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

An attorney will ask a DeWitt County jury this week to find his client not guilty of stabbing a volunteer firefighter because he was insane at the time. Kirk Ross Engle, 45, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to stabbing Brian Smolik in the stomach on Aug. 19. Smolik responded on Aug. 19 to the 400 block of West Sixth Street in Yorktown where brush, a couch and a trash can were ablaze.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: victoria advocate

Early results show voters in Spokane Fire District 9 passing a renewed maintenance and operations levy. The levy requires a 60-percent majority to pass and so far it has just over 70-percent of the vote. All of Fire District 9's budget comes from levies but the M&O Levy makes up 60-percent of the overall budget.
- PUB DATE: 2/9/2016 11:44:40 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4

Early results show voters in Spokane Fire District 9 passing a renewed maintenance and operations levy. The levy requires a 60-percent majority to pass and so far it has just over 70-percent of the vote. All of Fire District 9's budget comes from levies but the M&O Levy makes up 60-percent of the overall budget.
- PUB DATE: 2/9/2016 11:44:40 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4