The city of Trenton has approval to layoff 64 firefighters who are currently being funded by a federal grant that runs out at the end of October, according to a plan approved by the state.
The layoffs are set to occur Nov. 1, 2017, and affected firefighters would need to be officially notified no later than Saturday, Sept. - PUB DATE: 9/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NJ.com
Alarms were ringing inside a dormitory at UConn in the early morning of October 16, 2016, and as firefighter Dana Barrow began driving out of a firehouse garage, the right front tire of his Chevy Tahoe bumped into something, bringing the SUV to a sudden stop. One second passed.
And then Barrow, focused on a possible fire emergency, pressed the gas pedal, inching the 7,130-pound vehicle over the obstruction blocking his way. - PUB DATE: 9/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hartford Courant
Santa Cruz firefighter Clayton Ogden died, at age 47, after a short bout with cancer this summer.
This week, Santa Cruz Fire Chief Jim Frawley posthumously awarded Ogden the Medal of Valor for his involvement in protecting a civilian during the fatal Feb. 26, 2013 shootout that left two Santa Cruz police officers dead. - PUB DATE: 9/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Santa Cruz Sentinel
A former Cleveland firefighter has filed a discrimination lawsuit claiming the department and city officials mishandled a complaint he filed following an altercation with two other firefighters last year.
Samuel Livingston, who was hired as a firefighter in 2000, is seeking an unspecified amount in damages accusing the department of reverse discrimination after an April 5, 2016 physical altercation with his coworkers June Colon and Larry Gray. - PUB DATE: 9/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland Plain Dealer & Cleveland.com
City Councilor Eric Spear will ask the City Council on Monday to authorize spending $39,000 for "consultants to come in and do an assessment of the Fire Department."
Spear noted "a similar assessment was done on the Police Department."
"In all these cases, we're trying to provide services but also control spending. - PUB DATE: 9/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse
Former Shreveport Fire Chief Craig Mulford, who lost his job after being accused of impeding a police investigation into the mistreatment of two mentally challenged men who were regular visitors at a fire station, has reached an agreement with the city where he was reinstated with back pay and then immediately resigned. - PUB DATE: 9/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPXJ-TV & KTBS-TV
The Philadelphia Fire Department is mourning the loss of a firefighter who served the department for 23 years.
According to officials, 60-year-old Lt. Kenneth Greene Sr. died Thursday at Einstein Hospital after being transported to the hospital September 3 while on-duty at Engine 37.
Lt. Greene, a veteran of the United States Army, had served the Department for 23 years on several engine and ladder companies. - PUB DATE: 9/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTXF-TV MyFox 29 Philadelphia
In rural Montana, where you and your neighbors are your own first responders come fire, flood or heart attack, being dropped as a customer by Verizon Wireless could have serious impacts, readers told us.
Kim Barlogio lives southeast of Hammond in the remote southeastern corner of Montana. She was among the Montanans who recently received a letter from Verizon informing her she would no longer be a customer after "using a significant amount of data while roaming off the Verizon Wireless network. - PUB DATE: 9/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Great Falls Tribune
“I will be talking to the city, and we’ll be dealing with this place.”
That is the grim threat made by Oakland police Officer Hector Chavez in March 2015 as he stood in the open doorway of the Ghost Ship warehouse, talking to a party promoter and looking over the inside of the cluttered firetrap for 20 minutes. - PUB DATE: 9/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Santa Cruz Sentinel
The Forest Service has spent more than $2 billion battling forest fires around the country — a record as wildfires blacken the American West in one of the nation's worst fire seasons.
Wildfires have ravaged the West this summer with 64 large fires burning across 10 states as of Thursday, including 21 fires in Montana and 18 in Oregon. - PUB DATE: 9/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News
With Tropical Storm Harvey lashing at his city and no official word from headquarters, Houston Fire Capt. Scott Wilkey took matters into his own hands and drove the 35 miles from his home to the Houston fire station he commands.
It was Saturday, Aug. 26, and meteorologists were warning of catastrophic flooding in the city. - PUB DATE: 9/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today
Mesa firefighter Jesse Simpson, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, knew he had to do something, anything, to help “George,” a fellow veteran who had lost everything.
In May, Simpson’s crew found George sitting on a toilet in a rundown west Mesa apartment that had been heavily damaged when a maintenance crew accidentally struck a water pipe, causing a flood. - PUB DATE: 9/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Valley Tribune
A brand-new Lexington Fire Department headquarters may cost the town about $19.3 million, according to project architect Jeffery McElravy of Tecton Arcitects.
McElravy presented his schematic design for the new facility to Selectmen on Sept. 11.
The new facility will go in the same location as the current fire headquarters on Bedford Street. - PUB DATE: 9/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wicked Local Lexington
A government-ordered inquiry into the London tower fire that killed at least 80 people opened Thursday with a minute of silence for the victims — and with its leader acknowledging that survivors feel a "great sense of anger and betrayal."
Retired judge Martin Moore-Bick said he hoped his investigation would "provide a small measure of solace" by discovering how such a disaster could occur in 21st-century London, and preventing it happening again. - PUB DATE: 9/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News
A slap in the face is how many Raleigh firefighters and police view new changes to a city policy. It involves all city employees and centers on vacation time, sick leave, holiday pay and promotions.
The changes were made as part of the consent agenda that passed at the last City Council meeting.
“If I have to work on a Saturday, I already have to take two days off to have that weekend off. - PUB DATE: 9/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNCN-TV NBC 17
The US House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that would require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop a registry of firefighters who develop cancer in an effort to study the risks they face on the job.
The Firefighter Cancer Registry Act, introduced by Rep. Chris Collins, R-NY, would provide $2 million in federal funds from 2018 to 2022 for the CDC to gather and study data, including the status of a firefighter who developed cancer (volunteer or career, for example), the number of years spent on the job and the number and types of incidents they responded to. - PUB DATE: 9/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse
A female firefighter who claims she was demoted and told to stay home with her young son has filed a sex-discrimination lawsuit against the Lower Swatara Fire Department.
Jessica Etzle contends in the U.S. Middle District Court suit that she was stripped of her post as lieutenant and told by the fire chief in January 2016 that, "'You have a 6-year-old son' and she needed to be home and be a mother to her son. - PUB DATE: 9/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: PennLive.com
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Tuesday directed all land managers and park superintendents to be more aggressive in cutting down small trees and underbrush to prevent wildfires as the smoke-choked West faces one of the worst fire seasons in a decade.
In a memo, Zinke said the Trump administration will take a new approach and work proactively to prevent fires "through aggressive and scientific fuels reduction management" to save lives, homes and wildlife habitat. - PUB DATE: 9/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Montana Standard
Court documents are shedding new light on the incident that left Union head and Deputy Cranston Fire Chief Paul Valletta facing simple assault and disorderly conduct charges.
It happened Saturday. An affidavit says problems started when Valletta made "degrading" comments against Lt. Scott Bergantino in front of fellow firefighters. - PUB DATE: 9/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLNE-TV ABC 6
Three people died of carbon-monoxide poisoning on Tuesday from a generator that was running inside their Orange County home after Hurricane Irma, the Sheriff’s Office said.
Four other members of the multigenerational family were taken to Florida Hospital in very serious condition.
Neighbors in the Kingswood Manor neighborhood near Lee Road — who were still without power Tuesday night — found out about the incident mostly through word of mouth, as helicopters and media arrived on the scene. - PUB DATE: 9/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orlando Sentinel
