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| Joliet Hires 2nd Woman Firefighter In City's History The Joliet Fire Department has hired its second woman firefighter/paramedic in the city's entire history, Meagan Miller. Last week, the Joliet Fire Department announced that its latest recruiting class has new four new members: they are firefighter Patrick Link, Jacob Baker, Miller and Juan Pantoja. The new class brings the Joliet Fire Department back up to its authorized roster of 209 firefighter/paramedics, according to deputy chief Greg Blaskey. Miller's hiring comes one year after Patch wrote about Carissa Smith, who made history by becoming the first woman firefighter/paramedic at the Joliet Fire Department. CHANNAHON-MINOOKA PATCH.COM Firefighter's hand burned, six adults displaced in apartment blaze in Rockford A firefighter was treated at a local hospital for minor burns to his hand and six adults are being assisted by The Red Cross after fire caused an apartment building to be uninhabitable late Sunday. Rockford Fire Department said the fire in a second-floor apartment in the four-unit building at 610 N. Rockton Avenue started in the kitchen. Cause was determined to be accidental. The apartment sustained extensive fire damage while the other three units were mostly affected by water damage. The call came in about 10:40 p.m. The firefighter was released from the hospital. Damage was estimated at $25,000. ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR 15 fire departments tackle disaster training at DuPage Airport The DuPage Airport was busier than usual last week as 15 fire departments and several other local and federal agencies took part in a simulated exercise to prepare for a tragedy that hopefully never happens. Just after 6 p.m. Thursday, a mock scenario was staged at the airport involving a passenger airliner making an emergency landing at night. Crews responded to the scene to extinguish flames from a burning fuselage, as well as triage people acting as injured passengers and take them to Central DuPage Hospital. Director of the DuPage Airport Mark Doles said "a large scale drill is practiced every three years" and that smaller practice sessions are conducted annually. "This exercise is the big one where we bring in the FAA and the West Chicago Fire Protection District and well as agencies and departments from throughout the area," Doles said. AURORA BEACON NEWS - METERED SITE Retired Director: Iroquois County telecommunicators must paint picture for first responders Nita Dubble, the retired director of telecommunications for Iroquois County, spoke about the job that tele communicators have to do to get that information to the responding agencies. "I was a telecommunicator and I've trained a lot of telecommunicators over the years," she said. "What I always said to them when they first sat down in the chair is ‘you have everybody in Iroquois County in your hands, and how you respond or don't respond can make a difference in life or death'. And that's how important the tele communicators are. "We all know how important communications is," she said, "whether it is relationships or radio transmission during an incident. IROQUOIS COUNTY TIMES-REPUBLIC Bradley man, part of a film crew, dies after falling around 50 feet at Starved Rock A man from the Kankakee area who was working on a short film along with six friends died after falling 48 feet Saturday at Starved Rock State Park. Daniel King, 30, of Bradley died after falling from near the top center of Council Overhang, a partial cave-like indentation in a canyon wall near the Kaskaskia and Ottawa canyons trailheads, according to Illinois Conservation Police Sgt. Phil Wire. "The sad part is, he had a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, and the 2-year-old had his third birthday the day after his death," Wire said this morning. Wire confirmed the death and said Conservation Police responded around 10 a.m. Saturday for a report of a man falling at Council Overhang. Wire said the man, along with six others with Glass Darkly Films, were given a permit to film at the park. NEWS TRIBUNE (NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS) 1 injured, 9 displaced after Coal City apartment building blaze One person was hospitalized and nine residents were displaced after an early morning fire in a Coal City apartment building Monday. The Grundy County 911 Center received a call of a reported fire in a second-floor apartment at 30 N. Broadway St. in Coal City just before 3:20 a.m. Monday, according to a news release from the Coal City Fire Protection District. When Coal City fire crews arrived, they saw smoke showing from the second level of a two-story commercial/residential building. One occupied business was on the first floor and three apartments were on the second, the release said. Coal City police were already evacuating tenants when firefighters got there. One person was transported to an area hospital due to the blaze, but the individual remained stable after the incident, according to the release. THE HERALD-NEWS PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| New York firefighter dies during training, chief says A firefighter with the Homer Fire Department died Saturday after falling ill at a training, according to the fire chief. Firefighter Robert Bush was feeling ill during a training, and his fellow firefighters offered him medical help immediately, chief Mahlon Irish Jr. said in a Facebook post. "Bush was transported to the local hospital where revival efforts continued. However, the outcome was unsuccessful," Irish said. "I cannot express how proud I am of our members who initiated treatment. This is the worst case scenario in my mind when we have to render aid to one of our own." Irish thanked other fire departments that have offered sympathy and to assist the department. The chief's statement did not say what Bush's cause of death was, and it didn't give more details about what the training entailed. The department also posted a Homer Fire Department logo with a black bar across it to mourn Bush's death. SYRACUSE.COM Ohio firefighters build dryer that saves tax dollars, aids in cancer prevention Over the last few years, national firefighter organizations have put an emphasis on cancer preventions. Firefighters face higher rates of cancer diagnosis and cancer-related deaths than the general population. Innovative work by the Xenia Fire Department will help them be more diligent about keeping gear clean to prevent the inhalation of carcinogens as suggested by many national firefighter organizations. Jeff Bruggeman, a captain at the department, began to see other fire stations build their gear dryer systems. So, he decided to build his own for the department. "It's just a series of PVC pipes. We have a bouncy house blower of all things. It's what we're using to drive air into it," Bruggeman said. It took the department about 36 hours to build. The machine features hangers and hooks for wet jackets, pants, gloves, hoods and liners. "Commercial units run anywhere between $7,000 and $12,000. We built this one just under $1,000," Bruggeman said. WDTN-TV NBC 2 DAYTON Firefighters learn about overlooked dangers in Vermont Two national experts on firefighter safety were at the Vermont Fire Academy Saturday sharing what they know with leaders in the state's firefighting and emergency services community. "The entire class today is focused on firefighter health and safety," Chief Craig Haigh, a 36-year veteran of the Hanover Park, Illinois, Fire Department, and a field staff instructor at the University of Illinois Fire Service Institute. "It's looking at it not from the standpoint of, we're going to buy you new protective equipment or we're going to give you a different type of fire truck, it's an analysis of what actually goes on inside of the body physiologically when we expose the body to the job we do." Teaching alongside him was Denise Smith, professor of exercise science at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, and a research scientist at the University of Illinois Fire Service Institute. RUTLAND HERALD - METERED SITE San Francisco grapples with how to fight massive firestorm expected after next big quake San Francisco's Marina was ravaged by fire during the Loma Prieta earthquake, centered 60 miles away. Thirty years later, experts say, as much as a third of the city is still largely unprotected against the massive fires they fear will be sparked by the Big One. "The way the situation is now, we are going to have some major conflagrations in the city," said Charles Scawthorn, an engineer and earthquake fire modeling expert, who predicts as many as 100 separate fires across the city, fueled by broken natural gas lines. "I don't mean a few buildings -- I don't even mean a few blocks – I'm talking about tens, to hundreds of city blocks." The city is not totally defenseless – in fact, San Francisco has more in place than any city in the U.S. to battle quake sparked fires, according to Scawthorn. KNTV NBC 11 SAN JOSE Philadelphia Fire Crews Battle Massive 3-Alarm Blaze At Auto Body Shop VIDEOS: Firefighters are battling a three-alarm fire at an auto body shop in Philadelphia's Cobbs Creek neighborhood. Crews were called to the the area of 59th and Irving Streets for a fire around 10:10 a.m. Monday. Arriving crews found heavy fire conditions coming from a second-story building. The fire caused parts of the building to collapse. The Philadelphia School District says students at Sayre High School on the 5800 block of Walnut Street are being relocated to Andrew Hamilton Elementary School due to the fire. There is no word on any injuries at this time. It's not clear yet how the fire started. KYW-TV CBS 3 PHILADELPHIA PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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| L-O-D-D New York - Robert H. Bush, Firefighter, Homer Fire Department, Homer, New York L-O-D-D Texas - Steven Paul Henderson, Firefighter, Louise Volunteer Fire Department, Louise, TX L-O-D-D Texas - Greg Garza, Firefighter, San Antonio Fire Department, San Antonio, TX L-O-D-D New York - Dale Jaynes, Firefighter, Burdett Fire Department, Burdett, NY L-O-D-D Washington - Christian Dean Johnson, Assistant Fire Chief, Okanogan Fire Department/Okanogan County Fire District 3, Okanogan, WA L-O-D-D California - Paul Rotondaro, Fire Captain, CAL FIRE, Merced County Fire, Gustine, CA Now Accepting Nominations for 2020 Wildfire Mitigation Awards - IAFC NFPA Research Foundation Receives Grant to Research Economic & Emotional Impact of Active Shooter/Hostile Events - NFPA Atascocita Fire Department and ARES Implement Joint Formal Procedures Request for Proposals: Fire Services Study - City of Mercer Island, WA - Proposals due by 11/8/19 Vision 20/20 Project Invites Proposals For Presentation - 6th National Model Performance Crisis in the Streets: Fire Department Response to Homeless Individuals. FREE ON-DEMAND WEBINAR Request for Proposal: SAFER Grant Administrator - Bids due by 11/5/19 Request for Quote by the RIAFC Foundation for the management of SAFER Grant - Responses due by October 31, 2019 Strategies for conducting pre-employment screening in public safety. ON-DEMAND WEBINAR Vision 20/20's latest episode of CRR Radio - CRR Tools from the U.S. Census Bureau Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response Grants - Check for Awards Assistance to Firefighters Grant Awards - Check for Awards The Daily Dispatch Is Now On Facebook Find us on Facebook - www.facebook.com/dailydispatch POST ANNOUNCEMENTS MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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