Grays Harbor Fire District 5 is hosting a visit from Santa on Saturday, December 21st. Getting in a little pre-season warm-up, the jolly old elf is going to be visiting as many places as possible throughout rural Elma, Malone, Porter and Satsop areas of East Grays Harbor County, with help from 4 sets of volunteers and fire trucks.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2019 9:32:48 AM - SOURCE: KBKW 1450-AM & 94.7-FM

Forks Fire Chief Bill Paul reports that recently, at the Regional State Fire Academy Class, number 19-05, two members of Clallam County Fire Protection District 1 graduated. The class of 21 recruits were from Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap counties and the training was held in Port Angeles. Avery Ironhill and Keith Thompson represented the Forks Department.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2019 6:30:24 AM - SOURCE: Forks Forum

A Front Range fire chief and former firefighter has died from a rare form of cancer that’s believed to be job-related. Troy Jackson worked with South Metro Fire Rescue for nearly 30 years. He passed away today after a six-year cancer battle. Doctors diagnosed Jackson with adenoid cystic carcinoma in 2013.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Colorado Public Radio

Mayor Anthony Copeland struck back Tuesday against the city council in their fight over who controls the city firefighters’ work schedule. John Bushemi, the city council attorney, announced Tuesday night to the council’s public safety committee that the mayor is suing to keep in place a new swing shift he imposed this month on firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Northwest Indiana Times (nwitimes.com)

Fire Chief Scott Burnette has said a captain's decision to respond to a 2012 medical call in a routine, nonemergency fashion did not delay life-saving efforts, despite accounts of two former firefighters who said the patient died but might have been saved with quicker action. Burnette's Dec. 14 statement about the seven-year-old incident brought surprised reactions from a former Asheville Fire Department chief and an ex-captain of the station involved with the call, who said responding to a "difficulty breathing" call as a nonemergency was highly unusual and did not seem appropriate.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Citizen-Times