Parker Ewing was asleep in bed when he felt heat on his face. He opened his eyes and saw black smoke. "I tried to get under it but I was inhaling more and more black smoke," the 15-year-old recalled of when his family's Federal Way home burned in a fire on Friday morning. Parker managed to crawl out the front door, across the porch and down the front steps.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2015 1:42:54 AM - SOURCE: Federal Way Mirror

Banks District Volunteer Fire Department announced the passing of their Fire Chief Gary Bonnett, who passed away early Thursday morning after a lengthy battle with cancer. Chief Bonnett was a fire chief who was highly respected by his peers and everyone in and connected to the fire service throughout West Virginia.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDTV-TV CBS 5

PHOTO - Channel 11’s Melanie Gillespie has learned that one person was taken to a hospital Monday after an accident at the Clymer Volunteer Fire Department in Indiana County .Chopper 11 flew over the scene where a fire truck ladder got twisted, fell over and collapsed on a man standing on the ground, Gillespie reported.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPXI-TV NBC 11 Pittsburgh

Fairbanks Fire Chief Warren Cummings officially ended his 43-year career with a well-attended ceremony at the department’s Cushman Street headquarters Friday afternoon. Cummings began his firefighting career in 1972 and worked his way up through the ranks to become the fire chief in 2000. Along the way he saw major changes in the safety culture and worked tirelessly to improve the equipment and working conditions at the department.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fairbanks News-Miner

Jeff Lyon, a battalion chief accused of using the term "no bitch Tuesdays," was fired Friday amid allegations of harassment — claims he denies. The investigation also revealed that Lyon, 48, had made inappropriate comments about women, minorities and lesbians, according to an Oct. 30 He asked some of his women subordinates about their sexual orientation.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel & SouthFlorida.com