VIDEO: Dorchester County Council is considering taking steps to have the North Charleston Fire Department take over the area that is currently served by the Ashley River Fire Department, and shut the department down. The Ashley River Special Tax District was formed in 1979 to create the fire department because there was no fire protection near the area.
- PUB DATE: 2/22/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCBD-TV

VIDEO: Fire officials in Dauphin County are questioning how safe their paging systems are. Deputy Fire Chief of Hummelstown Fire Department, Leland Blough, says the pagers they use, requires them to look down and read fire calls, sometimes while driving, making them unsafe. The pagers were a 35 million dollar investment, purchased in 2010 by Dauphin County.
- PUB DATE: 2/22/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPMT-TV Fox 43

Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham accused the Waukegan firefighters union of fearmongering in its push to increase contractually mandated staffing levels. The city and Waukegan International Association of Firefighters Local 473 are in the midst of negotiating a replacement to a three-year contract that expired in April 2018.
- PUB DATE: 2/22/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune - Metered Site

A firefighter says his White Center home was broken into on Wednesday and several items, including a gun, were stolen. Colt Passey returned home from work to find the house he was living in had been ransacked and the back door was wide open. "Your most intimate spot has been invaded by someone and you get to go pick up the pieces of someone going through your things and looking through your pictures and seeing them thrown on the floor, and all your personal stuff strewn about," Passey said.
- PUB DATE: 2/22/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO 7 News

Chelan County Commissioners are meeting with State Department of Natural Resources officials to discuss planned forest health projects in advance of the 2019 wildfire season. Commissioners sat down with NCWLIFE’s Steve Hair for a preview of what will be discussed and how a forest thinning project in the Stemilt Basin could be used as a State model for catastrophic wildfire prevention.
- PUB DATE: 2/22/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: