Two Utah firefighters asked a federal appeals court to revive their lawsuit against state authorities who the men claim falsely accused them of prescription drug fraud after a warrantless search of a state prescription drug database. Criminal charges were later dismissed, but lawyers for the two firefighters argue that giving police unfettered access to records of all prescription drugs dispensed to patients is unconstitutional.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSL-TV NBC 5

The Charlotte City Council met in closed session Monday night to discuss the leak of a confidential memo about a firefighter and whether Fire Chief Jon Hannan had any responsibility. The March 4 memo was from City Manager Ron Carlee to firefighter Marty Puckett, the vice president of the Charlotte Firefighters Association Local 660, which has feuded with Hannan over how the department has been managed.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Charlotte Observer

The first paid female firefighter in Snohomish County retired Monday after 33 years of service. Janet Jaeger also served as the first paid female lieutenant and first battalion chief for Snohomish County Fire District 7. "I just wanted to be a firefighter, more than anything," Jaeger said Monday, looking back at her career.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13

After the Raynham Fire Department spent most of Easter morning battling a stubborn residential blaze in Raynham, Fire Chief James Januse exhaled deeply as he sank into his desk chair back at the station at 11 a.m. It wasn’t the seven hours on scene that brought about Januse’s sigh, but the thought of yet another firefighter being injured — and how his depleted department will have to continue to overcome a staff shortage.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: taunton gazette

As smoke and flames shot from the windows of the Federal View Apartments late Sunday night, bewildered residents gathered outside only to hear the piercing screams of a woman on the third floor. "Grab my baby!" she yelled through the sounds of shattering glass and rushing air. "Grab my baby!" Out from the top floors — one by one — people jumped for safety through a thick, black haze.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: denver post