Niagara Falls is looking for new police and fire chiefs, after both incumbents resigned to take demotions that could prove more lucrative. Police Superintendent E. Bryan DalPorto will step down Dec. 31 and resume his old rank as a patrol captain. Fire Chief Thomas Colangelo quit in November and resumed his former rank as a battalion chief.
- PUB DATE: 12/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Buffalo News

When the chiefs of the three volunteer fire squads serving Upper Merion came to the township’s board of supervisors, they were desperate. We need some help, they said. Scraping together enough members to respond to emergencies was becoming difficult, especially during the day. The Montgomery County township’s population continues to grow and, with it, the number of calls to the all-volunteer companies based in Swedeland, King of Prussia, and Swedesburg.
- PUB DATE: 12/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer

Six years have passed since a gunman set fire to his Webster home and ambushed first responders as they arrived on scene. Michael Chiapperini, 43, and Tomasz Kaczowka, 19, were killed that morning as they stepped out of their vehicles on Lake Road, in an otherwise quiet neighborhood along the Lake Ontario shoreline.
- PUB DATE: 12/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Democrat & Chronicle

Camas city councilors approved the city’s biennial 2019-2020 budget at their Dec. 17 meeting but will have to wait until January to make a decision on funding additional positions in the Camas-Washougal Fire Department. During the budget process, Camas councilors have discussed the possibility of adding four firefighters and a deputy marshal or fire inspector to the department.
- PUB DATE: 12/25/2018 2:42:15 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

P.J. Farrell had a lot to look forward to on Christmas morning. Getting home, waking up his kids, seeing the excitement wash away the tired in their eyes, and watching as they opened the tightly wrapped presents underneath the family tree. But instead, at about 5 a.m., as he was finishing up his shift as a part-time newspaper courier for The Spokesman-Review, he got a phone call from his wife, Melinda: The house is on fire, come home now.
- PUB DATE: 12/25/2018 2:10:25 PM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review