The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to confirm the appointment of Deputy Chief Kristin Crowley who will become the first woman to lead the Los Angeles Fire Department. The appointment would be effective March 26, when Chief Ralph Terrazas is scheduled to retire. "I think it's so fitting for this nomination to come to council today, on the first day of Women's History Month,'' Council President Nury Martinez said.
- PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles

PHOTOS: Fire officials this week took to social media to remember a firebombing at a local mattress factory that the FBI classified at the time as the “largest arson case” nationwide. Tuesday marked 47 years since an enormous blaze ripped through the B.F. Goodrich Sponge Rubber mattress factory — now, the site of the city’s riverwalk — in one of the biggest industrial arson cases to hit the nation.
- PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register

As of Tuesday, some Colorado Springs residents may hear something different when they call 911. "A unit will respond when a unit is available," call takers will say to residents in the south part of town who contact the emergency service for non-emergency situations — for example, when symptoms indicate the flu, a sprained ankle or a fractured hip.
- PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Gazette - Metered Site

Alarm of a different kind is what the Parma Heights Fire Department discovered late last year leading to emergency construction work at the Pearl Road fire station. “The fire station was inspected by a qualified construction company,” Parma Heights Fire Chief Matt Bernard said. “It was under their recommendation that the building’s structural integrity needed to be addressed before a catastrophic failure.
- PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland.com

Crews have reopened one lane of a highway after a landslide near Auburn. The slide blocked off both westbound Highway 18 lanes between Highway 167 and Weyerhaeuser Way. Anyone who was trying to go westbound is being forced off to find another route. The Valley Regional Fire Department posted a photo of the debris, which is shown coming down through the retaining wall and onto the roadway.
- PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle