Posts Categorized: Funding Staffing
Township Embezzler Causes VFD to Shut Down
THE KNIGHT TOWNSHIP (INDIANA) FIRE DEPARTMENT FIRE CHIEF notified the citizens of the Evansville suburb that they will be shutting down on January 1 for lack of funds.
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Guns & hoses: A redo. Take 2 has more details & videos thanks to BainbridgeGA.com.
Videos showing firefighting in Georgia.
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Customer Service: A Bad Concept?
While we can quantitatively point out that having a customer service attitude benefits us in public support, there should be a much more altruistic reason for our embracing that belief.
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Quick Takes
Fire & EMS news for Monday.
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Around The Fire Web
AROUND THE FIRE BLOGS
Firegeezer's SUNDAY EMERGENCY! - Your weekly dose of EMERGENCY!
Backstep Firefighter - Willy and the Firemen
STATter911 - Covering Boston's 9-bagger! Biggest in 25 years for the Jakes!
Firehouse Zen - Roto-Ray and Feder…
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Selling Budget Priorities
Ongoing efforts by LAFD to explain staffing decisions and obtain citizen/elected officials support.
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Olympia Votes to Add Firefighters
THE VOTERS IN OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, SHOWED THAT public safety is important to them on Tuesday when 56% of them approved a ballot measure to hire 13 more firefighters.
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Byrne Not Happy With FD Direction
BEAUFORT - Former Beaufort Fire Marshal Dan Byrne said that for seven years, he helped build award-winning public-education programs that drew praise from departments throughout South Carolina and across the country.
But when changes in the department…
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Flint rookie firefighter badly burned. Jeremy Turner had just been brought back following layoff.
Firefighter Turner fell through floor of burning home.
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Save Money …. Let ‘em Die
THE TOWN COUNCIL OF PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, found themselves unable to take the easy way out last week when they met to consider ways to balance next year's budget....
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“No Ambulance Available” for Injured Detroit Firefighters
Great headline not completely accurate in overworked and under-resourced Detroit
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Massachusetts Mayor Has Mental Meltdown
Mayor Lantiqua launched a counter-attack against his own firefighters by calling on the citizens to spy on the firefighters at work.
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FD Tackles New Challenge
CHARLESTON -- Charleston's Fire Department tackles one of its biggest challenges since the Sofa Super Store fire. On June 18th, 2007, a fire ripped through the Sofa Super Store. In the year following the fire, experts from around the country dissected wh…
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Riley Ignorant of Routley Team Wanting Thomas Out?! Rigghhtt!
NOTE: The title of this story is loaded with sarcasm.
CHARLESTON - In the wake of the Sofa Super Store fire in June 2007, which took the lives of nine firefighters, Charleston Mayor Joe Riley said the city would be remembered for how it responded to the…
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Quick Takes
Wednesday's fire & EMS news.
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Quick Takes
Fire and EMS news for Tuesday.
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Detroit fire documentary getting caught up in aftermath of police chief scandal. Mayor’s office has to set policy. It’s an image thing.
Will stopping ride-alongs and not cooperating with TV producers solve Detroit's image problem? Dave doesn't think so.
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Greenwood County Fatalities; Why?!
A SConFire Editorial. Close your eyes and imagine… you go to bed with your wife and family feeling safe and secure; thinking about what tomorrow will bring.
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Documents Missing From Fired Chief’s Office
Paperwork, Checks Taken From Holly Springs Fire Chief's Office
HOLLY SPRINGS - Spartanburg County deputies are investigating the theft of documents from the locked chief's office at the Holly Springs Fire Department.
The same department has been in t…
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Contracting out fire-based ems, part 1
Reimbursement and Recession endanger fire-based ambulance services
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Quick Takes
Fire & EMS news for Wednesday.
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Mayor Rebuts Routley Emails
Statement from Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr.
Charleston, South Carolina
Rebuttal to the Routley Report Emails released to media
CHARLESTON - On Sunday, August 1, the Post & Courier printed a story regarding conversational emails between various m…
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FF and Fire Wife Blogs
Updated August 2010: Blogs by the firefighter and ems community including blogs by firefighter's wives.
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Quick Takes
Fire & EMS news for Monday
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Willy And The Firemen