In a matter of minutes Thursday, the state Senate overwhelmingly approved three bills in a four-bill package that would change pensions for newly hired New Orleans firefighters and end a decades-old feud with city government. Those three bills head to Gov. John Bel Edwards for his signature. An agreement on the fourth measure was reached late Wednesday night, said Sen.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the new orleans advocate

A 69-year-old fisherman anchored his boat in the Susquehanna River near the Dock Street dam last week, hoping to reel in the big one. Instead, his small anchor broke loose from the silt and his boat was sucked into the backwash below the low-head dam, an area known as a drowning machine. Few people escape the violent underwater death trap created by the fast-moving water plunging over the dam.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pennlive.com

With ambulance and fire calls on the rise, the FDNY is turning to new technology to improve its operations and efficiency when saving lives. There were more than 1.6 million ambulance runs in 2015, a 9 percent jump from the year before, and firefighters handled about 3,000 more fire emergencies in 2015 than in 2014, according to the department’s statistics.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: emergency management

Twenty-one young children and a bus driver sustained minor to moderate injuries as two school buses collided Friday morning in Renton, officials said. The force of the impact sent some of the students flying over seats. Some of them struck their heads and limbs on obstructions from the impact, several of the children told KOMO News crews at the scene.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: komo news

Twenty-one young children and a bus driver sustained minor to moderate injuries as two school buses collided Friday morning in Renton, officials said. The force of the impact sent some of the students flying over seats. Some of them struck their heads and limbs on obstructions from the impact, several of the children told KOMO News crews at the scene.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: komo news