VIDEO - Several girls leapt from the balcony of an Edgewater building early Monday evening to escape roaring flames that ripped through their dance studio and other businesses as people rushed with ladders to mount a frantic rescue effort. None of the girls was seriously injured, though 10 to 15 suffered minor injuries in the harrowing escape, which was captured on video, according to borough Mayor Michael McPartland.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NJ.com

The bus driver convicted of negligent homicide in January for a 2016 crash on Interstate 10 in LaPlace that killed an on-duty firefighter and two other men received the maximum 15-year prison sentence on Monday. Denis Amaya Rodriguez, a Honduran immigrant who was in the country illegally, also was fined $5,000.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Advocate

The long-tangled case against a San Francisco firefighter accused of drunkenly plowing his fire rig into a motorcyclist in the city’s South of Market neighborhood — only to then run to a nearby bar to chug water — ended in a guilty plea on a significantly lesser charge, prosecutors said Monday. Michael Quinn, who resigned from the San Francisco Fire Department after the 2013 crash, pleaded guilty Friday to one misdemeanor count of delaying an arrest and was sentenced to two years probation, bringing an end to an unusual saga.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle (SFGate.com)

The firefighters wore full gear, including their breathing systems, and carried a hose as they waited outside the front door to enter an abandoned house and put out a fire. Brian Cox wore a black overcoat and carried a camera as he approached the front door to record video of the firefighters extinguishing the fire.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Richmond Palladium-Item

A groundbreaking program at the Tucson Fire Department to help people and save money is showing significant progress in its second year. The Tucson Fire Department receives hundreds of 911 calls each day. The department’s infrastructure of people and machines is designed to handle around 65,000 calls per year but Captain Brian Thompson says the actual number of calls is more than 92,000.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGUN-TV ABC 9 Tucson