TheFireStore, the nation’s leading multi-channel distributor of public-safety equipment, supplies, training, and service, is thrilled to offer a user-friendly tool designed to create highly visible, sturdy license plates: the new-and-improved custom license-plate builder. Using an intuitive, efficient Build It. See It. Buy It. method, users can create a personalized license plate by selecting eye-catching text and graphics, along with a diverse selection of backgrounds, fonts, styles, borders, and colors. This way, users may see their works in progress created right before their eyes, all thanks to this proprietary, web-based tool.

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The fire recruit stepped onto the stage, dressed in his formal uniform. For six months, Jordan Hudgins and his classmates had hauled 40-pound hoses up three flights of stairs and rescued dummies from obstacle courses. It had all led to this: graduation from the city’s fire academy. For Jordan, the moment held extra meaning.
- PUB DATE: 10/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Virginian-Pilot

After being turned down by the city twice, the fire union is asking the state labor board to approve its request to place city Deputy Director of Emergency Management Rick Fontana on interim relief from any fire-related duties until a decision is made on the union’s complaint against Fontana. The complaint, which was filed with the State Board of Labor Relations in August, claimed Fontana did the work of the fire employees several times by allegedly dispatching himself and responding to fire calls, working to put out fires, using fire radio channels, wearing a similar uniform as fire command staff, and acting as the public information officer on fire scenes.
- PUB DATE: 10/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register

Police arrested a man accused of attacking a firefighter with a flashlight while trying to enter a burning home where drugs were reportedly found Monday night. Officers received a call to assist the Tulsa Fire Department with a house fire in the 2500 block of North Kingston Avenue around 11:25 p.m. after a firefighter had been assaulted.
- PUB DATE: 10/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tulsa World

Questions often arise as to how easy clothing becomes contaminated on the fireground and if there are differences in the level of contamination for the same items of a protective ensemble. The issue frequently comes up in distinguishing between rubber and leather footwear, but it is a reasonable inquiry for the overall clothing system.
- PUB DATE: 10/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1