Chronic problems at the Detroit Fire Department are catching up to homeowners in the form of higher insurance rates. Detroit already has the highest rates in the state. Now, they’re rising again for many, after a group that analyzes communities’ fire protection for insurance companies downgraded the city.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: detroit news

Unfortunately, too many firefighters and officers are not getting it. And "it" is that firefighters face an increased cancer risk compared with the general public. In its 2013 whitepaper "Taking Action Against Cancer in the Fire Service," the Firefighter Cancer Support Network reported that in 2006 researchers at the University of Cincinnati published their meta-analysis of 32 studies of cancer among firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

Many residents are keeping an eye on East Contra Costa Fire District's financial struggles, but one of them recently took the scrutiny to a new level by chiding its chief for purchasing $23.96 worth of chocolate chip cookies. "She just didn't think we should be buying treats for the firefighters," said Chief Hugh Henderson of the woman who took him to task after spotting four $5 boxes of cookies among the groceries he was loading into his truck from the Safeway store in Discovery Bay.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: contra cost times

In a year when many people in Okanogan County were looking to recover from the largest wildfire in state history, nature came along and threw four more large fires at one of the poorest and most rural areas in the state. The two fire seasons combined will long be remembered as one of the county’s worst natural disasters.
- PUB DATE: 11/8/2015 3:11:44 AM - SOURCE: Wenatchee World