VIDEO: Orange County commissioners agreed this week to fund a mental-health training program intended to help first responders and others struggling to shake free of the horrors they saw at the Pulse nightclub massacre. “Forty-nine innocent people killed at one time,” said Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings, who responded to Pulse as the county sheriff on June 12, 2016.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orlando Sentinel

The Seattle Fire Department aims to respond to most emergency calls in eight minutes or less. With one of their main thoroughfares about to close, the Highway 99 viaduct, can they still maintain that standard? “Certainly it may take longer to respond,” said Deputy Chief Ron Mondragon. The fire department has a multi-layered plan to get first responders through the potential gridlock during the Seattle Squeeze, the three weeks starting Jan.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING 5 TV Seattle

Mashpee Fire Lt. Nicole Stanley realized just how important banning harmful chemicals in flame retardants is when she was diagnosed with occupational cancer last summer. “Now that I’ve been diagnosed with cancer, it’s an eye-opener to me. I thought I was protecting myself,” Stanley told the Herald. Doctors have attributed Stanley’s rare form of breast cancer to exposure of carcinogens in her 28 years of service on the Mashpee Fire Department, she said.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald

The FDNY will start training firefighters on how to safely pass gaps in elevated bridges after one of New York’s bravest plunged to his death from a span in Brooklyn on Sunday, Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. “We will try to ensure this never happens again in our city,” Nigro said outside the wake for Steven Pollard, 30, on Wednesday night.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

VIDEO: California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday pledged fresh investments to prevent, fight and escape wildfires, including millions to help local governments improve their communication during emergencies and a fee to fund an update for the state’s 911 system. At a fire station in the fire-prone Sierra Nevada foothills, Newsom outlined $105 million in new fire-related spending on top of $200 million approved by lawmakers last year.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS 13 Sacramento