Seattle and its insurers have agreed to pay $65.75 million to the family of Brooke Taylor, an amount representing the largest individual personal injury settlement in the city’s history, likely the largest in Washington state and among the largest ever in the country. The sum covers ongoing care for Taylor, as well as lost future income, after she suffered a traumatic brain injury in a crash with a Seattle Fire Department ambulance in April 2016.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2019 6:12:35 AM - SOURCE: Crosscut

Retired Richmond fire marshal David Creasy wasn’t among the firefighters from across Virginia who packed a Senate committee meeting Tuesday. But Creasy, who died in October after more than four years of battling cancer, was well represented in the annual legislative battle to extend workers’ compensation benefits automatically to firefighters and other first responders stricken by certain forms of cancer they say are caused by exposure to toxic chemicals in the line of duty.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Richmond Times-Dispatch

VIDEO: Every riding member of the Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department is outfitted with a bullet resistant vest. In August fire crews were first on scene at the Landing when a gunman opened fire killing two people and injuring several others before turning the gun on himself. On Tuesday Chief Kurtis Wilson told Action News Jax the shooting made the department rethink safety protocol.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS 47 Action News Jax

VIDEO: Do you sleep with your door closed? A group of Maryland firefighters are reminding people to sleep with their bedroom doors closed — as it prevents fires from spreading quickly through the home. “THIS is why you should always sleep with you doors closed,” posted the Prince Frederick Volunteer Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJZ 13 Baltimore

Montgomery Fire Rescue shared an intense video of a house fire to their social media Wednesday. According to MFR’s Facebook page, the video is from a fire which happened around midnight in the 800 block of Buford Street. When firefighters arrived on the scene, the house was “fully involved” with flames and large amounts of smoke.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFSA 12 News