The Liberty Township fire chief who had been fighting to keep his job will be returning to work next month, but not as chief. Tim Jensen, suspended in March for alleged management lapses, including tardiness and failing to follow orders, reached an agreement with township trustees late last week allowing him to return to work on Sept.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Columbus Dispatch

Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer gave an ominous warning to a rural fire chief trying to recover fire trucks stolen from his department. Chief Jeremy Boyer needed the trucks in early 2013 for the recently formed Monument Rural Fire District, protecting a sparsely populated area in northern Grant County.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Portland Oregonian, Hillsboro Argus, Oregon Live.com

Sitting in his Gonzales residence Monday morning (Aug. 29), St. John the Baptist Parish firefighter William "Mack" Beal was surrounded by photographs of his loved ones as he recalled Sunday's Interstate 10 bus crash that injured him and killed two others, including St. John Fire District Chief Spencer Chauvin.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Orleans Times-Picayune & Nola.com

Cognitive impairment, long considered a leading risk factor for Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, has been detected in a significant proportion of people who served as first responders during the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster, Stony Brook University researchers have found. For years, the lion’s share of public attention has been riveted on the cancers and respiratory conditions that have afflicted first responders, but mental-health disorders have been building all along, researchers reported Monday in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

Financial help is on the way to help fight a wildfire that has burned nearly 500 acres near Leavenworth in Chelan County. On Monday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) authorized the use of federal funds to go towards the firefighting costs of the so-called Suncrest Fire. FEMA said the fire threatens to cause a major diaster, but cooler weather helped firefighters make progress on Monday.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2016 8:50:26 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000