Two fire departments are mourning the loss of Erik Shouse, a Mill Creek paramedic and a Camano Island fire commissioner who died this week. Shouse served most of his 15-year career assigned to a medic unit at Station 76 in Mill Creek. He suffered a cardiac arrest at his home Sunday, according to Snohomish County Fire District 7.
- PUB DATE: 4/27/2018 1:56:30 AM - SOURCE: Everett Herald

CORRECTION - Yesterday's headline on this story mistakenly said Chief Scott was taking a position in Albany, New York when it should have read Albany, GEORGIA - Albany City Manager Sharon Subadan announced at Tuesday’s Albany City Commission meeting that Cedric Scott has been named the city’s new fire chief.
- PUB DATE: 4/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Albany Herald

A Muncie firefighter had a close call after a driver hit him and took off. First responders were on the scene of a gas leak near McGalliard and Reserve Street Thursday morning. Police officers and firefighters were helping direct traffic due to road closures. Surveillance video from a nearby business shows a firefighter motioning a vehicle and then seconds later he tries jumping out of the way to avoid a driver hitting him from behind.
- PUB DATE: 4/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FOX59.com

New York City will add the name of a firefighter who died in 1935 to the Fire Department of New York's memorial wall, the city's law department said Wednesday, ending a year-long struggle by his descendants who insisted his death was due to an injury he suffered while battling a blaze. The grandson of firefighter Tom O'Brien went to court in October to get him added to the wall that honors those firefighters who died as a result of a fire.
- PUB DATE: 4/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Post Star

Fires and twisted wreckage do not intentionally create harm, but a man with a gun lying in wait is an entirely new and different menace to the fire service. In the early morning hours of April 24, members of the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a reported fire south of downtown LA. While extinguishment was an expected knockdown inside a two-story home, gunshots ringing out during overhaul were not.
- PUB DATE: 4/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1.com