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• 2 Ore. paramedics in limbo as fire chief calls for dual-role positions

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  A city board rescinded layoff notices for the paramedics after the chief sought to replace them with firefighter-paramedics

• 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

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• Conn. town offers quarterly payments to attract volunteer firefighters, EMTs

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  The town's Volunteer Firefighters' Relief Program will now pay volunteers every three months instead of paying a lump sum once a year

• First responders seek resolution to Wash. dispatch center's 'emergency staffing situation'

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  Fire and police leaders met with dispatch center officials and questioned a recent notice that services would be reduced due to staffing

• Ind. city mayor sues council over firefighter shift changes

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  The council reversed the mayor's plan to move firefighters from 24-hour shifts to eight-hour rotating shifts last week

• Snowmobile crashes, FD funding and staffing discussed at north NY emergency conference

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  Dozens gathered last week to discuss emergency preparedness issues faced by first responders and healthcare personnel in the state's north country

• RI town FFs say lack of staff causing excessive mutual aid calls

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  The town received mutual aid 511 times this year and firefighters say they rely on a neighboring department almost daily

• 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

• 35 Pa. volunteer EMS services ask legislators to 'slow the bleeding'

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  The services called for reductions in education, training and certification requirements as they face volunteer shortages

• 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

• Report on NC gas explosion recommends hiring more FFs

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  The Durham Fire Department had requested 75 more firefighters prior to the explosion that killed two and injured 25

• Overtime has 'exploded' at understaffed Md. 911 center

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  “We don't have an option of operating below a certain level ... we must fill the seat. Our overtime has exploded," Scott Campbell, director of public safety, said

• Why did we stop hiring and promoting the ‘workers’ among us?

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  Valuing firefighters with a “worker” mentality – not simply degrees and test scores – is key to the long-term success of the fire service

• Calif. mutual aid system under stress

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  Fire chiefs say that the decision to answer mutual aid calls has devolved from an immediate "yes" to a discussion about resources

• Report on Iowa university death raises questions about FD response

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  “Due to staffing,” only two of four dispatched units initially responded to retrieve a UNI worker they understood to be inside the campus’ compromised steam system

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