The Burlington Rescue Squad will hire temporary workers to help fill time slots for emergency medical technicians. In an agreement between the nonprofit squad and the city, the city will handle the hiring of the temporary workers but their salary will be paid for by the volunteer squad. The squad, a private entity run under the auspices of the Burlington Rotary Club, also serves the Town of Burlington.
- PUB DATE: 12/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

Retired Worcester firefighter John Griffin recalled how much it meant nearly two decades ago when other city employees stepped in to relieve the city’s fire personnel while they mourned their six colleagues killed in the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. fire. Saturday, Mr. Griffin and some of his fellow retirees from the department will pay that favor forward to the city’s current firefighters when they grieve for Christopher J.
- PUB DATE: 12/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette

VIDEO: Orlando firefighters are being credited with helping to save a woman and her car after they got stuck on railroad tracks in downtown as a freight train approached. The rescue was captured on cellphone video by Nolan Thompson on Wednesday night. According to Orlando fire officials, people started banging on the doors to Fire Station 1 at approximately 11:20 p.
- PUB DATE: 12/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKMG-TV CBS 6 Click Orlando

Three people were injured, including one seriously, after a car crashed on an off-ramp from I-5 in South Seattle Sunday night. The car was exiting the southbound lanes at Albro Place. South when the driver apparently lost control and went off the road to the right, rolling over onto the shoulder. One person inside was able to get out, but firefighters had to work for several minutes to get out the other two trapped inside.
- PUB DATE: 12/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000