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

A group of black Tacoma firefighters said they won’t allow department leadership to blame minority applicants and the city’s hiring policy for what happened with Ramsey Mueller, the son of a deputy chief and a probationary firefighter who died of a heroin overdose days after showing up late to work and nearly hitting another vehicle while driving a firetruck.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The News Tribune

A student was taken to a hospital and several others suffered non-life-threatening injuries in a crash involving a semi-truck and a school bus Friday morning in Eastern Washington. Washington State Patrol Trooper Jeff Sevigney told the Associated Press that there were 25 elementary school students and a driver on the bus.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: