Last night's NBC News segment featured an in-depth look at firefighter occupational cancer. The segment featured an interview with a Boston firefighter who is battling blood cancer and Fire Commissioner Joseph Finn, who called cancer rates in the fire service an "epidemic." According to the segment, three active or just-retired firefighters are diagnosed with cancer each month.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

The end of a nearly yearlong dispute between Mayor Lloyd Winnecke's office and the police and fire departments was reached Monday with a six-figure settlement. City Council approved using $300,000 of income tax revenue to end the lawsuit between the unions and city over the changes to the 2017 health insurance plan the city offered employees.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Evansville Courier & Press

The motorist who first reported the Canyon Fire 2 said Monday, Oct. 23 that he described the Oct. 9 incident as a fire, not as smoke. The distinction matters because Orange County Fire Authority officials confirmed Monday that the dispatcher’s first response was to send a single fire engine with lights and sirens off, a deployment known as a low-priority “smoke check.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register

Cranston’s deputy fire chief is back on the job even as he faces criminal charges tied to an alleged fight with a lieutenant. Cranston spokesman Mark Schieldrop confirmed to Eyewitness News that Deputy Chief Paul Valletta has been taken off administrative leave, more than a month after the city placed him on paid leave following his arrest.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Providence 12

A man who allegedly placed a pipe bomb in the woods behind a fire station in Ramsey, Minn. on Monday afternoon is being held in the Anoka County jail, police said. Officers found the bomb behind the station on the 5600 block of NW. Alpine Drive after a witness called police to report a man placing the device in an area between Station No.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune