Former Olmsted Township Fire Chief John Rice has accused Fire Chief Patrick Kelly of conduct violations, and a group of residents is collecting signatures asking the township board of trustees to investigate Kelly.
Kelly, the former Cleveland fire chief who took over the small department in September, placed Rice, now assistant chief, on paid administrative leave this month. - PUB DATE: 1/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland Plain Dealer & Cleveland.com
The Chicago Fire Department could save at least $1.2 million a year and potentially millions more in overtime by hiring civilians to perform 34 administrative jobs that have nothing to do with firefighting or emergency medical service, Inspector General Joe Ferguson said Wednesday.
Three years after urging Mayor Rahm Emanuel to civilianize police jobs to save up to $16. - PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: chicago sun-times
Denver Fire Chief Eric Tade stood outside his station Wednesday and talked about what it was like to be stabbed in a random attack the day before.
"It was a very surreal experience — the scariest part was being trapped and restrained in the car," he said.
Denver police say the woman accused of stabbing Denver's top firefighter Tuesday afternoon had no connection to him. - PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Denver Post
PHOTOS - Two people were injured Wednesday when a fire engine slammed into a North Texas Dairy Queen.
City officials said Greenville Fire-Rescue Unit 4 crashed into the restaurant located on the 200 block of Highway 380 East in Farmersville at about noon. The truck was headed east on U.S. 380 when it left the road for an unknown reason. - PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Dallas - Fort Worth
The health and safety risks and hazards of firefighting on the men and women that make up the profession is increasingly well studied and documented. Meaningful and sound research has led to changes in individual fitness priorities, personal protective equipment, first responder personnel activities on the fire-ground, and a better understanding of the overall health risks increasingly associated with firefighting. - PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firefighternation.com
I don’t know what happened up there 27 years ago this past November, the morning six firefighters died on a windswept hill in south Kansas City. Maybe no one will ever know, except for the arsonists responsible for their deaths.
But I do know this. The federal government — the same federal government that imprisoned five people for life in the case — has acknowledged that it never fully solved the crime. - PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kansas city star
Denver Fire Chief Eric Tade was stabbed Tuesday afternoon just outside of his department's headquarters at Colfax Avenue and Speer Boulevard.
Investigators said a woman jumped into Tade's unmarked city SUV as it was stopped and attacked him. Doug Schepman, a police spokesman, declined to speculate on what spurred the stabbing. - PUB DATE: 1/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: denver post
Fresno firefighters who responded to a house blaze where Capt. Pete Dern fell through a roof and was severely burned failed to properly access the fire’s dangers, reflecting a Fire Department in which personnel are “picking and choosing” which procedures to follow, an investigative report released Tuesday says. - PUB DATE: 1/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fresno bee
A firefighter has been suspended following an investigation by the Clay County Fire Rescue Monday that unearthed he did not disclose a 2015 DUI arrest to county officials, the agency said.
David A. Nettles has been placed on administrative leave following the investigation into an unrelated January 15 crash on Blanding Boulevard when the fire engine Nettles was driving was struck by a vehicle that reportedly ignored the emergency lights on his vehicle. - PUB DATE: 1/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTLV 12 NBC & WJXX 25 ABC - First Coast News
Diesel emissions, regeneration and maintenance shouldn’t be as scary as some firefighters believe.
Ever since the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) started cracking down on black soot spouting diesel engines about five years ago, firefighters flinch at new regulations and have been trying to push them back. - PUB DATE: 1/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse
At least 20 of the 111 black firefighters hired by the Chicago Fire Department after a marathon discrimination lawsuit had not been medically cleared by a department physician before starting work and two of them “suffered serious medical events and died while off-duty,” the city’s inspector general disclosed Tuesday. - PUB DATE: 1/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
PHOTO - A town of Harrison firetruck suffered significant damage to its front end after it slid down a steep, icy private road and rolled over Sunday afternoon.
Town Manager George “Bud” Finch said the driver, veteran volunteer firefighter Maurice Kautz, suffered minor cuts and bruises but was not seriously injured. - PUB DATE: 1/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: portland press-herald
VIDEO - A camera atop a firefighter's helmet, captured the dramatic rescue of a Fresno family from an apartment fire.
Crews helped a total of seven people escape from the fire in central Fresno on Saturday, including a family of three on the second floor whose only way out was through a window.
Fire had taken over the stairwell and the smoke was too thick to walk through. - PUB DATE: 1/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVU-TV Oakland, San Francisco, Bay Area
A federal investigator has obtained a warrant to search a laptop computer for evidence that a New Mexico urban search-and-rescue team used falsified training certificates to meet national requirements and retain federal funding.
One of the fraudulent training certificates was for an ethics training class, according to the search warrant request filed Wednesday in U. - PUB DATE: 1/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: santa fe new mexican
A judge has dismissed a wrongful-death lawsuit claiming the city should be held partially responsible for the death of a 19-year-old woman who was killed when the car she was riding in ran a red light and was broadsided by a fire truck. The crash occurred June 20, 2013, when a Honda Accord driven by Robbie Dean Gillespie, 45, ran a red light on Midland Road at Poway Road about 4 a. - PUB DATE: 1/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: san diego union-tribune
Kenny Bower stood on a steep, grassy hillside overlooking the Waldo Canyon burn scar with his ear cocked toward his radio.
His firefighting tool was still by his side while he listened to the transmission - winds were picking up, humidity was dropping and nearby trees were starting to ignite. He called out the warning to his crew and bent back to his work cutting a line into the dirt up the hill. - PUB DATE: 1/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the gazette
Seven FDNY employees — including a deputy chief and three battalion chiefs — have been fined by the Conflicts of Interest Board for accepting free tickets to the 2014 Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium, officials said Monday.
Firefighter John Curatolo got 52 freebies the night before the big game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos from NFL vice president of community relations and philanthropy Anna Isaacson. - PUB DATE: 1/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york post
Nearly a dozen black firefighters in Jacksonville have been sent home for something they didn't do: shave. State rules require firefighters to have a clean-shaven face when they have to wear an oxygen mask. The rule falls in line with regulations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on wearing respirators. - PUB DATE: 1/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJXT-TV CBS 4 Jacksonville
The Harney County fire chief resigned Wednesday because he says he no longer trusts the local government.
Chris Briels stood next Ammon Bundy, the leader of an armed group that has taken over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, and announced he had turned in his resignation to county Judge Steve Grasty. - PUB DATE: 1/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KVAL-TV CBS 13
The owners of the Pater Avenue home where a Hamilton firefighter was killed Dec. 28 while battling a fire say they will never be able to return there even if repairs are made. “My wife won’t live there again, and I don’t blame her after the firefighter was killed there,” said Lester Parker, 66, of Hamilton. - PUB DATE: 1/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Journal-News
