An executive committee representing nearly 8,700 current and former Dallas police officers and firefighters has agreed to a $173.3 million settlement in their decades-old class-action lawsuits against City Hall over years of back-pay claims. The figure is an agreed-upon price that comes with caveats because it's not yet a done deal.
- PUB DATE: 5/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Dallas Morning News

Jeremi Roesler takes over as Julian fire chief Friday, succeeding five-year Chief Rick Marinelli and inheriting a firestorm. A battalion chief with Cal Fire’s Hemet-area Battalion 5, Roesler will be dealing with lawsuits, complaints of Brown Act violations, expected protests at the Julian fire station on state Route 79 and an angry citizenry that has petitioned twice to keep its last-in-the-county volunteer force.
- PUB DATE: 5/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Times of San Diego

A former 23-year veteran employee of the Kansas City Fire Department is suing the department for racial discrimination. In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, Travis Yeargans, who is black, says he's not the only one who has been discriminated against. The lawsuit claims KCFD has a "pattern and practice of not promoting African-Americans to any position above firetruck driver due to race.
- PUB DATE: 5/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCUR Public Radio

Although well-trained in the strategic and tactical aspects of firefighting, firefighters often receive too little training when it comes to handling the mental stress that accompanies the job. Firefighters make great personal sacrifices during emergency situations, but don’t always take the risks seriously.
- PUB DATE: 5/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

As demand for emergency fire and medical services grows, town leaders and the chiefs of the two fire departments have drafted a plan to boost collaboration and blur territorial lines. Released Tuesday, the strategic plan for the town Fire/Rescue/EMS and Eighth Utilities District departments is meant "to identify ways to work together to provide the highest level of service and the quickest and most effective response to the entire community," department leaders said in a prepared statement.
- PUB DATE: 5/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hartford Courant ·