A veteran Hanover firefighter died after responding to a fire in West Manheim Township Saturday morning. Around 9:30 a.m., Earl J. Shoemaker, 68, was the driver of Hanover Fire Department's Air 46 unit when the truck went off Brunswick Drive and into a field -- traveling as far as several hundred yards.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the evening sun

An overnight three alarm town house fire in Germantown has sent several firefighters to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. According to Pete Piringer, spokesman for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue, crews were called to a town house fire in the 19300 blk of Churubusco Lane around 1:00 a.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wusa 9

Six weeks into his tenure as Hartford's fire chief, Reginald Freeman has started to personalize his office at the public safety complex on High Street.Among the plaques and framed pictures is a photograph on the shelf behind his desk. It's a snapshot of Freeman and retired Hartford firefighter Frank Zazzaro taken in Zazzaro's West Hartford home shortly after Freeman started work.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: hartford courant

I recently read an article about a large fire department's concern regarding retention of its members. This department is in the process of hiring 75 new firefighters to replace members who have left the department in the past year. Other fire departments of all sizes are facing the replacement of significant numbers of firefighters in the coming years.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

The two reports, one federal, the other produced by the Boston Fire Department, about the 2014 Beacon Street fire that killed Boston Fire Lieutenant Ed Walsh and firefighter Mike Kennedy make for tough reading. The communications timeline, with Walsh repeatedly calling for water that didn’t come because their hose had been burned through, is especially hard to read.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the boston globe