The chiefs of Wicomico County’s volunteer fire companies said they cannot support a fire service agreement between the county and the city of Salisbury, citing disputes over funding and territory for the new Station 13. The Wicomico County Fire Chiefs Association voted unanimously to reject the contract that was signed in April by Mayor Jake Day and County Executive Bob Culver, according to a letter from Joe Morris, the group’s president.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Delmarva Now

The Chief of the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department (SDFD) called out the department's union leader for making false claims regarding disaster assistance in Texas. "It’s absolutely inappropriate to politicize and personalize this disaster when Texans are suffering and this disaster isn’t over yet," SDFD Chief Brian Fennessy said in a statement.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNSD-TV NBC San Diego

PHOTO - Fire Lt. Peter Francis was filling out a police report stating he had lost his prized firefighter’s helmet Tuesday when one of his fire brothers told him he was needed back at the fire station. Francis was convinced the helmet, which he bought almost 30 years ago and lost at a call scene the week before, was gone forever.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seacoast Online

Police are looking for a gunman after a Charleston ambulance was hit by gunfire Tuesday morning. Charleston Police say medics responded to a call around 2:50 a.m. for a man with leg pain near Central Avenue and Vine Street. Police say after the ambulance arrived, shots rang out and that the person in need of medical attention ran and took cover.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSAZ-TV NBC 3

Richardson (TX) Fire Department 100-foot rear-mount aerial quint. Cummins ISX12 500-hp engine; Hale Qmax 2,000-gpm pump.