Chelsea firefighters wore body armor at an active shooter incident this week in what the department’s chief believes may have been the first time Massachusetts firefighters used the gear, which is typically worn by police SWAT teams.
But it almost never happened.
According to an e-mail provided by Fire Chief Leonard A. - PUB DATE: 5/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Globe
A West Pierce firefighter is accused of stealing various prescription drugs from ambulances and replacing it with saline to support his addiction.
The 42-year-old paramedic was arrested Thursday and booked into Pierce County Jail on suspicion of unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
He is expected to appear in court Friday. - PUB DATE: 5/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The News Tribune
The Alexandria Fire Department (AFD) announced the launch of a Mobile Integrated Health/Community Paramedic (MIH/CP) program. MIH/CP is a unique and evolving model of community-based health care, focusing on improving the lives of patients, lowering healthcare costs and using EMS providers as resources to solve healthcare problems within the community. - PUB DATE: 5/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1.com
The Texas House sent Houston's pension reform package to the governor's desk Wednesday, marking what Mayor Sylvester Turner hopes is the beginning of the end of a 16-year fiscal crisis, and giving him a landmark achievement in his second year in office.
Turner, who has made passing the reforms the centerpiece of his tenure, alternated between grins and gravitas Wednesday night. - PUB DATE: 5/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse.com
Inman Fire Chief Chris Cothran said Tuesday the city council should begin thinking about funding a 24/7 fire department. At Monday’s budget work session, Cothran proposed $243,000 in new funding to pay for roughly 10 firefighters to cover two 12-hour shifts, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
He said the number of volunteer firefighters has dropped in recent years, jeopardizing quick response times to a fire. - PUB DATE: 5/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: goupstate.com
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday took a page out of former Mayor Richard M. Daley’s playbook, creating a $3 million program to help up to 100 police officers, firefighters and paramedics purchase homes in “targeted” Chicago neighborhoods.
Daley did the same thing in the early 1990’s with only mixed results. - PUB DATE: 5/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
First responders in Miami County have access to more of the overdose-reversing antidote naloxone than ever before after officials received 50 dosages last week from the state’s emergency stash of the drug.
The Indiana State Department of Health last year set up emergency caches of naloxone kits at five sites around the state in the event first responders ran out of the drug and were unable to obtain it through normal means, according to ISDH Director of Public Affairs Jennifer O'Malley. - PUB DATE: 5/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kokomo Tribune
It’s no secret that firefighters have a special relationship. They spend every other day together and rely on each other to have their backs. Two firefighters from West Licking Fire Department are proving that bond goes further than just the firehouse. One man needed a kidney, so another firefighter gave him one. - PUB DATE: 5/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCMH-TV Columbus
A Macon County firefighter died Tuesday after suffering a traumatic brain injury in an accident on the job Saturday afternoon.
Darrell Plank, 29, was hit in the head by a metal coupling as a fire hose snagged on the truck at the scene of a fire off Ga. 128 near Taylor County.
The 10-year veteran’s skull was seriously fractured and, according to a Facebook page devoted to prayers for his recovery, he suffered a stroke on the left side of his brain. - PUB DATE: 5/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Telegraph
San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said Tuesday that any firefighter who wants to attend the upcoming funeral of firefighter Scott Deem will be able to, dispelling rumors to the contrary.
Hood said he alone made the decision to not use outside agencies to staff SAFD stations on Friday because other firefighters aren’t familiar with San Antonio’s operating system, air refilling systems, radios or terminology. - PUB DATE: 5/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: mysanantonio.com
The death of a Butler County firefighter serves as a sobering reminder of the dangers firefighters face long after the flames are extinguished and the smoke clears.
"It was a badge of honor back in the day to be a smoke-eater and to have the dirtiest fire gear," Cincinnati firefighter Gerald Rosemeyer said. - PUB DATE: 5/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse.com
The Texas Senate unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that seeks to fix the broken Dallas Police and Fire Pension System. The bill barely made it out of committee last week but was saved by last-minute negotiations between the city, police and fire associations and pension officials.
"This is not just a Dallas issue. - PUB DATE: 5/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Dallas News
A Renton firefighter, along with firefighters from Nampa, Idaho, and Grants Pass, Ore., aided an unconscious man aboard a flight from Baltimore to Sea-Tac on Friday night. This is the second in-flight rescue by a Renton firefighter this month.
On Friday, Firefighter Chris Kyrstofiak was traveling back to Seattle from training in Baltimore when Alaska Airlines flight attendants made an emergency announcement asking for help from any doctors or firefighters aboard the flight. - PUB DATE: 5/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Renton Patch
The city is pumping $30 million into FDNY and EMS operations in the Bronx, officials said Monday.
The investment will include funding for new ambulances and equipment, as well as $17 million toward construction repairs to EMS Station 17 at 109 Ogden Ave., which has been experiencing structural deterioration and lacks sufficient space for crew and equipment, according to a joint statement by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro. - PUB DATE: 5/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post
A Macon County volunteer firefighter is in critical condition after he was struck in the head by a fire hose.
According to Macon County Fire Chief Micah Kauffman, it happened around 4 p.m. Saturday.
Macon County firefighters are keeping vigil at the hospital after one of their men suffered a traumatic brain injury Saturday afternoon. - PUB DATE: 5/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Telegraph
A King County Superior Court jury on Thursday awarded $9.5 million to the family of a Kingston man who died in a collision with a fire truck.
On the morning of July 4, 2014, Jason Foster was was riding a motor scooter on Miller Bay Road, approaching its intersection with West Kingston Road. The traffic signal turned yellow, and he continued. - PUB DATE: 5/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kitsap Sun
Atlantic City firefighters rescued more than a dozen people trapped in an elevator.
The Atlantic City Fire Department posted on Facebook that 14 people were stuck in an elevator for several hours at the Tropicana Casino & Resort on Saturday. The elevator suddenly stopped between the sixth and seventh floors. - PUB DATE: 5/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS Philly
A mother from Mamaroneck, New York has decided to reinvent herself in a field dominated by men, most of whom are a whole lot younger.
Suburban mom Robin Nesdale showed CBS2’s Lou Young some of the new equipment she’s learned to use to rescue other people, and perhaps, herself. At 57 years old, she’s decided to play against type and become a volunteer firefighter. - PUB DATE: 5/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS New York
VIDEO - Dramatic video shows the moment a gas station facade came falling on top of a firefighter in Iron Mountain, Michigan.
It happened at about 3 p.m. Saturday at a Mobil gas station and Burger King on Stephenson Avenue, off US-2 in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
The video was captured by photographer Jason Asselin. - PUB DATE: 5/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXYZ-TV ABC Detroit
Botetourt County and regional first responders are mourning the death of an Eagle Rock volunteer firefighter who was fatally struck Friday by an emergency vehicle at an accident scene.
Roger D. Johns, 63, of Eagle Rock was serving as a ground guide at a auto wreck on U.S. 220 at Catawba Creek Road when he was injured at around 3 p. - PUB DATE: 5/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Roanoke Times
