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
There were three standing ovations in the unusually crowded chambers at Greensburg City Hall during Monday night's council meeting.
The first came as Thomas Bell took the oath of office to become the city's first new fire chief since 1953.
“Every kid, growing up, wants to be a firefighter,” Bell said. - PUB DATE: 11/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Researchers at N.C. State are working to find better ways to protect firefighters fighting wildfires.
They received a grant from FEMA after a group of firefighters was killed three years ago.
In 2013, 19 wildland firefighters died after becoming trapped by flames in Arizona. Some of those who died had deployed fire shelters. - PUB DATE: 11/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wncn.com
Talk about narrow escapes.
Rescuers managed to squeeze a fall victim out of an O'Hara Township water tower through what amounts to a large wire and tubing conduit.
The man, who was part of a cleaning crew preparing the tower for painting, tumbled 35 to 40 feet into the tank when his scaffolding failed, according to officials. - PUB DATE: 11/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
To better understand what impacts the fire service may see from a Trump administration and Republican controlled Congress, we reached out to several key fire service leaders for their perspectives. We asked them to identify what they saw as the biggest opportunities and threats the coming year will bring. - PUB DATE: 11/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireChief.com
Finally, they put a helmet on that marker.
St. Louis firefighters, about a battalion's worth, assembled Monday morning at Bellefontaine Cemetery to literally cap off a firefighters' monument that has gone topless since the 1910s.
"The fire department is all about tradition," St. Louis Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson said. - PUB DATE: 11/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
When it comes to fire forensics, 33-year Vallejo resident John DeHaan, literally wrote the book — the textbook that is most used nationwide by those going into the field of arson investigations.
Basically, DeHaan is a real Sherlock Holmes, surrounded by books, pamphlets and plaques, in his unassuming offices on Georgia Street downtown Vallejo. - PUB DATE: 11/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Vallejo Times-Herald
First responders who worked on the dusty, smoldering pile of debris in the aftermath of the Twin Towers’ collapse 15 years ago have begun showing signs of debilitating nerve damage, a team of Long Island doctors has found for the first time.
The research, led by Dr. Marc Wilkenfeld at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, is the third of his investigations to link World Trade Center dust to nerve damage, but it is the first beyond his statistical studies to confirm it in a small group of patients. - PUB DATE: 11/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Newsday
The Ocean City–Wright Fire Control District Board of Fire Commissioners recently rescinded the suspensions of longtime Fire Chief Billy Lord and Deputy Fire Chief Scott Funchess. The board had agreed in September to suspend both men without pay after an investigator claimed they had used inappropriate language in the workplace. - PUB DATE: 11/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Northwest Florida Daily News
Aug. 22, 2016, is the day Andrea Shipp and Jennifer Goerlitz thought their little girl would not live another day.
"Nobody knew what the outcome was going to be," Goerlitz said. "I think Andrea and I have lived in this denial stage for a while."
If it hadn't been for the rapid response of Longmont firefighters and paramedics, Clara's mothers don't think their daughter — who has been diagnosed with congenital myopathy, chronic respiratory insufficiency and gastroparesis, or stomach paralysis — would have survived a cardiac arrest. - PUB DATE: 11/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Camera
A firefighter was injured Friday while battling flames at an automotive shop in Pompano Beach, authorities said.
The fire was reported at Lowther Automotive Inc. on SW 14th Avenue.
WPLG-TV's helicopter was above the scene shortly before noon and saw significant damage to the roof. The fire had already been extinguished. - PUB DATE: 11/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJXT-TV CBS 4 Jacksonville
Once Lackawanna Fire Chief Ralph Galanti saw the blaze that was consuming the former Bethlehem Steel plant Wednesday morning, he quickly turned over the battle to the Buffalo Fire Department. That was just 30 minutes into the fire.
The fire was too big for Lackawanna’s 50-member fire department. Buffalo has 700. - PUB DATE: 11/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Buffalo News
The fire service is and always has been built on pride, tradition, brotherhood and service. There are many examples throughout the history of the fire service of all of these characteristics. There are also examples recently of a decline in these characteristics, specifically pride. What happened to always honoring what those who came before us built? What happened to always leaving the job better than you found it? When did the fire service stop being a calling and become just a job? Being a firefighter is a privilege and it seems many in the fire service have forgotten what the fire service stands for. - PUB DATE: 11/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse
