Michael Diehl’s competitive nature didn’t go away when he lost his right arm last March in a firehouse accident.
In fact, it’s only fanned those competitive flames more intensely.
Diehl, a volunteer Franklin firefighter, was injured in March 2015 while helping to guide a fire engine back into the station. - PUB DATE: 4/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Dayton Daily News
Social media guidelines have been revised after a couple in Garfield Fire Company 1 were threatened with suspension for posting their wedding invitation on Facebook that featured their turnout coats.
The couple will not face suspension from the department. City Manager Tom Duch said what originated as a "lack of communication" has been corrected after a several hour meeting with the five fire department chiefs, himself and Deputy Mayor and Council Fire Department Liaison Glenn Mati, where everyone left with a "clear understanding" of what is acceptable on social media. - PUB DATE: 4/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bergen County Record & Herald News
Mayor Kenney is expected to name Adam Thiel, deputy secretary of Virginia's Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs department, as the next leader of Philadelphia's fire department, according to three sources with knowledge of the choice.
Thiel, formerly the fire chief of Alexandria, Va., has worked in fire and emergency services for more than two decades in four different states, according to a biography describing his current role in Virginia. - PUB DATE: 4/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: philly.com
Hired by Tampa Fire Rescue in late 2008, Tanja Vidovic became pregnant about a year later. A fire captain told her "this would not have happened if she had kept her legs closed," Vidovic alleges in a federal lawsuit against the city of Tampa.
Vidovic, one of several female firefighters who raised concerns about the department's treatment of women in its ranks in the Tampa Bay Times last spring, filed suit on March 23. - PUB DATE: 4/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: tampa bay times
The FDNY swore in a new chief diversity officer Thursday along with its youngest-ever deputy commissioner during a ceremony on Randall's Island.
Cecilia Loving, 56, an attorney who works for the FDNY, was recently named as the FDNY's chief diversity officer.
In that court-mandated role, she will be in charge of ensuring all new recruitment and strategic initiatives comply with Department of Citywide Administrative Services and Law Department guidelines. - PUB DATE: 4/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york daily news
Liz Trokey says it’s a lucky thing a fire that broke out at her senior apartment complex on Wednesday didn’t start any later than it did. “It was like an hour before my nap time,” she told CBS4. “If I had been napping, I never would have woke up, because when I take a nap, I’m out.” Trokey, 81, says the emergency stairs weren’t an option when the fire alarms started sounding in her apartment on the fourth floor of the Southview Place Towers. - PUB DATE: 4/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCNC-TV CBS 4 Denver
While looking for an SOP on a large metropolitan fire department's website, I stumbled across something unrelated that caught my eye. This SOP was from a fire department I highly respect as leaders in safety and employee health.
To my surprise I noticed an SOP allowing for firefighters to remove their SCBA if the carbon monoxide level is less than 50 ppm in the sampling. - PUB DATE: 4/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1
Battalion Chief Angelo Calvillo was sworn in Wednesday as the city's new fire chief, making him the first Hispanic person to head the city's Division of Fire.
Calvillo, a 27-year veteran who has steadily risen through the department's ranks, served as interim chief since October, when Chief Patrick Kelly resigned to head the fire department in Olmsted Township. - PUB DATE: 4/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: cleveland plain dealer
The longtime fire chief in Logan-Rogersville could lose his job. Richard Stirts has served as chief part-time for the last 20 years. The fire board decided last Sunday that the job will become full-time and salaried. The board also voted to open that job up to other candidates. "I took it gracefully and am trying to work through the political nightmare that it is," Stirts said on Wednesday. - PUB DATE: 4/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KYTV-TV NBC 3 Springfield
As part of a plea deal, Harper admits to arson fire that caused Pete Dern to fall through the roof, and she will serve nine years in state prison.
Harper will be formally sentenced on May 4th. Deputy District Attorney Dennis Verzosa stated that "after a review of the entire investigation, and after careful consultation with Firefighter Peter Dern and his family, the Fresno Fire Department, and the Investigating Officers, we feel that this is an appropriate and fair resolution to this case. - PUB DATE: 4/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFSN-TV ABC 30 Frenso/Visalia
Hackers submitting faked invoices to local fire districts got at least one payoff, and taught local agencies a lesson in network security.
On Jan. 22, the city of Snoqualmie, which provides information technology services to King County Fire Protection District 45, paid a ransom of $750 to hackers who had taken control and encrypted files on a computer at the fire district. - PUB DATE: 4/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: valley record
A Melbourne firefighter named as firefighter of the quarter late last year faces dismissal after what administrators describe as a ‘serious lack of judgement and self-control,’ in several incidents, from accidentally hitting a nursing home patient with an oxygen tank to taking a fire engine to his girlfriend’s barbecue dinner. - PUB DATE: 4/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: florida today
Quick response by several city officials likely saved the life of a man who collapsed while addressing the Decatur City Council on Monday.
Russell Shulke, a frequent attendee of council and other civic meetings, regularly reads prepared remarks and historical commentary on agenda items during the time designated for appearance of citizens. - PUB DATE: 4/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse
Robert Cabano was the first on the scene at 155 Marcy Street in West Babylon at around 10 p.m. last Friday night following a report of a person in cardiac arrest at the home.
Cabano was there because he serves as a paramedic as well as the chief of the North Babylon Fire Department. He was there first because he lives on Marcy Street. - PUB DATE: 4/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Deer Park-North Babylon Patch.com
A source close to the investigation told CBS4 a Las Cruces firefighter faces discipline up to unpaid leave after his wife was photographed breast-feeding while wearing his uniform. The firefighter did not want to be identified.
The photo is part of a series by El Paso photographer Tara Ruby. "The intention has been since the very beginning to show that a mom can be a full-time mom and still work a full-time job and do both equally at the same time," Ruby explained. - PUB DATE: 4/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kdbc el paso
While reporting on the fire for Oklahoma City's KWTV station, storm trackers Amy and Val Castor saw a road grader traveling in the path of the quick-moving flames. Val Castor said the driver would have no chance to escape the vehicle before the flames reached him, so he drove near the vehicle and urged the driver to jump in their car. - PUB DATE: 4/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firefighternation
A former Collierville firefighter has filed a federal lawsuit against the town, alleging he lost his job for raising concerns that then-chief Jerry Crawford discriminated in favor of people with ties to Fayette County, where he has long lived.
William L. Boone filed the suit on March 25. He's seeking back pay and other money damages, but wrote in the suit that a return to his job isn't feasible. - PUB DATE: 4/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: commercial appeal
The city of Boston is using data and digital technology to improve firefighting and other vital services, according to a report from the Harvard Kennedy School released on Monday.
The 12-page brief from the Rappaport Institute at the Kennedy School is entitled “City Hall’s Data and Technology Journey: Using Data to Improve the Lives of Citizens. - PUB DATE: 4/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: boston globe - metered site
A Cheney firefighter remains in critical condition at Saint Francis Hospital Monday night, after collapsing while fighting a grass fire near the Kingman-Sedgwick County line. The fire department is asking for your support - for now, just in prayers. The firefighter's name isn't being released at the moment, since he's still in very critical condition. - PUB DATE: 4/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KWCH-TV CBS 12 Wichita
While Union County authorities have charged Newark fire Capt. Anthony Graves with impersonating a police officer, Newark officials are calling on a judge to throw out his whistleblower lawsuit against the city and various municipal officials.
In a motion filed in Essex County to dismiss the complaint, the city rejects Graves's allegations of racial discrimination and asserts Graves has failed to allege an act of retaliation to support a whistleblower claim under the state's Conscientious Employee Protection Act, or CEPA. - PUB DATE: 4/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Newark Star-Ledger/NJ.com
