The interim Sioux Falls fire chief sent a department-wide email Tuesday night ordering firefighters to bar former Chief Jim Sideras from any fire stations or the fire headquarters building. The warning from Interim Chief Brad Goodroad came hours after news broke that authorities had served a search warrant at Sideras' Sioux Falls home on Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Argus Leader

Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert’s opponents are again criticizing her record on public safety, drawing a rebuke Wednesday from the city’s police and fire chiefs. The commercial in question, paid for by Firefighters for Better Government, says Stothert’s policies are “stretching Omaha’s police too thin.” It also criticizes Stothert for police patrols near her home.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Omaha World-Herald

California’s firefighting agency plans to discipline two employees blamed for forcing the state to redo a battalion chief examination for nearly 500 employees, the department’s director said Thursday. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection notified 488 applicants that they will have to retake the promotion exam this summer because the initial test “had significant irregularities.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOVR-TV CBS Sacramento

"Good Morning America" anchors Michael Strahan and Jesse Palmer marked International Firefighters' Day today by shadowing Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) firefighters as they fought a simulated fire at the FDNY training facility on Randall's Island in New York. The facility, nicknamed "The Rock," features a mock restaurant that can be lit on fire.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News

Four people were injured, one of them critically, in a fiery crash Friday morning along a busy Federal Way highway, police said. Emergency crews responded to the scene, in the 35600 block of Pacific Highway South, at about 5:15 a.m. after receiving reports of a serious collision, said Cathy Schrock of the Federal Way police.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO News