A lack of training, an unclear strategy and flawed communication contributed to the 2016 deaths of three Wilmington firefighters in Canby Park, according to a report published by federal investigators on Friday. The report from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is the result of an investigation launched within weeks of the Sept.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilmington News Journal (Delaware Online)

More than two dozen people were hospitalized Friday afternoon after an FDNY engine and a city bus collided in the Bronx, officials said. Firefighters from Engine 46 were responding to medical emergency about 12:15 p.m. in Mount Hope when it turned left from E. 175th St. onto Webster Ave. — right into the path of a BX41 bus.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

While hundreds of families wait in agony to learn the fate of missing loved ones, officials gave a gut-wrenching forecast on the fate of California's Camp Fire: It's not even halfway done burning yet. Since the Camp Fire erupted November 8 in Butte County, it has killed 77 people, destroyed more than 10,500 homes and torched an area the size of Chicago.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN

Mayor Hardie Davis offered his support to the city’s Fire/EMA department at a news conference Friday and announced a series of meetings to address concerns about it. “For the last several months, this community, elected officials, local government, the media and others have engaged in what seemingly is a never-ending discussion about public safety,” Davis said.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Augusta Chronicle

Houston’s credit outlook has taken a hit after residents earlier this month voted to pay firefighters the same as city police officers. Fitch Ratings this week downgraded the city’s credit outlook from “stable” to “negative,” saying the anticipated $100 million annual cost of the Proposition B charter amendment will hamper the city’s spending ability and could lead to a downgrade in the its AA bond ratings in the future.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle