The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and the IAFC Volunteer and Combination Officers Section (VCOS) today released a Yellow Ribbon Report exploring emotional and behavioral health issues in the fire and emergency service. “Under the Helmet – Performing an Internal Size-up: A Proactive Approach to Ensuring Mental Wellness” brings awareness about the fire and emergency services’ emotional and behavioral health problem and emphasizes the importance of changing the culture.
- PUB DATE: 7/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs

A former New York firefighter said stupidity, not racism, spurred him to set a fire that destroyed a black colleague's apartment. Matthew Jurado was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for the blaze at Kenneth Walker's home last August. Jurado pleaded guilty in May to arson. "What happened was a moment of stupidity and not thinking," Jurado said Friday.
- PUB DATE: 7/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Syracuse Post-Standard & Syracuse.com

When Moon Yun Pellerin's parents bought a 27th-floor apartment in a high-rise overlooking Waikiki about 15 years ago, they didn't realize the wave-shaped building had no fire sprinklers. "We didn't even consider it," Pellerin said. But a week after a massive fire broke out one floor below her apartment, killing three neighbors, Pellerin and her family "definitely want sprinklers" installed - even if it means spending thousands of dollars.
- PUB DATE: 7/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHNL/KGMB-TV Hawaii News Now

A firefighter battling the Detwiler blaze in Mariposa County was airlifted to a Fresno hospital after a firetruck crashed Friday morning. The truck reportedly rolled down an embankment and crashed through a gate into a field next to Mt. Bullion Cutoff Road. The firefighter, an unidentified male, was taken to Community Regional Medical Center.
- PUB DATE: 7/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fresno Bee

A fire is burning in the Pasayten wilderness in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest about 18 miles north of Mazama. It has grown to 100 acres since this morning and is continuing to spread to the east/southeast, said the United States Forest Service. Eight smokejumpers were deployed this morning from the North Cascades Smokejumper Base to suppress the fire.
- PUB DATE: 7/23/2017 10:47:41 PM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2