Fire service and homeland security leaders discussed issues ranging from wildfires in the wildland-urban interface and improving firefighter safety to fostering more diverse and inclusive fire departments at the U.S. Fire Administrator’s Summit on Fire Prevention and Control on Tuesday at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Md.
- PUB DATE: 10/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Homeland Security Today

Firefighters help their community. They respond to emergencies, but what if there’s an emergency in their personal life? Houston Fire Department is hosting a new clinic to help firefighters navigate hurdles in their nuptials, so they can continue to safely and effectively serve their community. Executive Assistant Fire Chief of Houston Fire Department Rodney West said, “It is an opportunity for men and women who take more home than sometimes they bring when they leave a shift to enhance themselves in a personal world.
- PUB DATE: 10/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPRC-TV NBC 2 Houston

VIDEO: On Saturday, Oct. 8, the emergency room staff at St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale had to call in firefighters to help treat patients. The fire chief, Jason Christian, said a charge nurse called around 10:30 p.m. and said her staff was drowning and they needed help. “She expressed that this was a bit of an unprecedented request, and she said the conditions in the emergency room were horrible,” Christian said.
- PUB DATE: 10/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

AAA is raising awareness on Kentucky’s Move Over Law, which looks to protect those who put their lives on the line while keeping roads and drivers safe. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Association, 28 people were killed in Kentucky after being hit while outside a disabled vehicle between 2016 and 2020.
- PUB DATE: 10/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVQ-DT ABC/MyNetworkTV 36 Lexington

Crews battled a two-alarm fire at the Port of Vancouver early Thursday morning. Just after 5:30 a.m., Vancouver Fire crews were called out to a fire in a grain elevator off Harborside Drive. Crews arrived to the scene and found a working fire in a conveyor between a grain silo on shore and a barge on the water.
- PUB DATE: 10/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPTV FOX 12 Portland