One firefighter was killed and four other firefighters were injured while battling a house fire Monday evening in Lawrenceburg.
Multiple fire departments from across the region began fighting the fire around 4:30 p.m. at a home in the 500 block of Hood Lakes Road.
The home collapsed and a county-wide mayday protocol was established, meaning a firefighter is in danger or injured, just before 8 p. - PUB DATE: 2/13/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKRN-TV ABC 2 Nashville
It's long past midnight in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and firefighter Mark Merrell of Engine 255 is explaining to me why medals aren't important and being called a hero doesn't matter all that much.
"What you try to achieve is for somebody to say, 'you're a good fireman.' That's probably the biggest compliment you can get," he says. - PUB DATE: 2/13/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV 7online.com
Horry County firefighters are leaving and moving to other departments like Myrtle Beach with complaints of too much overtime and low pay, according to Rob Mullaney, president of the Horry County chapter of the International Association of Firefighters.
“A lot of the problems are staffing,” he said. “Our turnover rate is ridiculous and you’re losing a lot of mid-level and senior guys to departments, starting over at departments because the benefits are better, the pay is better, the longevity with the pay is better. - PUB DATE: 2/13/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MyrtleBeachOnline.com
In an interview with JET 24 Roger Gilbert Junior confirms that he has officially resigned as Fire Chief of the Spartansburg Fire Department.
Gilbert says he has been a Spartansburg volunteer firemen for 25 years, starting as a junior fireman. He spent five years as assistant chief, before being elected chief a year ago. - PUB DATE: 2/13/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJET/WFXP YourErie.com
Samuel Eaton isn’t afraid of many things.
A battalion chief for the Palm Beach County Fire Rescue, the 52-year-old has made a career of charging into burning buildings and coming out in one piece.
But thinking toward his upcoming birthday, he’ll tell you he’s deeply concerned. Eaton lost one of his best friends, a retired fire captain in the department, last year at 53. - PUB DATE: 2/13/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Miami Herald
PHOTO - Five firefighters were injured when their truck careened through the wall of a building while responding to a blaze in Queens Sunday night, according to FDNY officials.
Members of Engine Co. 303 were responding to a report of a fire when their truck struck the side of an auto-parts warehouse at Liberty Avenue and 150th Street in Jamaica, officials said. - PUB DATE: 2/12/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post
The girls might as well have been invisible, coated in soot in a room flooded with smoke.
Three stories of flames had been beaten down by Engine 7, just enough for Capt. Nick Adsero and firefighter Brent Duckworth to skirt past a broken sliding glass door and into a burning living room at the Olin Fields Apartments. - PUB DATE: 2/12/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Everett Herald
The mayor of a small Pennsylvania town is standing by its volunteer fire company's re-election of a registered sex offender as its fire chief.
Chief Roger Gilbert Jr. was convicted in 2001 of sexual intercourse with a 4-year-old girl and is listed in the state's Megan's Law database, The (Corry) Journal reported Saturday . - PUB DATE: 2/12/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRAL.com
During the Super Bowl, Verizon aired a one-minute ad highlighting a series of remarkable stories from first responders and the people they rescued. The ad was thoughtful, well put-together, and drew attention to the sacrifice and courage of first responders in a most excellent way. The spot ended with a flawless Verizon plug: “They answer the call. - PUB DATE: 2/12/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: BGR
After describing the recent lawsuit filed by the city of Spearfish as a “grand misunderstanding” a month ago, the Spearfish Volunteer Firefighters’ Association filed a countersuit Wednesday seeking damages for unlawful seizure, theft of property and assets, and more by the city.
The association had 30 days under civil procedure to answer, or provide a written response, to the lawsuit filed Jan. - PUB DATE: 2/12/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Black Hills Pioneer
Ex-firefighter Tanja Vidovic won a $245,000 judgment against the city in December after jurors decided Tampa Fire Rescue discriminated against her because she was pregnant and fired her in retaliation for complaining about it. The city’s costs don’t end there, though. Tampa’s bills in the federal sex discrimination lawsuit are continuing to mount, and right now could theoretically cost the city more than $3 million. - PUB DATE: 2/12/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
Mill Valley fire Chief Tom Welch acknowledges that tougher fire prevention regulations for vegetation might face some opposition, but he vows to persist after his experience as a North Bay fire victim.
In the aftermath of the devastation in Sonoma and Napa, Mill Valley fire officials say it’s time to refocus their energy on vegetation management. - PUB DATE: 2/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Marin Independent Journal
A state fire marshal’s review of the blaze that killed San Antonio firefighter Scott Deem found firefighters and commanders made several mistakes while fighting the major fire at Ingram Square Shopping Center.
San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said firefighters approached the blaze like a residential fire, rather than a commercial one, and failed to use a hose or rope when they entered the building to look for people possibly trapped inside. - PUB DATE: 2/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Conexion SA
Former Palm Beach County Fire Rescue Chief Jeffrey Collins and a pair of other high-ranking officers in the department were forced out of their jobs because of a “civil conspiracy” being carried out by the county government, a lawyer representing the officers said Thursday.
The lawyer provided no details about the nature of that conspiracy, but she did say her firm has given the county notice that it intends to sue on behalf of the former officers. - PUB DATE: 2/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Palm Beach Post
Nearly four months after his arrest, charges against a retired Griffin Fire Department Battalion Chief were dismissed Thursday, Pike County District Attorney Benjamin Coker said in a statement.
Emory Leroy Rickerson was arrested Oct. 10 after he refused to remove his car so Georgia State Patrol troopers could access the crash scene on Ga. - PUB DATE: 2/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Francisco Palma dangled upside down, his right leg caught and mangled in the teeth of ditch-digging equipment resembling a giant chain saw. Only his head and shoulders touched the ground.
A trencher caught the pants leg of the 46-year-old construction worker last week. It flipped him over and nearly severed his leg. - PUB DATE: 2/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Dallas Morning News
In a memo sent to her staff, Austin Fire's first female chief, Rhoda Kerr, has announced she will soon leave the department to take on a role in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Kerr told the Austin Fire Department staff Wednesday that she plans to retire July 1 to start her "new adventure as the new Fire Chief in Fort Lauderdale. - PUB DATE: 2/8/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KVUE-TV ABC Austin
A memo released Wednesday shows that two Kokomo firefighters engaged in a physical altercation last month over a city contract proposal that was rejected by the local fire union.
The fight, which led to both firefighters receiving written reprimands, came just one day after a rally at City Hall attended by roughly 200 people in support of the Professional Firefighters of Kokomo Local 396. - PUB DATE: 2/8/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kokomo Tribune
The memory of Hannah Lassette Ahlers and the other Las Vegas concertgoers killed during the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history is being kept alive, one act of kindness at a time.
About a month after the Oct. 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, firefighter Tommy Maher decided he wanted to honor each of the 58 victims by performing random acts of kindness in their name. - PUB DATE: 2/8/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bradenton Herald
A veteran of the D.C. Fire and EMS Department says the city's training academy is leaving new firefighters woefully underprepared. Some rookies leave having never used a fire hydrant, a recently retired deputy fire chief with decades on the job wrote in an internal memo obtained by News4.
The nine-page memo says the recruits are rushed through a training program. - PUB DATE: 2/8/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Washington
