The Fire Department Instructors Conference also known as the FDIC, is happening downtown. It's back for another year at the Indiana Convention Center.
More than 33,000 firefighters from around the world are in downtown Indianapolis this week for the event. It's known as the world's largest firefighter conference. - PUB DATE: 4/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISHTV.com Channel 8
Longtime Frankfort Fire Department Chief Charles Thompson is unsure if he wants to accept a demotion after city officials removed him from the helm of his own department.
City officials on Monday ousted Thompson — and offered him a position as a firefighter — following multiple policy violations stemming from his “on-call service” requirements, according to a press release sent this week from city Superintendent Josh Mills. - PUB DATE: 4/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Traverse City Record-Eagle
A shocking federal investigation has uncovered that some employees of Naval Station Newport deliberately falsified training records for emergency personnel.
The report that was delivered to President Donald Trump Tuesday alleges that nearly all of the station's 29 fire and emergency services employees did not take part in all required training. - PUB DATE: 4/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Providence 12
VIDEO - "I heard a call for help, scanned the building and saw a dad coming out with his baby," North St. Paul Assistant Fire Chief Dustin Kalis said.
The video captured what is hard to imagine doing, and that's dropping your three-month-old baby off a second-story balcony.
But a North St. Paul dad said it was his only option. - PUB DATE: 4/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KAAL-TV ABC 6 Austin
For the second time this month, authorities have charged a man with aggravated battery for allegedly attacking a firefighter during the performance of his duties.
Christopher M. Roemer, 28, of the 2800 block of Gerson Avenue, Godfrey, was charged for allegedly kicking a firefighter in the shin and groin on Saturday. - PUB DATE: 4/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Alton Telegraph
In the wake of a female firefighter’s victory against the city in a discrimination lawsuit, Mayor Bob Buckhorn is being urged to name a high-ranking woman to replace retiring fire Chief Tom Forward.
Earlier this month, Buckhorn said he will name a replacement from within the ranks.
A women’s Facebook group with 15,200 members, called "Surly Feminists for the Revolution," recently weighed in on the process, casting the selection as a referendum on the discrimination and retaliation case brought by firefighter Tanja Vidovic — and the department’s reaction to it. - PUB DATE: 4/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times and Tampa Bay.com
Gulfport Fire Chief Mike Beyerstedt head-butted another firefighter during an alleged fight, according to an incident report filed with the Gulfport police department.
It happened at 11 a.m. April 6 at the Central Fire Station. “The suspect (Beyerstedt) became enraged in front of the complainant and the witness, cursing and lunging at the complainant causing the suspect’s head to come in contact with the complainant,” according to the report. - PUB DATE: 4/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sun Herald
A relative of the Yorkville woman and child killed in a fire earlier this year is taking legal action, claiming the village fire department did not do enough to save their lives.
Heather Mishlanie and her 6-year-old daughter Taylor were killed after the Jan. 18 fire ravaged their upstairs apartment at 95 Campbell Ave. - PUB DATE: 4/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Utica Observer-Dispatch
A former Lynchburg Fire Department deputy chief was sentenced to a year and six months behind bars Tuesday after he was convicted of embezzling more than $70,000 in unauthorized purchases from a city-issued credit card and a nonprofit.
Jason Dale Campbell, 42, of Powhatan, pleaded guilty in Lynchburg Circuit Court to two felony counts of embezzlement by a government official and two felony counts of embezzlement. - PUB DATE: 4/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lynchburg News & Advance
A firefighter-EMT died March 30 of cardiac arrest after conducting search and rescue drills in full gear.
According to the U.S. Fire Administration, Decatur County Fire Rescue firefighter-EMT Adam Taylor, 30, went home late into his shift after complaining of chest pains he thought were due to a pulled muscle. - PUB DATE: 4/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
Firefighters responding to a house fire in the Harbor Gateway area had to drop their gear and find cover after hearing gunshots ring out Monday morning.
Firefighters were on the scene of a fire on 154th Street near Orchard just before 5 a.m. in response to a structure fire. After they put out the fire at the two-story home, five to six gunshots rang out, forcing firefighters to drop their equipment and take cover. - PUB DATE: 4/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCAL-TV Los Angeles
The Oval Office notwithstanding, there are very few workplaces left in the United States where women have not gained entry.
But in one of the last places in the workforce where a virtual male monopoly endures — fire stations — it’s still possible in 2018 for departments to hire their first female firefighters. - PUB DATE: 4/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
PHOTO - A Hamilton Township police officer accidentally shocked a firefighter with her Taser while trying to get a patient under control. So, she apologized with a cake, according to the department's Facebook page.
Officer Darcy Workman was helping the fire department on an EMS call last week. When they got to the hospital the patient became unruly. - PUB DATE: 4/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKRC-TV CBS 12 Cincinnati
A raging inferno engulfed several businesses in the Bronx early Tuesday, sending a black plume of smoke into the air as ferocious flames licked the gear of hundreds of firefighters working to put them out.
The FDNY says the four-alarm fire broke out around 5:30 a.m. at 316 E. 194th Street, near Marion Avenue, in Fordham. - PUB DATE: 4/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNBC-TV NBC New York
The fire and fury caused by the 117 Fire was so destructive Tuesday, incident command directed firefighters not to fight the flames at first.
The lack of initial response, though, was not unwarranted. Rather, the weather produced extreme fire behavior — a massive hazard for firefighters, who instead focused on evacuating families and livestock in harm's way. - PUB DATE: 4/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOAA-TV NBC 5 & 30 Colorado Springs
After a series of stinging defeats regarding the Watertown Fire Department, Mayor Joseph M. Butler Jr. insists he’s not going to back down.
“It’s frustrating to see,” he said. “But I’m dedicated to fight the good fight I’ve been fighting. I can sleep at night knowing that I’ve been trying to do what I think is right for the taxpayers. - PUB DATE: 4/23/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times
Huntington Fire Chief Jan Rader is being recognized on a national scale once again for her devotion to helping people. Now, she has been named one of TIME Magazine's Top 100 Influential People of 2018. In a statement to WSAZ reacting to the news, Rader was humble.
"I am honored," Rader said. "I think that this is a result of the community coming together to work diligently on a difficult social issue. - PUB DATE: 4/23/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSAZ-TV NBC 3
Four adults and two children were killed Sunday morning in a house fire that Alcoa Fire Department Chief Roger Robinson called the worst tragedy he's seen in his 39-year career.
Twenty-nine firefighters responded to the single-story home at 885 N. Wright Road after someone called E-911 to report the blaze at 5:24 a. - PUB DATE: 4/23/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Knoxville News-Sentinel
On Tuesday the Kern County Board of Supervisors will give the Kern County Fire Department a $14 million dollar payday loan.
Fire Chief Brian Marshall said he has more than $15 million in reimbursement money that hasn’t been paid by state and federal fire agencies to Kern County for staff and equipment used last year to fight fires and natural disasters. - PUB DATE: 4/23/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bakersfield.com
A life-sized statue was unveiled Saturday honoring 19 members of a firefighting team known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots who died in a 2013 Arizona wildfire.
The statue was dedicated at a state memorial park established where all but one member of the team died in a canyon in mountains near Yarnell on June 30, 2013. - PUB DATE: 4/23/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KASW-CW6 & KTVK-3TV
