Kinloch firefighters say they won’t show up for work until the district board is overhauled. Assistant Fire Chief Tim Rhodus said 19 volunteer firefighters went on strike Saturday because they say they have been disregarded by board leadership. “The entire district, all of its members, have just taken a leave of absence today as a strike against the administration and their blatant disregard, lack of respect and racial discrimination for the firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A city firefighter was met with gunfire after stopping to help a driver who crashed Saturday afternoon in South Baltimore, police said. The fire department commander was not hit, and the driver — a 38-year-old whom police said stole the car — ran away. He was arrested by police after a short foot chase.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

After a 2011 civil grand jury report excoriated Oakland’s building services division, concluding that some inspectors were keeping property records in their desk drawers rather than a central database, the city purchased a multimillion-dollar software system to bring the department into the 21st century.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle

Upper Augusta Volunteer Fire Company, Sunbury, PA, pumper-tanker. Western Star 4700 cab and chassis; Cummins ISL 450-hp engine; Darley LSP 1,000-gpm pump; APR polypropylene 3,000-gallon tank.

Not all classrooms are set in school buildings and lecture halls. In the common area of South Whidbey Fire/EMS Station 31 in Freeland, an eclectic group of students surround a patient sitting upright. A retired physician, an aspiring armed serviceman in his 20s and an active medical researcher work together to apply a neckbrace and Kendrick Extrication Device — basically a back brace — before lifting the patient and laying him on the ground.
- PUB DATE: 4/9/2017 1:11:03 PM - SOURCE: South Whidbey Record