Nearly a dozen black firefighters in Jacksonville have been sent home for something they didn't do: shave. State rules require firefighters to have a clean-shaven face when they have to wear an oxygen mask. The rule falls in line with regulations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on wearing respirators.
- PUB DATE: 1/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJXT-TV CBS 4 Jacksonville

The Harney County fire chief resigned Wednesday because he says he no longer trusts the local government. Chris Briels stood next Ammon Bundy, the leader of an armed group that has taken over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, and announced he had turned in his resignation to county Judge Steve Grasty.
- PUB DATE: 1/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KVAL-TV CBS 13

The owners of the Pater Avenue home where a Hamilton firefighter was killed Dec. 28 while battling a fire say they will never be able to return there even if repairs are made. “My wife won’t live there again, and I don’t blame her after the firefighter was killed there,” said Lester Parker, 66, of Hamilton.
- PUB DATE: 1/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Journal-News

World Trade Center responder John Coughlin of Sayville suffers from a host of conditions: heart disease that led to open-heart surgery and a pacemaker; diminished lung capacity; sleep apnea; and stomach disorders. But the 57-year-old former NYPD emergency services officer, who responded when the towers fell on Sep.
- PUB DATE: 1/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse

On the same day two more structures were set ablaze in Auburn, police have arrested the man they believe set fires to twenty structures over the last few months. Police linked the suspect, a man in his 20s, to a fingerprint on a car that was found burned a couple months ago. They've been monitoring him since and said he was spotted near two suspicious fires that happened early Thursday morning.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2016 8:13:18 PM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5