Where to build the new fire station? Neighbors’ protest? Is "free" land really ‘free’? How many bays? Drive-through? Dorms or individual sleeping rooms? Air quality systems? One-story or two? You don’t really know overwhelmed until assigned to design and build your department’s next fire station. Probably the most expensive project of your career, but the new facility should also last 50 to 75 years.
- PUB DATE: 4/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse

Is it hot in here or is it just the firefighters? The drive toward gender equality in the FDNY will now include its calendar — and the 12 beefcake hardbodies that make up its pages have finally met their match. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you are about to see the softer side of the FDNY. For the first time, the department will have both men and women in their annual Calendar of Heroes, the department announced Thursday.
- PUB DATE: 4/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york daily news

Jon Hansen, the spokesman for the Oklahoma City Fire Department during the 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing, has died. An Oklahoma City fire department official confirmed Hansen died early Friday. The former Oklahoma City federal building was destroyed at 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995. The bombing resulted in the deaths of 168 people.
- PUB DATE: 4/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the oklahoman

Jon Hansen, the spokesman for the Oklahoma City Fire Department during the 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing, has died. Hansen, 65, died early Friday after a long battle with cancer. He died in his home with his family at his side, the fire department said in a news release. The bombing of the former Oklahoma City federal building on April 19, 1995 claimed the lives of 168 people, and in the hours and days following Hansen played a key role in disseminating information to the public.
- PUB DATE: 4/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the oklahoman

He was one of nearly two-dozen first responders at the scene of a horrific Thursday morning crash that injured seven children at a Maple Valley bus stop. Lt. Drew Erickson of the Maple Valley Fire Department was in charge of an engine company from station 81 when the call came in that a pickup truck had struck a group of children waiting for their school bus.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2016 7:44:17 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000