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Posted: Mar 16, 2016

Fire Truck Photo of the Day-Spencer Manufacturing Pumper

enton Township Fire Department, Benton Harbor, MI, pumper. Spartan Metro Star cab and chassis; Cummins ISL 450-hp engine; Hale Qflo 1,250-gpm pump.

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Posted: Mar 16, 2016

Orcas Fire Chief Placed on Administrative Leave

Following an executive session of the Board of Fire Commissioners today, it was announced that Fire Chief Mik Preysz has been placed on administrative leave while OIFR conducts an administrative review. “Based on internal member feedback,” the release states, “OIFR is undergoing an administrative review.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2016 9:53:08 PM - SOURCE: orcasissues news & views
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Posted: Mar 16, 2016

Orcas Fire Chief Placed on Administrative Leave

Following an executive session of the Board of Fire Commissioners today, it was announced that Fire Chief Mik Preysz has been placed on administrative leave while OIFR conducts an administrative review. “Based on internal member feedback,” the release states, “OIFR is undergoing an administrative review.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2016 9:53:08 PM - SOURCE: orcasissues news & views
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Posted: Mar 15, 2016

Surry County EMS Requests Personnel, Equipment

Surry County EMS personnel won't get to some locations in Surry County in time to save a life, says one official. "If you're in cardiac arrest, do you want to wait four to six minutes or 30 minutes for medical care?"
For the second year in a row, Shelton asked commissioners to consider adding two quick-response vehicles (QRVs) and the crews and equipment to man them to his department’s fleet.

Shelton said the QRVs would be stationed in Lowgap and Shoals, what he considers to be the most outlying areas of the county which are not adequately serviced by his department. Each Ford Explorer would have a critical care paramedic on board and carry the equipment necessary to keep a person alive until an ambulance can arrive at the scene of a medical emergency.

Shelton made it a point to show just what the equipment, a $23,000 Life Pak 15, was capable of doing.

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Posted: Mar 15, 2016

Amherst (MA) Fire Chief Requests Ballistic Equipment for EMS

Fire Chief Tim Nelson never imagined he'd be making this request but with more than 300 mass shootings last year, he is asking the town to pay for ballistic equipment for firefighters. He asked the Joint Capital Planning Committee for $17,500 to purchase 10 vests and helmets, two sets for each of the town's five ambulances.
"Look at the world we're living in," he said. The PBS website reports 355 mass shootings in 2015.

He said it would just take one incident to put his crew at risk. "We've got two colleges and one university. We need to be prepared," he said.

Last week fire crew responded to the University of Massachusetts campus with reports of an armed gunman on campus, a report that put the campus in lockdown for two hours.

He said police didn't know where the alleged gunman was. He said when he arrived UMass police were out with their long guns.

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