For his entire adult life, Barry Miller was a giver and “a huge figure in the town of Bergen.” That was evident in the outpouring of grief in Bergen Wednesday after Miller, chief of Fire Department Emergency Medical Services and a county coroner, was killed on his way to a call in Riga. “His connection to the community is indescribable,” said Donald Cunningham, town supervisor and close friend of Miller’s.
- PUB DATE: 9/24/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the daily news online

Stuart Hardy, the Burton firefighter who suffered a medical event while on duty Sept. 13, died Thursday morning, according a Burton Fire District news release and a Facebook post from his family. Hardy was responding to a car crash earlier this month when he was stricken. Doctors didn't know as of Wednesday what caused the event.
- PUB DATE: 9/24/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Beaufort Gazette

A mishap Wednesday morning at an accident scene that sent St. Mary’s Sheriff Tim Cameron to a hospital with a leg injury prompted a review by a prosecutor, one that the sheriff’s office reports led to citations issued against a Leonardtown firefighter. Cameron was treated at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown and released after the 7:36 a.
- PUB DATE: 9/24/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Southern Maryland Newspapers

State fire officials presented the city with $20,000 Wednesday to cover the fire department's costs in extinguishing a 2013 fire in a hi-rise building that had unresolved fire code violations, which hampered firefighting efforts. Trenton Fire Department Director Qareeb Bashir accepted the check from Louis Kilmer, chief of the Bureau of Fire Code Enforcement in the state's Division of Fire Safety, at Trenton fire headquarters.
- PUB DATE: 9/24/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Trenton Times

School districts in Omaha will have to pay for ambulances at high school football games next year because of a policy change by the Omaha Fire Department. On Jan. 1, the department will end its free standby ambulance service at varsity games and other events, Fire Chief Bernie Kanger said Tuesday. The chief said he’s looking for ways to make his department more efficient and has to put 911 calls ahead of the standby service.
- PUB DATE: 9/24/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: omaha world-herald