The FDNY is considering stationing one less firefighter at its busiest engine companies as part of a cost-savings measure to cover rising medical leave, officials said Thursday. As early as next week, the Fire Department might stop assigning a fifth firefighter to the 15 engine companies that had the extra help.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

At least 22 people were killed and 40 injured Thursday when explosions ripped through several fireworks factories in a Mexican town that has a long history of deadly blasts. The explosions occurred in Tultepec, a town in Mexico state known as the country’s pyrotechnic capital and the site of a blast that claimed 42 lives in 2016.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles TImes

A Lake Travis firefighter has returned to work more than six weeks after a severe firetruck crash on FM 620 left her injured. According to Lake Travis Fire Fighters, Lt. Rachel Zambrano returned to work Tuesday after a six-and-a-half-week recovery. Lt. Zambrano was riding in the fire engine on May 16 when she noticed its engineer was suffering a medical emergency.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KVUE.com

Finding people willing to work as emergency responders is getting to be a tough task. A lack of trained paramedics and emergency medical technicians stresses emergency networks in Aberdeen and surrounding rural areas, said Keith Sharisky with Aberdeen Fire & Rescue. That's why the department is striving to become a paramedic education center that provides new training programs.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse.com

Firefighters and construction technicians finally freed a man whose hand has become caught in an excavator in Bellevue on Thursday afternoon. Crews were working at a gas station in the 13900 block of NE 20th Street when the incident happened around 3:20 p.m., according to Lt. Camari Olson with Bellevue Fire.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2018 6:12:22 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000