Six children were found dead after a fiery house collapse that injured four other family members who escaped from the home in Northeast Baltimore's Cedmont neighborhood Thursday morning, the city Fire Department said. The first of the children's bodies was recovered about 10:30 a.m., Baltimore Fire Department spokesman Chief Roman Clark said. - PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
A fire broke out at a fire station in Buena Park early Thursday morning.
The blaze broke out at around 3:30 a.m. at the station on the 800 block of Western Avenue, according to Captain Larry Kurtz, spokesman of the Orange County Fire Authority. Five firefighters, including the batallion chief, were asleep at the station when they heard an explosion coming from the garage. - PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles
One child has died and five other children are presumed dead after a fiery house collapse that injured four others who escaped from the home in Northeast Baltimore's Cedmont neighborhood Thursday morning, the city Fire Department said. Heavy construction equipment arrived after sunrise to clear debris and aid crews in searching for the children, but Baltimore Fire Department spokesman Chief Roman Clark said the missing are presumed dead. - PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
Everybody in this fire station was sleeping one recent morning when the alarms started blaring. Six firefighters hopped out of their bunks and pulled their gear over their pajamas. The sun was still coming up when they reached a house where smoke was rising from the basement.
Afterward, back in their pajamas, the young men gathered in the station’s control room. - PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Pew Charitable Trusts
VIDEO - A ladder truck malfunctioned as city firefighters responded to a “deep-seated” fire at a building housing a paper recycling company on 7th Street on Tuesday evening, authorities said.
No one was injured in the blaze, Chief Patrick Trentacost said.
Firefighters responded to a paper recycling factory on 7th Street at approximately 6:30 p. - PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: North Jersey.com (Bergen County Record & Herald News)
Mayor Lenny Curry, pushing for Jacksonville to become the first major city in America without pensions for its future employees, made a remarkable counteroffer to the city’s public-safety unions Wednesday that would restore more costly pension benefits to current employees, while creating 401(k)-style investment accounts for new employees with hefty 25 percent matching contributions from the city. - PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Florida Times-Union
Pittsburgh police records indicate that a city firefighter suffered a drug overdose while on duty in a Brookline fire station on New Year's Eve.
A police officer was dispatched at 6:23 a.m. to Station 26 on Brookline Boulevard to investigate the report of an overdose, according to a police incident report. - PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Metro asked a court to dismiss legal claims against it for a deadly smoke incident at L'Enfant Plaza in 2015, arguing that it has immunity from the lawsuits -- and putting the blame on D.C. first-responders.
In a filing in federal court Monday, Metro denied all liability, arguing it is a government-created agency that can't be sued and adding that the D. - PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Washington
A potential battle over firefighters, cancer and who is responsible for paying the treatment bills could be brewing in the Arizona Legislature.
In Arizona, if a firefighter develops one of seven types of cancer, state law assumes the disease was caused by his or her job. That means the firefighter is eligible for workers’ compensation. - PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTAR News
Former Fire Chief Anthony Goode has been demoted, but not fired, the city announced Tuesday, a move that will allow him to work the additional months required to collect an early pension.
Goode will become a senior firefighter when he returns from vacation this spring, according to Mayor Mike Purzycki's office. - PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilmington News Journal (Delaware Online)
A massive condo fire, a man trapped inside, and firefighters climbing a 35 foot ladder and battling through flames to reach him. All as a bystander recorded amazing video of the rescue.
It’s video thousands of people saw on Facebook, of a large fire inside a Sea Cloisters condo. But what it’s like to be inside that fire, fighting it and trying to save the elderly man inside. - PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSAV-TV
This past summer, a bicyclist slapped a firefighter who tried to stop her from passing a fire truck that was backing up. The woman was arrested and charged with aggravated battery on a peace officer.
This incident reminded me of something that happened to me and my crew near the end of my fire department career. - PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
Harford County fire and emergency medical services leaders, stung by critical and negative social media posts, have limited how much incident information is broadcast via an app, which all of the county's roughly 1,100 fire and EMS volunteers and workers can use to follow emergency calls. The anonymous administrator of the Harford Fire Facts page on Facebook made a series of posts between Dec. - PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Carroll County Times
Forty-eight people died from fires in New York City last year, the fewest at any point in more than a century, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday.
The decline — with the total far below the peak of 310 people in 1970 — was attributed by officials to a combination of initiatives undertaken by the Fire Department, including improved response times, fire inspections, a program to hand out smoke alarms and expanded fire education programs. - PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Times
A City Council committee decided Monday that Minneapolis will pay $175,000 to a former firefighter cadet who sued the city for discrimination. Dominique Sabas, of St. Paul, was a probationary firefighter cadet in 2013, but in the final week of training the Fire Department dismissed her, arguing that she had failed to disclose a previous medical condition. - PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Washington Twp. is offering a $1,000 signing bonus to new firefighter recruits, in an effort to help fill approximately 30 part-time positions.
Deputy fire Chief Scott Kujawa said the need to fill the positions in the department comes out of necessity with there being a shortage of available firefighters in the region. - PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Dayton Daily News
City Manager Sharon A. Addison has given Fire Chief Dale C. Herman an ultimatum about his involvement in a bitter contract fight between the city and the firefighters’ union.
In a heated telephone call on Friday, Ms. Addison threatened his job if he didn’t become more of a team player in the city’s ongoing contract battle with the Watertown Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 191. - PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times
A former Birmingham firefighter mailed a flier to 1,000 homes this week that’s critical of a captain on the city’s fire department.
In a series of emails, Mike McIntyre admits he’s responsible for sending out the flier. McIntyre became a Birmingham firefighter in June 2015 and served with the department until several weeks ago, when he accepted a resignation settlement. - PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit Free Press
A firefighter with the Houston Fire Department could lose one of his eyes after he was stabbed by a man he was trying to rescue on Friday.
Capt. Kenneth Willingham was responding to a fire at a business on Highway 6 when he found a man unresponsive inside.
A Houston Police officer forced entry with a sledgehammer and when Willingham tried to pull the man out, the man stabbed him in the eye with a pocket knife. - PUB DATE: 1/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU-TV CBS 11 Houston
Ramsey Mueller dreamed of saving others, but he couldn’t save himself.
A year ago, he took the first steps toward his lifelong dream of becoming a Tacoma firefighter. Seven months later, he died in his Tacoma home of a heroin overdose at the age of 27, a day after resigning from the department, two days after coming late to a morning shift, slurring his words and nearly hitting another vehicle while briefly taking the wheel of a firetruck. - PUB DATE: 1/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The News Tribune
