Detroit firefighters and emergency technicians are being fitted for body armor, although union officials say the ballistic vests that were purchased last month aren’t right for the job because they don’t protect against stabbings. Detroit Fire Commissioner Eric Jones told The Detroit News in May he had secured funding to outfit his employees with the protective gear.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit News

An Indianapolis firefighter accused of shooting his neighbor during an altercation in Johnson County last month will not be charged. Dean Keller, 49, was accused of shooting his neighbor, Jeffery Weigle, 59, four times in the chest, sending him to the hospital in critical condition. In a release sent out Wednesday, the Johnson County Prosecutor’s Office said Keller had acted in self-defense and would not be charged in the shooting.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRTV-TV ABC 6 Indianapolis (The Indy Channel)

A volunteer firefighter has been released from a La Porte jail after slamming his pickup truck into a child's bedroom Tuesday night. Blake Stevens was suspended from duty from the La Porte Fire Department, and said he is going to resign. Stevens also offered an apology to the family whose home he crashed into, and to any firefighter he said he's embarrassed by the crash.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: abc13.com

A fire that appeared to start in a grill spread to the side of a rental home in the Carter Park neighborhood Wednesday night. Firefighters were called to the Sunset Terrace Apartments, 3102 Kauffman Ave., shortly before 10 p.m. Mike Decker, the home’s tenant, said his young daughter was over that evening, and they had settled in to watch television.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2017 11:48:41 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

Eureka (MO) Fire Protection District EXT 109-foot Smart Viper aerial quint. Commander 4000 cab and chassis; Cummins ISX15 600-hp engine; Reyco Granning independent front suspension.