A 22-year-old Baltimore man has been ordered to pay $1 million in restitution and serve 250 community service hours for puncturing a fire hose during the April 27 riots, prosecutors announced Thursday. Gregory Lee Butler, Jr. (a/k/a Greg Baly) will also serve three years of supervised release, after a judge gave him credit for five weeks served.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBFF-TV Fox 45 Baltimore

The San Antonio Fire Department has placed on paid administrative leave the head of the agency’s training academy, city and department officials said. “We can confirm that Assistant Chief Joe Jones has been placed on leave,” said city spokesman Jeff Coyle. “But it’s an ongoing personnel matter so we will have no further comment.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MySanAntonio.com

Seven experimental series with over 100 configurations using two structures reveal the impact of hose stream patterns and nozzle movements on air flow inside structures. (NIST photos) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Fire Research Division released the findings from their experiments on hose streams, nozzle movement and air flow inside a structure.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fire Engineering

The lingering issue of hiring a new paid fire chief in Lake Wylie grew heated at the firehouse Wednesday night with a makeshift public forum. The five-member Bethel Rural Fire Tax Board set up to oversee spending in the special tax district went behind closed doors to meet with the York County attorney as about 40 people awaited word on whether a new chief would be hired during the board meeting at Station 1 on Oakridge Road.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Herald Online

Volunteer firefighters in Semmes are worried about protecting the community after they say the city locked them out of their stations without warning. They say they now don’t have access to the millions of dollars’ worth of equipment inside. Former Volunteer Fire Chief Mickey Dearmon, along with several volunteer firefighters and council members, gathered outside the volunteer station on Wulff Rd.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAFB.com