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

VIDEO: A Kansas City firefighter is anxious for an arrest, after someone broke into his home and stole his belongings while he was on duty. The break-in happened Tuesday night around 9 o’clock in a South Kansas City neighborhood near Little Blue Road and Breckenridge Avenue. The victim, Sammy Belgiere, is an 18-year veteran and captain with the Kansas City, Mo.
- PUB DATE: 3/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDAF-TV Fox 4 Kansas City News

The fire apparatus is built on a Sutphem Monarch cab and chassis. It carries 750 gallons of water and 50 gallons of Class A foam.

 

So far this year, house fires have killed 11 people in Washington State, according to Rick Marshall, chief of the Renton Regional Fire Authority. Thankfully, Kathy Grainger wasn't one of them. She was asleep in bed in February when her smoke alarm woke her up. "It's overwhelming," she said. "I was traumatized that night.
- PUB DATE: 3/23/2017 8:22:33 PM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5