A criminologist recently suggested St. Louis City should consider using firefighters to fight violent crime during their downtime. University of St. Louis-Missouri criminologist Rick Rosenfeld, who is also an informal advisor to St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson, brought up the idea during a St. Louis Safety meeting Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 9/23/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMOV-TV CBS 4 St. Louis

Drunken rants were spewing from scanners Friday night over radio channels usually used to alert first responders to emergencies in Westmoreland County. The thief who stole Greensburg Fire Chief Ed Hutchinson's portable emergency radio from the department SUV parked in his drive apparently was having a good old time.
- PUB DATE: 9/23/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Citing what he called the “toxic political environment” in the bankrupt Central Coventry Fire District, the district’s acting chief said Tuesday he was resigning, effective Sept. 30. Shawn Murray, a former fire chief in New Hampshire and ex-director of the Massachusetts Fire Academy, said last week’s decision by the state to abandon its efforts to implement a financial reorganization of the bankrupt fire district, a plan he called “a roadmap to the future sustainability” of the district, was the reason for his resignation.
- PUB DATE: 9/23/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: providence journal

PHOTO/VIDEO - The Tuesday reunion of veteran firefighter Lt. Victor Milukas and 2-year-old Justin Pierre lacked the drama of their first encounter — not that anyone complained. The FDNY odd couple shared hugs, handshakes and gifts Tuesday as they said hello nearly a month after the heroic Milukas plucked the youngster from a raging Brooklyn fire.
- PUB DATE: 9/23/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york daily news

Delaware state police are investigating a note left outside an ambulance dispatching facility in Camden that threatened police officers, firefighters and EMTs. The note, discovered last Friday, advises agencies to “give all your employees bullet prof (sic) vest. We’re after all EMS, fire and police.
- PUB DATE: 9/23/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilmington News Journal (Delaware Online)