Firefighters responded to a report of a vehicle on fire on the Peninsula beach Wednesday morning. Peninsula resident Jonnie Bepper was driving his Ford F-150 FX4 pickup about a mile past the Cranberry beach approach when he began to smell burnt rubber. “I started to see sparks from under the dashboard and heard a big pop,” he said as he waited in the sand dunes with his dog Rosie for Pacific County Fire District No.
- PUB DATE: 12/10/2015 3:41:25 AM - SOURCE: Chinook Observer

Firefighters responded to a report of a vehicle on fire on the Peninsula beach Wednesday morning. Peninsula resident Jonnie Bepper was driving his Ford F-150 FX4 pickup about a mile past the Cranberry beach approach when he began to smell burnt rubber. “I started to see sparks from under the dashboard and heard a big pop,” he said as he waited in the sand dunes with his dog Rosie for Pacific County Fire District No.
- PUB DATE: 12/10/2015 3:41:25 AM - SOURCE: Chinook Observer

Fire Chief Allyn Wright said what he’ll miss most is being looked up to as a leader when he retires from his position on January 4. A native son of New Haven, Wright has been chief for a year and eight months, entering his tenure with goals of fixing a department from the ground up. “Like flipping a house,” he said.
- PUB DATE: 12/10/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new haven register

The Rhode Island Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the Elorza administration’s request to suspend an upcoming arbitration hearing with the city’s firefighters while the justices take up a larger legal dispute between the two parties. The one-page written decision means the city and the firefighters can proceed with a Dec.
- PUB DATE: 12/10/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Providence 12

Last year the New York City Fire Department responded to nearly 62,000 fire incidents, or roughly 160 every day. That's a lot. But it actually reflects a step drop in firefighting over the previous 16 years—a 49 percent drop in fire incidents since 1998. Over the same period, the number of medical emergencies that FDNY handled jumped by a third.
- PUB DATE: 12/10/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: citylimits.org