Longtime rescue volunteer and current North Beach Volunteer Fire Department rescue captain Patricia Ann “Pat” Osburn died Saturday morning in the line of duty, the department reports. Osburn experienced a medical emergency while performing her duties as an emergency medical technician and was found unresponsive upon arrival at CalvertHealth Medical Center.
- PUB DATE: 5/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Southern Maryland Newspapers

After a 2016 investigation revealed gender bias and cultural problems within the Vancouver Fire Department, Chief Joe Molina had this to say: “We have to get better.” Now, 17 months later, the chief points to improvements made in the wake of the report: Stations were changed in ways the chief says better accommodates men and women working together.
- PUB DATE: 5/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

VIDEO/PHOTO - A sweet moment captured on camera between a Wells firefighter and the dog he rescued from a roof is getting national attention. A dog somehow managed to get onto the roof of his home through an upstairs window, prompting numerous calls to Wells police on Sunday. Police said “an awesome citizen” stood by the dog until firefighters arrived at the scene.
- PUB DATE: 5/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Portland Press Herald

No one in Michigan can say how often fire safety inspections happen at some of the riskiest buildings used by the public, where firefighters have battled at least 1,245 blazes in the last 18 months. The state fire marshal has never performed annual inspections of churches, theaters, restaurants and other "places of public assemblage," as required by a 1978 law enacted in response to a massive fire at a Kentucky ballroom that killed 168 people.
- PUB DATE: 5/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Battle Creek Enquirer

Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue, Tigard, OR, 100-foot heavy-duty aerial ladder tractor-drawn aerial. Quantum cab and tractor; aluminum body trailer.