Many of the volunteer firefighters, retired firefighters, and staff of San Juan Island Fire and Rescue were at the Island Air hanger to welcome home their Chief at 3 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 26. San Juan Island Fire Chief Steve Marler was hospitalized in December and has been on medical leave for the last several weeks.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2016 2:26:29 AM - SOURCE: Islands Weekly

Many of the volunteer firefighters, retired firefighters, and staff of San Juan Island Fire and Rescue were at the Island Air hanger to welcome home their Chief at 3 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 26. San Juan Island Fire Chief Steve Marler was hospitalized in December and has been on medical leave for the last several weeks.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2016 2:26:29 AM - SOURCE: Islands Weekly

A Claremore firefighter, who nearly lost his life during a storm, is back at work – eight months after being knocked unconscious and suffering life-threatening injuries. Lieutenant Zane James is now on the road to recovery, but missing his fellow firefighter and friend, Captain Jason Farley, who drowned to death.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOTV-TV CBS 6 Tulsa

Almost all Texas fertilizer plants like the one that exploded nearly three years ago in West - killing 15 people and injuring hundreds - are within a quarter-mile of a residence and little has been done to protect the public, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board says in a report to be released Thursday. While the precise cause of the blast will probably never be known, the CSB's 265-page final report describes in painstaking detail a host of failures by the West Fertilizer Company, the government, fire officials, insurance companies and others that allowed tens of thousands of pounds of ammonium nitrate to detonate.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle

A plan to outsource the city Fire Department and add a parcel tax of $148 per year took a big step forward Wednesday with the unanimous approval of the agency in charge of overseeing that process. The Local Agency Formation Commission, or LAFCO, voted to move forward with San Bernardino’s proposal to annex the 137-year old San Bernardino Fire Department into Fire Protection District Service Zone FP5-5, giving responsibility for fire and emergency medical response to the county fire department.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Bernardino sun