A new fire chief took office last week just days after five police officers were killed in an ambush and the city was reeling from tragedy. “You don’t expect to get hired on a job and have five funerals to attend immediately, and that’s heart-wrenching,” said enw Chief David Coatney. Coatney was hired as chief of Dallas Fire-Rescue after serving as the chief for Round Rock near Austin.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas - Fort Worth

The small Susitna Valley city of Houston lost its top emergency official this month when Fire Chief Tom Hood abruptly resigned with just two days' notice. Houston, the only place in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough where marijuana businesses are currently allowed, is a city of more than 2,000 residents but no active police department.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: alaska dispatch news

The Orlando fire chief is defending his crew inside Station Five, after an Orlando officer wrote in an incident report that he saw several wounded Pulse victims not being let into the fire station. Chief Roderick Williams said that one of the ironies of having the station so close to Pulse, was the area was considered part of the crime scene.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKMG-TV CBS 6 Click Orlando

VIDEO - Hightstown will not take any action against its fire chief in connection with a hip hop video shot at the borough's firehouse recently, the mayor said Tuesday. Mayor Lawrence Quattrone said the matter was settled at a borough council meeting Monday night. The mayor declined to offer any other comment, saying it was a non issue.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Trenton Times

A Mendon man was placed on probation Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges of obstructing firefighters' efforts to put out a blaze that leveled his home last year. David W. Cheschi, 51, formerly of 138 Blackstone St., Mendon, was placed on probation for three years after pleading guilty in Worcester Superior Court to charges of interfering with firefighters, obstructing firefighting efforts and resisting arrest.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette