Portland police emergency and crisis teams have taken a suspect into custody after after a man barricaded himself inside a burning Southeast Portland home Wednesday morning.
Portland police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson at a news conference just before noon said police initially responded to reports of a disturbance near Southeast 127th Avenue and Rhone Street about 10 a. - PUB DATE: 11/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse
Harold B. Hairston, 76, Philadelphia's first African American fire commissioner, died Tuesday, Nov. 1, at his West Mount Airy home. Circumstances of his death were not available late Tuesday.
Commissioner Hairston was appointed head of the Fire Department in 1992 by Mayor Ed Rendell and served for 12 years until he retired in 2004. - PUB DATE: 11/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
A firefighter was seriously injured Wednesday morning after he fell out of a building during a training exercise. According to Largo Fire Rescue, the firefighter was rappelling out of a second-story window at the department's training grounds at 751 16th Ave. SE when his equipment failed about 9:30 a. - PUB DATE: 11/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
The former treasurer for the Patterson Fire Department has pleaded guilty to federal charges he stole more than $1.1 million from the department to support his personal businesses and live a lavish lifestyle.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced the plea by Albert Melin on Wednesday. Melin's plea concludes a nearly year-long investigation that included Bharara's office, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's office, the Internal Revenue Service's criminal investigation division, the FBI and New York State Police. - PUB DATE: 11/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Journal News
Teresita Peralta tried to sleep. But there was that chirping. Again and again.
“They cried all night,” Peralta said of the baby sparrows that hatched in her bathroom’s exhaust fan.
She tried calling her building manager. She was told no help until after the weekend. Two days away? Maddening. Chirp-chirp-chirp!
Sanity in the balance, she called the fire department. - PUB DATE: 11/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Miami Herald
Internal accounting errors led to a $1.15 million budget shortfall for the Boulder Rural Fire Protection District in 2015, a gap district officials knew about but didn't understand — or disclose — when they asked voters to approve a $1 million tax increase last year.
Those are the findings of a report by financial investigator James Davis, who was retained by the fire district's board of directors to investigate the budget shortfall. - PUB DATE: 11/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boulder Daily Camera
The City of Lockport violated the law and its contract with the city firefighters' union by privatizing ambulance service in 2014, a state administrative law judge ruled Monday.
Judge Lynn Fitzgerald of the Public Employment Relations Board ordered the city to return the ambulance duties to the fire department. - PUB DATE: 11/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Buffalo News
A driver has been cited for failing to stop for a fire engine in a domino-effect crash in the Back Bay Monday morning that sent four firefighters to the hospital and damaged numerous parked luxury cars, police said.
Witnesses told police the driver of a Chevrolet Equinox failed to stop for the fire engine flashing its lights and sounding its siren in the crash at Dartmouth Street and Commonwealth Avenue Monday. - PUB DATE: 11/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald
Prosecutors are claiming that a serial arson case in Sacramento federal court has national security implications and, in a highly unusual ruling, a judge is allowing the government to withhold parts of the evidence from defense lawyers.
Attorneys on both sides declined Monday to comment publicly, but court papers they have filed outline a dispute over the legality of hiding evidence with no obligation to disclose the reasons to the defense team. - PUB DATE: 11/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sacramento Bee
A Michigan State Police trooper testified that suspended Allegan District Fire Chief Matt Gillies admitted to sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl and recording it.
During the hearing Tuesday, the trooper affirmed Gillies sexually abused the young girl at his home and recorded it in September. Gillies had a previous foster care relationship with the girl but not at the time of the alleged incident, according to investigators. - PUB DATE: 11/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit Free Press
Rural fire departments have more than 140 additional firefighters one year after legislation became law that eliminated the age limit for new volunteers.
House Bill 2005, authored by Rep. Mike Sanders, took effect Nov. 1, 2015. The law eliminated the 45-year-old age limit for new firefighters by giving them the option of joining the system without the requirement that they be added to the state’s pension plan. - PUB DATE: 11/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Norman Transcript
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Four firefighters and one civilian were injured today when a fire truck collided with a car in the Back Bay causing a domino effect that damaged eight other cars, fire officials said.
The civilian and firefighters, including one captain, all were taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where they were being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, Fire Commissioner Joseph Finn said. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald
A 25-year veteran of Cleveland's fire department sued the city and several employees Monday claiming he was subject to retaliation based on an erroneous belief that he had leaked damaging information about a former fire chief.
Sean DeCrane, who retired in September as Third Battalion chief, contends he warned city officials in January 2013 that former fire division Chief Daryl McGinnis lacked required continuing training and certification needed to hold his position. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland Plain Dealer & Cleveland.com
Six people were killed and 10 more injured Tuesday morning when a school bus veered into oncoming traffic in Southwest Baltimore and ripped through the side of an MTA bus, police said. Officials described a "horrific" scene in the 3800 block of Frederick Avenue, where the two buses remained jack-knifed into each other hours after the morning commute had concluded. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
A New Orleans judge has sided with the city over one point of a deal hashed last year over firefighters' pay and pensions, approving a less generous interpretation of how quickly firefighters will accrue retirement benefits.
At the same time, Civil District Court Judge Robin Giarrusso sided with the firefighters on a separate point, saying that the city can’t take back disability benefits from firefighters who already have received them. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Orleans Advocate
Three years ago, Chicago spent nearly $2 million — and $1.7 million more in legal fees — to compensate dozens of women denied firefighter jobs because of a discriminatory test of upper body strength that City Hall has now scrapped. Now, a dozen women who wanted desperately to become paramedics are accusing the Chicago Fire Department of devising two new physical agility tests that are equally biased against women. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
Fire departments from across the Birmingham area responded to a gas line explosion in Shelby County that killed one person and severely injured several people Monday afternoon.
Earlier reports indicated that seven had been severely burned and many of them transported to UAB.
However, at 10:45 p.m. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: AL.com
The Cimarron Hills Fire Department announced the sudden passing of one of their own Sunday.
Officials say 31-year-old Jermaine Frye was found in cardiac arrest at his home early Saturday afternoon. Lifesaving efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.
Frye’s cause of death has yet to be determined. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FOX21News.com
The St. Paul Fire Department is struggling to respond to fires and medical emergencies quickly, and the fire chief said they do not have the money to add enough staff to keep up with an increased demand for services.
Meanwhile, fire district and deputy chiefs are among the highest paid employees in the city. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
As a firefighter prepared to enter a burning home in Modesto's airport neighborhood, flames burst through the window he stood next to. A flash of white fire hit him and embers whirled around his face.
The firefighter didn't know at the time what caused the surge, but when he returned, uninjured, to the station after the incident, he reviewed the video from his helmet camera. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse
