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| Chicago firefighter punched while responding to domestic-related situation An on-duty firefighter was punched several times while responding to a domestic-related incident on the South Side, according to Chicago police. The attack occurred Wednesday morning in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood near the 8300 block of S. Racine. Chicago police said a 25-year-old man punched the firefighter several times. The firefighter was transported to a local hospital in stable condition. The offender is in custody, according to police. WLS-TV ABC 7 CHICAGO South suburban fire departments to receive $1.2 million in federal grants South suburban fire departments, including Calumet City and Homewood, will share in federal grants totaling more than $1.2 million, according to U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Matteson. This is the third round of grants awarded to south suburban fire departments. This latest round brings a total of $3.2 million in federal funds to 19 south suburban fire departments, according to Kelly's office. The grants are part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Assistance to Firefighters Grant program. A $565,000 grant awarded to Calumet City's fire department will pay for hiring additional firefighters, as will a grant of $537,000 to the Homewood Fire Department, according to Kelly's office. CHICAGO TRIBUNE - METERED SITE Freeport fire chief acclimates himself to a new leadership role Since taking on the role of fire chief for the Freeport Fire Department in July, Brad Liggett is quickly acclimating himself to overseeing operations of a busy fire department. Liggett states, "We have to set to work on some critical projects for the Freeport Fire Department. We have needs for operational safety, code enforcement, communications, personnel and succession planning." Liggett said he is up to the challenge and said he knows with hard work the results will be sustainable. He has a focus to create efficiency in the response system to prevent an emergency through vigorous code enforcement and step up communication for public education. He comes to Freeport from the Beloit, Wis., Fire Department, where he served as fire chief. He also wants to focus on rapid access to the 911 system and dispatch of resources. FREEPORT JOURNAL-STANDARD Niles Fire Chief Proposes Increase In Ambulance Fees When people call 911 for ambulance service in Niles, their insurance company is charged a fee. Niles officials are considering changing that fee after Fire Chief Marty Feld proposed increasing those fees to insurance companies. Feld's proposal, made at the village's Sept. 13 public safety committee meeting, is to set a flat $1.500 charge for ambulance service when paramedics respond within the village. Currently in place is a tiered system of differing charges for Niles residents or non-residents and differing charges for the type of responding vehicle, basic life support, advanced life support (with a "one" rating) and advanced life support ("two" rating). Those charges range from $500 for basic life support for a Niles resident to a $1,150 charge for advanced life support two for a non-Niles resident. JOURNAL & TOPICS NEWSPAPERS ONLINE Des Plaines Firefighters Respond To Gas Main Break In Neighborhood Near Cumberland Circle Des Plaines Fire Dept. crews responded to a natural gas leak today (Wednesday) at Seventh Avenue and Yale Court, near the Cumberland Circle roundabout. According to Fire Chief Alan Wax, crews were dispatched to the scene at 1:39 p.m. and arrived at 1:45 p.m. to handle the outdoor gas leak. He said a gas main was struck and fumes were blowing into the air. A crane and construction equipment were at the scene and parts of the sidewalk were blocked off for a project already underway. Crews were still on the scene as of 2:24 p.m. Nicor arrived by 2:10 p.m. Wax said it was unknown what caused the main to break or how long crews might have to remain at the scene to handle the problem. He could not confirm if any nearby buildings had been evacuated. JOURNAL & TOPICS NEWSPAPERS ONLINE Fire safety taught to Decatur preschoolers More than 250 people died and 100,000 people were homeless after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. It burned from Oct. 8 to Oct. 10, and it's why Fire Prevention Week is commemorated each year. WAND News stopped by the Decatur Fire Department to share how firefighters are passing on fire safety knowledge to the next generation. A group of preschoolers spent part of Wednesday morning at Decatur's Fire Station 1. Fire Inspector Mike Wigginton gave part of Wednesday's presentation. "To teach and reach children at a young age is the audience we like to reach and talk to about fire safety, because they'll remember those cool rules for a lifetime," Wigginton shared. Wigginton has three decades of experience. In that time, he's shared several cool rules for the kids to learn like "don't hide, go outside," "stay low and go," and more. WAND-TV NBC CHANNEL 17 PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| President Of Largest Flight Attendant Union Wants FAA To Ban E-Cigs Over Battery Fire Concerns VIDEO: The president of the largest flight attendant union wants the FAA to ban e-cigarettes from planes because their batteries could be a fire hazard. FAA data from 1991 through this August shows at least 48 e-cigarette related smoke or fire incidents at airports or on planes. That's more incidents than laptops and tablets, cellphones, battery chargers or spare batteries. A FAA test video shows why lithium ion batteries have been banned in check luggage. If a battery fails and enters what's called thermal runway, it can burn so hot the plane's fire suppression system can't put it out. A lithium ion battery fire on a plane can be catastrophic. Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, said flight attendants have become firefighters on planes, and the FAA needs to do more. WFOR-TV CBS 4 MIAMI An emergency in Kentucky 911 Center? As number of calls jump, more staff needed Lexington's 911 emergency center is struggling to keep up as fewer call takers and dispatchers attempt to answer a swelling number of calls and help an increasing number of police and firefighters, city officials said Tuesday. The Enhanced 911 Center answered 477,711 calls last year. Of those, more than 217,000 are 911 or emergency calls. That's a 55 percent increase from 1998. The center has 65 staffers, a drop of about 20 percent from 1998, according to information provided Tuesday to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council Planning and Public Safety Committee. Robert Stack, the director of the Enhanced 911 Center, told the committee he will ask for six additional call takers for the fiscal year that begins July 1, 2020, to keep up with demand. LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER Rescue squad in Vermont launches successful apprenticeship program "The unicorn program." That is how a recent student with the Bennington Rescue Squad described the organization's year-long apprenticeship program. Bill Camarda, Deputy Executive Director, oversees the only EMS apprenticeship program registered with the state of Vermont. Bennington rescue launched its program in December 2018 and is in the process of interviewing applicants for its third cohort, said Camarda. The program has "opened up a new pipeline of employees," said Camarda. Nationally, EMS organizations have struggled to find employees. According to Camarda, the work is demanding and training is expensive. EMT training costs between $800 to $1,200. The profession also comes with a high turnover rate or approximately 15 to 20 percent a year. As the labor market in Vermont has tightened, the problem has gotten worse. VERMONT BIZ Spray-on skin helps Missouri firefighter heal from serious burns VIDEO: It's been one year since a backyard bonfire changed Eli Beasley's life. In a moment of carelessness, the professional firefighter tried to light a bonfire that had been doused in a gasoline mixture. He was instantly engulfed. Beasley was taken to University of Missouri Health Care's Level 1 Trauma Center with burns over 75 percent of his body. According to the American Burn Association, nearly half a million people receive medical treatment for burns each year. A new product, though, is changing the way the worst of those burns – like Beasley's – are treated. Traditionally, in very large burns, doctors harvest small bits of healthy skin to grow into sheets of skin for grafting. However, Litt was one of the first surgeons in Missouri to also use a newly FDA-approved treatment called spray-on skin. KTVO-TV ABC/CBS 3 KIRKSVILLE ‘Thin it or watch it burn': How Washington is chewing up trees and spitting out resilient landscapes The trees are really dense along a stretch of bumpy, narrow road outside Cle Elum in Kittitas County. After years of keeping fire off the landscape, the forest has grown close together. That means there's more fuel when a wildfire does burn through this area. "The density of this, it's just a wall. It's a giant wall," said Kyle Smith, forest manager with The Nature Conservancy of Washington. Forest managers are using a tool to help bring this area back to how it was 100 years ago. The tool is about the size of a tractor, with a spinning rod of metal teeth. "If you can imagine like mowing [a] lawn ... with a sweet riding lawn mower but out in the forest, it's something like that," said Connor Craig, who owns Wildfire Fuel Protection. The bumper of his company rig — parked nearby — reads, "Thin it or watch it burn." Craig isn't just hacking down these trees. Forest managers have a plan. CROSSCUT PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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