Audio transmission captured from the Wilmington 911 dispatch system early Saturday morning tells the tragic details of how Wilmington firefighters rushed into a burning rowhome only to fall through the floor into a flame-filled basement less than a minute later. The feed, pulled from an online archive system and posted on YouTube, gives voice to more than 28 minutes of emergency response by Wilmington Fire Department members as they worked to free firefighters trapped in the basement of a Canby Park rowhome.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Delaware Online

Breaking her public silence on the harassment endured by a female firefighter at a station near San Francisco’s Chinatown, the city’s fire chief strongly denounced the deplorable behavior of the woman’s male colleagues Friday and left open the possibility of further disciplinary action. The harassment — which included urination in the female firefighter’s bed — occurred at Powell Street’s Station 2, according to a confidential document obtained by The Chronicle.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: SFGate.com

An inspector with the U.S. Department of Labor came to the Keys to investigate the Key Largo Volunteer Fire Department after receiving several calls from someone falsely claiming to be the chief. The Labor staffer showed up at the mile marker 99 fire station on Sept. 14 asking to see payroll information, Chief Don Bock said this week.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Keys Reporter

First responders in U.S. communities reeling from waves of heroin overdoses say some people tell them they should just say no to using so many resources on drug abusers. Authorities say people have expressed frustration about rescuing addicts who often immediately resume using the potentially deadly drug.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAVY-TV NBC 10 Portsmouth

Some leaders in Nebraska's third-largest city are borrowing an idea from a vastly more liberal state: Ban apartment renters from smoking cigarettes and e-cigarettes inside. The proposal, which would be one of the few such restrictions outside of California and is similar to federal rules for public housing across the U.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lincoln Journal Star