Almost three years after the deadliest day in the history of the Houston Fire Department, the families of four firefighters who battled a catastrophic hotel blaze have filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit over the department’s troubled digital radio system. As flames engulfed the Southwest Inn hotel on a hot day in May 2013, firefighters battling the five-alarm blaze also had to fight problems with their new radios.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU-TV CBS 11 Houston

A 44-year-old EMT died Wednesday evening (Feb. 10) when an equipment failure at the West Jefferson Emergency Medical Services Headquarters caused an ambulance to fall on him, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said. JPSO officers were called at 5:32 p.m. and the victim was taken to West Jefferson Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Orleans Times-Picayune & Nola.com

Fillmore has been talking for a month about the suicide of Fire Chief Rigo Landeros, but it wasn't until Tuesday night's City Council meeting that people began to speak openly and publicly about the events leading up to Landeros' death. Landeros, 51, shot himself on Jan. 7, while parked in his city car on a rural stretch of Goodenough Road.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ventura County Star

Mayor Kenney will announce on Thursday the end of two Fire Department policies he vowed to get rid of as mayor - rotating firefighters through stations and the temporary closure of firehouses. Both practices were implemented by then-Mayor Nutter as cost saving measures. In 2010, Nutter instituted rolling "brownouts" to temporarily close firehouses and reassign their firefighters elsewhere.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: philadelphia inquirer

VIDEO - A million fans lined the streets Tuesday to celebrate the Denver Broncos' Super Bowl 50 win over the Carolina Panthers. The parade, however, did draw some criticism from firefighters after players, spouses and children were seen riding on top of fire trucks. The group of players traveled the parade route in a series of fire trucks.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1