Firehouse Magazine and Firehouse.com are putting together a massive photo mosaic to showcase at the Firehouse booth during this year's FDIC show in Indianapolis from April 19-24.
Firefighters charged with setting fires, cheating scandals, thefts of fire department funds and equipment, responding to incidents after drinking alcoholic beverages, harassment and discrimination.
With these incidents occurring in fire departments across the nation, it may be time to adopt a code of ethics, according to the Fire Service Reputation Management White Paper released Tuesday morning.
"The nation's fire service has long been held in justifiably high esteem. This reputation has been hard earned.
A Nevada County captain passed out behind the wheel of a fire engine on March 7, according to The Union of Grass Valley.
Nevada County Consolidated Fire Chief Tim Fike told the newspaper that Capt. Bruce Niederberger was en route to the hospital to pickup his partner at approximately 10:30 a.m. when he "started to get tunnel vision."
"He passed out" after turning on the siren and jamming his foot on the brake, Fike said.
Police in one Westmoreland County community said three men have been charged with starting a farmhouse fire and one of the accused is a firefighter.
Penn Township police said Eric Penska, who is a volunteer firefighter for Irwin Borough, along with Jeffrey Caprino and Jaime Wright, admitted to setting the fire on Friday.
Police said no one was inside the building in the 3800 block of Baker School Road at the time of the fire.
Mar. 8--Robert Rowe was pained to see a Sunday newspaper photo of his former church engulfed in flames.
Rowe had been a lifelong member of St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1300 block of Constitution Ave. in New Kensington. Fire destroyed the vacant building late Saturday. It was the last site of the church before the congregation merged with the Bethel AME Church in Tarentum.
"St James was the first black church in New Kensington, and other churches branched off St. James," Rowe said.
Mar. 8--A meth lab led to a fire that caused significant damage at a Tulsa hotel and sent guests scrambling Sunday night, according to authorities.
The flames destroyed 11 units at the America's Value Inn, where investigators later discovered meth-related items, Fire Department spokesman Bill French said.
Firefighters arrived at the motel in the 10100 block of East 11th Street about 9:10 p.m. to find flames billowing from the first and second floors.
Mar. 8--KNOXVILLE — A motel guest was being treated tonight at University of Tennessee Medical Center after being pulled unconscious from a burning North Knoxville motel room, fire officials said.
Other guests of the Super 8 Motel, 341 Merchants Drive, were evacuated, and the American Red Cross was seeking to arrange accommodations for them for the night. At least two-dozen people were cleared from their rooms.
Firefighters blamed a buildup of methane gas for a series of explosions that blew at least three manhole covers into the air Sunday night along Lawrenceville Highway in Tucker.
Southbound lanes of Lawrenceville Highway near Jimmy Carter Boulevard were still closed on Monday morning.
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