Emergency responders in Las Vegas have spent years training to respond to a mass casualty event such as Sunday night’s massacre, officials said Thursday. “We knew what to do,” Clark County Fire Department Chief Greg Cassell told reporters. “It was much grander than we ever envisioned. However, we were able to handle it because of our people, our training, our professionalism and our equipment and our relationships.
- PUB DATE: 10/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal

As he pulls up to late night fire calls, Bill Weimer looks around and where he used to have 12 brothers by his side ready to put their lives on the line, he might only have five now. For Weimer, and so many other volunteer chiefs, this is now commonplace and something they have, begrudgingly, learned to deal with as volunteer firefighter numbers continue to decline.
- PUB DATE: 10/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pocono Record

A woman tried to stab a Tucson fire captain in the chest early this morning as he and other crewmembers were outside an apartment answering a 911 call, officials say. The captain’s thick protective jacket kept him from being wounded, Capt. Andrew Skaggs, said in a news release. The incident happened about 2:30 a.
- PUB DATE: 10/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Daily Star

The NFPA Standards Council has received a New Project Initiation Request from the fire service asking NFPA consider developing an ANSI Accredited Standard to establish the minimum requirements for the effective contamination control of fire department personal, their personal protective equipment (PPE), accessories, and equipment.
- PUB DATE: 10/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Fire Protection Association

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said he is “favorably disposed” to a bill that would provide medical coverage for volunteer firefighters who develop cancer from the job. The bill passed the state Senate and Assembly this year and awaits the governor’s signature. Gov. Cuomo, speaking in Watertown Wednesday following his $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative award announcement, said that the bill has not yet reached his desk, but it’s one he’s more inclined to support.
- PUB DATE: 10/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times