After a pair of illegal fires within the Quilcene Fire Rescue (QFR) district during the burn ban, two demands for reimbursement were issued to property owners for their expenses, which added up to more than $4,000. In the amount of $3,790, an invoice was delivered to a property owner on McDonald Road for the expenses to extinguish an out of control brush fire on July 8, during the established burn ban.
- PUB DATE: 8/22/2018 4:55:11 AM - SOURCE: Port Townsend Leader

Verizon Wireless' throttling of a fire department that uses its data services has been submitted as evidence in a lawsuit that seeks to reinstate federal net neutrality rules. "County Fire has experienced throttling by its ISP, Verizon," Santa Clara County Fire Chief Anthony Bowden wrote in a declaration.
- PUB DATE: 8/22/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ars Technica

Mike Beadle, Palm Coast’s longtime fire chief, will be retiring in September and his second-in-command, Gerard “Jerry” Forte, will take the reins of the department, city officials announced Tuesday. City Manager Jim Landon formally appointed Forte, currently the deputy fire chief, to take over in Beadle’s stead during Tuesday’s City Council meeting.
- PUB DATE: 8/22/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daytona Beach News-Journal

The panel that oversees the Los Angeles Fire Department voted Tuesday to give the agency’s internal watchdog “unfettered access” to the disciplinary files of its firefighters, nine years after voters created the post to assess the agency’s handling of misconduct complaints. The Board of Fire Commissioners unanimously changed its policy to give the watchdog, known as the Office of the Independent Assessor, the power to obtain unredacted interview transcripts, evidence and other records generated over the course of a discipline case.
- PUB DATE: 8/22/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Times

PHOTO - A kindergartner rode to his first day of school in style fulfilling the wishes of his late father. Last week, Cooper Brooks, 5, arrived in a fire truck alongside dad Christopher Brooks' colleagues from the Sullivan County Volunteer Fire Department. Christopher Brooks, a father of three and volunteer firefighter, died May 7 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.
- PUB DATE: 8/22/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News