The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), through their Safety, Health and Survival Section and in cooperation with the Emergency Responder Safety Institute, are urging all fire chiefs and officers to immediately issue a safety and survival alert in their departments. During an emergency safety and survival alert, personnel are urged to postpone non-emergency tasks to focus on critical safety and survival training.
- PUB DATE: 2/4/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: IAFC.org

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.