Throughout Metro’s 40-year history, the National Transportation Safety Board has repeatedly raised questions about the agency’s safety culture that have not been adequately addressed, its three-jurisdiction governance model has proven “uniquely dysfunctional” and the federal agency that sought safety oversight of the transit agency has made recommendations that are “non-enforceable.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the washington post - metered site

Da’nay McBride strolled down Seaview Avenue recently, past the site of the September 2014 fire that destroyed a warehouse and threatened surrounding homes like hers. Federal contractors are still busy hauling away the remnants of metal drums of chemicals that tenant Rowayton Trading company had stored there.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: connecticut post

Facing yet another sloppy recall effort, East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton summed up the faded prospects of his city in a brief conversation Friday afternoon: "Voters can throw the bums out if they want and bring in new bums, but that won't change anything. This city currently doesn't have the fiscal means to safely survive," he said.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland Plain Dealer & Cleveland.com

Smeal Fire Apparatus; Pumper. Spartan MetroStar Chassis, Cummins ISL9 400-hp Diesel Engine, Waterous CSPA 1,000-gpm pump.

The cause of a 4-alarm fire that gutted a furniture and stove store in Mount Vernon has been ruled as accidental. Fire investigators say an employee of the Craft Stoves store was seen Saturday afternoon discarding burnt pellets into a wood bin next to the building that was also next to a stack of wood pallets.
- PUB DATE: 5/2/2016 7:24:32 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000