The New York City Fire Department is looking for consultants to help it prevent doxing of its 16,000 firefighters, emergency medical technicians and administrative support personnel across the five boroughs. Doxing -- or the weaponizing of an individual’s personal information to punish, harass or to encourage threats – is a growing problem, potentially affecting anyone on the wrong end of a grudge, including police, poll workers and school officials.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: GCN

A measure sponsored by State Senator Sara Feigenholtz will allow Chicago firefighters to add MRSA to the list of occupational disease disability benefits if they contract the infection on duty. “In recent years, firefighters have seen increased staph infections, including MRSA,” said Feigenholtz (D-Chicago).
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Illinois State Democrats

Fire destroyed a small structure and damaged two others Monday morning in Wenatchee. Crews with Chelan County Fire District No. 1 and Douglas County Fire District No. 2 were dispatched to the blaze in the 800 block of South Chelan Avenue around 7 a.m. Fire district spokesperson Kay McKellar says the fire occurred on a parcel with a house that had previously burned down and that the destroyed outbuilding had been occupied prior to Monday’s fire.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPQ-AM 560 Wenatchee

Firefighters from multiple agencies responded in time to save a home from almost certain disaster at one point in Cashmere on Monday. Officials with Chelan County Fire District 1 say a fire broke out on a steep hillside just off of Old Monitor Road near the old bridge. The fire was reported at around 12:38 p.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: iFiberone

Investigators are still trying to figure what caused a Monday afternoon brush fire near Monitor that sent heavy smoke across Highway U.S. 2/97 and burned close to new home construction. The fire was reported at 12:38 p.m. on land in the 5000 block of Old Monitor Road, and crews were able put much of it out within a half hour or so.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPQ-AM 560 Wenatchee