Before dawn Monday morning, the chief of the Fire Department of New York City was walking alone through a new memorial on the edge of Fort Benning. It was an odd place for the top firefighter in the nation’s largest city to start his work week, but James Leonard said there was no other place he would rather be.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Honolulu investigators can't determine the cause of a deadly high-rise apartment building fire that resulted in more than $107 million in damage, fire officials said. "The HFD fire investigators have completed an extensive and scientifically based investigation in full collaboration with other agencies and have classified the fire cause as undetermined," Fire Chief Manuel Neves said at a news conference Monday.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: McClatchyDC

His crew had just finished putting out a grass fire when Santa Rosa Fire Chief Tony Gossner’s radio crackled at about 10 p.m. “We’ve got a fire at Safari West and it’s coming our way,” the dispatcher said. The wildlife preserve set in Sonoma County’s thickly wooded hills was just 6 miles away, and Gossner knew that it was a uniquely dangerous spot.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle

VIDEO - The Mustang Fire Department is receiving a lot of praise online after video of one of their fire safety performances for a local elementary school went viral. The Mustang Fire Department has become known for their entertaining and memorable skits they do to help kids remember tips for fire prevention.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFOR-TV NBC 4 Oklahoma City

I first met Alan Brunacini in the 1980s, when he was teaching one day of a weeklong leadership program I was attending in Massachusetts. We had lunch together that day and like most of the thousands of people who knew him, I was charmed by the man and his stories, his humor and his insights. Over the years, our paths crossed again many times, as presenters at conferences, while attending events, and once when I was privileged to be invited to participate in his annual Baggers meeting in Phoenix.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1