Fire Districts 38 and 10 commissioners are proposing a formal "coming together as one" on the upcoming ballot. The vision for such a measure is to maximize efficiencies, maintain service levels, and secure funding to meet current and future needs. As a 40-year fire service veteran and your former fire chief, I fully endorse this measure to form a Regional Fire Authority (RFA).
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2016 1:08:32 PM - SOURCE: Snoqualmie Valley Record

Recent examples of fraud, mismanagement and embezzlement inside Delaware volunteer fire companies have precipitated state action which on Wednesday will take form as a task force focused on their financial management. Delaware's 60 volunteer companies — encompassing fire protection for the entirety of the state excluding Wilmington — are self-regulated entities required only to submit an annual report to the State Fire Prevention Commission.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: DelawareOnline.com

Some police and fire departments are bucking a trend to conceal dispatch communications from the public, acknowledging that radio encryption has the potential to backfire and put first responders in danger. Agencies with digital radio systems have turned off the encryption to their main dispatching channels and others have decided not to turn it on.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTIC-AM CBS Connecticut

Slatington Borough Council terminated its fire chief Monday night. Council members voted 6-1 to remove Keith Weaverfrom the volunteer position he has held for 13 years. Councilman Bryon Reed was the only member to go against the motion made by Councilman Jon Rinker to strip Weaver of his rank. “Termination for insubordination for Weaver taking the ladder truck out of town when he was not supposed to,” Rinker said about his motion.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lehighton Times News

VIDEO - A firefighter was seriously injured in a house fire on Tuesday that forced a fire crew that was searching the building to retreat outside. Toronto Fire Service said they received a call about a fire that broke out in a two-storey home on Dufferin Street near Alma Avenue, north of Queen Street West, shortly after 9 a.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBC News Toronto