An overall quiet day for the Blue Grass Stockyards turned into anything but a run-of-the-mill Saturday. As of Sunday morning, firefighters are still on scene after a massive fire at the Lexington stockyard. Lexington fire crews were called to Blue Grass Stockyards on Lisle Industrial Avenue just after 2:00 Saturday afternoon.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wkyt-tv cbs

For decades, Illinois cities, villages, fire protection districts and others providing police, fire protection and ambulance services have enjoyed general immunity from lawsuits brought by plaintiffs who may accuse paramedics, firefighters and police officers of failing to provide the level of protection or response individuals may believe they should have.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: cook county record

Town officials have launched an investigation after a post allegedly made to a Weymouth firefighter's personal Facebook account denounced opiate addicts and the drug Narcan, calling the overdose-reversing drug “the worst drug ever created.” The posts suggest letting overdose victims die. Weymouth Mayor Robert Hedlund told WCVB news partner The Patriot Ledger he was “well aware” of the alleged Facebook post after he and Weymouth Fire Chief Keith Stark received emails from several upset residents.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCVB-TV ABC 5 Boston

Five restaurant co-workers, most believed to be in their 20s, died in a house fire Sunday morning in a Novi subdivision. The fire’s cause is still unclear, police said. Police and fire personnel were alerted about 9:30 a.m. and arrived to find smoke filtering up from the basement of the home in the 23000 block of Mystic Forest Drive, said Novi Public Safety Chief David Molloy.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: detroit free press

A proposal that would institute a major overhaul of the state's badly underfunded pension plan for public safety workers will be introduced in the Arizona Senate on Monday. The overhaul is the result of months of meetings between lawmakers, pension officials, firefighter and police unions as well as cities, towns and other public agencies that pay into the system.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tucson News Now