Bayou Cane Fire Chief Ken Himel seeks changes in Mardi Gras fire safety ordinances
Two Houma parade floats caught fire during the 2025 Mardi Gras season. The incidents are causing officials to revisit ...
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As Wall Street Chases Profits, Fire Departments Have Paid the Price
The Los Angeles Fire Department maintenance yard is packed with vehicles that are out of service.Credit...Fred Greaves/Reuters Supported by By Mike Baker Maureen Farrell and Serge F. Kovaleski ...
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Fire Station 8 introduces new logo designed by Matoaca High School students
Chesterfield County Fire and EMS has introduced a new logo designed by graphic arts students at Matoaca High School at Fire ...
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Stipends Offered to 40 U.S. Fire Departments for Home Fire Sprinkler Outreach
The Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition (HFSC) will select 40 fire departments to each receive a $750 stipend to conduct a Home Fire Sprinkler Week outreach program during the week of May 11-17 ...
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Lexington Fire Department responds to multiple calls of mutual aid
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — The Lexington Fire Department have responded to multiple calls of mutual aid following flooding in eastern Kentucky "to assist with rescue and recovery efforts" the ...
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L.A. Fire Chief Dismissed Amid Controversy Over Handling of Devastating January Wildfires
She didn’t appear to respond directly. The Los Angeles Fire Department said it had no comment about the ousting of the chief. Crowley could not immediately be reached for comment. The mayor’s ...
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Brush fire on Long Island that has scorched 400 acres is 80% contained
WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. — A brush fire on New York’s Long Island that has burned 400 acres and prompted a response from 80 fire departments and 600 personnel is now 80% contained, according ...
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Education Department moves to fire civil servants
The Education Department terminated a swath of its civil ... draft regulations that would make it easier for agencies to fire career government officials who push back against presidential orders.
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Joliet, IL, Fire Department Creates Community Mental Health Program
"When they put pamphlets out at different locations, ones with the fire department logo are the most popular by far..." For establishing the unique program, the fire department received the ...
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Massive fire at Pennsylvania aerospace plant prompts shelter-in-place order, evacuations
Schools were closed and residents were ordered to shelter-in-place Tuesday after a large fire broke out at an ... the Abington Township Police Department said in a statement on social media.
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L.A. Mayor Karen Bass removes fire chief over tensions during deadly blazes
and for the operations of the Los Angeles Fire Department." “We know that 1,000 firefighters that could have been on duty on the morning the fires broke out were instead sent home on Chief ...
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Department of Homeland Security preparing to fire hundreds of senior leaders this week
The Trump administration is preparing to fire hundreds of high-level Department of Homeland Security employees this week as part of a move to rid the country’s third-largest agency of people ...