Atlanta has work underway on four new stations, and Mayor Andre Dickens is asking for four more.

After touring some of the city’s deteriorating fire stations and listening to stories about broken equipment and staffing issues, Dickens told Fox 5 an increase in the department budget is in the works for his June budget proposal.

Dickens also is asking voters to approve bond measures on the May 24 ballot. One of the measures has $58 million included for fire house improvements.

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A crew of over 150 responded to a wind-driven fire at a pallet yard late Tuesday night in Phoenix. According to Phoenix Fire, crews arrived at the scene near 35th Avenue and Buckeye Road just after 10 p.m. on May 17 and immediately called for backup. When additional firefighters arrived, a surround and drown operation was established, "with elevated master streams and flowing big water to suppress the flames and keep them from extending to nearby businesses.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSAZ-TV FOX 10 Phoenix

Two local firefighter’s unions made clear Tuesday that they do not support the Firefighter Safety Act because it “seems poised to unreasonably restrict” them from performing their duties. The Baltimore Fire Fighters Association and the Baltimore Fire Officers Association in a six-page letter to the Baltimore City Council described their grievances with the bill, which regulates the way firefighters respond when a vacant building is on fire.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJZ-TV CBS 13 Baltimore

VIDEO: The Los Angeles Fire Department had a big day over the weekend after becoming the first fire department in the country to have an electric fire engine. The truck was unveiled Saturday morning outside the LAFD historical museum in Hollywood. It's been assigned to Station 82, and was custom-made by a company in Austria that builds firefighting tools and equipment.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles