A volunteer fire company that broke away from the city of Salisbury nearly two years ago is no longer recognized by the Wicomico County Fire Chiefs Association after the group passed changes to its bylaws. Members voted 9-4 on Wednesday night to adopt a new bylaw that requires participating fire companies to have recognized territories, something that the Salisbury Independent Volunteer Fire Company is lacking.
- PUB DATE: 11/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Delmarva Now

Two firefighters were injured when a wrong-way driver slammed head-on into their engine on Interstate 5 near downtown San Diego Thursday morning, according to California Highway Patrol. A San Diego Fire-Rescue truck was responding to a pedestrian hit-and-run crash at about 2 a.m. when a Toyota Carolla, traveling the wrong way on I-5 at State Route 94, slammed into it, CHP said.
- PUB DATE: 11/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNSD-TV NBC San Diego

A report released Wednesday warns that Pennsylvania’s fire and rescue services face a crisis, saying the number of volunteers continues to fall amid funding needs and training challenges. The 95-page legislative study said there were about 300,000 volunteer firefighters in the state in the 1970s, a number that’s fallen to about 38,000 currently.
- PUB DATE: 11/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bucks County Courier Times

Firefighter Kelly Gall is suing the city of Austin for failing to prevent sexual harassment from former Austin fire Lt. James Baker, who pleaded guilty in October to filming Gall in a fire station restroom. In a civil lawsuit filed in Travis County this week, Gall says the city failed to take action against Baker, her former supervisor, for previous reports of inappropriate behavior.
- PUB DATE: 11/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman

Garfield Township Trustee Steve Duell used a metaphor of three farmers to describe why he believes the township should leave the Grand Traverse Metro Fire Department unless changes happen. These three farmers own farms of differing sizes — one small, one big and one medium, but each has equal say in what their neighbors do.
- PUB DATE: 11/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Traverse City Record-Eagle