Longview firefighters are having increasing trouble reaching fires within six minutes, the national goal, particularly in West Longview, but officials say the city doesn’t have the money to do anything to reverse the trend. A 2011 consultant’s study recommended doubling the number of fire stations to four and moving the one on 38th Avenue farther west.
- PUB DATE: 5/20/2016 2:13:38 AM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News

Longview firefighters are having increasing trouble reaching fires within six minutes, the national goal, particularly in West Longview, but officials say the city doesn’t have the money to do anything to reverse the trend. A 2011 consultant’s study recommended doubling the number of fire stations to four and moving the one on 38th Avenue farther west.
- PUB DATE: 5/20/2016 2:13:38 AM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News

Ken Fustin, who retired as Springfield's fire chief less than a year ago, has been hired to lead the fire department in Port Orange, Florida. The city manager of Port Orange, a city of about 59,000 just south of Daytona Beach in eastern Florida, announced the hiring at Tuesday night's city council meeting, according to a report in the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
- PUB DATE: 5/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Springfield State Journal-Register

A bill that will allow first responders to provide medical treatment to dogs and cats has unanimously passed out of the General Assembly and is now headed to Gov. John Kasich’s desk to sign. Pets who are often considered a part of a family “and they should receive treatment if necessary or life-threatening situations,” said Meg Stephenson, executive director of the Animal Friends Humane Society.
- PUB DATE: 5/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHIO-TV Dayton

Old Orchard Beach is beginning the search for a new fire chief following the resignation of Ricky Plummer, who has been charged with arson in connection to a seven-alarm fire in April. Plummer, 59, of Biddeford, was arrested on May 7. He is accused of starting a brush and woods fire on April 15 that spanned about 40 acres near Jones Creek.
- PUB DATE: 5/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: bangor daily news