Despite fairly gloomy budget projections and a May memo sent to department heads telling them to prepare to curtail spending by 2 to 4 percent, the proposed 2017-18 budget for the city of Tacoma is notably absent major cuts or reductions in service. In fact, it includes many adds that City Council members — and residents — have been seeking.
- PUB DATE: 10/5/2016 1:45:28 AM - SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune

Bethel Volunteer Fire Department leaders ask York County Council either to keep local fire service control with volunteers, or let them know otherwise so they can start making plans. Volunteers say if Council doesn’t respond by Oct. 18 to their request to suspend the hiring process for a new paid chief, the department will assume the county is discontinuing its longstanding agreement with them for fire protection in Lake Wylie beginning next year.
- PUB DATE: 10/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Herald Online

In a case of “he said” versus “he said” former Wilkes-Barre Township fire chief John Yuknavich and the new chief Richard Hart have court dates next month on separate harassment complaints against each other arising from an alleged shouting match during the cleanup of the Giant’s Despair Hill Climb last summer.
- PUB DATE: 10/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Times Leader

It's 8:30 a.m. and the sun is already heating up the artificial turf at Banning High School's football field. Some 70 ninth- and 10th-graders line up on their stomachs for push-ups. For some of these kids, the "push-up ready" pose looks like a cross between an aborted yoga position and a nap. "Come on! Butts down, hips off the ground, shoulders over your hand!" barks Los Angeles Fire Capt.
- PUB DATE: 10/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NPR.org

The Orlando Fire Department told News 6 that it is in the in the process of applying for a grant that would allow the department to purchase more ballistic vests. "When you look at what the nation has gone through and what we went through here in Orlando. I guess we are more astute. We are more aware, more cognizant of what's happening in the world because it affects us here in Orlando," said fire Chief Roderick Williams.
- PUB DATE: 10/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ClickonOrlando.com