Allegations of racial discrimination against African-American cadets at the Erie County Fire Training Academy in Cheektowaga prompted members of two community organizations to confront officials at the facility on Friday. City, fire and union officials, however, said investigations determined there was no merit to the charges.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: buffalo news

The company near Frederick where several sets of firefighters’ protective gear were destroyed agreed to pay the county nearly $80,000 to replace the equipment. “TAMKO reimbursed the Frederick fire department for $79,395, which represents a full reimbursement,” Kim Eckerman, the company’s communications manager, said in an email to The Frederick News-Post.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: frederick news-post

VIDEO: Injured Fresno Fire Captain and local hero Pete Dern, who suffered burns to much of his body while fighting a fire in March, is now walking, and talking, and smiling! He addressed the community Friday and gave thanks for all the support he's received over the past few months. "Our community here in Fresno -- I want to thank everybody for their prayers and support," Dern said.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFSN-TV ABC 30 Frenso/Visalia

A former Monroe County firefighter could be taken to court in a breach-of-contract suit over $5,247 in training costs. County legal staff asserts that Anthony Moore resigned May 15 from Monroe County Fire Rescue, seven months after he completed a training course funded by the county to become certified as a paramedic.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: keysnet.com

Baltimore Fire Chief Niles R. Ford called for reforms to reduce "inadequacies of accountability" after a veteran firefighter died and remained unnoticed for hours inside a vacant rowhouse where he had fallen while responding to a blaze last November. In a report released Friday, investigators said fire personnel took "a haphazard approach" to ventilating the house where Lt.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: baltimore sun