The absence of volunteers at the Colonial Volunteer Fire Co. has led to fire apparatus being unable to respond to emergency calls during the evening and overnight hours recently, officials say and documents show.
The turnout has been so low in the past few months that the company's volunteer fire chief, Joseph Scharnitz Jr. - PUB DATE: 6/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Trenton Times
Donald Farley, leader of the Bristol Fire Department’s Swift Water Rescue team, had barely made it into Rainelle when he ran out of road.
Little Sewell Creek had already enveloped the small town in Greenbrier County with four to eight feet of muddy, turbulent water, leaving the few local emergency officials that were available nearly helpless. - PUB DATE: 6/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Charleston Gazette-Mail
A veteran Austintown firefighter died while on duty Monday morning.
John Fritz, a member of the Austintown Fire Department since 1992, is believed to have died in his sleep at Austintown Fire Station #1.
Fritz was working a 24 hour shift which started at 8 a.m. Sunday morning, according to Fire Chief Andrew Frost. - PUB DATE: 6/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFMJ-TV Youngstown NBC 21
VIDEO - A 27-year-old man broke into a firehouse, crashed through the bay doors and took a stolen fire truck speeding through Paulding County.
Firefighters at Station #3 were participating in a training session a few blocks from the firehouse Monday morning when Paulding County Fire Dispatch started receiving unauthorized distress transmissions over the department's secure radio network. - PUB DATE: 6/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIA-TV NBC 11 Atlanta
The town of Camden Point in northern Platte County is celebrating its new state-of-the-art fire facility, but the community’s lottery millionaires are humble about what they did to make it happen. The building, which took more than a year to build, houses both the ambulance service and the community’s fire trucks. - PUB DATE: 6/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMBC-TV 9
Butler County fire departments have long shared purchasing and equipment testing, but a new study shows there are other avenues to pursue that could save more taxpayer money.
Officials in all nine jurisdictions that participated in the two-year study agree sharing testing results in the part-time personnel hiring process is the most valuable observation to come out of the 115-page study. - PUB DATE: 6/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hamilton Journal-News
Over the last three days, 12 firefighters and 10 instructors have been taking part in live burns as researchers collect data for a new study the effects of firefighter training on their health.
Teams from Skidmore College, UL’s Firefighter Safety Research Institute, The University of Illinois – Champaign and NIOSH have been taking part in the collaborative Cardiovascular and Chemical Exposure Project at the Illinois Fire Service Institute. - PUB DATE: 6/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse
Since the 2008 financial crisis, private equity firms have increasingly taken over public services like emergency care and firefighting, often with dire effects. A Tennessee woman slipped into a coma and died after an ambulance company took so long to assemble a crew that one worker had time for a cigarette break. - PUB DATE: 6/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york times
Wildfires continued to burn in California Sunday, scorching nearly 60,000 acres and claiming two lives as 4,500 firefighters battled the six blazes, which stretched from the Klammath National Forest in Northern California to the Mexican border in San Diego County, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, The Los Angeles Times reported. - PUB DATE: 6/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fox news
It’s a rumor that started within a week of Congress passing the legislation that created FirstNet, and it’s one that just won’t die, particularly during in the heated political environment that exists during the months leading up to a presidential election.
There are multiple versions with different wrinkles offered, but the basic premise is fairly straightforward: Republicans will want to kill FirstNet quickly, if the party gains control of the presidency and Congress in November. - PUB DATE: 6/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: urgent communications
PHOTO - An FDNY truck responding to a fire collided with a MTA bus in Queens Sunday afternoon, leaving 14 people hurt, including 2 firefighters and bus passengers. The accident happened at the intersection of Ditmars Blvd and 21st Street in Astoria. The MTA bus ended up on the sidewalk, just feet from going into a storefront, and narrowly missing people eating at an outdoor café on the corner. - PUB DATE: 6/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV 7online.com
The debate about how much overtime city firefighters receive will continue, even though the City Council voted to approve a new contract for the fire union.
City Councilor Brad Lown, who cast the lone vote against the new contract, said this week he did so because of what he believes is excessive overtime paid to city firefighters. - PUB DATE: 6/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: seacoast online
Firefighters in central California are still struggling to contain a fire that officials have called a "firefight of epic proportions."
The Erskin fire, which began Thursday afternoon, continues to spread across the Lake Isabella area of Kern County and has covered over 19,000 acres.
As of this morning about 100 structures were lost and 1,500 more were threatened. - PUB DATE: 6/24/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: abc news
Firefighters in central California are still struggling to contain a fire that officials have called a "firefight of epic proportions."
The fire, which began Thursday just before 4 p.m. local time, continues to spread across Kern County and has destroyed 80 homes, Tyler Townsend of Erskine Creek Fire said this morning. - PUB DATE: 6/24/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: abc news
Just a week before a deployment plan goes into effect, the eight soon-to-be demoted captains have been told what their roles will be with the city’s fire department.
Daniel Daugherty, president of the Watertown Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 191, confirmed that the captains will be renamed as “unit leaders” but will basically handle the same responsibilities they do now while on calls. - PUB DATE: 6/24/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: watertown daily times
Another former Providence fire chief is returning to his old department.
Michael J. Dillon, who served in the fire department for 39 years before retiring as acting chief in 2013, is being hired to oversee day-to-day operations following the retirement of asst. Chief Scott Mello.
Dillon’s official title will be operations chief and he’ll be paid on a per diem basis, according to Public Safety Commissioner Steven Pare. - PUB DATE: 6/24/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Providence 12
When Brian Cresto and his fellow firefighters fly toward a wildfire at just a few hundred feet off the ground, he's scouting for the best spot for them to land when they parachute down.
Lately, he's also been keeping an eye out for hobby drones that could take out their twin-engine propeller craft before it climbs to 1,500 feet, where the eight smokejumpers exit. - PUB DATE: 6/24/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: abc news
After months of waiting, a Ralston firefighter passed a major hurdle this week. He's one step closer to getting a double lung transplant. Ralston Firefighter Mike Bramhall was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at 4 months old; the reality that one day his lungs wouldn't be able to keep up with the disease is something he's always known would happen. - PUB DATE: 6/24/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nbc nebraska
When Lt. Davis Odell Jr. walked out of Fire Station No. 5 to observe the scene of an emergency call at the Pulse nightclub just two doors down, he knew this emergency was different than the countless others he'd seen in his 35-year career. "I could see people just running like crazy and screaming across the street," Odell said. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: orlando sentinel
A Salt Lake City Fire captain has filed a notice of claim at City Hall alleging fraud, state fire code violations, cover-ups and retaliation by top brass in the department.
Martha Ellis, a 21-year veteran and former battalion chief and fire marshal, says in her June 6 notice she was demoted recently after raising concerns, including allegations aimed at members of the department's executive team engaging in personal activities on city time, payroll fraud, a lack of smoke detectors at Fire Station 2 that caught fire and installation of bicycle lanes on 300 South that yielded a roadway narrower than required by the state and city fire code. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: salt lake tribune
