The Chicago Fire Department could save at least $1.2 million a year and potentially millions more in overtime by hiring civilians to perform 34 administrative jobs that have nothing to do with firefighting or emergency medical service, Inspector General Joe Ferguson said Wednesday. Three years after urging Mayor Rahm Emanuel to civilianize police jobs to save up to $16.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: chicago sun-times

Denver Fire Chief Eric Tade stood outside his station Wednesday and talked about what it was like to be stabbed in a random attack the day before. "It was a very surreal experience — the scariest part was being trapped and restrained in the car," he said. Denver police say the woman accused of stabbing Denver's top firefighter Tuesday afternoon had no connection to him.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Denver Post

PHOTOS - Two people were injured Wednesday when a fire engine slammed into a North Texas Dairy Queen. City officials said Greenville Fire-Rescue Unit 4 crashed into the restaurant located on the 200 block of Highway 380 East in Farmersville at about noon. The truck was headed east on U.S. 380 when it left the road for an unknown reason.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Dallas - Fort Worth

The health and safety risks and hazards of firefighting on the men and women that make up the profession is increasingly well studied and documented. Meaningful and sound research has led to changes in individual fitness priorities, personal protective equipment, first responder personnel activities on the fire-ground, and a better understanding of the overall health risks increasingly associated with firefighting.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firefighternation.com

I don’t know what happened up there 27 years ago this past November, the morning six firefighters died on a windswept hill in south Kansas City. Maybe no one will ever know, except for the arsonists responsible for their deaths. But I do know this. The federal government — the same federal government that imprisoned five people for life in the case — has acknowledged that it never fully solved the crime.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kansas city star