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.
Carroll County officials back Chief Michael Robinson saying recent problems are part of creating a new department
Volunteer fire departments in the Unity Township Fire Bureau are starting a duty crew program rotated among participating departments
A Data Dream Team is working to build and implement a robust data management system for the fire service
Michael Bechtold stole money that other firefighters had paid to Rancho Adobe Firefighters Association for hockey tickets, Disneyland, divorce
Jeffrey Hawkins allegedly solicited, accepted $ 1,000 bribe in exchange for not citing Little David’s Island Bar for code violations
No charges have been filed, but department has launched internal investigation as it prepares to move into police headquarters
Things like funding, equipment and staffing (both career and volunteer) are too important to simply ignore
Hooker said firefighter had called her to arrange meeting at borough fire department, where they planned to engage in sex
County refused to raise annual fire fee; if Teays Valley station becomes nonprofit, it would be able to employ full-time firefighters
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has vowed to sue to invalidate tax once first bills are sent out, state senator says
Council challenged missing financial records, missed bill payments, agreed to offer cash-strapped department more help, oversight
They quit in response to Mayor Cecil Maddox’s accusations that department was misusing its fire hall
Fire officials say current location not viable because of space, environmental concerns; neighbors afraid property values would drop, questioned children’s safety
Fire alarm call came in Tuesday during open house at expanded Chancy Fire Station
A recent lawsuit claims a fire department did not ‘act with a sense of urgency’ when it responded to a plant fire and told other departments not to assist suppression
Mayor arranged to be reinstated as fire chief in pension-boosting maneuver; attorney says he followed the law
Argument allegedly escalated to Dale McCloskey hitting victim in back of head with piece of plastic pipe
Robert Hoff vows to fight mayor against decrease in fire companies, ambulances or closing of firehouses
Time between Atlanta 911 operator taking fire or medical emergency call, relaying to dispatchers more than 10 times recommended national average
Suit claims that proper efforts weren’t made to save plant, accuses FD of using burning plant as ‘controlled burn structure fire’
30 years after San Jose hired its first female firefighter, just 35 of 631 uniformed firefighters, paramedics are women
City could better address crime by providing affordable homes to first responders, according to mayor
Chapter president says New Haven attempting to slide plan under public’s radar, calls for ‘concerned citizens’ to act
Initial punishment for supervisor was minimal, but investigator’s report noted she was fully involved
Just after voting to end EMS transports, city council decides to allow FD to transport Delta-level patients
Scott Burkett resigned and became center of investigation into unauthorized use of department funds, faces 52 counts of theft
The proposal, still in the planning stages, would offer free primary and preventive care to the public at five fire stations
The bill would require the county to run its emergency medical services system according to a plan developed by two firefighters
Firefighters in East Naples also will start contributing to their health insurance costs for the first time
Some firefighters were surprised when the education requirement was waived and the new chief with no bachelor’s degree was hired
York is left with three stations in service and potentially slower response times until the situation is resolved
He said he was disciplining himself to demonstrate that all members of the Los Angeles Fire Department are subject to the same rules
The card, which has been destroyed, apparently was used to make personal purchases of gasoline, council President Don Miller said