Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the New Orleans City Council have until Aug. 21 to begin paying firefighters a judgment worth a potential $142 million, or they will be held in contempt, a Civil District Court judge told officials Thursday (Aug. 6). The council is scheduled to meet the day before the deadline, Judge Kern Reese said.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Orleans Times-Picayune

The Three Rivers Fire Chief Scott Turner has filed an Open Meeting Law complaint against the committee that supervises him. According to the Turner complaint, the board met on June 10 in executive session to discuss problems they had with him – without informing him, nor inviting the chief to attend that closed door meeting.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Springfield Union-News & Sunday Republican

PHOTO: Firefighters saved a man dangling by his legs from wires three stories above the ground after he fell off a Brooklyn rooftop and got entangled on his way down, FDNY officials said Wednesday. When fire trucks arrived on Hooper St. near S. 2nd St. in Williamsburg about 7 p.m. Tuesday, smoke-eaters were shocked to see the man hanging precariously above them.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york daily news

“Complacency in response” and a lack of investigation helped lead to St. Johns County firefighters missing a condominium blaze last month that burned unrecognized for more than 45 minutes, a report released Thursday said. A dispatcher was fired and a firefighter quit over the finding of that review by county officials, which listed “inactions and missed opportunities” surrounding the reaction to the July 13 fire that ravaged the Belleza at Ponte Vedra condos.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: st. augustine record