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Feb 04, 2010

Financial Hard Times Means Layoffs for Firefighters

Editor's Note: An abbreviated version of this article appears in the February 2010 issue of Firehouse Magazine, starting on page 60. Also read "Telling it Like it Is - Doing less with less. When will we learn?" and respond with your thoughts and concerns.

If there's any silver lining in the staffing crisis the fire service is facing currently, it's the fact that the federal government is preparing to open the spigot on $420 million in federal grants aimed at getting firefighters back to work.

Jan 15, 2010

Ohio Man Tried To Steal Fire Truck

CINCINNATI

A man was shocked with a Taser gun and taken into custody Thursday after police said he tried to steal a fire truck.

The incident occurred at about 2:30 p.m. on the 2700 block of North Bend Road.

Firefighters were responding to a medical call when the man came out of a home and began acting strange. Officers said the man jumped in a fire truck and revved the engine, but could not put the truck in gear.

Jan 14, 2010

Responding Ga. Fire Truck Crashes

Jan. 13--AMERICUS -- A GMC Suburban collided with a Sumter County fire truck at around 11:45 a.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Tripp and Lamar streets, causing no-to-minor injuries to the Suburban driver and no injuries to the firefighters, but resulting in major traffic congestion for about a half an hour.

Jan 13, 2010

Fort Hood Fire Chief Says Effects of Shootings Still Reverberating

Jan. 13--Billy Rhoads didn't think twice as he grabbed his flak jacket and radio and rushed to the scene at Fort Hood.

But the fire chief for the nation's largest military base said his 26 years on the job couldn't prepare him for what he saw.

"You can train all day long to handle mass casualty incidents," he said Tuesday. "What you can't do is be prepared for what you're going to see when you pull up on something like this."

Jan 12, 2010

Woman: Pa. FFs Stole Life Savings

Elderly Pittsburgh woman says she called for help with her furnace and lost $22,000.

PITTSBURGH --

An elderly Pittsburgh woman says she called for help with her furnace, and when firefighters from Station 13 left her house, a bag with $22,000 was gone.

WTAE Channel 4's Shannon Perrine reported that the woman -- who is in her 80s -- said she called 911 when her furnace went out and she couldn't get it started again. Firefighters arrived right away and went into the basement and got the furnace working again, according to a Pittsburgh police report.

Jan 11, 2010

Ind. Chief Who Suffered Heart Attack Visits Station After Hospital Stay

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Jan. 10--Hugs were plentiful Saturday as Logansport Fire Chief Bob McMinn returned to the central fire station for a visit.

McMinn, who suffered an apparent heart attack Sunday while fighting a fire, was released from Fort Wayne's Parkview Hospital Friday and stopped in to see the firefighters Saturday.

"It feels great to be back," McMinn said. "It feels really great.

Jan 11, 2010

Elderly Pa. Couple Killed in Fire

SALISBURY TOWNSHIP, Pa.

State Police say an oxygen tank ignited inside a Lancaster County home Saturday evening, starting a fire that killed an elderly couple.

Firefighters responded to the home in the 200 block of Cambridge Road in Salisbury Township around 6:30p.m., after the couple's son went to check on them.

Jan 11, 2010

Fla. Mayor Crashes New Fire Truck

Jan. 10--Grand Ridge mayor and volunteer firefighter Chris Wright may have cost the city up to $1,000 Thursday, after he struck a pine tree while driving the town's newest fire truck on a non-dispatched call.

According to the Floridan High Patrol report of the accident, Wright was attempting to turn around in a private driveway off Sand Basin Road when one of the fire truck's rear tires slid off a plastic culvert and into a ditch.

Jan 11, 2010

Fire Destroys Historic Texas Feed Store

Jan. 10--SAN MARCOS -- The fire that destroyed an historic feed store along with a pet shop was mostly under control about two hours after the call went out to firefighters.

An "all call" drew all on and off-duty firefighters and Hays County volunteers to the Amkon General Store on S. LBJ Drive around 2 p.m., said city spokes person Melissa Millecam.

Jan 11, 2010

Pa. FF Suspended for Alleged Off-Duty Home Invasion, Assault

Jan. 10--A Pittsburgh firefighter was among three men arrested early Saturday in what police say was a home invasion and assault that capped a night of drinking in the South Side.

Police accused firefighter Timothy P. Coyne, 23, and Brian A. Coyne Jr., 26, both of Keystone Street in Upper Lawrenceville, of assaulting Aaron Gilkey after he yelled at Brian Coyne for urinating on the front of his home about 3 a.m.

Jan 11, 2010

Pa. FFs Battle Frozen Hydrants

MONROEVILLE, Pa.

Emergency workers had to overcome frozen fire hydrants at a house fire Sunday in Monroeville, firefighters said.

The fire started at about 2 a.m. in the 200 block of Lilac Drive.

Firefighters said some of the hydrants were frozen when they arrived.

The fire was eventually brought under control in about two hours.

The American Red Cross provided two adults and two children with food and clothing.

The cause of the fire is being investigated.

Jan 11, 2010

Frozen Hydrant Delays Ga. FFs

MORROW, Ga.

Clayton County firefighters battled a stubborn blaze Sunday morning, and also had their hands full with a frozen hydrant.

Residents were evacuated from the Morrowood Townhomes in the 5900 block of Trammell Road in Morrow after a blaze broke out at about 11:25 a.m.

Residents told Channel 2 Action News reporter Richard Elliot that the fire started in unit C-5, and quickly spread to the other units in the building. Six townhomes were heavily damaged as a result.

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