Glendale is getting a new fire chief. Terry Garrison, who has served as the fire chief for the Houston Fire Department since 2010, will be taking over as fire chief for the Glendale Fire Department on Nov. 2, city officials announced Tuesday. Garrison replaces Mark Burdick, who retired in May after 32 years with the department and 12 years as the chief, and Chris DeChant, who was serving as the interim fire chief. - PUB DATE: 9/30/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Republic
An investigation into a Eureka Springs firefighter’s injury showed that mechanical failure was the issue.
Rod Wasson was injured while working a fire on Aug. 29, sustaining respiratory injuries and spending weeks in a burn unit.
Eureka Springs Fire and EMS interviewed Wasson and tested his equipment to determine what caused the injury. - PUB DATE: 9/30/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFSM-TV CBS 5 Fort Smith
Medicare paid $30 million for ambulance rides for which no record exists that patients got medical care at their destination, the place where they were picked up or other critical information.
The mystery ambulance rides are part of a bigger problem with Medicare payments for transporting patients, according to a federal audit being released Tuesday. - PUB DATE: 9/30/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: cbs news
The chest pains started not long after firefighter Joe Dipple arrived at the scene. Laden with gear, fully exerted as he walked past the burning home, he suddenly couldn't carry a ladder through the 10 inches of snow on that afternoon in February 2014.
Sit down, another firefighter told him. You're going into an ambulance. - PUB DATE: 9/30/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Newark Star-Ledger/NJ.com
Urban explorers who may need complicated rescues will now have to pay a hefty fine for the service.
In response to recent deaths and injuries due to falls in restricted spaces — including one in Southeast Como’s abandoned Bunge grain elevator near the University of Minnesota — the Minneapolis City Council approved an ordinance Friday that gives the city the authority to charge rescue fees to trespassers. - PUB DATE: 9/30/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Minnesota Daily
A firefighter who is fighting a department policy that he said would force him to cut off his ponytail took his case directly to City Council, claiming gender discrimination.
Timothy Gay, an Elmira Street resident and one of the few members of the department who actually lives and pays taxes in the city, said the policy was directed at him, as he is the only male member of the department with long hair. - PUB DATE: 9/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: press of atlantic city
If Shickshinny state troopers were likened to a Christmas character over the weekend, Scrooge would be a good description, according to Holly Morris.
Morris, secretary of the Shickshinny Volunteer Fire Department, said several fire fighters had gathered at the intersection of Routes 11 and 239 on Saturday to collect money during their annual “boot drop” collection, the fire department’s major fundraiser of the year, when they were approached by state Trooper Steve Steransky, Jr. - PUB DATE: 9/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: times leader
DC Fire and EMS Chief Gregory Dean will ask the D.C. council on Tuesday for authority to hire an outside company to provide ambulance service to help relieve his overtaxed fleet.
Under Dean's plan, which has the support of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Fire and EMS would contract with a third party ambulance company. - PUB DATE: 9/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV 9 DC
Three groups will receive $5.9 million in federal grants to train first responders to handle railroad incidents involving crude oil, ethanol and other flammable liquids.
The U.S. Transportation Department announced the grants Monday. Concerns have been growing about these shipments because the number has surged, and there have been several fiery derailments involving crude oil in recent years. - PUB DATE: 9/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: washington times
A man's fear of spiders nearly caused him to set a Metro Detroit gas station on fire. Instead, he set his car and a gas pump on fire.
WJBK-TV FOX 2 News reports the man saw a spider on his car's gas tank while he was at a gas station in Center Line. He then did something that most people understand is obviously not smart. - PUB DATE: 9/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: mlive.com
Employees of a rural water district confiscated equipment from the Beaver Lake Fire Department after discovering some of its firefighters tapping into a fire hydrant to fill swimming pools, an official with the water district said.
The department hadn't notified the Benton County Water District it planned to tap the hydrant or arranged to pay for the water, said Eddie Cooper, water district manager. - PUB DATE: 9/28/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NWAOnline - Northwest Arkansas News
The firefighters collapse in driveways and fields to steal a moment’s rest. They sleep in their engines, sprawled across fire hoses or slumped over steering wheels. After they spend days hacking dead brush and setting defensive fires across flaming mountains, their 24-hour rest breaks are cut short when a new fire rears up. - PUB DATE: 9/28/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york times
Zoning battles aren’t unusual when developers propose high-rise buildings amid single-family homes, but some Montgomery County residents are fighting the development plans of an unusual opponent: their local fire department.
The Bethesda Fire Department’s board of directors says it needs to replace or renovate its 46-year-old headquarters to keep pace with emergency calls as downtown Bethesda continues to transform from a leafy suburb into an urban hub. - PUB DATE: 9/28/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the washington post
As prosecutors and defense attorneys continue to argue over the destruction of an investigator’s report on the Magnolia Street fire that killed two firefighters, at least one legal tangle for accused arsonist Ray Abou-Arab was eliminated Thursday.
At the request of prosecutors, Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Stacy Cook dismissed unrelated charges alleging Mr. - PUB DATE: 9/28/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Toledo Blade
Firefighters preparing to rush to the scene of a vehicle fire early Friday found themselves stranded at their Clara Street station when their truck wouldn’t start.
To make matters worse, while an engine from another nearby station was dispatched to the blaze on Toledano Street, firefighters who headed out to New Orleans East from the Clara Street station found that the spare truck they were planning to pick up there also was inoperable. - PUB DATE: 9/28/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the new orleans advocate
Crews began removing the wreckage from the Aurora Bridge Thursday evening. Police officers and other officials watched as the Duck vehicle was loaded onto a flatbed tow truck. A 17-member, interdisciplinary team from the National Transportation Safety Board, along with an NTSB board member, are due to arrive in Seattle Friday to begin their inquiry into the crash. - PUB DATE: 9/25/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Seattle Times
Fighting wildfires isn’t cheap, not with all the boots on the ground, the engines and dozers, the airplanes and fuel. And this year’s fire season — which is shaping up to be one of the most destructive in the modern history of the West — is also on track to be the costliest.
That’s a problem, particularly for those writing checks in Washington, who are having to move millions from one part of the federal budget to another to balance the books. - PUB DATE: 9/25/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1.com
Roy Salmon, 60, whom Salado Fire Chief Shane Barrier rescued from the porch of a burning home last week, was jailed Wednesday, charged with arson in connection with the blaze.
Salmon, who smashed out a window and jumped from the burning two-story home to escape the flames, was unconscious from smoke inhalation when Barrier pulled him to safety on Sept. - PUB DATE: 9/25/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kwtx.com
Pope Francis is visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at ground zero.
To a cheer from the gathered crowd, he walked toward the two massive waterfall pools that mark the footprints of the World Trade Center's twin towers before they were felled by the 2001 terrorist attacks. Francis visited the site after a speech at the United Nations. - PUB DATE: 9/25/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: abc7ny.com
For his entire adult life, Barry Miller was a giver and “a huge figure in the town of Bergen.”
That was evident in the outpouring of grief in Bergen Wednesday after Miller, chief of Fire Department Emergency Medical Services and a county coroner, was killed on his way to a call in Riga. “His connection to the community is indescribable,” said Donald Cunningham, town supervisor and close friend of Miller’s. - PUB DATE: 9/24/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the daily news online
