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This week's news
Selected links to firefighter workplace, industrial, technology and OHS news stories across the last seven days.
Australia
Vic: Firefighter 7.7 campaign.
The CFA is stretched to the limit, and now the MFB now wants to scrap the mandatory minimum number of  firefighters on duty.
Vic: Union calls for MFB, CFA merger
Firefighters rally in Melbourne to call for a single firefighting
service in Victoria. There's more detail on the UFU's Firecrisis Facebook page.
ACT / NSW: Fire fighter predicted 2003 destruction, court told
NSW area manager's warning nine days before the 2003 bushfire hit Canberra.
ACT: Firefighters contain Tallaganda burn
Fuel reduction burn jumped containment lines during 107km/h winds.
Vic: Bushfires Royal Commission roundup:
- Nixon defends commission evidence.
- Nixon may front Royal Commission again.
- Nixon feeding frenzy leaves bitter aftertaste.
Qld: Firefighters battle truck fire
Aerosols cause small explosions.
Vic: - Emergency system restricted before Black Saturday
Opposition leader calls on Premier and police minister to explain .
Brumby defends CFA pager system.
WA: Exploding deodorant cans spark bushland fire
Police warn group of Kalgoorlie children .
International
NZ: Turnout tussle
A management plan to reduce pre‐determined turnouts to sprinklered buildings is reckless says the Union.
Canada: Nova Scotia firefighters seek to identify anonymous internet critics
Halifax senior firefighters ask state Supreme Court to reveal names of online critics in race row comments.
USA: Firefighters fundraising scam
Alabama volunteer fire department funding issue.
India: 650 firemen plus new equipment to be deployed for Commonwealth
Games
Delhi Fire Services for the safe conduct of the Commonwealth Games in
October.
USA: 10 firefighters injured in NY blaze
Seven-alarm fire on Manhattans Lower East Side burns out of control for more than four hours.
Italy: Seven killed as Italy train derails
Bolzano firefighters relay injury details.
India: Firefighters cool-off container depot
24 of 25 warehouses destroyed at New Delhi depot one of the biggest such facilities in Asia.
Fire alarms could have averted container depot fire.
Singapore: Civil defence force to improve fire safety
New initiatives in infrastructure, technology, public outreach and fire safety.
USA: Investigators identify firefighter in deadly explosion
Farm silo explosion.
USA: City pension lawsuit heats up
Atlanta firefighter Union members turn out in force outside expensive dining venue.
UK: Service held at Southampton tower for dead firefighters
Hundreds gather for a special open air service at the tower block where two firefighters died.
UK firefighters devastated by the loss of two colleagues.
Fire Brigades Union starts process of investigating Southampton tragedy.
USA: Indiana firefighter Union questions fitness test
Sit-up dispute.
China: Chinese army in UFO observation admission
Last year Liupanshui (Ghuizou) firefighters noticed a dazzling light hovering above their heads.
Nigeria: Two firefighters feared dead in supermarket blaze
Port Harcourt access issue.
Russia: Polish leader, 95 others dead in Russia jet crash
Firefighters at wreckage.
USA: Firefighters file unfair labor practice charge
Ohio Union firefighters take another step to throw out labor contract imposed by a town.
Brazil: Force may be used to evacuate Rio slum dwellers
Firefighters use heavy machinery to remove tonnes of mud that washed through neighbourhoods.
USA: 9/11 firefighters and medical workers suffered lung damage for 7 years
Toxic cloud enveloped the World Trade Center site following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
USA: $6.8M U.S. grant to let Flint rehire firefighters
Federal stimulus money to the rescue.
Fire stations, firefighters ready to go.
USA: Providence Rhode Island firefighters' union vote on contract
Their first contract in almost nine years.
UK: New kit for London's firefighters
10 years after their previous kit was introduced.
UK: Pledge opposition to dangerous cuts, firefighters tell local politicians
The Fire Brigades Union writes to candidates over planned cuts in the Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service.
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