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This week's news
Selected links to firefighter workplace, industrial, technology and OHS news stories across the last seven days.
Global trends
International
India: Mumbai firefighters to get flame-proof gear
Promised years ago, the city are finally buys as bought 2,300 fire resistant outfits.
USA:
City pension changes
Baltimore's police and fire pension plans: Unions have already filed a
federal lawsuit alleging that the city failed to adequately fund their
pension during the last several years.
NZ: Reduced responses to sprinklered buildings
Our members, along with Fire Service management, know it is only a matter of when, not if, there will be greater property loss, injury to firefighters or members of the public because of this backward draconian policy.
USA: Firefighter safety and deployment study
A landmark fire service study on firefighter safety and the deployment of resources was recently released by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST).
UK
(Scotland): Decline in attacks on firefighters
Attacks on firefighters in Scotland's biggest brigades have fallen by a
third in the last year.
USA: Dozens of firefighters face EMT suspensions
Firefighters among 207 emergency medical technicians whose licences have suspended by Massachusetts health officials for falsifying training records.
Canada:
Whitehorse firefighters get aid in legal fight
Firefighters in Whitehorse are getting some IAFF financial help in their
upcoming court battle with the city over salaries.
USA:
Firefighter Insomnia
Heard of it? Experienced it? Dealing with it right now?
France:
French floods death toll hits 25
Firefighters stand on a submerged vehicle inside La Nartuby river in
Draguignan, south eastern France.
USA: Firefighters decontaminated after pulling hoarder from trash-filled home
Georgia firefighters waded through chest-high debris Tuesday afternoon to extricate woman.
Nepal:
APF conducts mock drill
Firefighters display skills during a practice drill organised at
Tundikhel, Kathmandu.
USA: Carbon Monoxide firefighters tell their story
Even some of the firefighters who came to the rescue had to be taken to the hospital.
Israel:
Firefighters battle blazes across the country
Fires in Galilee, J'lem, Beit Shemesh areas rage as temperatures soar.
USA: San Jose police, firefighters say no to pay cuts
Police and firefighter unions in San Jose have rejected pay and benefit cuts proposed to balance the city's record $118 million budget deficit.
USA: Oil slick nears Florida, wildfires sweep Arizona
Natural and environmental disasters are sweeping national headlines and crews are working overtime to stop fire and oil from causing more damage.
USA: Report says errors were factors in 2008 Cincinnati firefighter deaths
Three factors that are believed to have contributed to the deaths:
- a delayed arrival at the incident scene that allowed the fire to progress significantly.
- a failure to adhere to fundamental firefighting practices.
- a failure to abide by fundamental firefighter-self rescue and survival concepts.
USA: International firefighters study places City of Madison at No 1
The results of an IAFF diversity initiative report titled Achieving and Retaining a Diverse Fire Service Workforce.
USA: Firefighters are prepared for California wildfires
%93We're able to coordinate actions, financial resources, and technical assistance to ensure firefighter and public safety, fire safe communities and healthy ...
USA: Black firefighters settle lawsuit against Philadelphia
Over allegations of racist internet postings made by white firefighters while on duty
USA: California firefighters to try new shift scheduling proposal
A California City Council authorizes firefighters to try out a proposal by the fire chief to change shifts at the fire department to work two days on, four days off.
USA: Firefighter continues battle
A Beaumont, Texas fire fighter has returned to his job after battling mesothelioma for the last fourteen months.
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But closing a firehouse is downright dangerous, says Brian McDade,
president of Local 19.