VIDEO: The president of the largest flight attendant union wants the FAA to ban e-cigarettes from planes because their batteries could be a fire hazard. FAA data from 1991 through this August shows at least 48 e-cigarette related smoke or fire incidents at airports or on planes. That’s more incidents than laptops and tablets, cellphones, battery chargers or spare batteries.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFOR-TV CBS 4 Miami

Lexington’s 911 emergency center is struggling to keep up as fewer call takers and dispatchers attempt to answer a swelling number of calls and help an increasing number of police and firefighters, city officials said Tuesday. The Enhanced 911 Center answered 477,711 calls last year. Of those, more than 217,000 are 911 or emergency calls.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lexington Herald Leader

“The unicorn program.” That is how a recent student with the Bennington Rescue Squad described the organization’s year-long apprenticeship program. Bill Camarda, Deputy Executive Director, oversees the only EMS apprenticeship program registered with the state of Vermont. Bennington rescue launched its program in December 2018 and is in the process of interviewing applicants for its third cohort, said Camarda.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Vermont Biz

VIDEO: It’s been one year since a backyard bonfire changed Eli Beasley’s life. In a moment of carelessness, the professional firefighter tried to light a bonfire that had been doused in a gasoline mixture. He was instantly engulfed. Beasley was taken to University of Missouri Health Care’s Level 1 Trauma Center with burns over 75 percent of his body.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVO-TV ABC/CBS 3 Kirksville

The trees are really dense along a stretch of bumpy, narrow road outside Cle Elum in Kittitas County. After years of keeping fire off the landscape, the forest has grown close together. That means there’s more fuel when a wildfire does burn through this area. “The density of this, it’s just a wall.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Crosscut