Justin Sticker motions toward his right cheek and forehead, parts of his face that were replaced with titanium plates after a car accident almost took his life 21/2 years ago. He can recall the date - Nov. 12, 2014 - but little else from a night that put him in a coma for 16 days and left him with a collapsed lung, a bleeding brain and a catalog of broken bones.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Beaumont Enterprise

Officials from three fire agencies surrounding Santa Rosa who envision becoming a single firefighting agency were among scores of fire officials who met Saturday to hammer out a vision for improving Sonoma County’s complex and uneven firefighting delivery service. There is a fall deadline from Sonoma County supervisors to come up with a long-range plan streamlining the county’s nearly 40 fire agencies.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Santa Rosa Press Democrat

In theory, no one should ever be injured or killed during fire service training exercises. Training, by definition, should take place in a controlled environment, with specific goals, objectives and outcomes. Of course, this is a fallacy. Training fires are still fires. Creating training scenarios that mimic actual fire response will necessitate also including some of the risk associated with emergency response.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

On Sunday, 77-year-old Joe Vlach was killed in a cyclist accident just outside Poulsbo. He was hit by a car near the intersection of State Route 308 and State Route 3 in Kitsap County. “Last night I sat in this chair and I watched the driveway, waited for my dad to drive in on his bike,” said Vlach’s son, Scott on Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4

Buffalo Grove (IL) Fire Department 78-foot aerial ladder quint. Cyclone II cab and chassis; Cummins ISX12 500-hp engine; Hale Qmax 2,000-gpm pump.