Changes to Frederick County’s fire and rescue response goals could help county fire stations get more support — and maybe more personnel. The Frederick County Council heard testimony Tuesday on a bill to change target response times throughout the county. Right now, county code has a blanket approach to measuring fire station responses, the time it takes units to leave a station after a dispatched call.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Frederick News-Post

Pittsburgh's firefighters now know they averted a disaster with their quick action to put out the fire on the Liberty Bridge on Friday. They knew the heat from the flames was intense, but going in, they didn't know the full threat that the severe fire damage to a metal beam under the Liberty Bridge was creating.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wtae.com

There aren’t many sounds in Southern California more frightening than a wildfire. And we’ve been hearing them way too often, in a fire season that doesn’t seem like a season at all any more, but a year-round event. There are so many that we have to give them names to distinguish them -- the Sand fire, the Chimney fire, the Fish fire.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Times

Romona Walters has always wanted to be a teacher. Kids in preschool, maybe. It's a career that fits her interest in public service, she says. But about a year ago, another possibility opened up. Now, the 20-year-old has a new goal as she continues her classes at Capital Community College: to become the first female fire chief in Hartford.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Courant Community

The small plastic box is about the size of a photo frame; what's inside, however, is the picture of cost savings -- and saving lives. King County Emergency Medical Services began producing the injection kits in 2013 as a low-cost alternative to the EpiPen, an auto-injector used to treat allergic reactions.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: komo news