PHOTO - Firefighters near Rochester, N.Y., weren't going to let a pizza customer go unsatisfied after the delivery driver got into a car crash. Engine 642 of the Henrietta Fire District, in West Henrietta, responded to the wreck Saturday afternoon, in which a pizza delivery employee was injured. "Once the patient was cared for and loaded into the ambulance the crew decided to finish the delivery so the pizza wouldn't go to waste," the department wrote on Facebook.
- PUB DATE: 6/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox News

A 45-year-old fire captain has died and another firefighter is in stable condition after both were shot and wounded when a gunman opened fire at a Long Beach senior housing facility early Monday. Fire officials said the firefighter who died was Long Beach Fire Department Capt. Dave Rosa from Fire Station 10.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles

A firefighter/EMT with the Paint Creek Joint EMS/Fire District lost his life Sunday after an accident at the district’s station near Rainsboro. Early Monday morning, Paint Creek released the name of the victim, firefighter/EMT Joe Patterson. “It is with deepest sympathies that we have been informed that our brother has been called home and answered his final alarm and did not survive the injuries inflicted by the accident,” said public information office Branden Jackman in an earlier press release.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Times-Gazette

A 40-year FDNY veteran who oversaw rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site after 9/11 has succumbed to cancer linked to his efforts at ground zero. Chief of Fire Prevention Ronald R. Spadafora has passed away at the age of 63, Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. Spadafora is the 178th member of the department to die of illness related to the September 11 attacks, according to Nigro.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC 4 New York

The IAFC today thanked Congress for final passage of the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act (H.R. 931), groundbreaking legislation which will create an anonymous, voluntary registry for firefighters at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “Modern medicine does not fully understand why firefighters experience cancer at rates much higher rate than the general public,” said Chief Thomas Jenkins, IAFC President & Chairman of the Board.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs