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

PHOTO: Action News is learning new information about five U.S. Forest Service firefighters and a sixth person injured in a rollover crash near Clovis. The California Highway Patrol said the crash happened around 7:30 Sunday morning on Highway 168 between Shepherd and Academy avenues. Firefighters Derek Soden, 29, of Mariposa, and Lee Sands, 37, of Groveland, are at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFSN-TV ABC 30 Frenso/Visalia

Investigators say "smoldering material" on the front deck was the cause of a fire that damaged a single-story home, and left several pets unaccounted for. Firefighters raced to the 25100 block of 142 Avenue SE around 8 a.m. to find the front deck on fire, and flames quickly spreading to the rest of the home.
- PUB DATE: 7/12/2015 12:37:29 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000