Augusta firefighters are due even more back pay after city officials acknowledged Friday a software glitch shorted them a portion of overtime pay for 11 months last year. Fire Chief Chris James told personnel in a Friday letter, obtained by The Augusta Chronicle, that a software module correcting a previous miscalculation of overtime pay “did not carry over and perform as designed” when the city upgraded payroll software last February.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: augusta chronicle

The Independent Volunteer Fire Company and five of its members have filed a lawsuit, alleging town officials violated their civil rights and state law in handling allegations against them. The suit against the town, filed in Atlantic County Superior Court, alleges that Station 2 firefighters were denied due process and that town officials broke the law in suspending them.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: press of atlantic city

The family of a Fresno paramedic who was killed in the Skylife air ambulance helicopter crash in Kern County has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Rogers Helicopters, claiming it was negligent in the maintenance and operation of the Bell 407 aircraft that crashed in a field nine miles east of McFarland last month.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fresno bee

A worker at the Hanford Fire Station has tested positive for internal radioactive contamination at a very low level. The exposure occurred after breathing equipment used at the nuclear reservation’s Plutonium Finishing Plant was sent to the station for storage, according to the Department of Energy.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: tri-city herald

A worker at the Hanford Fire Station has tested positive for internal radioactive contamination at a very low level. The exposure occurred after breathing equipment used at the nuclear reservation’s Plutonium Finishing Plant was sent to the station for storage, according to the Department of Energy.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: tri-city herald