A Superior Court judge said he will decide soon whether to block the state’s overseers from cutting the city’s Fire Department to save the city money. The city’s firefighters are suing the state and met for the first time Tuesday in court before Superior Court Judge Julio Mendez. Attorneys for both the city’s firefighters and state overseers predicted dire outcomes if the judge doesn’t rule in their respective favor, with the union raising public-safety concerns and the state invoking bankruptcy.
- PUB DATE: 3/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Press of Atlantic City

The parents of a University of Connecticut student who was killed in October after being run over by a campus fire department vehicle are suing the driver and the state over "the negligence and carelessness" that led to the young woman's death. Abraham and Shiny Chemmarappally, of West Hartford, filed the suit Feb.
- PUB DATE: 3/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hartford Courant

When the weather’s nice on the weekends, Jennifer Chisholm watches children flock to the end of her street in the Chimney Hill neighborhood. Two antique fire trucks are often parked in front of the house at the corner of Rosemont and Bunyan roads. “It’s a main street, so everybody’s like ‘Wow,’ ” she said.
- PUB DATE: 3/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot/HamptonRoads.com

VIDEO - A firefighter in China was caught in dramatic footage as he rappelled from the ninth floor of a hospital and kicked a suicidal woman back inside. The distraught woman in Ruzhou City opened an eighth-story window and sat on the ledge, where she caught the attention of passers-by and hospital staff, Asia Wire reported.
- PUB DATE: 3/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

Bismark (IL) Community Fire Protection District pumper. Enforcer cab and chassis; Cummins ISL9 450-hp engine; Waterous CSU 1,500-gpm pump.