The Island County commissioners may soon have the flexibility they so desired last year to temporarily ban fireworks in times of extreme drought. House Bill 2348, which would essentially reduce a one-year delay in the implementation of fireworks rule changes to 30 days or less, made it out of committee late last month.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2016 1:47:34 AM - SOURCE: South Whidbey Record

She was brought in to help reform the EMS wing of the D.C. Fire Department. Seven months later, Dr. Jullette Saussy is done. Not with the reform but with the department after she says her attempts, as medical director and assistant fire chief, to make even basic changes to the troubled agency have been met with resistance from the top down.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV 9 DC

Several of the FDNY’s busiest engine companies across all the boroughs are finally getting one more firefighter. As part of a contract agreement between City Hall and the Uniformed Firefighters Association last summer, the department has added a fifth firefighter to five of the most swamped engine companies throughout the city — something the union has been clamoring for since 2011.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york daily news

On Super Bowl Sunday morning, firefighter James J. Butler Jr. was in City Hall, pulling paperwork for a number of building inspections he hoped to start scheduling. “I got a text from him around 9 a.m.,” Derby Fire Marshal Phil Hawks said. “He responded (that) he was pulling some paperwork on the inspections .
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: connecticut post

A Boston fire chief was convicted today of five counts of procurement fraud and five counts of larceny over $250 for swindling the city, Attorney General Maura Healey said. “This defendant abused his position as a public employee and stole tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars that should have gone back to the City of Boston,” Healey said in a statement.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: boston herald