Fire Department Management
The fire department management topic focuses on fire service leadership, from the high-level management issues facing fire chiefs to the administrative functions and budget issues that impact day-to-day operations.
Portland Fire Chief Ryan Gillespie will retire in early March
Learning tracks will focus on responder health and safety, volunteer recruitment and retention, and emergency service leadership among 18 courses available
Report identifies preventable failures in communication, planning, execution and leadership on and before July 13 incident
Firefighters have spent months fighting a plan to move a downtown fire engine, and 12 firefighters with it, to a new station across the other side of the city
The proposed measure also would reduce the number of firefighters per shift
Fire Chief Julius Hatfield must return training pay for allegedly falsifying training records which are tied to state aid and incentive pay
Greg Brown is accused of setting a fire that killed firefighters Thomas Brooks, Patricia Conroy and Marc Kolenda; they became trapped after stairs collapsed and died of smoke inhalation
Questions about inheritance taxes, daylight savings time and a complaint about a roommate stealing beer demonstrate some of the non-emergency calls dispatchers have dealt with
Notes defining the term “scab” were placed inside the firehouse after a union vote calling for members not to request a transfer to the station
In October, it took nearly four minutes to dispatch crews to a fatal fire
The incident started when deputies who first responded to the scene left despite the firefighters asking that the road be closed; it escalated into obscenities and a physical altercation after that
Michael James Sulak, 52, faces three counts of child rape on charges he had sex with a 15-year-old girl who ran away from home
The firefighter was was caught in a sudden burst of flames, suffering burns to his head, neck, shoulder, face and hand
Fire officials said the incident appears to be more about miscommunication in an emergency situation rather than a need to change protocol
Aubrie Blanchette, 26, also served as a volunteer firefighter
Police allege the chief and his brother yelled obscenities at a sheriff and other officers; they were both charged with assault
The department will use the money to pay volunteers to work shifts
The percentage cut is the same cut being proposed to union firefighters
Demotions, unpaid suspensions and remedial training went against recommended firings
No one was injured and fire response will not be impeded
DOJ: “We believe he was providing drugs to minors, and soliciting them through websites”
The investigation determined the texts to a female firefighter were inappropriate, but not illegal
Fire officials say the city’s plan to study switching from full-time firefighters to all volunteers will be more expensive to the city and taxpayers
They not only lack enough firefighting foam to immediately attack a multiple-tanker fire, but they also don’t have equipment to spray large amounts of foam at tank cars
Fire companies were advised that response to fire alarms will be by a single engine or truck until further notice
The grand jury is looking into whether any firefighters helped their colleague try to evade responsibility for the crash
To be the most-trusted profession means treating everyone as equals and keep private views private
Our current budget woes may get worse if bankruptcies effect borrowing rates; here are ways to show residents just what those woes mean to them
Firefighter Justin Wilkinson says he was fired by his employer because he was late to work the day of a massive fire; his employer says otherwise
The firefighter is on probation after sending a Facebook message with sexual innuendo to a woman he treated during an emergency response in 2012
The addition of 14 new firefighters per shift, along with maintaining the current overtime budget, would allow the fire department to reduce the current number of brownouts
A Facebook photo of President Obama with a noose around his neck, and other offenses, got the captain fired
Dispatchers sent crews almost 15 minutes away to the wrong address and by the time it was all straightened out, they had an inferno on their hands
