#fire apparatus staging #LODD COWETA COUNTY GA Firemedic Michael Norton funeral @FireApparatus1 #gafire @jamesweblabs @cowetageorgia pic.twitter.com/IGBrXLkFNb

— Shane Shifflett (@ffshifflett) March 7, 2017

According to the USFA, "Firefighter-Paramedic Norton worked an early morning residential structure fire on March 1st. At home, several hours later, Firefighter Norton was found by his wife in medical distress. She called 911 and responders treated Norton then transported him to the hospital where he succumbed to a nature and cause of fatal injury still to be determined."

She was blue when her neighbor found her at lunchtime, unconscious and slumped in an overstuffed leather chair. Minutes later, her studio apartment is crammed with people in uniform who have been summoned to save her. Getting there after the 911 call had been excruciating, even with light afternoon traffic: an 11-block drive with sirens wailing, followed by a cramped ride in a slim elevator that crept slowly toward the ninth floor, as if powered by AAA batteries.
- PUB DATE: 3/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seattle Times

A construction worker called 911 as he frantically honked his horn to warn other workers away from a fire at an unfinished apartment building in Overland Park — one of 69 calls reporting a massive blaze and flaming embers raining down on nearby homes. The 911 dispatch recordings, released to The Kansas City Star on Thursday, reveal workers’ and residents’ frantic pleas for firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 3/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kansas City Star

Pushback from Belle Haven residents forced Menlo Park’s fire district to drop a plan to seize two residential properties to expand its station. About 50 residents packed Tuesday night’s meeting of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District, held inside a small classroom at its 300 Middlefield Road fire station.
- PUB DATE: 3/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mercury News

A fire chief in Kansas finds himself the target of anger and frustration over, of all things, stickers. Sedgwick County certainly isn’t the first fire department to wrestle with a "stickergate" controversy. I’m guessing most departments have had at least one. That helmet and apparatus decals could set off a department-wide dust up is not surprising.
- PUB DATE: 3/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1