The eight career firefighters who lost their jobs when the village shifted to an all-volunteer fire department handed the village clerk an inches-thick petition to force a referendum on the abolishment of the paid fire department.
Vinny Lyons, president of Port Chester's firefighters union, said the 485-page petition submitted to the village Wednesday morning contains 4,354 signatures, nearly double the amount required by New York State village law. - PUB DATE: 6/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Journal News (Lohud.com)
In a matter of minutes Thursday, the state Senate overwhelmingly approved three bills in a four-bill package that would change pensions for newly hired New Orleans firefighters and end a decades-old feud with city government.
Those three bills head to Gov. John Bel Edwards for his signature.
An agreement on the fourth measure was reached late Wednesday night, said Sen. - PUB DATE: 6/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the new orleans advocate
A 69-year-old fisherman anchored his boat in the Susquehanna River near the Dock Street dam last week, hoping to reel in the big one.
Instead, his small anchor broke loose from the silt and his boat was sucked into the backwash below the low-head dam, an area known as a drowning machine.
Few people escape the violent underwater death trap created by the fast-moving water plunging over the dam. - PUB DATE: 6/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pennlive.com
With ambulance and fire calls on the rise, the FDNY is turning to new technology to improve its operations and efficiency when saving lives.
There were more than 1.6 million ambulance runs in 2015, a 9 percent jump from the year before, and firefighters handled about 3,000 more fire emergencies in 2015 than in 2014, according to the department’s statistics. - PUB DATE: 6/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: emergency management
An FDNY lieutenant who barreled into a burning Brooklyn building and pulled out a hulking man and unconscious woman was honored Wednesday with the department’s highest award.
Brian Colleluori, of Ladder 174 in East Flatbush, was feted with the James Gordon Bennett Medal for his extraordinary act of bravery on Feb. - PUB DATE: 6/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york daily news
When it comes to help, firefighters are often better at giving it than asking for it, said Cedar Rapids Fire Captain Eric Vandewater.
But since the beginning of 2015, Vandewater and others at the fire department — with the assistance of Dr. Jim Coyle, a counselor with Cedar Memorial who specializes in sudden and unexpected life loss — are working to shift that way of thinking. - PUB DATE: 6/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the gazette
While the cities are less than 10 miles apart, Henderson and Evansville fire departments don't have a formal agreement to help the other out if needed.
To bridge the gap, the Henderson Fire Department is pushing for a formalized mutual aid agreement that legitimizes help between departments.
The Evansville City Council will vote on the proposal on June 13. - PUB DATE: 6/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: evansville courier & press
When firefighters responded to the mass shooting at Memorial and Wycliffe in west Houston Sunday, they found themselves under fire.
"As we almost came to a stop, is when he shouldered his rifle and started aiming at us and firing on us. I could see him through the rest of the windows,” Houston Fire Capt. - PUB DATE: 6/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPRC-TV NBC 2 Houston
Syndie Molina was a star member of the city’s elite rescue-paramedic squad. The FDNY asked her to appear on “Good Day New York” with Regis Philbin and to do a Q&A with The New York Times.
“I was the face of the department. I loved the department,” she says.
But after 10 years with the FDNY, she has flamed out. - PUB DATE: 6/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york post
Shari Hall, one of two finalists whom the County Commission considered last year to be chief of Marion County Fire Rescue, is suing the county and alleging that it engaged in gender discrimination by choosing the male finalist, Paul Nevels.
Before filing suit in circuit court earlier this month Hall lodged discrimination complaints with the U. - PUB DATE: 6/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ocala Star-Banner
Monday, May 23 was a dark day for the Warfield Volunteer Fire Department as they had five vehicles repossessed by a Illinois based company called First Government Lease citing non payment for the past six months. WVFD Chief Doug Hinkle and several members of the fire department were at Thursday’s fiscal court explaining the situation the fire department is in. - PUB DATE: 6/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: williamson daily news
The brother of a Special Olympian killed five years ago when the Lifestyles for the Disabled van in which he was riding collided with a Fire Department ladder truck in Dongan Hills has settled his wrongful death lawsuit for $950,000, court records show.
William Perry III, as administrator of Eric Perry's estate, had sued Lifestyles for the Disabled, the van driver and the city in state Supreme Court, St. - PUB DATE: 6/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Staten Island Advance
Firefighters in Canberra are suffering from injuries commonly seen in skiers, but their boots are to blame.
University of Canberra assistant professor Wayne Spratford said the boots worn by firefighters are a root cause in an abnormally high number of back, knee and hip injuries.
“We looked at their boots and found they used a boot that constrained the ankle — basically the ankle can’t move,” Spratford told the Canberra Times. - PUB DATE: 6/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1
A Sussex firefighter is arrested, accused of driving drunk behind the wheel of a fire truck and hitting a parked car. He was taken off the force, immediately. The fire chief told WISN 12 News reporter Christina Palladino as soon as he learned of the incident Monday, he placed the firefighter on administrative leave. - PUB DATE: 6/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee
A wrong turn on the way home from Taco Bell changed Adam Thiel's life. It was 24 years ago when the then-19-year-old student at American University got lost returning to campus and passed a firehouse advertising free EMT lessons.
Thiel, impressed by the emergency responders who rushed his father to the hospital when he was dying of cancer, signed up and never looked back. - PUB DATE: 5/31/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: philly.com
New Syracuse firefighters will have to reside in the city for the first five years of their career under the terms of a three-year union contract ratified this week by firefighters.
That's a first for Syracuse firefighters, who previously were exempt from residency requirements under state law.
The state law, which exempts police, fire and sanitation workers, can be superseded by local collective bargaining agreements, said Paul Motondo, president of Local 280 of the International Association of Fire Fighters. - PUB DATE: 5/31/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Syracuse Post-Standard & Syracuse.com
Police throughout the metro area expect this fall to start routinely calling for an ambulance to carry people suffering a mental health crisis to the hospital instead of handcuffing them in the back of a patrol car for the ride.
The state has adopted new rules that allow for ambulance services to apply to provide secure transport for people suffering behavioral health problems. - PUB DATE: 5/31/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the oregonian
Dallas paramedics are making plenty of house calls, but they’re not making much money for the city.
Officials started the Mobile Community Healthcare program last year with the hope that that it could pay for itself using fees from hospitals that want to alleviate the burden on their emergency rooms. - PUB DATE: 5/31/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: dallas morning news
A man and dog escaped a fire that erupted at noon Saturday and destroyed the home at 435 New St., Germania Hose Company Chief Joe Bender said.
Three firefighters sustained minor injuries when a fire engine malfunctioned as the crew was setting up to pump water, and the vehicle’s windshield smashed into a tree after the fire engine began rolling, Bender said. - PUB DATE: 5/31/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: citizens voice
In what labor union lawyers said was an unprecedented move, the Central Fire board Thursday voted to cut firefighters’ base pay 7 percent starting in July and require firefighters to pay back 7 percent of their base salary for the past 12 months.
The decision came with a caveat: If Central Fire and its labor union negotiate a new contract by mid-July, there will be no pay cut or retroactive pay cut. - PUB DATE: 5/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: santa cruz sentinel
