Fresno Fire Chief Kerri Donis isn’t happy with a recent news release from Holly Carter, one of four candidates for the District 6 Fresno City Council seat. Carter highlighted the Fresno Fire Department in the release – and not in a positive way. The release late last month was headlined: “The Condition of Our Fresno Fire Department Creates a Public Safety Threat!” In the release, Carter says that, among other things, the department’s budget has been cut “an astonishing” 25 percent since 2009, daily staffing “is down nearly 20 percent,” and calls for service “have increased 20 percent since 2011.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fresno bee

PHOTO - Cats aren’t the only pets that get stuck in trees. Just ask the firefighters who rescued a Great Dane from a high bough in rural Louisville, Nebraska, late Saturday night. “You’re not going to believe this,” one Plattsmouth firefighter said to another after receiving the call for help about 10:10 p.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Omaha World-Herald

Everyone seemed to agree, it's pretty lowdown stealing gear from the fire department. Even so, it wasn't anger that motivated Mike Dalby to donate $1,500 to replace it, but gratitude. Dalby has been a firefighter in Lubbock for about nine years and one night he was watching the local news. Like many others, he learned that someone had stolen a Snyder volunteer firefighter's protective clothing from the back of his truck while the man was fighting a grass fire.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the eagle

Voters in East King County are weighing the merger of two fire districts in order to cut down on costs, officials said Monday. More than 10,000 homeowners are currently covered by Fire Districts 10 and 38 near North Bend, Snoqualmie, and more. Commissioners want to combine both districts into a regional fire authority, funded by a dual fire levy and benefit charge to help save on costs in the long run, they said.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2016 9:03:34 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Voters in East King County are weighing the merger of two fire districts in order to cut down on costs, officials said Monday. More than 10,000 homeowners are currently covered by Fire Districts 10 and 38 near North Bend, Snoqualmie, and more. Commissioners want to combine both districts into a regional fire authority, funded by a dual fire levy and benefit charge to help save on costs in the long run, they said.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2016 9:03:34 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000