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EMS workers are in such a rush to get out of the ambulance and into the firehouse that nearly 50% of them signed up to take the city firefighter test next week — forcing the FDNY to call for mandatory overtime to cover all its 911 medical shifts.
The entrance exam will be administered from Monday to Dec. - PUB DATE: 12/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News
Tucson’s oldest firehouse has become an example of how long-delayed capital projects can cost more than a spreadsheet can list. And in this case, officials say, it might be an actual pound of flesh.
Fire Station No. 3 near Campbell Avenue and Broadway dates to the 1950s and has been retrofitted repeatedly in an attempt to extend its useful life. - PUB DATE: 12/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tucson.com
Oakland, California's fire chief acknowledged Thursday the department's prevention efforts, which include conducting safety inspections of sites such as the Ghost Ship warehouse where at least 36 people died last week, have been hampered by years of budget cuts and hiring freezes.
"Was it the best?" Chief Teresa Deloach Reed said in an exclusive interview with CNN. - PUB DATE: 12/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN
One day after a fire chief resigns, amid controversy in his department, one of the firefighters is now on paid leave.
Mark Blaquiere is under investigation by the town of Oxford. He declined to discuss the subject of that investigation. But he says he was handed a packet by Interim Town Manager Rebecca Lippencott, which he thinks has the reason why he’s been put on leave. - PUB DATE: 12/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGME-TV 13 Portland
The Dallas Police and Fire Pension System's Board of Trustees suspended lump-sum withdrawals from the pension fund Thursday, staving off a possible restraining order and stopping $154 million in withdrawal requests.
The system was set to pay out the weekly requests Friday. Pension officials said allowing the withdrawals would leave them without the liquid reserves required to sustain the $2. - PUB DATE: 12/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Dallas Morning News
NFPA was recently awarded an Assistance to Firefighters Grant to develop a national fire data system (NFDS) that meets the priority needs of the U.S. fire service for quality local and national data for both operational and community risk reduction decision making. NFPA’s focus is on helping local agencies in the collection, management and utilization of their data to make decisions where they count most—right in your community. - PUB DATE: 12/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Fire Protection Association
The man who Youngstown firefighters say was harassing them on the night their truck was shot up is in jail Thursday evening.
Police say Cameron Dyer, 30, was at the fire scene at Halleck and Elm streets Monday night.
He was picked up on a probation violation, and police say he could be charged with misconduct at the fire scene. - PUB DATE: 12/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKBN.com
An armed robber stuck a handgun in a Trenton fire captain's face while he was on a call in the Chambersburg neighborhood Tuesday night, fire officials said.
The fire captain, from Engine Co. 7 on Hamilton Avenue, was not injured during the 6:45 p.m. incident on Cummings Place, officials said.
Trenton police detectives are investigating the crime. - PUB DATE: 12/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Trenton Times
Authorities have made two arrests -- both teenagers -- in last week's deadly wildfires.
Authorities made the announcement Wednesday during an afternoon news conference at the Sevier County Courthouse.
The teens remain in custody in Sevier County, charged with aggravated arson, said Jimmy Dunn, 4th Judicial District attorney general. - PUB DATE: 12/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Knoxville News-Sentinel
Investigators were beginning to get a sense of the final chaotic moments for the 36 people killed in a fire at a converted Oakland warehouse, as they made progress on the search for the cause of the blaze.
Oakland’s planning director, meanwhile, admitted that the building had not been inspected for three decades, despite what neighbors said were numerous complaints about accumulated trash, graffiti and other blight. - PUB DATE: 12/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: SFGate.com
The union representing Youngstown's firefighters is taking action after Mondays' shooting that wounded one of their members.
A representative of the Youngstown Professional Firefighter's union says the department will investigate the possibility of allowing captains to carry firearms during calls.
They also say they'll look into buying bullet proof vests for firefighters. - PUB DATE: 12/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFMJ-TV Youngstown NBC 21
One by one, retired Dallas police and firefighters came to the pension fund to get their money. “I think instead of filing a lawsuit … it would have been a lot cheaper (for the mayor) just to get a billboard that said make a run on the bank,” retired firefighter George Snowden told News 8 outside the pension office. - PUB DATE: 12/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas - Fort Worth
More city employees in Petersburg are quitting their jobs over budget cuts.
Chief T.C. Hairston says the Petersburg Fire Department has lost 14 firefighters since the city implemented a mandatory 10 percent pay cut for all city employees.
Some people who live in Petersburg are now concerned about safety. - PUB DATE: 12/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRIC.com
A date which will live in infamy was also a day the Honolulu Fire Department unexpectedly went to war.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Engine 6 was the first to respond to Hickam Airfield.
“They were used to seeing practice anti-aircraft artillery and they knew that to be white smoke, white puffs in the sky,” said Capt. - PUB DATE: 12/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHON2
The recovery effort from the aftermath of a devastating Fruitvale District warehouse fire that killed 36 people has been completed, authorities announced Wednsday morning.
The death total did not rise as crews combed through the final 10 percent of the building known as the “Ghost Ship.” Authorities did not say what time they finished the search. - PUB DATE: 12/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Mercury News
Last December an unlikely confrontation unfolded during a fire at a home in Hyattsville.
Prosecutors allege two volunteer firefighters fought a career female firefighter over who got to enter the home first and be in charge of the scene.
Authorities claim Chris Kelly, out of the West Lanham Hills station, hit the career female firefighter knocking her off the front porch. - PUB DATE: 12/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJLA-TV ABC 7 Washington
A Flint apartment complex fire that left three firefighters injured last month pushed the Flint Fire Department to its limits that day.
Not only did it require every firefighter on duty that day -- 14 in all -- the fire at Village Shores Apartments also forced the city to call in mutual aid because the department's two ladder trucks were both in the repair shop. - PUB DATE: 12/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: mlive.com
As Youngstown firefighters begin their day Wednesday following a shooting Monday night that left a firefighter with a gunshot wound to the leg, many are wary and contemplative as they execute their duties.
Captain Chris Weaver said the Youngstown Police Department is doing a good job keeping tabs on firefighters following the shooting, but the unsettling feeling is still there. - PUB DATE: 12/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKBN27.com
Youngstown police confirmed that a Youngstown firefighter was shot Monday after responding to a fire.
It began when crews were called about 9 p.m. to a house fire at Halleck and Elm streets.
As crews were leaving the scene around 10:30 p.m., shots were fired and bullets came through the fire truck, hitting a firefighter in the leg. - PUB DATE: 12/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKBN-TV (Youngstown)
Derick Almena, the manager of the Oakland, California warehouse that went up in flames during a weekend party and killed at least 36 people, defended his role as landlord for the building which was used as a residential artist community. “I’m only here to say one thing: I’m incredibly sorry and that everything that I did was to make this a stronger and more beautiful community and to bring people together,” he said Tuesday on TODAY during an emotional interview. - PUB DATE: 12/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Today.com