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How the Redlands Fire Department will spend $437,487 Grant from Department of Homeland Security
How the Redlands Fire Department will spend $437,487 Grant from Department of Homeland Security
Posted: Sep 26, 2017

How the Redlands Fire Department will spend $437,487 Grant from Department of Homeland Security

The Redlands Fire Department has been awarded $437,487 from the Department of Homeland Security's Assistance to Firefighters Grant program, according to a news release from Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-San Bernardino. The department will use the funds to buy 64 new Self Contained Breathing Apparatuses to outfit the entire department and replace existing equipment that is more than 15 years old, according to the release.

The Redlands Fire Department has been awarded $437,487 from the Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant program, according to a news release from Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-San Bernardino.


The department will use the funds to buy 64 new Self Contained Breathing Apparatuses to outfit the entire department and replace existing equipment that is more than 15 years old, according to the release.


The funding will also cover the cost to train personnel on repairing and maintaining the equipment.


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Posted: Sep 26, 2017

Kalama Fire pickup theft may have been inside job

Cowlitz County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a man on allegations that he stole a Kalama fire district pickup, and the suspect is a seasonal firefighter for the agency. Rian Tyler Struckman, 39, who listed his address as “transient” according to deputies, was booked into the Cowlitz County Jail Saturday on suspicion of burglary, trafficking of stolen property, theft of a motor vehicle and driving with a suspended license.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2017 2:27:41 AM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News
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Posted: Sep 26, 2017

Wisconsin fire department EMT paralyzed in 2003 ambulance crash dies

A former Mosinee Fire Department EMT has died - 14 years after he suffered crippling injuries when his ambulance rolled over, according to the fire department. Matt Deicher died Saturday. The ambulance rolled over on state Highway 39 in Marathon County in July 2003 as Deicher and two other EMTs were transporting a patient to the hospital.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9-Wausau
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Posted: Sep 26, 2017

South Dakota fire chief finds positive outlook amid tough times

Brad Goodroad found a love for fighting fires while working construction. He developed an interest after talking to another construction worker’s father, who was a full-time firefighter. Growing up in a small South Dakota town with a volunteer fire department, Goodroad hadn’t ever considered firefighting as a full-time job.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sioux Falls Argus Leader
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Posted: Sep 26, 2017

First FDNY EMT infected by HIV while on duty honored 20 years after her death

Twenty years after the city of New York turned its back on Tracy Allen Lee, the FDNY emergency medical technician was honored Monday for the selfless act that ultimately took her life. In November of 1989, Lee was barely two years into her career when she treated a patient with Aids while responding to a call.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPIX-TV PIX 11
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