Six months into a contract with Clark County Fire District 3, the city of Battle Ground reports that the new partnership is exceeding expectations. Since the fire agency began responding to emergency calls in Battle Ground in January, city officials said they’re impressed by the agency’s work and its effort to reach out to the community.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2016 6:07:32 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

Don Ishman, the former chief of the Hilltop Volunteer Fire Department, was killed Saturday afternoon when he was accidentally struck by a tanker apparatus at the firehall on Saturday afternoon. Kane-based state police said Ishman, 60, of Cyclone, was one of several firefighters assisting with a public service detail on Saturday.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bradford Era

An Orford firefighter died in the line of duty, according to the State Fire Marshal's Office. Charles Waterbury was an active member of the Orford Fire Department for about 10 years. While fighting a brush fire in Lyme, Waterbury suffered a medical emergency and was taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMUR-TV ABC 9 Manchester

Police, firefighters and other first responders sign up for inherently dangerous work, but that doesn't give citizens or businesses a blank check to harm them without financial consequences, a federal judge has ruled in the case of a Maryville train derailment. Chief U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan has turned aside a bid by CSX Transportation Inc.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: knoxville news sentinel

Firefighter Gabriel Lee, who died during a night shift in North Philadelphia Saturday, was a kind and soft-spoken father of three who had worked in the department for more than 20 years, his family said Sunday. Lee, 42, of East Germantown, was also an accomplished amateur boxer, said his mother-in-law Faustine Myers, and he was recently baptized at Second Baptist Church of Germantown, the same church where his son sings in a choir.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: philly.com