When Ryan Starling and the rest of the members of the San Bernardino Police SWAT team heard the crackling chatter of shots fired over the police scanner on the morning of Dec. 2, many thought it was part of a training exercise. That day, Starling and the team were taking part in an active-shooter training at the Arrowhead Springs Hotel, less than 10 miles from the Inland Regional Center.
- PUB DATE: 12/31/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the sun

Area firefighters are mourning the death of one of their own after recently retired Sheffield Fire Chief David Kray died Monday. “He was a great guy. His dedication to the community and the fire service was second to none,” said Rome Township Fire Chief Ed Koziol. He said he worked with Kray on the county-wide fire chief’s association.
- PUB DATE: 12/31/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: star beacon

AT&T recently announced the launch of Dynamic Traffic Management, an offering that uses quality-of-service (QoS) technology in its LTE network to prioritize network traffic from enterprise, public-safety and critical-infrastructure customers during times of network congestion. By subscribing to the Dynamic Traffic Management solution for an extra $10 per month per device, an enterprise can have its traffic prioritized on AT&T’s existing LTE networks—the service is not available in areas where only 2G and 3G networks have been deployed—when normal best-effort service may be degraded by network contention, according to Gerry Myers, director of product marketing management for AT&T business services.
- PUB DATE: 12/31/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: urgent communications

Amid the most destructive wildfire season in more than a decade, California’s firefighting agency amped up its warnings to thousands of property owners who weren’t doing enough to protect their homes by clearing brush and other flammable materials. But it rarely put any muscle behind the threats: Violators were fined just 4 percent of the time, down from 10 percent when the drought was declared four years ago, according to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection statistics requested by The Associated Press.
- PUB DATE: 12/31/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: merced star-sun

Franklin Park Volunteer Fire Department, Allegheny County, PA, pumper-tanker.