It may seem early in the season, but East County Fire & Rescue is doing some last-minute Christmas shopping. The fire chief is leaving earlier than expected, and unless there’s a breakthrough in the hiring process, there won’t be a permanent chief to take his place until next year. “June 16 is when I gave them notice,” interim Fire Chief Dean Thornberry said.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2015 6:03:01 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

It may seem early in the season, but East County Fire & Rescue is doing some last-minute Christmas shopping. The fire chief is leaving earlier than expected, and unless there’s a breakthrough in the hiring process, there won’t be a permanent chief to take his place until next year. “June 16 is when I gave them notice,” interim Fire Chief Dean Thornberry said.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2015 6:03:01 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

Dallas Fire-Rescue Chief Louie Bright III announced Friday that he will soon end a career that started in his hometown when he was 19 years old. Bright’s retirement, effective March 30, will end a quiet four-year tenure marked by relative peace — excluding his leadership after a controversial line-of-duty death — in a department that had experienced strife in the prior decade.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: dallas morning news

A workers compensation case against a volunteer firefighter is being closely watched across the state, both prosecutors and defense attorneys say. The case pits Niagara County prosecutors against a 66-year-old man who collected about $45,000 in workers’ compensation over two years after being injured on the job for a blacktopping company.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: buffalo news

A fired Cal Fire official who lost his job amid scandal says Director Ken Pimlott ordered him to withhold death-benefits information from grieving families of fallen fire pilots, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in a Sacramento court. The complaint contends that Pimlott and his No. 2, Janet Barentson, knew that state law requires Cal Fire pay death benefits when a contracted fire pilot is killed in the line of duty.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: sacramento bee