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• Va. fire dept. anticipating staffing shortage

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  A Richmond Fire Department memo said they often do not have enough personnel to meet minimum staffing requirements and that morale is low

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  Mass. mayor: Firehouse conditions are 'extremely disturbing'

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  Cambridge Mayor Marc McGovern toured the firehouses and saw that floors were held together by duct tape and some stations did not have carbon monoxide detectors

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  Ill. city hires its first fire chief since 2015

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  Mundelein appointed Bill Lark to fire chief, moving away from a management structure that had the police chief in charge of both departments

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  Alternative deployment models for the fire service

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  Taking into account the uniqueness of each community, it is important to employ the correct deployment models

• NC city residents threaten lawsuit over city's fire station's plans

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  The lawyer of a group of residents who oppose North Augusta's plans to rezone for the station said "there's a lot of commitment to go the route of legal attack"

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  Pa. township no longer dispatching own fire dept. after long-standing failures

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  Officials said they will stop dispatching the Winfield Fire Department to calls because of failures by the department to comply with changes

• Mo. city firefighters become ‘contractors’ after dept. shuts down

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  Fayette city council approved an ordinance that dissolved the fire department and allows the city to hire its former firefighters as “independent contractors”

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  PCR documentation for non-transporting first responders

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  Including clear, complete documentation in your patient care report is a critical component of patient care

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  Female firefighter: 'We're assumed incompetent'

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  Researchers studied the experiences of 30 female firefighters, and a majority of the women said they faced a double standard

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  Calif. police chief to serve as acting fire chief

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  Manhattan Beach Police Department Chief Derrick Abell will be acting chief of the fire department for a couple of months until a permanent chief is found

• Officials concerned over section of county not paying for fire protection

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  Plain Township Trustee Scott Haws is frustrated because nearly 200 village property owners are not paying a fire-protection property tax

• NY town may consider grant to hire more firefighters

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  The grant could be used to rehire laid-off firefighters, retain firefighters facing layoffs, fill positions vacated through attrition or hire new firefighters

• NY bill would allow volunteer firefighters to recover ambulance costs

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  The bill would give volunteer fire departments the ability to make up the extensive costs of ambulance services by billing insurance companies

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  Fla. county commissioner demands more fire dept. diversity

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  Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May prompted discussion on how to increase fire department diversity after raising concerns

• Ariz. fire dept. reduces ambulance transports with program

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  Tucson Collaborative Community Care aims to decrease transports for people with chronic issues by sending a crew of two firefighters, a paramedic and a social worker

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