The Cle Elum City Council authorized Mayor Jay McGowan to sign an inter-local agreement with the town of South Cle Elum for emergency services (fire and medical) at a council meeting on Tuesday. The resolution reestablishes an agreement the two departments had prior to June 15, 2009, in which both departments responded to each other’s emergency calls.
- PUB DATE: 8/10/2017 1:53:04 AM - SOURCE: Ellensburg Daily Record

Everything failed in an instant. Severed lines snuffed out power to the command center directing the emergency response to the deadly Gatlinburg wildfires the night of Nov. 28 and plunged firefighting and rescue efforts into darkness and chaos. Sevier County began releasing records Wednesday documenting the confusion caused by the collapse of communications systems as fire swept into the city.
- PUB DATE: 8/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Knoxville News Sentinel

Nearly two dozen Palm Beach County firefighters are suing a publicly-traded company claiming a siren it produces for emergency vehicles robbed them of their hearing. In the lawsuit filed this week in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, current and former firefighters for Palm Beach County Fire Rescue and West Palm Beach and Boca Raton fire departments say Federal Signal Corp.
- PUB DATE: 8/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Palm Beach Post

Five firefighters were hospitalized after battling an electrical fire in the borough Wednesday afternoon. At 3:30 p.m., Fame Fire Company was dispatched to North Darlington Street at the corner of West Gay Street for a report of an odor of smoke. Fire crews arrived to find an active house fire. After firefighters entered the building, a distress call was sent out because Assistant Chief Mark Scanlon had collapsed and lost consciousness due to what is believed to be carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning.
- PUB DATE: 8/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Coatesville Daily Local News

One firefighter recruit has been fired and three others resigned because of a noose found hanging over a black firefighter’s seat, Pompano fire officials say. An investigation into the noose, which was found at the Pompano Beach Fire Training Center, concluded Wednesday. Pompano Beach Fire Chief John Jurgle said he acted as soon as he heard last month about the racist symbol, which was directed at the only black recruit in a class of six.
- PUB DATE: 8/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sun Sentinel