An agreement between the city and its firefighter union that ends more than $40 million worth of disputes is now final, with approval from both sides.
The City Council voted 6-0 Monday to approve the settlement, one week after approving a tentative version of the plan in closed session.
“Reaching equitable settlements are essential to exiting bankruptcy,” City Attorney Gary Saenz said in a written statement. - PUB DATE: 2/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Bernardino Sun
Will the same panel that demoted Jesse Alba for violating department policies more than two years ago now change its mind and reinstate him as fire chief? After sitting through a two-day hearing in which Alba fought to regain his former position, the five-member Waukesha Police and Fire Commission must decide whether he should be given another shot at holding the city's top fire position. - PUB DATE: 2/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: waukeshanow
Minutes count in the time between ambulance sirens sound and when patients are wheeled into emergency rooms — a maxim Broomfield resident Mike Kobneck saw first-hand.
Kobneck was a paramedic for more than 10 years before he started up Novum Concepts and created the Biophone app with Kevin Scardina, a fellow paramedic and software developer. - PUB DATE: 2/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: broomfield enterprise
Officials have suspended a firefighter for 90 days without pay following a controversial post he made on his personal Facebook page regarding opiate addicts and the drug Narcan. Weymouth Mayor Robert Hedlund announced in a press conference Monday the 90-day suspension is without pay and the firefighter will have to undergo sensitivity and social media training. - PUB DATE: 2/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCVB-TV ABC 5 Boston
An overall quiet day for the Blue Grass Stockyards turned into anything but a run-of-the-mill Saturday. As of Sunday morning, firefighters are still on scene after a massive fire at the Lexington stockyard. Lexington fire crews were called to Blue Grass Stockyards on Lisle Industrial Avenue just after 2:00 Saturday afternoon. - PUB DATE: 2/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wkyt-tv cbs
For decades, Illinois cities, villages, fire protection districts and others providing police, fire protection and ambulance services have enjoyed general immunity from lawsuits brought by plaintiffs who may accuse paramedics, firefighters and police officers of failing to provide the level of protection or response individuals may believe they should have. - PUB DATE: 2/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: cook county record
Town officials have launched an investigation after a post allegedly made to a Weymouth firefighter's personal Facebook account denounced opiate addicts and the drug Narcan, calling the overdose-reversing drug “the worst drug ever created.”
The posts suggest letting overdose victims die.
Weymouth Mayor Robert Hedlund told WCVB news partner The Patriot Ledger he was “well aware” of the alleged Facebook post after he and Weymouth Fire Chief Keith Stark received emails from several upset residents. - PUB DATE: 2/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCVB-TV ABC 5 Boston
Five restaurant co-workers, most believed to be in their 20s, died in a house fire Sunday morning in a Novi subdivision. The fire’s cause is still unclear, police said.
Police and fire personnel were alerted about 9:30 a.m. and arrived to find smoke filtering up from the basement of the home in the 23000 block of Mystic Forest Drive, said Novi Public Safety Chief David Molloy. - PUB DATE: 2/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: detroit free press
A proposal that would institute a major overhaul of the state's badly underfunded pension plan for public safety workers will be introduced in the Arizona Senate on Monday.
The overhaul is the result of months of meetings between lawmakers, pension officials, firefighter and police unions as well as cities, towns and other public agencies that pay into the system. - PUB DATE: 2/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tucson News Now
A city firefighter has been paid since 2013 for doing absolutely nothing, The Post has learned.
Arnaldo Rodriguez, 40, has been sitting at home for 2¹/2 years — raking in about $125,000 in salary plus benefits — as the FDNY apparently tries to make up its mind about what to do with him.
“It’s crazy. - PUB DATE: 1/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york post
Mayor Mitch Landrieu said the city has made its first required $15 million payment to the Firefighters Union, a few days before it was due.
The city said it wired the money as part of the $75 million settlement with the union that was reached last October.
In April 2016, the City will go to the voters for a 2. - PUB DATE: 1/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WWL-TV New Orleans Channel 4
The D.C. fire lieutenant set to retire with benefits after a 1-year-old boy died from choking on a grape under his watch has been told he cannot retire before he appears before a review panel, a D.C. fire department spokesman said.
The lieutenant was charged in July with neglect of duty, incompetence and failure to provide assistance to the public after the little boy died in March. - PUB DATE: 1/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nbc washington
Rigo Landeros, Fillmore's fire chief, assistant city manager and acting public works director, committed suicide this month while on duty in his city car, officials confirmed this week.
Landeros, 51, shot himself in the head in his fire chief's car on a rural section of Goodenough Road on Jan. 7, Ventura County sheriff's, coroner's and Fillmore officials said in response to inquiries from The Star. - PUB DATE: 1/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ventura County Star
As the Fire Department Safety Officers Association’s (FDSOA) apparatus symposium concluded, its annual safety forum opened with an overlap presentation by Gordon Graham, a long-time champion of public safety responders.
For more than three hours, Graham educated and entertained firefighters from all over the country with a simple, yet profound message focused on risk management and how firefighters can better protect themselves. - PUB DATE: 1/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse
Two firefighters and an emergency medical technician, were injured Wednesday night on the southeast side when an SUV slammed into a two-vehicle wreck the crews were working on.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers took Kaitlyn M. Carlson, 22, into custody following the crash. She was preliminarily charged with a DUI. - PUB DATE: 1/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: indianapolis star
Two firefighters and an emergency medical technician, were injured Wednesday night on the southeast side when an SUV slammed into a two-vehicle wreck the crews were working on.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers took Kaitlyn M. Carlson, 22, into custody following the crash. She was preliminarily charged with a DUI. - PUB DATE: 1/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: indianapolis star
A Claremore firefighter, who nearly lost his life during a storm, is back at work – eight months after being knocked unconscious and suffering life-threatening injuries.
Lieutenant Zane James is now on the road to recovery, but missing his fellow firefighter and friend, Captain Jason Farley, who drowned to death. - PUB DATE: 1/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOTV-TV CBS 6 Tulsa
In the wake of a fatal shooting in South Seattle, the chief of the fire department won't let his firefighters and medics enter homeless encampments unless they have police to back them up.
"Last night, after the shooting, I issued a directive to the Seattle Fire Department that we are not going in these areas unless we have Seattle Police Department there to support us, for a fire call or a medical calls, because we know what's in there," said Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins. - PUB DATE: 1/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: mynorthwest.com
Almost all Texas fertilizer plants like the one that exploded nearly three years ago in West - killing 15 people and injuring hundreds - are within a quarter-mile of a residence and little has been done to protect the public, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board says in a report to be released Thursday. While the precise cause of the blast will probably never be known, the CSB's 265-page final report describes in painstaking detail a host of failures by the West Fertilizer Company, the government, fire officials, insurance companies and others that allowed tens of thousands of pounds of ammonium nitrate to detonate. - PUB DATE: 1/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
A plan to outsource the city Fire Department and add a parcel tax of $148 per year took a big step forward Wednesday with the unanimous approval of the agency in charge of overseeing that process.
The Local Agency Formation Commission, or LAFCO, voted to move forward with San Bernardino’s proposal to annex the 137-year old San Bernardino Fire Department into Fire Protection District Service Zone FP5-5, giving responsibility for fire and emergency medical response to the county fire department. - PUB DATE: 1/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Bernardino sun
