Fillmore has been talking for a month about the suicide of Fire Chief Rigo Landeros, but it wasn't until Tuesday night's City Council meeting that people began to speak openly and publicly about the events leading up to Landeros' death. Landeros, 51, shot himself on Jan. 7, while parked in his city car on a rural stretch of Goodenough Road.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ventura County Star

Mayor Kenney will announce on Thursday the end of two Fire Department policies he vowed to get rid of as mayor - rotating firefighters through stations and the temporary closure of firehouses. Both practices were implemented by then-Mayor Nutter as cost saving measures. In 2010, Nutter instituted rolling "brownouts" to temporarily close firehouses and reassign their firefighters elsewhere.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: philadelphia inquirer

VIDEO - A million fans lined the streets Tuesday to celebrate the Denver Broncos' Super Bowl 50 win over the Carolina Panthers. The parade, however, did draw some criticism from firefighters after players, spouses and children were seen riding on top of fire trucks. The group of players traveled the parade route in a series of fire trucks.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

West Fargo (ND) Fire Department, pumper. Spartan Metro Star cab and chassis; Cummins ISL 380-hp engine; Waterous CSU 1,500-gpm pump; UPF Poly 1,000-gallon tank.

A $530,000 bond to replace a Discovery Bay Fire & Rescue station has passed. The bond measure, which appeared to be failing by a small margin Tuesday night, received a reversal of fortune when additional votes counted Wednesday pushed the approval numbers over the 60 percent supermajority threshold needed for passage of a bond.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2016 4:39:45 PM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News