No one warned Mark Rine that while he was saving others, he was killing himself. The bad habits that would ensure the firefighter’s death sentence started with his very first fire in 2007. Rine was supposed to help set up the ladder, but he ignored his orders, grabbed the hose and charged into the burning two-story brick house.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gatehouse Projects - Columbus Dispatch

Internal reports that the Orange County Fire Authority bungled its initial response to the Canyon Fire 2 are prompting Orange County Supervisor Shawn Nelson to ask colleagues for an independent investigation of the fire that burned 9,200 acres and destroyed or damaged nearly 60 homes around Anaheim Hills.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register

VIDEO - New video shows the moment a crazed driver tried to steal a fire truck after plowing his box truck into several cars near Times Square Sunday. Video of the scuffle shows the truck driver, who can be seen wearing a green T-shirt, frantically climbing in the driver’s-side door of a fire engine on 10th Avenue and 43rd Street.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

Tim Butler, who has been St. Paul’s fire chief for a decade, announced Saturday he will step down from the department’s helm. Butler asked the mayor that he be allowed to continue working at the fire department by returning to a lesser role he used to have. Butler has faced controversy, particularly in recent weeks.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pioneer Press

An African-American firefighter with the Kansas City Fire Department has been awarded $356,694 in compensatory damages following a race discrimination suit against the city. Tarshish Jones, a firetruck driver, claimed the department uses discriminatory practices in determining who is promoted. When the suit was filed in 2015, Jones had been employed by the department for 17 years and had been eligible for captain for 12 of those years.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kansas City Star