Firefighters are always looking out for each other, even if they haven’t answered an alarm in more than three decades. A 90-year-old retired FDNY firefighter who had been missing for 36 hours was safely returned home early Saturday after a keen-eyed smoke eater — 63-years his junior — saw him wandering down a Bronx street.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

Firefighters and national chemical safety groups are praising Maine's new law banning flame retardants in furniture. Maine lawmakers this week overrode Republican Gov. Paul LePage's veto of a law that supporters said would reduce firefighters' exposure to carcinogens. Starting in 2019, a person can't sell upholstered furniture whose materials contain more than one percent of a flame-retardant chemical.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MainePublic.org

Houston firefighters are accusing Mayor Sylvester Turner of standing between them and a voter-approved pay raise by failing to ensure a petition they submitted last month is certified in time to appear on the November ballot. Turner rejected any suggestion that he has involved himself in the City Secretary's effort to verify their petition, and his office on Thursday said an offer by the fire union to cover any staffing costs needed to count their signatures is being examined as a possible attempt to improperly influence a public official.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle

The turf war is back on between the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and the Orange County Fire Authority over whose helicopters should respond to rescue calls. A proposed agreement in which both agencies would share rescue calls was pulled from next week’s Board of Supervisors agenda because of opposition from fire officials and city council members in Santa Ana, Tustin and Yorba Linda.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register

PHOTO - Sometimes, when a tree falls in the woods, someone is there to see it. In the case of a Richmond volunteer firefighter, he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Fortunately, the 45-year-old Richmond resident, a 13-year veteran of the department, escaped serious injury after a large branch suddenly broke off of a tree along the north side of Division Road at about 7:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Voice