Three years ago, Chicago spent nearly $2 million — and $1.7 million more in legal fees — to compensate dozens of women denied firefighter jobs because of a discriminatory test of upper body strength that City Hall has now scrapped. Now, a dozen women who wanted desperately to become paramedics are accusing the Chicago Fire Department of devising two new physical agility tests that are equally biased against women.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times

Six people were killed and 10 more injured Tuesday morning when a school bus veered into oncoming traffic in Southwest Baltimore and ripped through the side of an MTA bus, police said.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

PHOTO - Four firefighters and one civilian were injured today when a fire truck collided with a car in the Back Bay causing a domino effect that damaged eight other cars, fire officials said. The civilian and firefighters, including one captain, all were taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where they were being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, Fire Commissioner Joseph Finn said.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald

Lamartine Fire Department, Fond du Lac, WI, pumper. Spartan Gladiator cab and chassis; Cummins ISL9 450-hp engine; Waterous CSUC20 1,500-gpm pump.

Matt Burson was driving home from work when his coworker saw the flames. “We got out and you could see the glow,” said Burson. “You could hear roaring and crackling from the flames and see smoke billowing out the front door.” The fire injured a mother and her three children. When Burson showed up he saw two of the children outside the home, but 32-year-old Angel Fiorini and her daughter were still inside.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2016 8:06:07 PM - SOURCE: KAYU-TV MyFox Spokane