The IAFC Board of Directors has issued a call to action for fire service leaders to urge governors in their states to opt into FirstNet. “We urge IAFC members and state fire chiefs associations to make their voices heard and participate in the process to recommend to governors that they should allow FirstNet to build out the radio access network (RAN) in the state and to not opt-out and build out their own RANs,” the board said in a statement adopted July 24 in Charlotte, N.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs

A teenager came into the firehouse at 6500 Michigan Avenue on Monday night looking for a soda, and walked out with a paramedic’s purse and keys to a firefighter’s pickup. The burglary happened around 7:30 p.m. during a shift change as emergency medical crews were talking outside the station in the Carondelet neighborhood.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Concord Fire Chief Mark Cotreau will become the next fire chief in Rye, New Hampshire. Selectmen in the seacoast community approved a three-year contract July 24 paying Cotreau $83,200 annually, according to Rye Town Administrator Michael Magnant. His first day on the job is Sept. 11. “The two words we kept hearing were ‘integrity’ and ‘honesty,’” Magnant said of responses from people the town interviewed during a background check on Cotreau.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wickedlocal.com

One local fire department made some major changes after going through a six-month audit in 2016 that garnered a lot of attention. Hubert Volunteer Fire Department was put in the spotlight both locally and with online firefighter websites when Onslow County withheld quarterly funds from them pending the submission of a correct audit, according to the department’s chief, Joseph Williams.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: JDnews.com

The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and Pierce Manufacturing Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK) company, today announced the 2017 winners of the annual “IAFC Fire Chief of the Year” awards at Fire-Rescue International (FRI) in Charlotte, N.C. Career Fire Chief Marvin Riggins of the Macon-Bibb County Fire Department in Macon, Georgia and Volunteer Fire Chief Brian Wade of the North Lenoir Fire & Rescue Department in Kinston, N.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs