We all know that you don’t need an advanced degree to pull ceiling. So why are departments placing a greater emphasis on higher education and advanced degrees these days, particularly when the process of getting a degree can be expensive and time-consuming?
Firefighting is a dangerous, difficult and inherently risky job. - PUB DATE: 4/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse
Retired Providence Fire Lt. Lori Franchina was awarded more than $800,000 by a Federal jury Monday, after jurors found she endured both sexual harassment and retaliation while on the job.
Jurors deliberated less than four hours before reaching their decision, which included $100,000 in punitive damages. - PUB DATE: 4/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJAR-TV NBC 10 Providence
The Norwood Fire Department stunned its Town Council Monday night with firefighters announcing their resignations.
Fed up with rumors and innuendos that the Norwood Town Council wanted to eliminate the town’s fire department in favor of contracting fire services with the Center Rural Volunteer Fire Department, all of the department’s officials quit, according to Mayor Beverly Johnson. - PUB DATE: 4/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the stanly news and press
Retired Providence Fire Lt. Lori Franchina was awarded more than $800,000 by a Federal jury Monday, after jurors found she endured both sexual harassment and retaliation while on the job.
Jurors deliberated less than four hours before reaching their decision, which included $100,000 in punitive damages. - PUB DATE: 4/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJAR-TV NBC 10 Providence
The Norwood Fire Department stunned its Town Council Monday night with firefighters announcing their resignations.
Fed up with rumors and innuendos that the Norwood Town Council wanted to eliminate the town’s fire department in favor of contracting fire services with the Center Rural Volunteer Fire Department, all of the department’s officials quit, according to Mayor Beverly Johnson. - PUB DATE: 4/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the stanly news and press
Over the years that the big white shed loomed in fields by the railroad tracks, this small town slowly crept up around it.
First came the high school, built a quarter of a mile away in the late 1990s. More recently, a small Wal-Mart opened a two-minute walk across the highway.
Last year, real estate developers came to this North Texas town with a plan to put low-income housing just 1,000 feet from the shed — a fertilizer depot that handles tons of potentially explosive ammonium nitrate. - PUB DATE: 4/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the dallas morning news
Ever since 31-year-old Nicole Clardy Mittendorff’s cream-colored Mini Cooper was found Saturday in Shenandoah National Park near the Whiteoak Canyon Trail, the search for her has focused near that popular trail. Now the National Park Service has closed four other areas in the Whiteoak Canyon area — Limberlost, Crescent Rocks, Cedar Run, and Cedar Run Link Trail — in connection with the search for the career Fairfax County firefighter/paramedic, who was last heard from Wednesday. - PUB DATE: 4/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOP-AM 1500 Washington
Earlier this year, a photo of a woman breastfeeding her son went viral on the Internet. The photo depicted not just any woman, but a woman dressed in fire turnout gear, holding the naked infant to her mostly concealed breast. The image was part of a series by an El Paso photographer who was depicting women breastfeeding at work. - PUB DATE: 4/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1
Two young children were killed in a fire at a Lumpkin County home on Monday.
The flames engulfed the home on Rider Road Spur NE, just off of Highway 9, between Dawsonville and Dahlonega.
Lumpkin County officials confirmed that two children, ages 1 and 2, were taken to North Side Hospital in Cumming and Chestatee Regional Hospital Dahlonega, Ga. - PUB DATE: 4/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIA-TV NBC 11 Atlanta
A man who shot two Maryland firefighters -- one of them fatally -- was released from custody without any charges, police said Saturday.
"Yes, he was released from custody and as far as why charges have not been filed, call the state's attorney office," Prince George's County Police spokesman Tyler Hunter said. - PUB DATE: 4/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: cnn
The Prince George’s County Fire Department tells WUSA 9 it’s not uncommon for them to force entry into a home in an absolute emergency as they continue to mourn one of their own, shot and killed while trying to conduct a welfare check.
“We’re not going to get into the warrant aspect of it. That’s more of a procedural matter for the police. - PUB DATE: 4/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wusa9
A veteran Memphis firefighter collapsed and died just after battling a house fire in the Westwood area of South Memphis late Saturday night.
Around 11:45 p.m., Lt. Rodney Eddins and his crew were looking for hot spots inside the small home in the 4500 block of Marigold Lane when he collapsed. His fellow firefighters carried him out and began CPR on the home’s front lawn, witnesses said. - PUB DATE: 4/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: memphis commercial appeal
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health did not recommend any further actions in its final report on the 2013 line of duty death of Wayne-Westland firefighter Brian Woehlke.
Hometownlife.com reported that the 113-page report investigation the May 8, 2013 death of 29-year-old firefighter Woehlke provides a detailed account of what happened during the fatal fire, which has been ruled arson and homicide. - PUB DATE: 4/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1
Come May, Craig Utter will begin his 11th season of his dangerous, dirty job fighting wildland fires with the U.S. Forest Service.
He goes to places so remote, he needs a helicopter to get there. “There” is all over the country. “Last summer I was in California for two weeks, home for two days, then to Missoula for a week, home for a week and then to Alaska for two weeks, home for three weeks then to North Carolina for a week and then Texas for a week and then back to Idaho,” said Utter, who is lives in McCall, Idaho. - PUB DATE: 4/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The washington post - metered site
Jon Hansen, the spokesman for the Oklahoma City Fire Department during the 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing, has died. Hansen, 65, died early Friday after a long battle with cancer. He died in his home with his family at his side, the fire department said in a news release. The bombing of the former Oklahoma City federal building on April 19, 1995 claimed the lives of 168 people, and in the hours and days following Hansen played a key role in disseminating information to the public. - PUB DATE: 4/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the oklahoman
Jon Hansen, the spokesman for the Oklahoma City Fire Department during the 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing, has died.
An Oklahoma City fire department official confirmed Hansen died early Friday.
The former Oklahoma City federal building was destroyed at 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995. The bombing resulted in the deaths of 168 people. - PUB DATE: 4/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the oklahoman
Three of five members of the Peninsula Township fire board have joined their fire chief and resigned their positions, alleging they cannot get the support needed from the township board to fund adequate emergency services.
Recent discussions by township board members about selling a 27-foot rescue boat with fire-fighting capabilities and side-scan sonar, the only one on Grand Traverse Bay, prompted the resignations. - PUB DATE: 4/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Traverse City Record-Eagle
Legislation that would make it easier for firefighters to access benefits from the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation when they are diagnosed with cancer cleared the Ohio Senate Wednesday in a nearly unanimous vote.
The bill, introduced by state Sen. Tom Patton, a Strongsville Republican, would establish a presumption that when firefighters get cancer, it is a result of their work. - PUB DATE: 4/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland Plain Dealer
Modesto is facing potential legal trouble after one of its firefighters reportedly tripped and fell on a third-grader and broke her arm during a Fire Department safety event called the Clown Program, in which firefighters dress up as clowns and superheroes as they teach schoolchildren such basics as when to call 911 and how to get out of a burning house. - PUB DATE: 4/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: modesto bee
Where to build the new fire station? Neighbors’ protest? Is "free" land really ‘free’? How many bays? Drive-through? Dorms or individual sleeping rooms? Air quality systems? One-story or two?
You don’t really know overwhelmed until assigned to design and build your department’s next fire station. Probably the most expensive project of your career, but the new facility should also last 50 to 75 years. - PUB DATE: 4/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse
