A veteran Hanover firefighter died after responding to a fire in West Manheim Township Saturday morning. Around 9:30 a.m., Earl J. Shoemaker, 68, was the driver of Hanover Fire Department's Air 46 unit when the truck went off Brunswick Drive and into a field -- traveling as far as several hundred yards.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the evening sun

An overnight three alarm town house fire in Germantown has sent several firefighters to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. According to Pete Piringer, spokesman for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue, crews were called to a town house fire in the 19300 blk of Churubusco Lane around 1:00 a.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wusa 9

Six weeks into his tenure as Hartford's fire chief, Reginald Freeman has started to personalize his office at the public safety complex on High Street.Among the plaques and framed pictures is a photograph on the shelf behind his desk. It's a snapshot of Freeman and retired Hartford firefighter Frank Zazzaro taken in Zazzaro's West Hartford home shortly after Freeman started work.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: hartford courant

I recently read an article about a large fire department's concern regarding retention of its members. This department is in the process of hiring 75 new firefighters to replace members who have left the department in the past year. Other fire departments of all sizes are facing the replacement of significant numbers of firefighters in the coming years.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

The two reports, one federal, the other produced by the Boston Fire Department, about the 2014 Beacon Street fire that killed Boston Fire Lieutenant Ed Walsh and firefighter Mike Kennedy make for tough reading. The communications timeline, with Walsh repeatedly calling for water that didn’t come because their hose had been burned through, is especially hard to read.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the boston globe

RAW VIDEO - Firefighters battled a greater-alarm structure fire at a commercial building in Boyle Heights on Thursday that sent huge flames and black smoke high into the air. The fire was reported around 7:45 p.m. at 1566 S. Rio Vista Ave., according to Erik Scott with the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTLA-TV WB 5 Los Angeles

How do you thank a man you don't even know for saving your life? That's the question on the lips of a D.C. great-grandmother when she thinks about the firefighter who gave up his own oxygen mask so she had a chance to survive. Both rescuer and fire victim are now recovering, thanks to the quick-thinking and self-sacrifice of DC firefighter Danny Lovato.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wusa 9

Two Columbus fire lieutenants and a captain have been suspended for their roles in an alcohol-fueled party dubbed “kegs and eggs” at a shuttered Downtown fire station last summer. Another disciplinary incident in the next year could result in demotion. Dozens of firefighters, including some in uniform, showed up at Fire Station 2 at 150 E.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: columbus dispatch

Fire officials, hit with a scathing federal report criticizing the department in the deaths of two firefighters in 2014, said they are preparing to sue the manufacturer of a diesel engine now in more than a dozen problem-plagued city fire trucks in order to thwart future disasters. Fire Commissioner Joseph E.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: boston herald

RAW VIDEO - Firefighters battled a greater-alarm structure fire at a commercial building in Boyle Heights on Thursday that sent huge flames and black smoke high into the air. The fire was reported around 7:45 p.m. at 1566 S. Rio Vista Ave., according to Erik Scott with the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTLA-TV WB 5 Los Angeles

VIDEO - One of the firefighters injured in Wednesday's devastating explosion in Greenwood called the situation "surreal." Lt. Ed Newell is one of the nine firefighters who suffered minor injuries in the blast. The 33-year veteran firefighter is a little bruised but in good spirits, which is remarkable considering how much damage was done.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4

A lack of training to fight a wind-driven fire, the lack of a sprinkler system, inadequate staffing, and an inadequate assessment of risk were factors in the deaths of two Boston firefighters in a 2014 blaze that tore through a Back Bay brownstone, according to a federal report. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health released a 77-page report —and the Boston Fire Department released its own findings — detailing the events that led to Lt.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: boston herald

A veteran Providence fire captain is out of a job for what Public Safety Commissioner Steven Pare is calling a “failure to take responsibility for his subordinates.” Dennis Tucker, who worked for the city’s fire department since 1988, was terminated last week after a three-member city trial board unanimously voted to approve the dismissal recommendation made by Pare.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Providence 12

By his own admission, George Morris III’s two-year tenure as the top administrator of the Cal Fire Academy in Ione was pockmarked with mistakes. He trusted subordinates too much, he told California Highway Patrol investigators during a two-hour interview Oct. 3, 2014, as a scandal was washing over his facility.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: sacramento bee

The military is beginning to check whether chemicals from its firefighting foam may have contaminated groundwater at hundreds of sites nationwide, according to the Defense Department. The Navy began sampling water at bases in December. At a naval landing field in Virginia, the U.S. Navy is now giving its personnel bottled water and testing wells in the nearby rural area after the discovery of perfluorinated chemicals in drinking water.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: U.S. News & World Report

Preliminary development work reportedly is underway on a movie that would tell the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshot tragedy. Ellen Schwartz, vice president of production for Black Label Media, confirmed Monday, March 7, that the production company is working to develop “No Exit,” a film about the 19 young men who died while fighting the Yarnell Hill wildfire in June 2013.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lake Havasu City News-Herald

Nine Seattle firefighters were injured in an apparent natural gas explosion that leveled at least three businesses in the Greenwood neighborhood early Wednesday morning. The explosion happened in the area of the Greenwood Quick Stop Market at N. 85th Street and Greenwood Avenue N. just before 1:45 a.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4

A Detroit emergency medical technician was attacked on a run Tuesday evening, city officials said. The worker was in stable condition at St. John Hospital after the attack with a department radio, said Detroit Senior Firefighter James Plieth. Two EMTs were responding to a medical emergency in the 4600 block of Chatsworth on the city’s east side about 7:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the detroit news

Vernon's fire chief has resigned, and the city's mayor has accused administrators of encouraging secrecy within the ranks of the fire department. Meanwhile, Vernon's city manager told the Times Record News he has given the mayor and commissioners as much information about the former chief's resignation as privacy laws allow.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Times Record News

Seven people were hurt in a crash between a D.C. firetruck and a van in Northeast D.C. Wednesday morning. The accident was reported around 9:40 a.m. at 11th Street and Maryland Avenue NE. A D.C. Fire & EMS spokesperson said D.C. Fire Engine 10 was responding on a call for a gas leak when the collision occurred.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nbc washington