Starting in September, fire protection for Winfield Township's 3,500 residents will come from other communities. Township supervisors say they will direct Butler County 911 to stop dispatching the Winfield Fire Department to calls within the township because of what supervisors say are long-standing failures by the department to comply with changes sought by supervisors.
- PUB DATE: 5/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

EMS prehospital care reports have not been the focus of much research but there is a growing awareness that health care documentation in general is often incomplete and inaccurate. A team of researchers1 wanted to explore the role that memory error may play in how well EMS providers record prehospital care of patients.
- PUB DATE: 5/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: U.S. Fire Administration

At the age of 98, Jo Miller remembers as well as ever the last time she saw her late husband and fishing buddy suited up for work. It was three decades ago — 1988, the year Ben Miller retired from a career with the Santa Rosa Fire Department that he’d launched in 1956. After a huge City Hall retirement party, Ben and Jo Miller relocated to rural Oregon and spent many good times hooking salmon and steelhead in the Chetco River.
- PUB DATE: 5/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Multiple people have died as a result of a shooting Friday morning at a high school in the southeastern Texas city of Santa Fe, two law enforcement sources told CNN. This is the third school shooting in the past seven days, and the 22nd since the beginning of the year in the United States. A suspect in the shooting at Santa Fe High School has been arrested, assistant principal Cris Richardson told reporters near the school.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN

It's not just the fire that presents a danger. For firefighters, it's common to be exposed to a range of harmful toxins while extinguishing flames. Some of those toxins have been shown to increase the risk of developing cancer. A bill, which has passed the Senate and is in the House of Representatives, calls for the creation of a national firefighter cancer registry.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Poughkeepsie Journal.