Ed Hartin was just six weeks old when he attended his first fire. The blaze in question was just down the street from his house. His mother put him in his baby carriage and wheeled him down to the scene. At the time, his father was serving as fire chief in the area. “The firefighters that worked with my dad, they saw me there, and so they put my name on the incident report as one of the members who responded,” he said.
- PUB DATE: 11/8/2022 1:30:00 AM - SOURCE: South Whidbey Record

One person was seriously injured after an extra-alarm house fire in the Logan Square neighborhood Tuesday morning, the Chicago Fire Department said. The fire broke out in a three-story, single-family home in the 2400-block of North Washtenaw Avenue at about 6 a.m. and spread to several neighboring homes.
- PUB DATE: 11/8/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago

VIDEO/PHOTOS: A Rockland man believed to be the longest serving firefighter in New York State celebrated his 100th birthday on Sunday. Things were a lot different 80 years ago when Amiel D'Auria first volunteered for the Chelsea Hook and Ladder Company in Nyack. "We had to be right up in front of everything," said D'Auria.
- PUB DATE: 11/8/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News 12 The Bronx

VIDEO: The fire that lit inside a Chesterfield Firefighter two years ago launched a mission to tackle the stigma surrounding mental health among first responders who accomplish some of the most stressful and emotional work of any profession on a daily basis. Back in 2020, a close friend of Lt. Kenny Mitchell, who was also a firefighter, took his own life.
- PUB DATE: 11/8/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVR-TV CBS 6 Richmond

While police officers are often dispatched alongside other first responders when drug overdoses are reported, an analysis of hundreds of overdose events in one Rhode Island city found that there were scant incidents that actually needed involvement from law enforcement. “It was surprising and promising to find that arrests only occurred in about 1% of all cases of overdoses attended by police,” said Alexandria Macmadu, study co-author and a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Epidemiology at Brown University’s School of Public Health.
- PUB DATE: 11/8/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News from Brown