An official with a local police union said it is unacceptable not to pay the police officers and firefighters of Fairfield. Fairfield City Council voted Friday to withhold first responders checks until more funds come in next week. David Crews, immediate past president of the Birmingham area Fraternal Order of Police, said other city employees received their pay.
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: AL.com

A retired San Jose firefighter who tried to grab the man who stabbed to death a retired teacher in London this week says anyone would have tried to stop the attack. Martin Hoenisch, 59, said he was just a tourist who knew what to do in a dire situation – namely try to subdue a man wielding a knife Wednesday in London’s Russell Square, near the British Museum.
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register

The Isonville Volunteer Fire Department is facing a lawsuit by an Elliott County man over a lack of payments in a $1 per year deal with the previous property owner. Roger Howard, who lives near the fire department, recently bought the property that includes the fire department’s garage. The garage has been on the property since 1995, and the fire department later entered into an agreement with Willis Lyon.
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Independent

It will be at least a week until officials file charges against three individuals who allegedly built a campfire in the area where the Snake River Fire later erupted. Whitman County Sheriff Brett Myers said the individuals will not be identified until charges are filed. No arrests have been made and no charges have been filed, he said, but he believes the three men in their 20s may be charged with reckless burning or a similar offense.
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse

When Lindsay Figueroa was 4 years old, the dryer caught fire. She remembers standing outside and staring up at the big red truck that responded. “It was the most amazing thing I had ever seen,” said Figueroa, now 31. These days, the big red (and pale green) trucks still thrill Figueroa, a member of the West Valley Fire Department for six years.
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald