A federal judge today ruled against Rivada Mercury’s protest against the FirstNet procurement protest, a move that is expected to set the stage for AT&T to be awarded the 25-year contract to build and maintain the much-anticipated nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN). U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Elaine Kaplan issued rulings denying Rivada Mercury’s motion to have the proposal from its bidding consortium considered in the “competitive range” stage of the procurement process for the FirstNet contract. - PUB DATE: 3/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Urgent Communications
PHOTO - Two firefighters from the Dunkirk Volunteer Fire Department were injured Saturday morning after their tanker overturned while responding to a house fire in Huntingtown. The fire department reports both men have since been released from the hospital.
At about 8:10 a.m. March 18, deputies from the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office responded to Robinson Road in Huntingtown for an overturned tanker. - PUB DATE: 3/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Southern Maryland Newspapers Online
Two Gibson County firefighters had a gun pulled on them after responding to a two car wreck in Kenton Saturday afternoon, police said.
Gibson County Fire Chief Bryan Cathey said a station chief was the first to respond to the wreck near Baseline Road and Morilla Road. The chief checked on a woman in a vehicle that had rolled over to make sure she wasn't trapped inside. - PUB DATE: 3/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Jackson Sun
In an escalating legal feud over the investigation into the Ghost Ship tragedy, Alameda County prosecutors have tried without success in recent weeks to pry the completed draft report of the deadly fire from the city’s hands.
The District Attorney’s Office has been seeking the critical report for the past month from the Oakland Fire Department and City Attorney’s Office, and legal experts contacted for this story say the city’s delay in handing it over may violate the law. - PUB DATE: 3/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times
An FDNY paramedic was run over and killed with her own ambulance in The Bronx Thursday — when a man who had been joyriding on the rear bumper commandeered the vehicle.
EMT Yadira Arroyo, a mom of five, was crushed under the wheels after she and her partner tried to shoo the man off of the back of the ambulance on White Plains Road at about 7 p. - PUB DATE: 3/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post
Karen Brack, Charleston's first female fire chief, is stepping down after almost five years of work to modernize one of the nation's oldest departments.
"It is with very mixed feelings that I have made a personal decision to resign my position as Fire Chief effective April 7, 2017," Brack said in an email to firefighters Friday morning. - PUB DATE: 3/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Post Courier
State lawmakers passed a bill Thursday to give firefighters special insurance in case they get cancer from the job.
Currently, firefighters who get sick may lose their jobs and health insurance.
"When we run into these houses to try and put out the fire to save lives, we're being exposed to very toxic carcinogens," said Capt. - PUB DATE: 3/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wsbtv.com
A former Leander firefighter who refused to get a vaccination because of his religious beliefs has sued the city for firing him.
The termination came in March 2016, after firefighter Brett Horvath refused to get the vaccination or wear a surgical mask for his entire 24-hour shift or transfer to a “less desirable” position, said his lawyer, Matt Bachop. - PUB DATE: 3/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: My Statesman
A fast-acting paramedic dove into the frigid water of an Illinois lake where a SUV was submerged on Thursday and found an infant floating inside, then administered CPR on the hood and swam the child to shore, authorities said. The baby is expected to make a full recovery.
The infant was one of seven siblings who survived a tragic chain of events that left one person dead in a house fire and second body recovered from the lake where the baby was found. - PUB DATE: 3/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
Two Sumrall volunteer firefighters working a wreck scene in Lamar County are dead after allegedly being struck by a hit-and-run driver.
Sheriff Danny Rigel said that the firefighters were directing traffic at a dump truck accident on Mississippi 589 at Oloh Road when they were hit by a driver who fled the scene. - PUB DATE: 3/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hattiesburg American
When the Squad 8 rescue engine started having compartment frame issues, Harrisburg Fire Lt. Dennis DeVoe did what he always did: He went the extra mile.
He researched the issues in detail and drove to Lancaster last month on his time off to talk directly with repair workers.
When the department considered buying new vehicle rescue tools, sometimes known as the Jaws of Life, DeVoe researched the tools and crafted an intricate report weighing pluses and minuses for each one under consideration. - PUB DATE: 3/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pennlive.com
Thousands of web searches for pornography were found on four Country Club Hills fire department computers, according to testimony from a forensic expert. Andrew Garrett — who performed the imaging Jan. 26 on behalf of Dena Lewis-Bystrzycki, a female firefighter involved in a lawsuit against Country Club Hills — testified last month to the presence of porn on the devices. - PUB DATE: 3/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
"I love the Milton Fire Department. I love the fire service. I've done it all my life," said 63-year-old Lynn Rogers.
He recently filed lawsuits against both the MFD, an organization of which he has been a member for 48 years, and secretary John Bushey. Rogers has been president of Rogers Sign Company in Milton for 45 years and has held leadership positions in a number of organizations throughout his life. - PUB DATE: 3/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sussex Countian
In between calls for service, amid a dozen reminders of the tragedy that left Fire Capt. William "Iron Bill" Dowling mortally wounded, the firefighters and paramedics at Houston Fire Station 68 watched the two-hour funeral service Wednesday morning on a TV in the upstairs common area.
On either side of the TV hung fire axes memorializing the two first responders from this station who died on May 31, 2013. - PUB DATE: 3/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
A little more than three months after the deadly Ghost Ship fire and with the investigative report still pending, the city’s first African American female fire chief Teresa Deloach Reed filed retirement papers Tuesday, days after her city pension vested, the city administrator said.
Reed, a 59-year-old Oakland resident, filed retirement paperwork Tuesday with an effective date of May 5, City Administrator Sabrina Landreth confirmed. - PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times
The city of Lexington will pay firefighters $17.7 million for back overtime and pension.
The payment stems from a 2005 lawsuit filed by Lexington firefighters alleging that the city owed them money for overtime worked.
The details of the settlement are being worked out and must be approved, city and firefighter union officials said. - PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lexington Herald-Leader
To look around the Kingwood apartment of Robert Yarbrough is to know a man who found his calling.
"If I could be back at the fire station, I'd be back tomorrow," he said.
Yarbrough worked for the Houston Fire Department for 32 years, and he was there that fateful day in 2013 at the Southwest Inn on Rescue Truck 42. - PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU-TV CBS 11 Houston
A company officer repeatedly makes inappropriate postings to social media. Another gets into a physical altercation with a firefighter at the station. Yet another actively supports hazing of new firefighters. And another is arrested after getting into an argument with a police officer after a traffic stop. - PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
The Alaska House on Monday unanimously approved a bill to guarantee health coverage for family members of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
House Bill 23, sponsored by Anchorage Democratic Rep. Andy Josephson, is the latest attempt at passing such legislation, which died in the Senate during a special session last year. - PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Alaska Dispatch News
PHOTOS - A Prince George's County firetruck tipped over Monday morning because of a sidewalk collapse, causing minor injuries to two volunteers who were in the truck.
Fire officials say the truck was "wetting down rekindle" from a house fire that had started Saturday night in the 4700 block of Oliver Street in Riverdale. - PUB DATE: 3/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJLA-TV ABC 7 Washington
