Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Hollie Gallagher has filed an order against the city of Cleveland, the director of public safety and civil service commission, saying the entities must conduct “competitive examinations and make promotions within the fire department,” she ruled Tuesday. The order mandates the city administer these within six months, court documents say.
- PUB DATE: 9/30/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland.com

The nauseating smell of smoke. The feeling of dark, gritty soot. The sight of orange-red flames flashing about the room. Those who’ve endured a fire say those memories never leave you. And sometimes neither does the memory of the one who saved you from it. Nearly 20 years ago, William Vantress, then 7, received third-degree burns all over his body after his younger brother accidentally set fire to the family home in the Willow Green Mobile Home Community.
- PUB DATE: 9/30/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Monroe Evening News

Sunday marked the 18th annual Tunnel To Towers 5K run and walk. Thousands followed in the footsteps of a hero. They were retracing the steps of FDNY firefighter Stephen Siller, who was on his way home on Sept. 11, 2001, when he got word of a plane hitting one of the World Trade Center towers. He turned back around, strapped on 75 pounds of gear and ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to help save lives.
- PUB DATE: 9/30/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

After deliberating several hours over two days, a jury on Friday convicted the man who set Augusta’s Twins Peaks restaurant on fire in the middle of lunchtime in 2017. The Richmond County Superior Court jury found Roland Croyle, 37, guilty but mentally ill of all 24 counts of arson, aggravated assault and criminal damage to property.
- PUB DATE: 9/30/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Augusta Chronicle

About 4,000 Benton County residents have almost no protection if a fire started in their home. That’s what the Washington Survey and Ratings Bureau says about the people living within five miles of the Badger Canyon Road fire station. The organization that tells insurance companies how prepared an area is for a fire gives the area a nine out of 10, with 1 being the best rating and 10 the worst.
- PUB DATE: 9/30/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tri-City Herald