Revenue constraints resulting in slower response times are making Clark County Fire and Rescue look at options to pick staff numbers back up with a ballot measure raising the fire levy likely in August, a press release from the department stated. CCF&R had 11 fewer firefighters in 2016 as a result of lost revenue after losing a bid for a service contract with Battle Ground, the release stated, leading to $2.
- PUB DATE: 3/1/2017 2:12:44 AM - SOURCE: The Reflector.com

There is a gaping hole in the fabric of the Spring Valley community after the unexpected death of longtime Fire Chief Terry Shafer, who died Saturday, Feb. 25 while on a weekend trip with his brothers. He was 62. Shafer joined Spring Valley Fire in 1979 and began wearing the white chief’s helmet in 1986.
- PUB DATE: 3/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Rivertowns

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