Legal Issues
A former Gabriel House resident injured in the fire that killed 10 people, is suing the facility’s owner and its fire safety contractor for negligence
Milton Guamarriga’s family says he has lived in the U.S. for nearly 30 years, volunteers as a firefighter and was applying for citizenship
The city council awarded nearly $1.1 million to the wife of Kyle Brinker, a Kansas City Fire Department paramedic who died during a training exercise in 2024
The firefighter was allowed to return to work after being arrested and charged with a felony sex crime, as well as misdemeanor domestic battery charges
After a group of adolescents attacked a firefighter walking his dog in Queens, two of the youths’ parents turned them in to police
Tuscarora Volunteer Fire Department Firefighter Jeremie Eccleston will require surgery to fix three broken bones in his face
EMT Jacob Dindinger continues to fight while recovering from injuries suffered in Tucson shooting
Firefighter Thomas Royds, 49, was killed, and two other firefighters and a state trooper were injured when struck at crash scene
State correctional officials said that minimum-security inmate Edgar Benitez, 25, was missing from his assigned housing at Growlersburg Conservation Camp
Law enforcement says no signs of violence were found at the scene of Arlington Firefighter Elijah Snow’s death at a hotel in Cancun
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Firefighters left the apparatus running while responding to a medical call
The children, ages 2 and 4, were left at an Alta station by their grandmother and aunt, who said they were unsafe in their custody
‘LFD literally broke me’: Retired Mich. firefighter alleges sexual assault, harassment at department
“I was abused and harassed for being a lesbian female,” Lansing’s first-ever female battalion chief says
Latrobe firefighter, councilman allegedly used $21,000 in department funds to pay legal fees for a federal suit against the fire chief and city officials
“If this incident isn’t a call to action, I’m really not sure what is,” Tucson police chief says of attack on fire, EMS professionals
Santa Fe firefighters had given the man a ride to a gas station where he managed to drive away in their apparatus
Charges include involuntary manslaughter related to the death of Charles Morton, a hotshot leader who died battling the El Dorado Fire
“They didn’t want to give me a ride home,” Desai Billingsley can be heard saying in the video
A first responder in Caledonia was punched in the groin after arriving on scene to help police transport a female truck driver in possession of illegal drugs
A flaw in the new good-conduct credit program caused some inmates’ sentences to be lengthened rather than cut short
About 250 firefighters joined in a procession to honor their fallen colleague, Senior Lt. Francis Dombrowski
The Erie man was charged with 8 felonies, 28 misdemeanors after June 12 house fire
The two Warwick firefighters underwent investigation following a patient’s death
A Boulder firefighter reported the device to be a road flare that had been taped to a foot-long propane cannister
Sacramento Metro Fire Capt. Derik Oakes could lose his job if he’s convicted of the three felonies stemming from the raid
James Doyle filed a wrongful termination lawsuit that characterizes his termination hearing as “ridiculing, disparaging and defamatory”
Brian Dunn, attorney for Jacorey Shaw’s parents, says there was both negligence and a cover-up conspiracy involved in Shaw’s death investigation
The 57-page suit alleges the city has failed to deter a long-standing, pervasive culture of sexual harassment throughout the city’s firehouses and facilities
Jeffery Sherwood was served at the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office with a charge of misdemeanor assault by pointing a gun
Lincoln Fire & Rescue Firefighter Kelly Benson asked for disciplinary proceedings against Capt. Shawn Mahler after he “abandoned” her and her crew in a warehouse fire
Deputy Assistant Chief of Operations Michael Gala was bumped up to assistant chief and given more than $100,000 in a resolution to the suit he filed against the city
FDNY Firefighter Justin Deieso was off-duty when he delivered one punch that knocked out a 55-year-old bar patron, who then suffered a fatal heart attack
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