Emergency medical responders are being attacked in Baltimore more frequently than in the past and should be equipped with protective vests, Rick Hoffman, president of the local firefighters' and EMS workers union, said Wednesday. "Obviously everyone knows we are in a very dangerous city now, and the way our EMS system works, [city residents] dial 911 and we're there in normally minutes, which means we beat the police there a lot," Hoffman said.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

At least seven Columbus Division of Fire recruits used an online study aid that their classmate created that closely mirrored the questions on one of the division’s tests for emergency medical technicians. The Fire Division is concluding an investigation into whether recruits violated policy in using the website and app Quizlet to prepare for exams.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Columbus Dispatch

Firefighters from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport who responded to the I-85 fire last month recounted the experience during drills at the airport’s fire training center Thursday. Airport Rescue Fire Fighting striker units 7 and 8 responded to the March 30 fire that caused a section of the highway to collapse.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Atlanta Journal Constitution

The jail sentence handed down Wednesday to the township fire chief’s son is the latest black eye for a department riddled with controversy the past decade. With the township still reeling from a theft scandal that sent the former chief to prison, the current chief’s son, Richard Hart Jr., 19, is now behind bars for an arson that destroyed a home.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilkes-Barre Citizens' Voice

A volunteer firefighter who was shot four times while trying to help a man says he still relives the shooting that killed his partner a year later. "I remember a flash. I didn't hear it and then it was like slow-mo and then...you just kept hearing the bangs," Morningside Volunteer Firefighter Kevin Swain told News4.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Washington