New York state has issued 14 violations to two fire departments regarding the Dec. 19 line-of-duty death of Mount Marion volunteer firefighter Lt. Jack Rose. The Public Employee Safety and Health Bureau of the state Department of Labor issued the violations in early May. The Times Herald-Record obtained the reports on the two departments through a request under the Freedom of Information Law.
- PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Middletown Times Herald-Record

Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedics now have access to ballistic kits that can protect against rounds from high-powered rifles, like those used in the ambush on Dallas police officers last month. The kits are part of a modification to the active-shooter policy for DFR that will ultimately include collaboration with DPD.
- PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas - Fort Worth

The Warfield Volunteer Fire Department has filed a lawsuit in Martin County, Kentucky, to get its repossessed firetrucks back. In May, First Government Lease Co. of Northfield, Ill., took the vehicles. Paul Graver, doing business as First lease Company and AA Repo East, LLC of Lexington, Ky., are named as defendants in the lawsuit.
- PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCHS-TV

A former volunteer firefighter has admitted to holding four colleagues hostage at the LaMott Fire Company in Cheltenham while armed with a handgun a day after he was expelled by the company’s board of governors. Paul Anthony Jordan, 27, of the 400 block of West Wellens Avenue, Philadelphia, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court on Thursday to charges of kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, terroristic threats, possession of a weapon and simple assault in connection with the 10:30 a.
- PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pottstown Mercury

Let me start out by saying that there is no such thing as a perfect company officer. I was fortunate enough to serve as a company officer for almost six years, and have been a chief officer for more than nine years. As a company officer, I was far from perfect. While I think I was a competent company officer during my tenure, I look back and realize that I could have been a much better company officer in so many ways.
- PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse