A Pompano Beach charity that collected more than $43 million for breast cancer research, families of fallen firefighters and fire victims, kept most of the money, authorities say.
The Florida Attorney General’s Office is seeking to shut down the Community Charity Advancement, Inc., which did business as Breast Cancer Research and Support Fund, U. - PUB DATE: 12/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sun Sentinel
Many firefighters at New Milford Fire Company 1 will remember Frank Matagrano for his 43-plus years of dedication to the company as both a volunteer firefighter and an engineer.
Matagrano, 75, died on Friday, nine days after he suffered a stroke, which then led to a heart attack as he was on his way to a scene. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Northjersey.com
After over a year of surgeries in an attempt to heal his knee from infection, a firefighter underwent surgery to have his leg amputated.
Reporter Herald reported that Berthoud Fire Protection District fire investigator Josh Macdonald was injured in a March 2016 house fire after pulling 75-year-old Cecil Ann Dunfee from her burning home. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1.com
Spokane Fire Department said they are seeing an increase of violent calls that have jeopardized the safety of first responders.
The Spokane Fire Department responded to a house fire earlier this week.
The homeowner became violent. He struck a firefighter in the face while being rescued. He became violent again, striking another first responder. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KREM.com
A Kansas City, Kan., firefighter and paramedic was found dead in his bed Tuesday morning at the Fire Station 19 at 80th Terrace and State Avenue, the fire department announced.
Jason Garrett was 46 years old and had been with the Kansas City, Kan., Fire Department for five-and-a-half-years. The death is under investigation, but it is believed he died of natural causes. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kansas Star
Kelley Whitelens hiked a steep hill toward the backyard of a home on Coyote Road in Santa Barbara, one hand wiping the sweat from her face, the other pulling up her sagging pants.
Whitelens is the only female firefighter in a 19-person team from South Dakota fighting the fierce Thomas fire — which, at 281,620 acres spread across Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, is California’s largest wildfire on record. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
Mayer Fire Captain Jeffrey A. Vollmer died early Tuesday at his home from an apparent heart attack. He was 40.
Captain Vollmer passed suddenly after returning home from a training exercise.
Captain Vollmer was a second-generation firefighter and a 12-year veteran of the Mayer Fire Department. He was a graduate of Ortonville High School and the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KARE11.com
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill this week that allows the Yonkers Fire Department to tap into a controversial fund used for a variety of department expenses.
The fire union and Democrats in the state Legislature pushed for the law after the union stopped spending the cash when Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found the spending flouted state law. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
The U.S. Senate Thursday night passed the United States Fire Administration, AFG, and SAFER Program Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4661). The House of Representatives passed the same bill Monday. As a result, the measure is on its way to the president’s desk, saving the FIRE and SAFER Grant programs from expiring on January 2 and pushing their sunset dates out to September 30, 2024. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs
It is with a shared vision, to save lives from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) by stimulating effective community, professional and citizen action, that the PulsePoint Foundation and the Citizen CPR Foundation announce Sonoma County EMS/Save Lives Sonoma as the inaugural winner of the 2017 PulsePoint Grant Competition. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Citizen CPR Foundtion
VIDEO - Rob Hecksel, a retired firefighter diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February, was hoping for a long second career as a social worker.
He’s trying to compress that mission into his remaining time.
Hecksel, 51, of Lansing was a battalion chief with the Lansing Fire Department. He retired three years ago after a 25-year career but wanted to find another job that he loved and that improved the lives of others. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lansing State Journal
A firefighter with the Hamilton Township Volunteer Fire Department died Wednesday after he helped battle an early morning barn blaze.
Jeffery Alan Blackmer, 42, apparently fell ill at the fire station at 8021 N. Ind. 3, where he was cleaning gear after the fire in the 7700 block of North Delaware County Road 320-E. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Muncie Star Press
Rules cited in the dismissal of an Atlanta fire chief that require city employees to get pre-clearance for outside employment are not constitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
But U.S. District Judge Leigh May ruled in the city's favor on a number of other constitutional issues raised by former chief Kelvin Cochran in a lawsuit filed against the city and Mayor Kasim Reed. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Times
Police officers rode their horses with attached antlers to make them look like reindeer.
Cheer squads pumped up a crowd of families who watched the Twinkle Light Parade in Nob Hill earlier this month with glee.
But trouble wasn’t far away. “It was an evening that took a frightening turn for one little girl and her mother,” Albuquerque Fire Chief Gilbert Santistevan told a news conference to honor a pair of quick-thinking firefighters. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Albuquerque Journal
Congress today passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1), a comprehensive reform of the U.S. tax code. The IAFC applauds Congress for addressing several important issues affecting the fire and emergency service, including: Fire Sprinklers: Since the devastating 2003 fire at the Station Nightclub in Rhode Island, the IAFC has urged Congress to incentivize business owners to retrofit their properties with fire-sprinkler systems. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs
The Baltimore Fire Department is reeling as the city has experienced the most fire deaths in a decade, Chief Niles R. Ford said Wednesday.
Twenty-eight people have died in fires with more than a week left to go in the year — more than half of them in just four incidents, according to the Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
A firefighter with the Hamilton Township Volunteer Fire Department died Wednesday after he helped battle an early morning barn blaze.
Jeffery Alan Blackmer, 42, apparently fell ill at the fire station at 8021 N. Ind. 3, where he was cleaning gear after the fire in the 7700 block of North Delaware County Road 320-E. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2017 10:15:37 PM - SOURCE: Muncie Star Press
Premature. That is how a state Supreme Court judge described a lawsuit filed by Utica fire Chief Russell Brooks against the City of Utica when he ruled to dismiss it without prejudice.
Brooks filed his lawsuit against the city and Mayor Robert Palmieri. In it, Brooks claimed the city rejected an application for sick leave benefits connected with his chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a condition he said was contracted as a result of his response to ground zero for 9/11 recovery operations. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Utica Observer-Dispatch
The House of Representatives Monday night passed the United States Fire Administration, AFG, and SAFER Program Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4661) under suspension of the rules of the House, which usually is reserved for non-controversial legislation. The bill would: Authorize $76.49 million in funding for the U. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs
The municipality of Anchorage has paid one of its firefighters more than three-quarters of a million dollars after his successful lawsuit against the fire department.
It’s the second large civil award this year the municipality has paid to a public safety employee, after two police officers won $2.7 million last summer in a lawsuit over racial discrimination. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Alaska Public Radio
