Lansing firefighter Bruce Wheeler jumped out of the way of a speeding pickup truck, looking into the eyes of the driver, just before it struck and killed his friend and fellow firefighter Dennis Rodeman. It was that close encounter, which Wheeler described in testimony Thursday, that led prosecutors to add another charge against 23-year-old Grant Taylor — assault with intent to murder.
- PUB DATE: 12/4/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lansing State Journal

A day after undergoing chemotherapy, 9/11 first responder Robert Digiovanni stood angrily outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell‘s office, railing about politics interfering with life-or-death issues. Digiovanni, who has non-Hodgkin lymphoma, had been lobbying for legislation to extend expired health care benefits for himself and others who were exposed to toxic dust after the 2001 attacks in New York.
- PUB DATE: 12/4/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS New York

When 44-year-old D.C. firefighter Kevin McRae died in the line of duty it wasn't the flames or falling debris that caused his death. McRae, like many other firefighters, died because of a heart attack while climbing in full gear to help put out a blaze at an apartment building in Shaw. About 66 percent of firefighter deaths in the line of duty are from heart attacks, making it the number one cause of line of duty deaths for firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 12/4/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA9.com

Eagan (MN) Fire Department, pumper. Typhoon extra-long cab and chassis; Cummins ISL 400-hp engine; Waterous CSU 1,500-gpm pump.

Firefighters responded Thursday night to a large fire at a double-wide mobile home in the Five Corners area, one that was the scene of an alleged attempted murder earlier this fall. A report came in around 7:30 p.m. of a fire near Northeast 79th Street and Northeast 103rd Avenue, south of Padden Parkway.
- PUB DATE: 12/3/2015 8:08:29 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian