The Jackson firefighters union called the conditions the City Council placed on its acceptance of a grant to hire nine firefighters "unreasonable" and "detrimental to our membership."
"The city of Jackson council and mayor have failed the residents, business owners and firefighters of the city," Scott Stoker, president of the Summit-Jackson Professional Firefighters Union Local 1306, said in a statement. - PUB DATE: 10/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MLive.com
When Hua Li called 911 to report a robbery, the woman on the other end of the phone answered with a sigh - and then hung up.
Now, 911 operator Crenshanda Williams, 43, of Houston, is facing two misdemeanor charges for allegedly hanging up on concerned callers just because she didn't feel like talking. - PUB DATE: 10/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
Kansas City Fire Chief Paul Berardi was so overcome by a wave of emotion Wednesday morning that he couldn’t make it through a promotion ceremony at Fire Department headquarters.
Berardi said his thoughts raced back to a year ago when firefighters Larry J. Leggio and John V. Mesh died fighting a blaze in a building at 2608 Independence Blvd. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kansas City Star & KansasCity.com
Black FDNY employees plan to hit the department with a $150 million federal lawsuit charging they have been discriminated against on the job, they announced Wednesday.
In a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a lawsuit they plan to file later this year, 10 plaintiffs charge black workers were passed over for promotions and raises that white workers with similar or lesser qualifications received. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News
The hospital where a Wilmington firefighter is recovering following a deadly Canby Park rowhouse fire said her condition has become more serious.
Firefighter Ardythe Hope was downgraded to critical condition Wednesday at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Pennsylvania, where she was taken after the Sept. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilmington News Journal (Delaware Online)
Clowns might be scaring kids across the country, but the Mansfield Fire Department is calling their bluff.
Since 2003, Mansfield firefighters have dressed up as clowns to produce fire safety shows for the city’s elementary schools, and they aren’t going to let a new creepy clown trend stop them. But the firefighters don’t want to scare anyone. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Star-Telegram
After finding common ground with the city, the fire union Local 825 has withdrawn its prohibitive practice complaint regarding safety and labor concerns related to Office of Emergency Management Deputy Director Rick Fontana, who the bargaining unit alleged had been performing the duties of Fire Department employees. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register
A former Oklahoma firefighter is suing his former department after he says he was wrongfully terminated.
Greg Chapman was a firefighter with the Tulsa Fire Department for nearly 20 years when a Facebook comment brought his career to a halt.
According to FOX 23, Chapman commented on a viral video of a police officer threatening to take a man’s child away after mistaking him for a fugitive. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFOR-TV NBC 4 Oklahoma City
Recent examples of fraud, mismanagement and embezzlement inside Delaware volunteer fire companies have precipitated state action which on Wednesday will take form as a task force focused on their financial management.
Delaware's 60 volunteer companies — encompassing fire protection for the entirety of the state excluding Wilmington — are self-regulated entities required only to submit an annual report to the State Fire Prevention Commission. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: DelawareOnline.com
Some police and fire departments are bucking a trend to conceal dispatch communications from the public, acknowledging that radio encryption has the potential to backfire and put first responders in danger.
Agencies with digital radio systems have turned off the encryption to their main dispatching channels and others have decided not to turn it on. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTIC-AM CBS Connecticut
Slatington Borough Council terminated its fire chief Monday night.
Council members voted 6-1 to remove Keith Weaverfrom the volunteer position he has held for 13 years.
Councilman Bryon Reed was the only member to go against the motion made by Councilman Jon Rinker to strip Weaver of his rank.
“Termination for insubordination for Weaver taking the ladder truck out of town when he was not supposed to,” Rinker said about his motion. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lehighton Times News
VIDEO - A firefighter was seriously injured in a house fire on Tuesday that forced a fire crew that was searching the building to retreat outside.
Toronto Fire Service said they received a call about a fire that broke out in a two-storey home on Dufferin Street near Alma Avenue, north of Queen Street West, shortly after 9 a. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBC News Toronto
The widow of a Denver firefighter is trying to recover an estimated $70,000 in pension benefits lost due to a simple bureaucratic error 15 years ago.
“The whole process was poorly managed and poorly executed,” said Julie Drennan. Her husband, Charles Drennan Jr., a division chief with the Denver fire department, was shot and killed Sept. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCNC-TV CBS 4 Denver
A firefighter lost part of a finger while helping to battle a two-alarm fire on Milwaukee's north side, officials said. The fire was reported late Monday night at a duplex near 4th Street and Concordia Avenue. Flames then spread to a neighboring duplex.
Police told WISN 12 News the firefighter was injured while using a saw on the roof. - PUB DATE: 10/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee
Karen Nicholson, of Edgewood, had the steadfast support of the members assigned to the Joppa-Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company's Hanson Road firehouse during her youngest son's more than three-year battle against leukemia.
Now, she and her family are working to repay that support with a campaign to raise $5 million to upgrade the firehouse. - PUB DATE: 10/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun
San Francisco is a tourist mecca, of course, but many of those visitors don’t realize it’s one of the country’s most dangerous places for ocean swimming. Locals know of the 50-degree water and perilous riptides. Tourists think Baywatch.
“I wish I was joking when I say this, but many tourists really view the entire state of California as what they’ve seen on Baywatch,” says Jonathan Baxter, San Francisco Fire Department public information officer. - PUB DATE: 10/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Forbes.com
It is no secret that firefighting is a dangerous job or that fighting fires can have a negative impact on health. It is well known that firefighting is related to higher rates of several types of cancer, which is clearly linked to exposures on the fireground to the byproducts of combustion.
These byproducts, combined with the physical exertion of firefighting, also are clear triggers linked to the risk of cardiovascular events. - PUB DATE: 10/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
Strength in other divisions at Samsung helped offset the financial hit the company took in the third quarter as a result of its unprecedented Galaxy Note 7 recall. But if a new claim pans out and a “safe” Note 7 issued as a replacement did in fact catch fire aboard an airplane earlier this week, Samsung’s initial recall might just be the beginning. - PUB DATE: 10/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post
One South Hadley firefighter received burns on his face and another suffered concussion symptoms in an explosion during Massachusetts Fire Academy training that District 1 Fire Chief Robert Authier described as "a close call for everybody."
Both firefighters have been released from the hospital after sustaining the injuries in the explosion involving propane gas on Tuesday evening. - PUB DATE: 10/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Springfield Union-News & Sunday Republican
The U.S. Fire Service is adding 112 names to the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
The solemn ceremony Sunday caps a weekend of events supporting the families of 79 firefighters who died in the line of duty in 2015, and 33 who died in previous years.
They include 22 New York City firefighters who died from illnesses linked to the Sept. - PUB DATE: 10/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBFF-TV Fox 45 Baltimore
