A Henrico firefighter has been suspended without pay from work over comments he allegedly made on Facebook.
NBC12 is choosing not to identify the firefighter because he has not been charged with a crime.
In part, the comments posted read that a woman was "trying to find her black baby daddy...so she can get an EBT card and a check. - PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC12.com
A town firefighter who was also the freshman boys basketball coach at St. Joseph High School in Trumbull died suddenly at home on Monday, as firefighters and medics worked to save him.
Jason “Jay’’ Carrafiello, 38, “was an outstanding firefighter and was held in high regard by all of the officers and firefighters,’’ town Fire Chief Robert McGrath said. - PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CTPOST.com
VIDEO: Minneapolis fire crews rescued a man in his 30s after his car went careening down a 200-yard embankment along the Mississippi River.
Responders say the crash happened around 5:15 a.m. Tuesday. It wasn't until about 8:15 a.m. when two Minneapolis Public Works employees spotted the car near the water. - PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kare11.com
Some Allegany County legislators are seeking to have federal officials make it a federal capital offense to murder local police and first responders.
The Allegany County Board of Legislators will consider a resolution today asking the area’s federal representatives in Congress to introduce and support a law setting a mandatory death penalty for anyone convicted of targeting and murdering state and local law enforcement or first responders. - PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Olean Times Herald
Three years ago, the Gardiner Ambulance Service was struggling to pay its bills.
“We were facing a financial situation where we just weren’t taking in enough cash each year,” Scott Morelli, Gardiner city manager, said. The Gardiner Ambulance Service, staffed by the Gardiner Fire Department, provides emergency medical transportation services to Gardiner and its surrounding towns, and the towns pay to support the service. - PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: centralmaine.com
The Honolulu Fire Department has received two separate citations in connection with a training incident that led to the death of a firefighter in June.
HFD says it’s taking corrective action after the death of 63-year-old Clifford Riggsbee, who died from injuries sustained during a training exercise at an area called Suicides near Diamond Head. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: khon2.com
Six diesel ambulances with systemic exhaust problems have sickened Sacramento firefighters enough to send them to local emergency rooms as patients, the firefighters union and city said Friday.
The city of Sacramento has removed those ambulances from the firefighting fleet and is planning to replace another eight units that may develop a similar problem. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sacramento Bee
If you want to understand how badly Democrats lost the white working class in the 2016 election, your local fire station is not a bad place to start.
Nearly 85 percent of professional firefighters are white, and more than 95 percent are men, making them look a lot like the other blue-collar voters who surged to Donald Trump this year. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC News
An Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services ambulance was hijacked Sunday afternoon at approximately 4 p.m. with a medic crew and patient inside.
According to an ATCEMS spokesperson, the medic crew was on scene for a different call at 500 E. 7th St., the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH) when an individual hijacked the ambulance while the medic team was tending to a patient. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kxan.com
The mayday came minutes after firefighters arrived at a 3-alarm blaze that’s believed to have started about 9 p.m. Thursday with an overloaded extension cord in the bedroom of a second-floor apartment at 11 Ashton Place in Methuen. One of them was trapped — and running out of air.
A rapid intervention team trained specifically to rescue firefighters was en route from Salem, N. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald
Women firefighters in Vancouver faced greater scrutiny because of their gender and were criticized when they raised concerns about adult magazines left in the workplace and a lack of privacy in the restrooms, according to an investigation obtained by The Columbian.
The report highlighted the difficulty the women faced when trying to speak freely about their work environment. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Columbian
Steven Wilson escaped a serious crash on Sunday morning involving a tractor-trailer and a fire truck with only a few cuts and scrapes, but he could have been hurt much worse.
The Smiths Grove Volunteer Fire Department responded to three collisions on Interstate 65 that morning, which had occurred due to icy road conditions. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Glasgow Daily Times
About a week after 36 people died in a fire at an underground music party in Oakland, inspectors acting on a complaint discovered a makeshift nightclub and unpermitted living quarters concealed in a warehouse near Los Angeles International Airport.
Authorities searching the drab, two-story building found an illegally constructed dance floor, paired with a bar and DJ booth. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Modesto Bee
The neighborhood surrounding Kennedy Furniture was quiet for most of yesterday morning until flames and heavy smoke began to pour out of the Kennedy Boulevard business, creating a chaotic scene on the Union City border.
A five-alarm fire tore through the furniture store at the 13th Street intersection sometime around 11:30 a. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NJ.com
The Common Council voted Wednesday to ask the Fire Board to allow the city to hire new firefighters who are emergency medical technicians, not more highly trained paramedics.
For many years, Lockport has hired only paramedics to join the Fire Department. However, after the current crop of nine candidates for the department went through agility tests, only one paramedic was left on the eligible list. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Buffalo News
This market has become a graveyard.
A day ago, families wandered through rows of stalls at San Pablito, searching for fireworks to launch during the holiday season.
Now, forensic teams are combing through the charred rubble of this market north of Mexico City, searching for victims' remains. At least 32 people were killed and dozens more were injured in a massive series of explosions Tuesday, officials said. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN
The Austin Fire Department this year has seen a spike in crashes involving fire vehicles that has led the agency to enact a new disciplinary system, which has rankled the firefighters union and has already led to more than 20 suspensions in recent months.
Over the past six years, the department has averaged 54 crashes a year involving fire equipment and vehicles. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman
Farrell council voted on Monday for a settlement with their former fire chief, William C. Mortimer Jr., that would allow him to forego possible jail time in exchange for giving up his sick time buyout, the city manager said.
“We allowed him to resign and in exchange we get to keep the money,” City Manager Michael Ceci said. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sharon Herald
Lawyers representing Derick Ion Almena, the manager of the Ghost Ship warehouse, say negligence on the part of Oakland city officials was to blame for a fire that killed 36 people this month, and not their client. In a joint statement released Monday, the lawyers said Alameda County officials who are now investigating the blaze have a “conflict of interest” and that Almena will likely be made a scapegoat in the deadly Dec. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
PHOTO - A driver who ignored a fire hydrant in a south Omaha neighborhood had their windows smashed out by firefighters Sunday. Firefighters were forced to smash the windows of the car parked near South 19th and M streets.
Firefighters had to thread the fire hose through the car to fight the house fire which reportedly displaced a metro family. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOWT-TV NBC 6 Omaha
