Posted: Nov 16, 2015
Due to the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, the IAFC and WFC recommends its members maintain a high level of vigilance and situational awareness. At this time, there are no known, credible threats against the U.S.
The IAFC & WFC recommend the following actions:
- Make sure your staff are educated about your department’s suspicious activity reporting policy. The IAFC’s Terrorism and Homeland Security Committee recommends that all fire departments have suspicious activity reporting policies...
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Posted: Nov 16, 2015
The city of Flagstaff is looking to try something new when it comes to training its firefighters for leadership positions.
Flagstaff Fire Chief Mark Gaillard will propose a two-year pilot program with Summit Fire District at Tuesday’s Flagstaff City Council meeting. The program would involve the city making one of the Fire Department’s battalion chiefs an acting deputy chief and assigning that person to Summit Fire for day-to-day operations.
- PUB DATE: 11/16/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Daily Sun
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Posted: Nov 16, 2015
Being a volunteer firefighter meant everything to Pat Hardison, but when an accident during a rescue mission left his face severely burned, he thought he would never be the same again.
“It was terrible,” Hardison, 41, told “Nightline." “I mean, I left home one day a normal dad, leaving to go to work, just a blonde-haired, blue-eyed-- that had everything going, I thought, and just like that everything changed drastically.
- PUB DATE: 11/16/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: abc news
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Attorneys representing a man accused of setting a fire in 1995 that killed three Pittsburgh firefighters called prosecutors' attempt to get a new judge “pure gamesmanship” in a motion filed Friday.
Gregory Brown, 38, is awaiting a retrial based on evidence that prosecutors didn't share with jurors and the defense that a federal agent and a prosecutor promised two key witnesses cash rewards in exchange for their testimony.
- PUB DATE: 11/16/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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