The state has cited Stafford’s Fire and Rescue Department for four violations after a February incident in which volunteer firefighters transported an 18-month-old girl having a seizure to the hospital in a fire engine. The two firefighters at the center of the controversy are still working at the Falmouth Fire Station.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Charlottesville Daily Progress

“The only thing I was thinking was, ‘holy hell I gotta get out,'” Lieutenant Nicholas Hudek with Penn Hills VFD Station 221 said. Hudek was one of three firefighters injured while fighting flames at a vacant restaurant in Penn Hills Saturday. He injured his hand while trying to find a way into the building.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KDKA-TV CBS 2 Pittsburgh

When the local union of the Naples Fire-Rescue Department said last October its members had lost confidence in their chief, Steve McInerny, the group's action highlighted evidence of his troubled tenure. City Council members had expressed concerns about McInerny for years. There were public spats during annual budget talks when the council rejected McInerny's expensive requests for new equipment, and McInerny was accused of over-reporting fire incidents to justify new spending.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: naples daily news

Ohio has become the fifth state to require photoelectric smoke alarms in new homes. In the state’s first official acknowledgement that traditional ionization alarms are insufficient, new building codes require both ionization and photoelectric alarms on all floors of homes. The rule applies to new homes.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the columbus dispatch

Classes have been cancelled Monday for students at Madrona School in Edmonds after a two-alarm fire that heavily damaged a portion of the school, causing more than $250,000 in damage. Firefighters said the fire appears to have started in the K-8 school's faculty lounge at around 8 p.m. Sunday. An automatic fire alarm alerted firefighters to the fire, investigators said.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2016 9:38:56 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000