One child has died and five other children are presumed dead after a fiery house collapse that injured four others who escaped from the home in Northeast Baltimore's Cedmont neighborhood Thursday morning, the city Fire Department said. Heavy construction equipment arrived after sunrise to clear debris and aid crews in searching for the children, but Baltimore Fire Department spokesman Chief Roman Clark said the missing are presumed dead.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

Everybody in this fire station was sleeping one recent morning when the alarms started blaring. Six firefighters hopped out of their bunks and pulled their gear over their pajamas. The sun was still coming up when they reached a house where smoke was rising from the basement. Afterward, back in their pajamas, the young men gathered in the station’s control room.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Pew Charitable Trusts

VIDEO - A ladder truck malfunctioned as city firefighters responded to a “deep-seated” fire at a building housing a paper recycling company on 7th Street on Tuesday evening, authorities said. No one was injured in the blaze, Chief Patrick Trentacost said. Firefighters responded to a paper recycling factory on 7th Street at approximately 6:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: North Jersey.com (Bergen County Record & Herald News)

Mayor Lenny Curry, pushing for Jacksonville to become the first major city in America without pensions for its future employees, made a remarkable counteroffer to the city’s public-safety unions Wednesday that would restore more costly pension benefits to current employees, while creating 401(k)-style investment accounts for new employees with hefty 25 percent matching contributions from the city.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Florida Times-Union

Pittsburgh police records indicate that a city firefighter suffered a drug overdose while on duty in a Brookline fire station on New Year's Eve. A police officer was dispatched at 6:23 a.m. to Station 26 on Brookline Boulevard to investigate the report of an overdose, according to a police incident report.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review