecticut’s first responders. Regional fire schools help firefighters fulfill Occupational Safety and Health Administration requirements and qualify for certifications, and the facilities provide live-burn training.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Connecticut Post