VIDEO: BSO Fire Rescue has a new tool it is using to help the public and save lives. Local 10 News got an exclusive look at their upgraded EMS rescue helicopters. Meeting up at Pompano Beach Air Park, BSO showed Local 10 what the twin Eurocopter EC135 helicopters can do. They are dedicated to EMS missions and have been branded as ‘Firestars’ with a completely different black, red and gold color scheme.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPLG-TV ABC 10 Miami

VIDEO: DeKalb County firefighters saved one of their own after he fell through the floor while trying to put out an overnight hotel fire. Firefighters responded to the Oyo Hotel near the Wesley Chapel Road and Interstate 20 exit around midnight Monday morning. They found smoke pouring out of the three-story building.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAGA-TV FOX 5 Atlanta

In 1974, the television program “Emergency!” made Paul Brouwer, 72, keen on becoming a firefighter. “It was all the rage at the time,” he recalled. The current township emergency manager since 1991, he spent about 30 years in the Clinton Township Fire Department before retiring in 2004 as deputy chief of operations.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: C&G Newspapers

According to DHEC, South Carolina firefighters are reaching a milestone of 200 naloxone administrations for suspected opioid overdoses this year as of October 21st. The Reducing Opioid Loss of Life (ROLL) program trains any fire department to administer the opioid antidote naloxone, including departments not staffed with emergency medical technicians.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCIV-TV ABC 36 Charleston

Chief Joe Sanford is a few months away from celebrating 40 years as a firefighter. The biggest change over four decades? The fire itself. “The rate at which fire burns has changed, mostly because the furniture in modern homes is often made with synthetics,” he says. “We need to arrive at fires faster — it’s gone from a 30 minute response time to five minutes.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bothell-Reporter