The burn boss scanned the snaking trail of the Swasey Recreation Area through thick black sunglasses.
She saw firefighters scurrying on a hill above in a smoky blue haze. They were setting dozens of fires to burn away piles of sticks and shrubs that a lightning strike or cigarette butt could use to grow into a wildfire. - PUB DATE: 11/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Marin Independent Journal
Picture the next major American city to go bankrupt. What springs to mind? Probably not the swagger and sprawl of Dallas. Indeed. Dallas has the fastest economic growth of the nation’s 13 largest cities. Its streets hum with supersize cars and its skyline bristles with cranes. Its mayor is a former chief executive of Pizza Hut. - PUB DATE: 11/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Times
A firefighter has died after attempting to save several people who fell from a collapsed ramp into the Savannah River on Saturday.
The incident happened off of River Street where, WSAV reports, a ramp collapsed into the water.
As many as 55 people were involved and 30 injuries reported. Of those 13 were hospitalized. - PUB DATE: 11/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIA-TV NBC 11 Atlanta
An air-ambulance plane taking a heart-disease patient to a Utah hospital crashed in a parking lot in northern Nevada, killing all four people aboard and sending up explosions and flames.
Three crew members and a patient were killed in the Friday night crash in Elko, American Medflight said Saturday in a statement. - PUB DATE: 11/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC News
Firefighters in a firetruck pick up a drunken, off-duty fellow fireman who was walking from Columbia’s St. Pat’s Festival. They ferry him to a nearby fire station that has a frat house reputation, where he causes trouble.
A fire captain gooses a young firefighter and dismisses it as typical horseplay. - PUB DATE: 11/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The State
Officials in West Texas are investigating whether procedures were followed after a 3-year-old girl was found in the back of a smashed vehicle hours after she was injured in a car accident.
A tow truck driver found the girl Monday while taking the vehicle to a wrecking yard after the accident in Odessa, KOSA-TV (CBS 7) reported. - PUB DATE: 11/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Dallas Morning News
The newly-minted class of FDNY probationary firefighters includes an unprecedented nine rookie Bravest with felony convictions, including one who did jail time for gun possession, insiders told The Post.
The nine ex-felons, all minorities, were among 295 probies who graduated from the Fire Academy on Nov. - PUB DATE: 11/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post
El Paso Fire Chief Samuel Peña has been tapped as Houston's new fire chief, replacing Interim Fire Chief Rodney West, sources said Thursday.
Peña, 45, has led El Paso's fire department for three years.
If approved by City Council, he would come to Houston in the midst of a contentious fire pension negotiation and as firefighters continue to voice concern about aging facilities and calls for new equipment. - PUB DATE: 11/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
Phoenix Fire Department crews were on the scene of a large debris fire at a metal recycling plant near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road Thursday afternoon.
Capt. Rob McDade said this was a defensive fire.
McDade said crews were able to set up ladder trucks on two sides of the fire to get water on it.
The scrapyard crane operators moved large pieces of metal so firefighters could reach the core of the fire. - PUB DATE: 11/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS 5 AZ KPHO
It was standing room only Monday night as Slatington Borough residents and fire department supporters spilled into the borough council’s meeting room’s hallway.
Over three quarters of the Slatington Volunteer Fire Department showed up to the council meeting to request former chief Keith Weaver be reinstatedafter being removed last month. - PUB DATE: 11/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Times News
A good deed goes wrong after an off-duty firefighter was held at gunpoint and had his car stolen while helping car crash victims.
"I was kind of awestruck that someone would actually pull a gun or a weapon on our person," said Mark Lawson, Merced Co. Fire Division Chief.
The Merced County Sheriff's Department said the collision occurred a little after 8 a. - PUB DATE: 11/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFSN-TV ABC 30 Frenso/Visalia
When a couple got married last week, they had the most unexpected wedding crashers: firefighters.
Newlyweds Allison Russoniello and Kevin Duffy were celebrating their wedding last Friday when they were told the building had to be evacuated due to a strange burning smell. It was later discovered the smell was from a faulty refrigerator compressor. - PUB DATE: 11/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
The N.C. Department of Labor has cited the Pineville Volunteer Fire Department after investigating the April 30 death of firefighter Richard Sheltra.
Sheltra, who was 20 years old and the department’s Rookie of the Year at the time, died fighting a blaze at the Edwin Watts Golf Store off Pineville-Matthews Road. - PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Charlotte Observer
The FOX 8 I-Team is asking new questions about a story that has Northeast Ohio talking. Brook Park leaders are investigating some of the town’s firefighters for handing out candy while on duty Halloween night.
The I-Team was rolling Wednesday afternoon as Brook Park fire officials came out of a meeting with the mayor considering punishment. - PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJW-TV MyFox Cleveland
PHOTOS - Dozens of first responders in Georgia helped fulfill an Atlanta firefighter's dying wish as they escorted him from the hospital to his home in Forsyth County, where he will receive hospice care. Frank Martinez, 45, has battled Stage 4 cancer for several years and doesn't have much longer to live, his co-worker, Cortez R. - PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAGA-TV Atlanta MyFox 5 News
When a fire in a nearby mobile home awakened them, several residents of the Broadview Park neighborhood off Peters Road anxiously called 911, urging dispatchers to get help there quick. They knew that 12-year-old Ana Hernandez Marrero and her 51-year-old father, Armando Hernandez Valdez, were inside the small trailer as the flames grew. - PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPLG-TV ABC Local10.com - Miami & Fort Lauderdale
When a fire truck leaves a Houston fire station, every firefighter on that apparatus is being paid a salary by Houston taxpayers. However, at any given time, there may be a firefighter on a truck who is making hundreds of dollars in cash, on top of his salary.
"The way it is, you're getting paid, on top of getting paid," says a veteran Houston firefighter. - PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTRK-TV ABC 13 Houston
The man accused of killing East Pulaski firefighter Lt. Jason Adams in January had a high level of cocaine in his system, according to a toxicology report.
Mark Pruitt, 48, is charged with manslaughter for allegedly shooting and killing Adams after Adams responded to a call of a seizure at Pruitt's home. - PUB DATE: 11/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KATV.com
The FDNY has ordered firefighters to not hang pictures of President-elect Donald Trump in firehouses or on their trucks, angering some members of the department.
“Only [the] FDNY wouldn’t want the democratically elected president of America hanging in a firehouse,” said one firefighter, who asked to remain anonymous. - PUB DATE: 11/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post
FOX 2 has exclusively learned that three Detroit fire chiefs have resigned for their role in the injury of a firefighter two months ago.
On October 13, Detroit Fire Engine 40 responded to a mutual aid call at a house in Highland Park. According to department officials, Lt. David Webster was signed in as the officer in charge of the crew - but it was an inexperienced firefighter in his place. - PUB DATE: 11/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox2detroit.com
