One day in 2014, Dr. Jeffery Burgess was contacted by a Tucson firefighter about something that would set him on a research course for the next five years. The firefighter, John Gulotta, works for the Tucson Fire Department and he had a friend whom had been diagnosed with leukemia. Tom Quesnel was a fire investigator, one of the people who, after everyone else has packed up and left the scene, goes back in and tries to determine the exact cause and origin of the blaze.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: AZ Mirror

City firefighters are above average when it comes to job satisfaction and below average for employee burnout, according to a report released by the department last week. City firefighters were one of a dozen departments across the U.S. to participate in the Fire Service Organizational Culture of Safety Report, or FOCUS, seminar in Chicago last month, according to a news release from fire Chief Daniel Speigel.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Press of Atlantic City

Hundreds of first responders and community members gathered in Longview, Washington, Tuesday to remember Battalion Chief Mickel Zainfeld, a 25-year Cowlitz County firefighting veteran. Zainfeld took his own life Sept. 19, after battling work-related post-traumatic stress. He was diagnosed in March and had been put on medical leave.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Oregon Public Broadcasting

VIDEO: After multiple first responder suicides over the past month in Washington, public safety professionals are reminding one another about resources available to help them handle the stresses of their jobs. The Pierce County Professional Firefighters IAFF Local 726 union posted a tribute on its Facebook page, honoring two lives lost.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle

VIDEO: Seven people are dead and eight others injured after a vintage plane crashed Wednesday morning at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut. The Federal Aviation Administration said a vintage B-17 aircraft that is registered out of Stow, Massachusetts crashed at the end of Runway 6 around 10 a.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WVIT-TV NBC 30 New Britain