Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer urged the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator to award the City of Newburgh a third grant that would prevent the layoffs of nine firefighters this summer. Schumer advocated for Newburgh’s Fire Department in a call last week to FEMA Administrator Brock Long as the agency considers whether to approve the city’s application for $1.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Middletown Times Herald-Record

A firefighter died Sunday of liver failure after contracting hepatitis C from blood transfusions he received for burns he suffered in a blaze many years ago. According to the U.S. Fire Administration, Perth Amboy Fire Department firefighter Douglas Ambrozewycz was working with Protection Hook & Ladder Company #1 to battle a blaze at a bakery in 1983 when he fell through the floor into the fire below.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1.com

Authorities found 55 people inside an air-conditioned tractor-trailer Tuesday night in a Northeast Side alley. San Antonio Fire Department Chief Charles Hood said firefighters responded to a call to aid police at 8:20 p.m. in an alleyway near the 8400 block of Laurelhurst Drive. Hood said the people found, including men, women and a few teens, were well hydrated.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Antonio Express News

A Euclid Fire Captain says it’s still difficult to think about the July 3, 2016 fireworks accident that could have cost him his life. “Right after it happened, I remember thinking to myself that I think I am going to die and I don’t even know where I am or what happened,” said Fire Capt. Jay Northup.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJW-TV MyFox Cleveland

New Buffalo Township (MI) Fire Department, mini-pumper. Ford F-550 cab and chassis; Ford Power Stroke 6.7L engine; Darley 375-gpm pump.