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.
Chicago firefighter leaders said paramedics worked nearly 230,000 overtime hours to staff the city’s 80 ambulances last year, and they are on track to do the same in 2024
Two volunteer fire departments in Preble County have formed the Shawnee Fire District
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Chief Dyer told city council he would resign rather than move to 3-person crews on pumpers, which violates NFPA standards
County officials began examination two years ago
Volunteer said he was told to admit people only if they had received confirmation e-mail from society
New station would kick off plan to switch from 7-station to 5-station model
Retirement party delayed for chief who re-engineered department after Sofa Super Store fire that killed 9 firefighters
Chief Leo Gaudette was vigilant about safety of his firefighters, ‘a stickler for avoiding needless injuries’
City of Hemet intends to hire full-time fire chief in coming weeks, sign that contracting out for fire services is now unlikely
El Paso County leaders who run station in Socorro say it would put city millions of dollars in debt
Normally, ladder truck must be connected to fire engine, which has pump, but one Walker County ordered is combination
Failing to be an up-standing, law-abiding member of the community puts all firefighters at risk
Fire chief says packs have been failing at least once a month
The ruling could affect thousands of minorities who took the firefighter exam
Lawsuit concerned 5 black firefighters who finished among top 8 highest test scorers
Piece of concrete fell from ceiling of basement office, hitting firefighter; engineers deemed building unsafe because of stress cracks
Mass. chief’s love of community and firefighters recalled
Retired Fire Commissioner Robert Hoff said he was ‘deathly against’ closing fire houses or reducing minimum staffing requirement on fire apparatus
Michael B. Wilson, free on a $10,000 secured bond, submitted letter of resignation to city that was prepared to fire him the next day
Firefighter-paramedic Randy Moore, 40, admitted to putting Gunk, an aerosol cleaner-degreaser, in Fire Lt. Phil Jones’s canteen
Millage would pay for Howell Area Fire Authority’s equipment, facilities and improvements
Voters choose whether to fund new equipment, budgets for volunteer units
Hamilton police Chief Neil Ferdelman’s grandfather was firefighter from 1925 to 1958
Investigation is under way into claims on-duty firefighter, hospital staffer had sex inside ambulance parked outside Kent hospital
Firefighters contended that Buffalo illegally allowed 2 promotional lists to expire because minority firefighters had fared poorly on civil service exams
Most big cities use firefighter staffing standard that would be violated if it adopts proposed fire department cuts
Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe suspended department spokesman Lon Walls with pay to allow tensions within department to ‘cool off’
‘Our fire department is meticulous in its safety procedures, but what OSHA is requesting could endanger our citizens, their property and our firefighters’
‘Just witnessed a blatant display of racism and disrespect shown to an African American leader,’ Lon Walls wrote on Twitter
Spokesman said comments on social-media sites that described prior protest by firefighters against leadership were ‘racist’ in nature
Assistant Chief John McFarland joined EMS as an EMT in 1983; ‘He really viewed EMS as a lifeline for the people of NYC’