Plainfield Township Fire Chief Dave Peterson is retiring with lots of praise from township officials but also with a black mark on his record. Peterson, township officials have confirmed, agreed to retire under pressure after receiving a second warning that he had not followed township procedures for submitting grant applications -- an act he had been told was cause for dismissal.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: mlive.com

An American national working at Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey died Monday after falling from the roof of his apartment building as he attempted to enter using a 10th floor window, Turkey's state-run news agency reported. Thaddeus Borowicz, 61, of Traverse City, Michigan, died after tying an electrical cable to a chimney to access his apartment using an open window, the Anadolu Agency reported.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

We’ve obtained new dispatch recordings that show why rescuers were forced to wait for hours a block away from the wounded trapped with the gunman inside the Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning. Tegna investigative reporter Brendan Keefe also discovered at one point, Orlando Regional Medical Center turned patients away, fearing the gunman had stormed the hospital.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIA-TV NBC 11 Atlanta

When Deborah Gaudet and Sheila Wanner joined the fire service in the 1990s, neither of them thought their career could cause cancer. But it did. Wanner, a retired Newport News master firefighter-medic, and Gaudet, fire department safety officer in Virginia Beach, were part of a regional information session held in Newport News Monday to bring awareness to the problem.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: newport news daily press

An independent study of the Tulsa Fire Department is recommending several efficiency changes at the department, including reductions in response to both fires and medical calls. City officials received a draft version of a study this week, looking primarily at Tulsa Fire Department operations but also at the department’s relationship with EMSA on medical responses.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: tulsa world