Doctors told Steve Dillman the throat cancer he was diagnosed with in 2008 came from smoking. He knew it didn't. "I thought it had to be job-related because I've never smoked a day in my life. I don't chew. I don't drink excessively ... and that's the three main criterias," he says. But Dillman did spend 38 years as an Indianapolis firefighter — and that included running into burning buildings.
- PUB DATE: 1/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NPR

At the request of Mayor London Breed, the San Francisco Fire Commission is reopening its selection process for a new chief, after the firefighters union raised concerns that number of in-house candidates with long firefighting experience was insufficient. According to Fire Commission President Ken Cleveland, the Human Resources Department forwarded 36 candidates to the commission, along with their answers to eight pages of questions on everything from management and budget issues to emergency medical and high rise fire procedures.
- PUB DATE: 1/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle

Family, friends and community members paid their final respects to a longtime volunteer firefighter who died in the line of duty in Thurston County. “John was an amazing guy,” said Chief Warren Peterson, with the East Olympia Fire District. Capt. John Ostergard was a 27-year volunteer with the department.
- PUB DATE: 1/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO 7 Seattle

An FDNY firefighter is dead after falling nearly 60 feet off the Mill Basin Bridge in Brooklyn Sunday night. Fire officials say Steven Pollard, 30, of Ladder Company 170 was responding to a two-car accident with injuries around 10 p.m. on the bridge along the Belt Parkway. NY1 is told he slipped through a gap in the bridge and fell 52 feet into a construction site below, as he crossed from the eastbound to the westbound lanes.
- PUB DATE: 1/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spectrum News NY1

One Eastern Iowa firefighter was killed and another was seriously injured when an explosion rocked an ADM plant. Eric Hosette, 33, died Saturday in the incident at the Archer Daniels Midland plant in Clinton. Adam Cain, 23, was in critical but stable condition Saturday night at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, officials said.
- PUB DATE: 1/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Gazette