The owners of 19 apartment complexes in Everett are being ordered to install fire alarms on their buildings. Those notifications are going out over the next few weeks. City officials plan to inspect 30 additional complexes, Fire Marshal Eric Hicks said Thursday. The new safety campaign follows the fatal New Year's Eve fire at the Bluffs apartments along W.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2016 12:36:22 AM - SOURCE: Everett Herald

It’s an epic failure by Michigan lawmakers to help our heroes. Politicians passed a law to help firefighters with cancer treatment, but they have never funded it - and firefighters are paying the price. It’s a problem we’ve been exposing all week long, Three million dollars, that’s what is at stake here.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXYZ-TV ABC Detroit

An investigation by the Tacoma Fire Department determined two new recruits cheated on an EMT test and recommended they be terminated, despite acknowledgement from a private company involved that an "administrative error" allowed the pair to get questions ahead of time. A department spokesperson also called the incident "not malicious" and a "coincidence.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Northwest Cable News

A panel that is supposed to advise D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on emergency medical services policy says it can’t get any information from the mayor or the fire department in order to make recommendations. “We have got to have the transparency that she says she’s all about,” Anne Renshaw, vice chair of the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee (EMSAC), said at a meeting Thursday.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the washington times

Recently, I made a leadership presentation to a group of firefighters in the Yakima Valley, Wash. My first task was to get oriented with the teaching venue and my soon-to-be audience. As part of my standard preparation routine, I closely observed the on-stage speaker. I will admit that my purpose was to watch for the crowd's reaction to the instructor's delivery style.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1