The widow of a volunteer fire chief has won another shot at securing workers compensation benefits on a claim that her husband contracted fatal cancer from the smoke and diesel fumes he inhaled during decades on duty. Cheryl Steele got that second chance Wednesday when a state Commonwealth Court panel ordered the state Workers Compensation Appeals Board to reconsider its refusal to award her benefits for the August 2011 death of her husband, Roy.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: PennLIve

The two areas of greatest impact on the fire service are going to come in personnel management and professional development. We are about to face the biggest transition in personnel in the past 25 years. As we all know, firefighters retire in bunches; the difference now is in the type of employees our officers will be tasked with managing.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

Nearly a year after the village cut all eight of its paid firefighters, officials finally released documentation that drove that controversial decision — kind of. When the village voted to go to an all-volunteer department last May, it claimed to have 300 volunteer firefighters, a number that was cited to justify the change.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Journal News (Lohud.com)

Stationing firefighters and medics 24 hours a day at Trump Tower costs New York City taxpayers $4.5 million a year — none of which has been reimbursed to the FDNY, agency officials said Thursday at the City Council. A pair of firefighters constantly monitors the alarm panel of President Donald Trump’s namesake building and investigates alerts, said FDNY chief of department James E.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NewsDay

West Liberty (IA) Fire Department, pumper. Spartan Metro Star cab and chassis; Cummins ISL 450-hp engine; Hale Qmax 1,500-gpm pump