A group of city leaders led by Mayor Jeff Williams has banded together to oppose a voter proposition seeking to establish a civil service system for firefighters, warning that it could lead to reduced response times and cuts in city services. In recent days, pamphlets from a political action committee called Safety First Arlington PAC have landed in Arlington mailboxes, contending that adopting Proposition 2 would put the city’s firefighters “under labor union control” and add costs that could prompt cuts to the police force and street repairs.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Three off-duty Georgia firefighters were injured, one of them fatally, when the car in which they were traveling was struck by a suspected DUI driver Monday evening in Venice, authorities have confirmed. The three-vehicle crash took place about 10 p.m. at the intersection of Ocean Avenue and Washington Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles

VIDEO - A witty parody video by the New Gloucester Fire Rescue has gone viral. The video about recruitment called “I Got Hose,” inspired by the song “Area Codes” by Ludacris and Nate Dogg, was posted Friday on the fire department’s page on Facebook. The video has been viewed over 311,000 times and has almost 5,000 shares.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGME.com

The Layton Volunteer Fire Department, with more than a half-century of history in the tiny Long Key community around mile marker 68.5, will soon become history. “We’re just running out of people, especially younger people,” said Philip “Skip” Haring, Layton city administrator and lieutenant of the volunteer department that formed in the late 1950s.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FL Keys News

Cincinnati firefighers are making a plea to the city council to get new bulletproof vests. "It makes sense to me," Councilmember Christopher Smitherman said. "It's unfortunate that it's the new reality." Last October, the city made the first step, buying more than 180 bullet vests for firefighters in anticipation of the Ray Tensing trial.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCPO-TV ABC 9 Cincinnati