A six-member jury has ruled against a volunteer firefighter who sued for pain and suffering from the loss of his leg after being hit by a car as he rushed to an emergency call in Seaford. On Nov. 14, 2010, Steven Hochman was hit by a car driven by Kevin McCarthy, of Seaford, a retired NYPD officer. Besides McCarthy, Hochman sued his fire captain at the time, Thomas Cattone, saying Cattone had parked his pickup truck on the sidewalk across the street from the firehouse, blocking Hochman from seeing the oncoming vehicle, and the driver from seeing him step from the sidewalk as he hurried to the firehouse.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firerescue1

A man who was days away from being voted in as an active member of the Francestown Fire Department died over the weekend after suffering a medical emergency. Francestown officials said Cole Wohle, 18, died Saturday night in Vermont. He recently graduated from high school and was a member of the Fire Department's Explorer Program.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMUR-TV ABC 9 Manchester

Crews battled a large structure fire near the Loop 101 and Tatum Boulevard in Phoenix early Tuesday morning. The second-alarm fire started around 3:30 a.m. at a hotel under construction behind a Holiday Inn Express. Eighty firefighters were working the fire. The glow of the fire could be seen for miles.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS 5 AZ KPHO

The sirens sound the same, but the fire engine serving Cherry Valley the past few days is dressed with a Rockford Fire Department logo. Blame it on the curse of three. For the Cherry Valley Fire Protection District, the curse struck when its trio of fire engines all wound up in the shop. "Everything broke at the same time, it seems," said Allen Geeser, battalion fire chief for the district.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Rockford Register Star

Protecting their firefighters, that’s what the Clarkston Fire Department is doing with a new exhaust removal system. KLEW News Reporter Kaila Lafferty explains it will help the lives of those who spend their time saving ours. Firefighters are exposed to dangers everyday as part of their job, but one of the most deadly is cancer.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KLEW News