The Los Angeles police union will oppose Measure FD, a sales tax ballot measure backed by firefighters that would raise funding for the Fire Department to add stations, staff, and equipment.

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Take a walk around the Fuller Road (NY) Fire Department's new rig, a Rosenbauer rescue-pumper that it calls its "do-everything vehicle."

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Eldridge City Council voted 5-0 to establish a city fire department and hire a fire chief, ending months of talks with volunteers over oversight, budget control, and transition terms.

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A 1.18-acre fire on Shenanigan Ridge destroyed Petrolia Fire’s repeater site, cutting local radio, pager, and NEST emergency communications for the community.

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A new bipartisan bill aims to expand death benefits for federal wildland firefighters who are killed in the line of duty from $10,000 up to the level of funds given to military families.

Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Utah Sen. John Curtis introduced the “Honoring Fallen Wildland Firefighters Act,” which would address the gap in survivor support by raising the death gratuity paid to families of fallen wildland firefighters.

The current maximum benefit for survivors of federally employed wildland firefighters killed at work is $10,000. If approved, the benefit would be raised to match the up to $100,000 provided to military families.

The benefit would apply to federal, state and local wildland firefighters and also eligible contractors who die on or after January 1, 2026.

The senators say the legislation would make sure the families of wildland firefighters killed because of their job would receive a one-time death benefit.

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