A federal judge has upheld a wrongful termination claim filed by Pike Road Volunteer Fire Protection Authority’s former chief. Mike Green, the plaintiff, brought charges in April 2015 against the Authority for disability discrimination and against Jane James, one of the Authority’s directors, for slander.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: montgomery advertiser

The eight career firefighters who lost their jobs when the village shifted to an all-volunteer fire department handed the village clerk an inches-thick petition to force a referendum on the abolishment of the paid fire department. Vinny Lyons, president of Port Chester's firefighters union, said the 485-page petition submitted to the village Wednesday morning contains 4,354 signatures, nearly double the amount required by New York State village law.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Journal News (Lohud.com)

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