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• PTSD bill draws 100+ first responders to Wis. capitol

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  First responders gathered to lobby for the PTSD worker’s compensation bill, which currently excludes EMS professionals

• Apparatus replacements for Pa. FD face budget hurdles

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  Officials are working to find the funds to replace two fire trucks, including an aerial truck, both pushing 30 years of service

• Mich. town nixes plan to merge police and fire departments

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  The proposal would have created a new department with some police officers cross-trained to respond to fires

• Ohio city fire department reaches 10th anniversary of transporting patients

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  The fire department says it has generated more than $7.3 million in revenue after the decision in 2009 to provide medical transports

• Replacement urgently needed for failed ladder truck, ND city fire chief says

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  The chief is seeking funding for a new ladder truck to cover multi-story buildings after the last state-owned truck failed inspections

• Without grant money, Mass. town fire chief makes case for hiring more EMTs

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  The chief told a town board that the department has the funding to make the hires, which would help rebuild a depleted staff

• CSFI names Senator Lisa Murkowski as 2019 Legislator of the Year

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  Senator Lisa Murkowski has served as co-chair of the Congressional Fire Services Caucus since 2018

• Proposed fire district mergers in Calif. county face financial hurdles

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  As smaller agencies seek to join with the Sonoma County Fire District, officials are considering how consolidation would affect the county's budget

• City files lawsuit to overturn order that it must hire more firefighters

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  An arbitrator ordered that staffing at the New York department must increase from six firefighters per shift to nine

• Mich. city FD says increased medical runs have consumed budget

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  The city’s mayor said options include opting out of EMS services or cutting other services unless changes to funding or the county EMS system are made

• Calif. city could start charging nonresidents for EMS

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  The change could help the city's fire department recover more of the costs of providing fee-related EMS services

• Wage costs rise to $5 billion as firefighter overtime surges by 65% in Calif.

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  Unprecedented wildfires have taxed California firefighters and the state's budget as overtime increased by over half in the last decade

• How fire departments can gain community support at the ballot box

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  Many departments need community support for financial or organizational requests – and this requires a different type of preplanning and action

• Philadelphia reopens 4 fire companies closed during the Great Recession

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  The city has hired 121 firefighter-EMTs to staff the companies with help from a FEMA grant

• Fla. firefighters attend mental health awareness training

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  The training is a requirement of Senate Bill 376 that states employing agencies must provide educational training related to mental health awareness, prevention, mitigation and treatment

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