Except for a Vallejo firefighter who got a $2 million payout for wrongful termination, the list of California’s highest-earning public employees for 2016 is dominated by medical personnel – surgeons, physicians, psychiatrists, hospital directors – and a few investment officers from CalPERS, the world’s largest public employee retirement system.
- PUB DATE: 6/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register

Four employees of the Billerica Fire Department have been handed lengthy suspensions and one demoted following a town investigation into a months-long sex scandal, first reported in April. "All employees involved have acknowledged violations of the rules and regulations of the department and have accepted the discipline that has been imposed by the town," said Town Manager John Curran, in a statement posted to the town's website Wednesday.
- PUB DATE: 6/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Republican

A poorly performing computer program at the Knox County E-911 Center is placing law enforcement officers and firefighters in danger by depriving them of updated information on emergency calls, authorities said Wednesday. The $6.2 million Intergraph Computer Aided Dispatch program went online two years ago and has been problematic ever since.
- PUB DATE: 6/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Knoxville News-Sentinel

A Yakima house is now unlivable after a fire blazed through the back yard and back side of the building. Firefighters went to the house located at the 1400 block of Fairbanks Avenue and found flames coming from all of the windows and a door on the back of the house around 4:07 a.m., June 21. Officials with the Yakima Fire Department (YFD) said piles of refuse in the back yard had also caught fire.
- PUB DATE: 6/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kimatv.com

Salt Spring Island (British Columbia, Canada) Fire Department pumper-tanker. Freightliner M2 cab and chassis; Cummins ISL 350-hp engine; Hale MBP 1,000-gpm PTO pump; APR polypropylene 3,000-gallon tank.