During the deadliest disaster on record in Nepal, two Urban Search and Rescue teams from opposite ends of the United States came together to perform at their best. Their courageous lifesaving actions have earned them the prestigious 2016 International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC)/Motorola Solutions Ben Franklin Award for Valor.
- PUB DATE: 8/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs

Newly released video shows a close call for a Brighton firefighter who had to jump out the way to avoid an out-of-control driver back in July. The crew was filling up their truck while on a call when a silver SUV came speeding through on July 26. Brighton police later caught up with the driver. It’s not clear if any charges were filed.
- PUB DATE: 8/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCNC-TV CBS 4 Denver

PHOTO - Replacing a fire truck that was destroyed last week in the aftermath of a tanker explosion could cost Killeen several hundred thousand dollars. The fire truck caught fire when burning gasoline flowed under it outside a Mickey’s store in the 4500 block of East Veteran’s Memorial Boulevard where a fuel tanker exploded last exploded and burned last Friday after it was hit by an SUV in the store’s parking lot.
- PUB DATE: 8/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KWTX-TV 10 News Waco

The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government is entitled to reduce cost-of-living adjustments in the pensions of retired police officers and firefighters, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday. In 2013, Lexington Mayor Jim Gray announced a breakthrough deal to address the $296 million unfunded liability in the city’s police and fire pension fund.
- PUB DATE: 8/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lexington Herald-Leader

Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow has signed an executive order to end the Oswego Fire Department's overtime practice that he says pads senior firefighters' salaries and violates the collective bargaining agreement between the city and the firefighter's union. The order, which was issued last Wednesday, Aug.
- PUB DATE: 8/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Syracuse Post-Standard & Syracuse.com