Former Show Low Fire District Chief Ben Owens will pay $124,656 in restitution to the SLFD after pleading guilty to three felonies in connection with his daughter-in-law Natalie Bingham. Bingham stole about $1.8 million when she was district administrative manager, an amount likely to be the largest embezzlement from a special taxing district in Arizona history.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: White Mountain Independent

A campaign to oppose three proposed City Charter amendments backed by the local firefighters union began Thursday with the forming of a political action committee expected to raise “well north of half a million dollars.” The PAC, called San Antonians for Fiscal Discipline, was set up soon after City Clerk Leticia Vacek told the City Council that the San Antonio Professional Firefighters Association had collected enough valid signatures on its petitions to force a charter-amendment election.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Antonio Express News

Rosemarie Melanson can barely remember hearing a man speak to her after she was shot in the Las Vegas massacre. She soon blacked out and wouldn't recall anything about the next few weeks. The mother of four would spend six months in a hospital and endure nine surgeries. Last week, she finally got a chance to meet the retired Los Angeles firefighter who her family says saved her life.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN

Poulsbo Fire Department Deputy Chief Jim Gillard will become the agency's new fire chief July 1 following the retirement of current Fire Chief Jeff Griffin. Gillard has held a variety of roles with the Poulsbo Fire Department since he was hired as a firefighter and EMT in 1996, the department said in a news release.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kitsap Sun

A Coeur d'Alene firefighter's two-and-a-half-year-old son is in the fight of his life. Maddex McKeirnan has a form of cancer in the eye. Maddex's father Kellan grew up in Pomeroy, and knows the Garfield county firefighters well. Firefighters from across the Inland Northwest have come together in support of one of their very own.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KLEW TV