Brad Goodroad found a love for fighting fires while working construction. He developed an interest after talking to another construction worker’s father, who was a full-time firefighter. Growing up in a small South Dakota town with a volunteer fire department, Goodroad hadn’t ever considered firefighting as a full-time job.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sioux Falls Argus Leader

Twenty years after the city of New York turned its back on Tracy Allen Lee, the FDNY emergency medical technician was honored Monday for the selfless act that ultimately took her life. In November of 1989, Lee was barely two years into her career when she treated a patient with Aids while responding to a call.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPIX-TV PIX 11

A Superior Court judge questioned new East Greenwich Town Manager Gayle Corrigan Friday about the circumstances surrounding her hiring and her decision to fire a firefighter because he lacked paperwork showing he was certified. Judge Susan E. McGuirl asked Corrigan if she knew the Town Council planned to name her acting town manager before the council made the move in executive session June 19.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Providence Journal

The man who fatally shot a Prince George’s County firefighter answering a 911 call died last week, according to his attorney and his sister. Darrell Lumpkin, 63, had suffered a stroke and was in the hospital for a few weeks before being released, said Lumpkin’s attorney, Brian K. McDaniel. About a week later, Lumpkin died of a heart condition, McDaniel said.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Washington Post

As Buster Snow watched flames jump from his burning SUV to the back of his and his neighbor's adjoining home, the 42-year-old Wilmington man wondered where the fire department was. He remembers seeing ambulance workers and police officers watching the fire that afternoon, but Engine No. 3, the Wilmington Fire Department pumper engine stationed less than five blocks from his home, was nowhere in sight.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilmington News Journal (Delaware Online)