Lights flashing and siren blaring, the ambulance stopped at a red light, checking for traffic. The firefighter at the wheel eased forward. Halfway through the intersection, his partner saw the truck. “I said, ‘This is going to hurt,’ ” Montgomery County firefighter Robert Sito, 27, told accident investigators later that day at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda.
- PUB DATE: 11/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the washington post

The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) is partnering on a project with the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) and Drexel University in Philadelphia to research the occurrences and effects of violence against firefighters and EMS responders. The study will examine the circumstances surrounding these acts and determine ways to mitigate workplace/on-duty incidents of violence against responders.
- PUB DATE: 11/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse

The ACLU has filed a sex discrimination charge with the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights and the E-E-O-C on behalf of Former Harmony EMT and Firefighter Kimberly Perreault. "I just think that the board and the chief should be held accountable for their actions,” said Perreault. Perreault had been with the volunteer fire district for 12 years working primarily as an EMT.
- PUB DATE: 11/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLNE-TV ABC 6

Los Fresnos (TX) Fire Department, 77-foot rear-mount aerial quint. Cinder cab and chassis; Cummins ISL9 450-hp engine; Hale Qmax 1,750-gpm pump.

Eastside Fire & Rescue is about to see some big changes at the top, most notably the retirement of longtime Chief Lee Soptich. Soptich, 58, had earlier announced he would leave the position he first took in 2000 at the end of January. His plan now is to leave at the end of November. The fire service also will be losing Deputy Chief Wes Collins and Ingrid Anderson-Boyle, EFR human resources manager.
- PUB DATE: 11/12/2015 5:07:32 PM - SOURCE: SnoValley Star.com