The state's highest court won't let homeowners burned out by the Yarnell Hill fire sue the state for negligence. And that, according to an attorney for those affected, has bad implications for others who own property throughout the state. Without comment, the Arizona Supreme Court has spurned a request by the lawyers for those who lost buildings in the 2013 blaze that they should be able to make their case to a jury that the state, which was trying to contain the wildfire that started on public lands, also had a duty to protect their property.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Daily Sun

Thirty-four states in the U.S. have passed legislation recognizing that firefighters face an elevated risk for some types of cancers and offering varying levels of death benefits to surviving family, with a few even providing for disability payments to affected members who become too ill to continue working.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Smith Southwest Times Record

Washington, D.C., joined other area jurisdictions in using a potentially life-saving app that alerts people who know CPR to the location of people suffering heart attacks. People who have the PulsePoint app on their phones are alerted to 911 calls for cardiac arrest within a quarter mile of their location when they are in a city or county that uses the app.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Washington

On Saturday, the people coming up to Jeffersonville's firefighters at the Save the Fieldhouse Craft Bazaar weren't grimly bringing up the opioid crisis or devastating fires. Instead, they were smiling and laughing with the city employees. The cause of their joy, said fire Sgt. Justin Ames, was a lighthearted prank war between Jeffersonville's fire and police departments that started the Tuesday before and soon became a local sensation.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Jeffersonville Evening News & New Albany Tribune

Avila (IN) Fire Department pumper. Monarch cab and chassis; Cummins ISL 350-hp engine; UPF Poly 1,000-gallon tank; Waterous CSU 1,500-gpm pump.