The FDNY is no longer just a boy’s club. Two women will be sworn into top positions in the department at FDNY headquarters in Brooklyn Wednesday, a historic moment for the male-dominated agency. Laura Kavanagh will be named the department’s first deputy commissioner while Elizabeth Cascio — who has served for more than three decades — is the department’s chief of staff.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

Bill Clayton, a wildland firefighting expert who saved countless lives and entire towns during a career that spanned 50 years, died Sunday at the age of 77 of natural causes at his home in Carlsbad. "He was a legend in the fire service," said lifelong friend and recently retired Cal Fire Battalion Chief Ray Chaney.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Diego Union-Tribune

A state Supreme Court judge ruled in the city’s favor to block arbitration over the “minimum manning” clause in its labor contract with the firefighters, which requires 15 firefighters must be on duty at all times. It’s been the main sticking point during the city’s 3½-year contract stalemate with the Watertown Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 191.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times

The top woman leader in the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department has resigned in a scathing letter to Chief Richard Bowers. Kathleen Stanley, who is one of only three women battalion chiefs in the fire department, was appointed by Bowers to be the Women's Program Officer. Her job was to help women in the department do their jobs without fear of harassment, misconduct or retaliation.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV 9 DC

The Fort Wayne Fire Department plans to be even more effective when responding to emergencies. By July, the department hopes to have nearly 80 firefighters trained in advanced life support on the crews of 18 of its fire engines, Chief Eric Lahey said Tuesday. That would allow the department to have firefighters trained in advanced lifesaving on every fire engine every day so they can start lifesaving care as soon as they arrive at an emergency situation.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Wayne News-Sentinel