As a frightening story in Monday's Washington Post shows, the American West is burning up. And the sad fact about wildfires is the more the West burns, the less money the federal government has to pay for it. In fact, the federal government hasn't had enough money to pay for fighting wildfires in at least a decade.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the washington post

A new report obtained first by FOX 5 blames a delayed response by D.C. Fire and EMS to a choking toddler on both technical errors and human mistakes. The 18-month-old boy went into cardiac arrest and later died after waiting more than eleven minutes for help to arrive. As FOX 5 first reported back in March, help was in a Tenleytown fire station just three blocks away, but was never put on the call.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTTG-TV MyFox 5 DC

VIDEO: The ability to run into a blazing fire is a special skill. Now, we can see just what our local firefighters did to rescue two dogs from a Springfield Home engulfed in flames. One of the Fairfax County firefighters who made the rescued shared his helmet camera video. The home at 7707 Carrleigh Parkway was destroyed in a July 19th blaze that started in the evening when no one was home.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV 9 DC

The battle ended Monday in a windowless State Personnel Board meeting room on Capitol Mall after 18 witnesses and six days of testimony. Whether former Cal Fire Assistant Chief Mike Ramirez wins back his job after all that depends on how effectively he put Director Ken Pimlott and department leaders on trial.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sacramento Bee

The Columbia Fire Department is mourning the death of one of their own when a 25-year-veteran firefighter died Sunday after falling ill earlier in July. Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins said Firefighter Tyron Weston, 51, fell ill on July 3 and was on his way to recovery when he died Sunday morning. Jenkins said Weston has been a member of the Columbia Fire Department since August 1990.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the state