VIDEO: It was probably the last thing Matt Olechnowicz expected when he asked a valet at a Biscayne Boulevard parking garage to get his car about 6 p.m. Tuesday. Olechnowicz told reporters that a short time later his custom 2005 Acura TL plunged down an elevator shaft and burst into flames. “When I called for the car, all the sudden I hear my car alarm going off and I hear a big bang.
- PUB DATE: 1/30/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sun Sentinel

A years-long legal battle between Marshfield and former Fire Chief Kevin Robinson ended earlier this month after U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Groton rejected an age discrimination lawsuit Robinson filed against the town, ruling the complaint did not have enough merit for the case to go to trial. Robinson resigned as Marshfield’s fire chief in March 2015, shortly after he and his brother, Capt.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wicked Local Marshfield

Spangler Fire Company shot back Monday at recent criticism and accusations of mismanagement circulating in social media. “It is unfortunate, with today’s technology and the existence of social media, that scurrilous assertions can so easily be made without accountability and/or proof of the statements made,” the fire company said in a statement provided by its attorney, Richard Corcoran of Homady & Corcoran LLC in Ebensburg.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Tribune-Democrat

A liquid oxygen spill Monday prompted closure of the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital and the postponement of surgeries, but no injuries were reported. Firefighters were sent to the facility at 4650 Lincoln Blvd. about 8:40 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. "The liquid oxygen spill originated from a sheared pipe on a 2,000- gallon tank," said Margaret Stewart of the LAFD.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles

City leaders are accused of failing to stop racial discrimination at the Lansing Fire Department after an African-American firefighter found a banana on the windshield of his assigned truck, according to allegations listed in a federal court case. The fruit was "pinned between the windshield and wiper blade obviously placed there to harass and intimidate" him and another African-American firefighter, according to the civil complaint filed this month in U.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit Free Press