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

City officials are asking voters Tuesday to approve a measure allowing Harper Woods to join the growing number of Metro communities that combine their police and fire departments. The City Council on Oct. 5 unanimously approved a public safety implementation plan, which officials say will save the cash-strapped community millions of dollars, allow more police to patrol, and keep the city from having to hire an emergency financial manager.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: detroit news

When Edward Moriarty drove up to the Jasper Highlands development earlier this month to check on the construction of his retirement home, his car caught fire. He called 911 and two Marion County sheriff's deputies responded, but no fire services arrived. "No fire truck," Moriarty said. "No fire support whatsoever.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: times-free press