Two volunteer Stafford County firefighters have been suspended after they transported an 18-month old child to the hospital in a fire engine. The father of the little girl tells FOX 5 he is grateful for the actions of those two first responders, who may have saved his daughter's life. The suspended firefighters, Captain James Kelley and Sgt.
- PUB DATE: 3/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTTG-TV MyFox 5 DC

Firefighters training at the Washington State Fire Training Academy (FTA) in North Bend between 2012 and 2014 may have been exposed to contaminated water, according to court documents filed March 1 by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Ferguson named wastewater plant operator George Campbell and the company he owns, Broadband Environmental Service Inc.
- PUB DATE: 3/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Snoqualmie Valley Record

Atlanta fire department officials said six people died in an early morning fire Monday. According to Atlanta fire officials, the fire was in a boarding house located in the 1400 block of Andrews Street NW. At least one of the victims is a woman. When firefighters arrived on the scene, they described the blaze a heavy.
- PUB DATE: 3/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIA-TV NBC 11 Atlanta

A South Jacksonville police officer died after the squad car he was driving turned into the path of an ambulance as both vehicles were headed to an emergency medical call on Friday night. Scot Fitzgerald, 32, died in the crash that happened at 8:54 p.m. on Illinois 267 about one mile north of Nortonville Road, near Murrayville in Morgan County.
- PUB DATE: 3/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The State Journal-Register

VIDEO: When the job is saving lives, Kyle Vaughn's job is to make sure firefighters do it right, especially at night. "We’ve done a lot of daytime trainings, but we haven’t done a lot of nighttime trainings and we've done a lot of night time extrications," Vaughn said, "So, we wanted to bring some realism into our training.
- PUB DATE: 3/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KUSA-TV NBC 9 Denver