Firefighters responding to a house fire in the Harbor Gateway area had to drop their gear and find cover after hearing gunshots ring out Monday morning. Firefighters were on the scene of a fire on 154th Street near Orchard just before 5 a.m. in response to a structure fire. After they put out the fire at the two-story home, five to six gunshots rang out, forcing firefighters to drop their equipment and take cover.
- PUB DATE: 4/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCAL-TV Los Angeles

The Oval Office notwithstanding, there are very few workplaces left in the United States where women have not gained entry. But in one of the last places in the workforce where a virtual male monopoly endures — fire stations — it’s still possible in 2018 for departments to hire their first female firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 4/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune

PHOTO - A Hamilton Township police officer accidentally shocked a firefighter with her Taser while trying to get a patient under control. So, she apologized with a cake, according to the department's Facebook page. Officer Darcy Workman was helping the fire department on an EMS call last week. When they got to the hospital the patient became unruly.
- PUB DATE: 4/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKRC-TV CBS 12 Cincinnati

A raging inferno engulfed several businesses in the Bronx early Tuesday, sending a black plume of smoke into the air as ferocious flames licked the gear of hundreds of firefighters working to put them out. The FDNY says the four-alarm fire broke out around 5:30 a.m. at 316 E. 194th Street, near Marion Avenue, in Fordham.
- PUB DATE: 4/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNBC-TV NBC New York

The fire and fury caused by the 117 Fire was so destructive Tuesday, incident command directed firefighters not to fight the flames at first. The lack of initial response, though, was not unwarranted. Rather, the weather produced extreme fire behavior — a massive hazard for firefighters, who instead focused on evacuating families and livestock in harm's way.
- PUB DATE: 4/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOAA-TV NBC 5 & 30 Colorado Springs