The FDNY’s diversity monitor has billed the city a stunning $23 million in fees and expenses in his seven years — and the charges have only gotten steeper. Mark S. Cohen’s yearly tab has risen from $1.6 million in 2012 to $4.9 million in 2018, bringing his total so far to $22,923,840.36, records reviewed by The Post show.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

History was made this month by the Quapaw Nation Fire/EMS Department when it officially became the first tribal department to be accepted into the Oklahoma State Firefighters' Association that represents thousands of state and volunteer firefighters. Formed in 1894, the OSFA is the longest standing national association in the state of Oklahoma, according to Administrative Director Sheri Nickel.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Joplin Globe

Can a landmark Supreme Court case rooted in New Haven translate into compelling theater? Audiences will be the ultimate judges when Good Faith: Four Chats about Race and the New Haven Fire Department has its world premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven running Feb. 1-23. Yale Rep commissioned playwright Karen Hartman (The Book of Joseph) to develop a theater piece centering on a controversial labor law court case that began in New Haven in 2004 and went to the Supreme Court in 2009 in Ricci v.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Connecticut Magazine

VIDEO: As ice rescues become more common across the Front Range, emergency departments are turning to a second set of eyes in an effort to save people faster. North Metro Fire has been using drones for about a year, but this week, they added a new feature: infrared technology. "What we're looking for is holes in the ice.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KDVR-TV FOX 31 Denver

When Ron Swanson started in 1967 as a volunteer firefighter with the former Whatcom County Fire District 2, the Geneva fire hall was a garage that held two aging pumpers and a loft where the guys would meet. Homes didn’t have smoke alarms, only a handful of Americans knew CPR, and defibrillators to shock a dying heart weren’t portable and easy to use.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald