Firefighters are battling a 2-alarm fire at a commercial building in Federal Way Thursday morning. Crews were called to the 31500 block of 20th Avenue South, which is a building that is currently under construction, about 6:30 a.m. The building is a former school administration building, according to South King Fire and Rescue.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2015 7:37:47 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

A battalion chief died Wednesday morning after suffering a cardiac arrest. Firefighter Close Calls reported that an ambulance was transporting Batt. Chief Maywood Gaskins, 56, with the Santee Circle (S.C.) Fire Department, after he suffered a cardiac arrest in his home following training at the firehouse.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

Cal Fire Capt. Scott Rohrs and his three crewmen were racing to the scene of the Valley Fire when the foreboding news crackled over radio dispatch: Four elite firefighters had been overrun by flames, suffering serious second-degree burns. The fire was barely an hour old, but driven by fierce winds and the most intense, dry conditions of California's four-year drought, those men had been forced to deploy their silver shelter bags, survival gear of last resort.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: san jose mercury news

A deputy was injured and a firefighter killed Thursday after a high-speed chase ended in a fatal wreck in northern Greenville County, authorities said. North Greenville firefighter Jordan Barry Howard, 30, of Marietta, was on his motorcycle heading to work at about 7:30 a.m. when he was struck head-on by a Ford pickup, Deputy Coroner Kent Dill said.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: greenville online

Standards are intended to provide a set of criteria by which firefighters can have some confidence that their turnout gear provides a minimum level of protection. For the past 40 years, NFPA 1971 has provided these criteria and undergone seven major revisions going from a dozen pages to the current 145 pages.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1