VIDEO: A special moment of communication between a boy and a Manchester fire lieutenant was caught on camera, and the video has now gone viral. It was a brief interaction, but Manchester resident Amy McCall said the 39-second encounter will last a lifetime for her son, Tegan. "He's not going to forget it," she said.
- PUB DATE: 2/4/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMUR 9

VIDEO: It's a legal victory for the union that represents Watertown's city firefighters - the union can bring its dispute over staffing levels to arbitration. Just a year ago, a state Supreme Court judge ruled the union couldn't go to arbitration. Now a state appellate court has overturned that ruling.
- PUB DATE: 2/4/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WWNY.com

A Tacoma firefighter who is president of the firefighters’ union Local 31 was suspended for 30 days without pay after an investigation found he regularly used derogatory terms to describe women and those who disagreed with him. Ryan Mudie served the suspension from Oct. 29 to Nov. 20. “Your language and behavior are degrading and insulting and absolutely cannot be tolerated,” Chief James Duggan wrote in a Sept.
- PUB DATE: 2/4/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The News Tribune

These two aerials are shown on the scene of the Marcal paper factory fire on January 30, 2019 in Elmwood, New Jersey. 

Rick Chase met Andrew Vathis 25 years ago while they were working at Albertsons on the South Hill. Immediately, Chase said, he knew Vathis was a people-person because he would talk to everybody and treat them as a friend. “To him, working at the store was about the people,” Chase said. It’s that sense of friendship that drew more than 1,000 people to Ferris High School on Saturday for Vathis’ memorial.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2019 4:54:57 PM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review