Posts Tagged: Fire Commissioner
Detroit Fire Commissioner proposes letting vacant buildings 50% involved burn to the ground. Donald Austin asked to make cut in next year’s budget.
For the second time in a year the commissioner proposes new ways of dealing with fires in vacant structures.
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UPDATE: Timeline on rescue & recovery released. Lt. Robert Neary & Firefighter Daniel Sweeney, Philadelphia Fire Department Ladder 10 killed in collapse at 5-alarm fire.
Collapse occurred in exposure building after the fire was declared under control.
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UPDATED: Chicago Fire Commissioner Robert Hoff stepping down.
Sources tell reporters it is personal reasons and not politics.
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Chicago Fire Department: Everyone Goes Home (official version)
In an effort to make personal safety a top priority, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) and the Chicago Fire Department (CFD) today released a new video, Chicago Fire Department – Everyone Goes Home®.
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Handling the bad news: Estero, Florida firefighters say chief ordered them to leave fire engine & serve alcohol, topless at private fundraiser. Fire commission extends stories life with vague answers.
Vague answers a week late won't get reporters off your back.
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Let it burn? Just maybe says the Detroit commissioner. Donald Austin handles the topic head-on with Charlie LeDuff & others.
The commissioner explains the risk analysis involved in fighting fires in vacant buildings.
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“More Ambulances, More Training, Less Fear” New Detroit Fire Commissioner Donald Austin reaches out to medical community, says 22 new transport units will start arriving in January. Not writing up guys for minor uniform infractions
"More Ambulances, More Training, Less Fear" New Detroit Fire Commissioner Donald Austin reaches out in first month on the job.
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How not to respond to the press: A Long Island fire department deals with a reporter asking questions about the Confederate flag.
FD threatens legal action and shuts door on reporter asking questions about the department's patch.
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Lessons from Detroit: The firing of Commissioner James Mack & his deputy are about the basics. Don’t let this happen to you. Do you have your own version of the ‘Dave Statter test’?
The commissioner failed the basics of handling bad news.
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FDNY EMS Chief John Peruggia first to take a fall for snowstorm. Read the news coverage.
Mayor defends sanitation department's response.
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Fire Commissioners Charged
BREAKING NEWS>>>
HOLLY SPRINGS -- Four members of the Holly Springs Fire Board of Commissioners were charged Monday with violating the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act. Board Chairman Ryan Phillips, Vice Chairman Roscoe Kyle, and boa…
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Firefighter Christopher Wheatley, Truck 2, Chicago Fire Department dies from fall. Happened during early morning West Loop restaurant fire.
Fell 35-feet to the ground just after midnight.
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Residents Turn in Petition
HOLLY SPRINGS -- Election officials are working to verify signatures on a petition to move Holly Springs residents closer to choosing their fire commissioners. Henry Laye, county director of registrations and elections, said Mary-Lu Elias submitted th…
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“I do not proposition women. I don’t have to. Women usually proposition me. God has blessed me like that.”- Chicago Fire Commissioner John Brooks.
"He would say, 'I am a breast man. I want a wild woman,' " Green claimed. "I said, 'I don't like this picture.' He felt I was subordinate to him."
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Second firefighter in Chester, Pennsylvania makes a statement with stars and stripes. Wears cap with upside-down American flag.
Flag controversy in Chester City heats up.
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Ladder wreck in Quebec
Quebec ladder turns over responding to a call.
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Two-alarm house fire. Video and before picture from Wood-Ridge, New Jersey.
Video of two-alarm house fire in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey.
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Getting back to our roots. Revisiting Durham’s Gregson Street Guillotine.
Previous Gregson Street coverage including StreetView tour
Watch profile of photographer Jurgen Henn
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Firefighter James Krapf gets second day of suspension for refusing to remove American flag from his locker. Chester City, PA Fire Commissioner James Johnson says “it isn’t about patriotism”.
Second day of suspension for firefigter who doesn't want to remove American flag from his locker.
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Buffalo house fire. Fireground audio and video.
Video and fireground audio from Buffalo house fire on Friday.
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Boss out after sleeping by 911 call taker surfaces. Warren County, Ohio’s Frank Young resigns when details emerge of call taken in connection with high profile murder case.
The director of emergency management in Warren County resigned Friday in the wake of an investigation of his department after a 911 dispatcher was accused of sleeping just prior to answering a call in a high-profile murder case.
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Firefighter takes day suspension rather than remove American flag sticker from his locker. The controversy from Chester City, Pennsylvania.
In Chester City, Pennsylvania a battle over following orders and the American flag is brewing. Firefighter James Krapf was sent home without pay yesterday after refusing to remove a flag sticker from his locker.
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Stroller and baby struck by train. Baby survives. Watch the video.
Police in Australia say a 6-month-old baby has miraculously survived a train hitting his stroller that had rolled onto the tracks.
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Quick takes
Quick takes for Friday: Our makeover; Baltimore medic suspended; Former firefighter says he was supervised by drunks; Videos from Gary and Waterbury; Fort Myers Beach chief to stay; Colorado Springs facing big cuts; New New Haven lawsuit.
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Baltimore City paramedic disciplined after declaring gunshot victim dead who wasn’t. Medic suspended without pay for 29 days.
Paramedic gets 29 days without pay after declaring gunshot victim dead who was alive.
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