When Lt. Jamaal Perry returns home after finishing a 24-hour shift at 8 a.m. as a Milwaukee Fire Department paramedic, he usually gets the same question: "Did you have a bad night?" his wife, Dana Perry, asks. Most mornings, he says simply, "It was all right." Perry tries to leave his work at the firehouse, to not let the violence he sees on the job come home with him.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: milwaukee journal sentinel

The man who helped build the Colo volunteer fire department and led it as chief for 32 years has died after a three-year battle with cancer. Mark Farren died Sunday. He was 58. Farren was being remembered Monday as a dedicated community member who upgraded equipment and training for the fire department in the eastern Story County community of about 875 people.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ames tribune

Most fire trucks and ambulances run by the Compton Fire Department have been stripped of defibrillator machines, a crucial lifesaving device that rescuers use to deliver a shock and try to restart the heart of cardiac arrest victims. County regulators ordered the department to remove the devices last week after fire officials were unable to produce documentation showing Compton firefighters had been properly trained to use the equipment.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: los angeles times

The Fourth of July may be over, but the work continues for the Clovis and Fresno Fire Departments as they compile all the firework-related fires and crimes committed during the holiday weekend. Clovis Fire Chief Micheal Despain said he expected Sunday night to be just as busy because people may continue the Fourth of July celebration through the whole weekend.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: yourcentralvalley.com

The disgraced son of former FDNY Commissioner Sal Cassano never should have been permitted to rejoin the department after his racist Twitter rant — and was only allowed to because of a “horrific double standard,” furious department sources said Friday. In what one senior FDNY official called “definitely a violation of standard protocol,” Cassano let his son, Joe, resign from his probationary position as an EMT in March 2013 after posting the offensive tweets, instead of being axed.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post