Thanks to some grant funding, Grant County Fire District 3 will beef up its firefighting force by the start of next year. District 3 serves the city of Quincy, Crescent Bar and the George areas. District 3 Chief Don Fortier said the $300,000 SAFER grant along with some matching funds will help the station round out its weekend staff, “we are primarily a volunteer station, it’s getting increasingly difficult to have the station adequately staffed on the weekends.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 3:25:33 AM - SOURCE: iFiberOne

A car fire in a driveway led to the house catching fire as well today, July 31, in the 26100 block of 221 Pl SE in Maple Valley. Maple Valley firefighters were dispatched at 11:08 a.m. to a car fire that was changed to a house fire after flames spread from the vehicle to a tree and then to the house.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 1:57:12 AM - SOURCE: Covington & Maple Valley Reporter

A retired New Jersey firefighter will receive full honors as a line-of-duty death after succumbing to injuries he sustained 24 years earlier. Former Perth Amboy firefighter Richard W. Leonard, 70, died Sunday from complications of toxic smoke he inhaled while battling a fire on April 19, 1993. Leonard was operating a pumper on State Street in Perth Amboy during efforts to contain a blaze at a plastics recycling facility and spent hours taking in the smoke and fumes without any breathing equipment.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

Lack of training, command presence and a failure to appreciate an extremely hazardous situation severely sickened and almost killed a firefighter trying to save three utility workers who were overcome by toxic fumes in a drainage hole 15 feet beneath a Key Largo street in January. Those workers died, and Key Largo Volunteer Fire Department firefighter Leonardo Moreno almost became the fourth fatality as he, too, was immediately hit with a deadly mixture of high levels of hydrogen sulfide and carbon monoxide as he entered the manhole on Long Key Road in the Lake Surprise Estates subdivision the morning of Jan.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FlKeysnews.com

A compass that would direct firefighters through unfamiliar and treacherous burning buildings started as a seed of an idea thought up by veteran firefighter Jeff Dykes. In three years, the Eau Claire fire captain’s idea turned into his own business, Northern Star Fire, which gained international interest and propelled Dykes to the national stage, where today he is one of 100 small-business owners who will participate in a roundtable with President Donald Trump at the White House.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram