People were hanging out windows and running barefoot for their lives early Monday morning as a fire raged through a three-story West Oakland residential building with a history of complaints, killing at least three people and sending another four to the hospital, authorities said. Three were confirmed dead and one was still unaccounted for on Monday night, according to the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times

Milan or Hartford? That was the choice Reginald Freeman was faced with when the job of Hartford fire chief was offered to him more than a year ago. "I was poised to go to Italy for 14 months," said Freeman, who was the fire chief of Lockheed Martin's aeronautic headquarters in Ft. Worth, Texas, at the time.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hartford Courant

More than half of firefighters' line-of-duty deaths are caused not by external dangers such as flames or building collapses, but from cardiovascular reactions to the physical stress of the job, experts say. Hanover Park Fire Chief Craig Haigh believes his department can help bring down those numbers as the main test subjects of a 21-month national research project.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Herald

The chief of the Lake Arrowhead, TX, Volunteer Fire Department said his worst nightmare came true this weekend when he received a call that his fire station was on fire Saturday night. Fire Chief Mike Hall was just two bites into dinner when his cell phone rang around 7 p.m. "The ambulance crew called and asked 'Are you alright?' and I asked why and they told me the fire station is on fire," Hall said.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

Several people were arrested and detained Friday after a Clayton County firefighter found his stolen car at an alleged chop shop, Channel 2 Action News reported. The firefighter’s car was stolen outside Fire Station No. 1 in Morrow, where he works. He used an app to find his car, the news station reported.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution