The Mt. Olive Volunteer Fire Department confirms their fire chief Tracy O. Sanders, 44, has passed away following a wreck near Mudd Street and Highway 77 near Ohatchee Friday afternoon. Sanders was in a truck when she trying to turn left off of Highway 77 and her vehicle was struck from behind by a tractor trailer.
- PUB DATE: 1/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMC-TV Action News5

An unimaginable tragedy struck in a small community of a few dozen homes on Long Key Road in the Florida Keys Monday morning, when three workers from a private contractor tasked with fixing a roadway climbed into a hole in the ground and, ultimately, to their deaths. By the time a Key Largo firefighter climbed into the same hole near Lake Surprise in a desperate attempt to save the men, they were dead.
- PUB DATE: 1/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Miami Herald

The Sept. 24 fire in a Canby Park rowhome will go down in Wilmington as one of the most traumatic events in city history. The tragedy ultimately took the lives of three firefighters and injured four more, leaving the department and community reeling. In the days that followed, city officials realized they had another "very serious" problem, said Mayor Mike Purzycki.
- PUB DATE: 1/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today

Dogs have long been used to sniff out drugs and bugs and even bombs! But can these furry friends also identify the smell of cancer? A special program in San Antonio has been designed to help protect some of our most vulnerable heroes, firefighters. "Everything a firefighter does is a calculated risk," San Antonio firefighter Joe Arrington said.
- PUB DATE: 1/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CW39 Houston

A woman’s lawsuit over alleged sexual harassment and discrimination in the Farmington Fire Department is headed to a jury trial in U.S. District Court. Judge David Nuffer recently denied Farmington city’s motion for summary judgment against Sarah Mojazza, who sued the city in February 2014, saying a fellow firefighter sexually harassed her and that she was fired after she complained about it.
- PUB DATE: 1/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ogden Standard-Examiner/StandardNET