An alleged cheating ring involving Orange County firefighter made use of a website sources described as a collection of test questions. The website has the same questions that would show up during certification in pediatric advanced life support, according to those sources. That means it was allegedly designed to help firefighters avoid having to study the actual procedures for keeping a young child alive in an emergency.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFTV-TV ABC 9 Orlando

Monday afternoon a District of Columbia fire truck smashed into a city police cruiser while on an emergency call and investigators are now looking into a possible brake issue. The fire engine was responding to a call for a report of a fire in a residential area of Northwest D.C. prior to the accident taking place.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the daily caller

Grand Forks officials will have to look elsewhere to fund its emergency response training center. The city did not receive a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant worth nearly $2 million that would have assisted in building the training center. The grant was instead awarded to five other projects.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: grand forks herald

Coming at a time when we are raw from its association as a symbol of hate in the massacre of nine worshippers at a historic South Carolina Church, discussions about the history, meaning and display of the Confederate battle flag are passionate and divisive. In July, a Minnesota firefighter was suspended pending an investigation arising from flying the Confederate flag alongside the Stars and Stripes on a department truck in a 4th of July parade.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

Spartan ER—Midland (TX) Fire Department, 75-foot rear-mount aerial quint. Gladiator cab and chassis; Cummins ISX 500-hp engine; Waterous CSU 2,000-gpm pump