A fire broke out Wednesday afternoon in the apartment of a volunteer firefighter who received a threatening and racist letter earlier this week.
Firefighters were called early Wednesday afternoon to the blaze at an apartment house at 1096 Oliver St. in North Tonawanda where Kenneth Walker lives. When the fire was discovered, Walker said that no one was in his apartment, where he lives with his wife and their two children. - PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Buffalo News
It can come down to a matter of minutes.
“It can be the difference between life and death” Chief Richard White of the Natick Fire Department told FOX25.
In the Natick , there are four fire stations to serve 32,000 people and the average response time is below the national standard of 6.5 minutes set by the National Fire Protection Association, or NFPA. - PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fox25boston.com
It's a warm, sunny morning at the Homestead National Monument of America in southeastern Nebraska. A burn crew dressed in yellow and green flame-resistant clothing is about to set a patch of tall-grass prairie on fire — on purpose.
These kind of burns aren't unusual. But today's burn is; a team from the University of Nebraska is testing a fire-starting drone. - PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kuow.org
The Montezuma Fire Protection District commission, confirmed to be under investigation by the Solano County District Attorney’s Office for possible open meeting law violations, met Monday to appoint an acting fire chief but took no action.
Joe Rosewall was fired July 26 as chief. He could not be reached for comment. - PUB DATE: 8/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Republic
A new Fire Chief Search Committee will help the town administrator find a new chief after the abrupt resignation of Fire Chief David E. Zinther. The chief's resignation letter is dated July 19, the day after he last addressed the Board of Selectmen and asked for approval to hire a ninth full-time firefighter. - PUB DATE: 8/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette
When Phoenix Fire paramedic engineer Kim Packenbush learned her daughter wanted to follow her footsteps as a fire paramedic, Kim was thrilled and scared.
“I grew up with four brothers so I was pretty much a tomboy,” Kim said.
Kim worried her daughter might have a difficult time adjusting to the culture of a fire station. - PUB DATE: 8/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: 12news
The massive Soberanes Fire was caused by someone who lit an illegal campfire, Cal Fire unit chief Brennan Blue said Tuesday. The wildfire sparked in Garrapata State Park on July 22 before it burned more than 44,300 acres, destroyed 57 homes, and led to the death of a bulldozer operator on Green Ridge. - PUB DATE: 8/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSBW-TV Salinas
Firefighters and fire officers who retired over the last 12 months will collect pensions averaging $119,866 a year, according to data released Tuesday.
The Empire Center, a government watchdog, said its analysis of 15,556 former FDNY members determined that the pensions of new retirees — which already exceed six figures — would be increasing another 6 percent. - PUB DATE: 8/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post
When Joshua Warren collapsed while exercising while on duty back in June, his death stunned fellow firefighters because they said he was a man who was health conscious.
The reason he died also has them stunned.
“Really couldn’t believe it,” said Mike Turner, an assistant fire chief at East Lincoln Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 8/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNCN-TV NBC 17
Omaha Fire Department Interim Chief Dan Olsen announced Monday that Battalion Chief Joseph Salcedo has been placed on paid administrative leave for sharing "inappropriate content on his personal Facebook page." The department released this statement:
"It was recently brought to the Omaha Fire Department’s attention that Battalion Chief Joseph Salcedo had shared potentially inappropriate content on his personal Facebook page. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOWT-TV NBC 6 Omaha
A six-member jury has ruled against a volunteer firefighter who sued for pain and suffering from the loss of his leg after being hit by a car as he rushed to an emergency call in Seaford.
On Nov. 14, 2010, Steven Hochman was hit by a car driven by Kevin McCarthy, of Seaford, a retired NYPD officer.
Besides McCarthy, Hochman sued his fire captain at the time, Thomas Cattone, saying Cattone had parked his pickup truck on the sidewalk across the street from the firehouse, blocking Hochman from seeing the oncoming vehicle, and the driver from seeing him step from the sidewalk as he hurried to the firehouse. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firerescue1
A man who was days away from being voted in as an active member of the Francestown Fire Department died over the weekend after suffering a medical emergency. Francestown officials said Cole Wohle, 18, died Saturday night in Vermont. He recently graduated from high school and was a member of the Fire Department's Explorer Program. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMUR-TV ABC 9 Manchester
Crews battled a large structure fire near the Loop 101 and Tatum Boulevard in Phoenix early Tuesday morning.
The second-alarm fire started around 3:30 a.m. at a hotel under construction behind a Holiday Inn Express. Eighty firefighters were working the fire.
The glow of the fire could be seen for miles. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS 5 AZ KPHO
The sirens sound the same, but the fire engine serving Cherry Valley the past few days is dressed with a Rockford Fire Department logo.
Blame it on the curse of three. For the Cherry Valley Fire Protection District, the curse struck when its trio of fire engines all wound up in the shop.
"Everything broke at the same time, it seems," said Allen Geeser, battalion fire chief for the district. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Rockford Register Star
Four firefighters were burned in a backdraft that erupted during a blaze Sunday afternoon at a West Side residential building.
The fire, in the 4900 block of West Potomac Avenue in the city’s Austin neighborhood, had been extinguished as of about 12:30 p.m., according to the Chicago Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 8/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: chicago tribune
Austin fire Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr responded to the censure she received Thursday night from the city’s firefighter union by saying her department’s employees have been “seriously misinformed.”
In a statement, Kerr said Bob Nicks, the president of the Austin chapter of the International Association of Fire Fighters, embarked on a “one-sided misleading personal vendetta” that has damaged conversations about how to keep firefighters healthy and safe. - PUB DATE: 8/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: austin statesman
At its annual membership meeting in Albuquerque, July 19-21, the principal membership of the National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM) elected, by unanimous acclamation, four State Fire Marshals to serve two year terms on the Association's Board, announced NASFM President H. "Butch" Browning, Louisiana State Fire Marshal. - PUB DATE: 8/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fire engineering
The Fire Department has both fewer firefighters and fewer administrators, with six upper-command positions vacant, including the chief's job.
For several months, Public Safety Commissioner Steven Paré has been acting chief as the city searches for a new department head from outside the city — an effort that has hit some bumps since it began a year ago. - PUB DATE: 8/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: providence journal
Brad Morris was driving an ambulance on Feb. 13, 2004, when he and other paramedics and firefighters responded to a domestic violence call on Adams Lane in rural southern Fayette County.
His co-worker, Lt. Brenda Cowan, Lexington’s first black female firefighter, was gunned down that day by a man who shot and killed his wife before paramedics arrived. - PUB DATE: 8/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: lexington herald-leader
VIDEO - The Bay City Department of Public Safety has shared two new videos showing the public how its officers transition from a law enforcement officer to a firefighter.
The videos were posted on the agency's Facebook page the morning of Friday, July 29. They depict public safety officers Eric Sporman and Brandon Murphy simulating how they would respond to a structure fire. - PUB DATE: 7/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: mlive.com
