When Robin Duren first told her firefighter dad that she wanted to join him in the ranks, he thought twice about it. “I just asked her if she was sure,” said Tommie Williams, 68, who retired from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue in 2003 as a lieutenant. “I told her it was a dirty job and they weren’t going to take pity on her.
- PUB DATE: 6/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: miami herald

After a fire destroyed a rescue truck and damaged the entire Poland Volunteer Fire Co. firehouse Sunday, Fire Chief Scott Burritt has a whole new perspective on how a fire affects someone’s life. “We see fires on a regular basis, we go to people’s car fires, we go to people’s house fires, to brush fires and that type of stuff,” he said.
- PUB DATE: 6/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: utica observer-dispatch

A homeowner and a firefighter were injured as flames tore through a home in West Seattle Monday morning. Firefighters were dispatched to a home in the Arbor Heights neighborhood, near 102nd Street and 38th Avenue SW shortly after 10 a.m. Seattle Fire said medics treated the elderly homeowner for minor smoke inhalation as firefighters worked to extinguish the flames.
- PUB DATE: 6/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: komonews.com

Global Emergency Products Inc. recently delivered this Pierce PUC pumper built on a Dash CF cab and chassis to the Village of Niles, Illinois.

Public safety personnel worked millions of dollars in overtime for the city of Vancouver and Clark County last year, and men earned most of it. Out of the top-50 overtime earners in the city in 2015, one was a woman. In the county, four were women. Fire Battalion Chief Kevin Griffee took home the most overtime in the city, earning $88,311 last year in addition to his base salary of $129,528.
- PUB DATE: 6/19/2016 6:47:25 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian