Port Ludlow Fire & Rescue Chief Brad Martin recently received his certificate of completion for the National Fire Academy's Executive Fire Office Program (EFOP). The EFOP spans a four-year period, with four mandatory core courses divided into two-week resident classes that provide senior fire officers with a broad perspective on various facets of fire and emergency services administration.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2015 12:38:56 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

Port Ludlow Fire & Rescue Chief Brad Martin recently received his certificate of completion for the National Fire Academy's Executive Fire Office Program (EFOP). The EFOP spans a four-year period, with four mandatory core courses divided into two-week resident classes that provide senior fire officers with a broad perspective on various facets of fire and emergency services administration.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2015 12:38:56 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

The American West needs a new kind of firefighter that fights fires that aren't only wild or urban, but burn in the space between. This was the main finding from a group of researchers who studied the 2012 Waldo Canyon fire, Colorado's second most destructive wildfire and one that has come to epitomize the transformation of wildfires into massive urban disasters.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: colorado springs gazette

Jessamine County paramedic John Mackey, who was struck by a car last week, died Monday, and his former supervisors remembered him as a caring professional. "He was a great employee, a dependable employee," said Jerry Domidion, former director of Jessamine County's Emergency Medical Services. "He was fun to be around and he took his job seriously.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: lexington hearld-leader

Fire Director James Stewart has rankled some in his ranks by naming a recently hired payroll clerk — who also happens to be his future daughter-in-law — to serve in his stead while he takes a vacation this week. Tawan Baxter, who was hired as a chief clerk Aug. 24, was named acting fire director as of 8 a.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Newark Star-Ledger/NJ.com