Casey Harrison
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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A new fire station and training facility for western Henderson is expected to open early next month, city officials said Monday.

The city is inviting residents to the May 7 grand opening of Fire Station 92, located at 2000 Via Centro, near East Larson Lane, according to a press release. In addition to a 10 a.m. ceremony by city leadership to celebrate the opening of the new facility, attendees will be able to take tours and meet firefighters who will be stationed there.

Fire Station 92, which is the Henderson Fire Department’s 13th station, will serve the growing West Henderson area and Inspirada master-planned communities, the release said. Residents unable to attend the ceremony are also invited to check out a June 14 open house at the new station, according to the release.

The new facility is situated on about 3 acres and will include four apparatus bays to accommodate an engine, truck, rescue, air support and other specialty vehicles. The new station also will be able to accommodate up to 14 personnel for 24-hour response preparedness.

“Plans have been in the works for several years, and I could not be more excited to officially open Station 92 for the residents and businesses in West Henderson,” Henderson Fire Chief Scott Vivier said in a statement. “As our department continues to grow, it’s crucial that we continue providing premier fire services, and this station will help us do just that.”

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Harford Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Chip Chidester died Sunday from injuries sustained while battling a 30-acre brush fire.

The fire took place on March 11 in Lenox Township, with Harford on scene providing mutual aid. Chidester suffered a serious leg fracture while battling the fire, and died from complications of the injury, WNEP reports.

Flags across Susquehanna County were lowered to half-staff Tuesday in honor of Chidester, following a directive from Governor Josh Shapiro.

Just a day before his passing, the department held a benefit to support Chidester as he recovered from his injuries.

A public viewing will be held Saturday at the Hartford Volunteer Fire Company.

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Shelly Bradbury – The Denver Post

For the first time in 16 years, the Denver Fire Department won’t train new firefighters this year because the agency is fully staffed, a spokesman confirmed Monday.

Fire officials last week decided to postpone the start of a new training academy until 2026 because the department is at 99.4% of its fully authorized strength of 1,114 employees, spokesman Luis Cedillo said.

The last time the department went a full year without holding at least one training academy was in 2009, he said.

The city’s Civil Service Commission notified applicants on Friday that the emergency medical technician training expected to start in May and the firefighter training expected to start in July were both postponed until 2026, executive director Gracie Perez said.

The commission will continue to move people through the hiring process so that the city has a pool of qualified applicants when the training academies reopen next year, Perez said. The commission has about 55 people in the running for the EMT training academy and 196 potential recruits for the firefighter academy, she said.

Another 600 applicants for the jobs at the fire department have already been screened out, she said.

The city had expected to hire eight EMT recruits and 24 firefighter recruits in 2025, Perez said. The number of recruits in each academy class and the number of classes per year regularly vary depending on the fire department’s staffing needs.

The Denver Fire Department expects only 11 retirements in 2025, which would put the agency at about 98.4% of its full staffing at the end of the year, Cedillo said.

“It has nothing to do with budget, it’s all related to staffing needs,” he said.

The pause on new firefighters comes as both the Denver Police Department and the Denver Sheriff Department have struggled to maintain full staffing in recent years.

The Denver Police Department is just over 90% staffed, with 1,532 officers and cadets of an authorized strength of 1,639 sworn officers. The Denver Sheriff Department is at about 71% of its full staffing, with 611 sworn staff out of a maximum 859.

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Corrected 3:37 p.m. April 28, 2025: This story was updated to correct the name of the Denver Fire Department spokesman.

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A bill that establishes a statewide inventory of firefighting equipment won final approval in Texas Wednesday, texastribune.org reported.

The bill, a response to the historic wildfires in the Texas Panhandle last year, now heads to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk, the report said.

The bill creates a database of statewide firefighting equipment that is available during a wildfire. The inventory will include descriptions of the equipment, allow for searches by location and equipment types, and have contact information for fire departments, according to the report.

The database will be operated by Texas A&M Forest Service, a state agency that manages Texas’ forests and natural resources. The agency already tracks emergency response equipment at fire stations, according to a state official. The bill makes that information widely accessible to fire departments statewide, including volunteer fire departments, which often operate on shoestring budgets and old equipment in rural areas. The agency would also be required to update the database annually.

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