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Retiring Escondido Fire Chief Mike Lowry remembers one traffic accident call back in 1992 that changed his life. Already with the city’s fire department for a decade, Lowry was the captain of a truck company that responded to a head-on collision on East Valley Parkway. A mother and her two twin little girls had been headed into town to buy things for the twin’s upcoming birthday party when an impaired driver crossed into their lane.
- PUB DATE: 6/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: san diegoo union tribune

A Tallahassee law firm has been tasked with investigating firefighter allegations that “a toxic work environment” exists within the Ocean City-Wright Fire Control District. The department review by the firm of Allen Norton & Blue was authorized Thursday by the district’s five-member governing board. It follows receipt of formal complaints lodged against Fire Chief Billy Lord and Assistant Chief Scott Funchess by at least four firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 6/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Northwest Florida Daily News

Eight-hundred feet in either direction, and Friday's oil train derailment outside the small Columbia River Gorge city of Mosier might've sent flaming tank cars into a lake in a National Scenic Area. A half-mile east, and the inferno would've burned a few feet beneath a block of modular homes. Another mile-and-a-half, and leaking tank cars would've landed on the bank of the Columbia River during peak spring chinook salmon migration.
- PUB DATE: 6/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the oregonian

It's a major risk factor facing firefighters, work-related heart attacks. But a new study out of Beloit could help reduce that job hazard. It shows ramped-up tones keep heart-rates from climbing to extreme highs. "We looked at the startle response and we looked at ways to gently wake them as opposed to suddenly waking them," Dr.
- PUB DATE: 6/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC