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| Missouri City's Top ISO Rating Helps Keep Insurance Costs Low Missouri City Fire Department has excelled in its performance so much that the city is one of the few in the country which has earned the ISO 1 rating. Nationally, out of 41,177 cities, there are only 348 that have the top ISO 1 rating and Missouri City is one of them. Out of 2,852 cities in Texas, Missouri City is one of only 67 with the top rating. Missouri City's fire chief, Eugene Campbell, was hired in 2016 and since then has led a department that includes fire prevention and risk reduction, emergency management, emergency medical response, development and training and is getting a new two-story fire department that includes administration. At a council meeting, Campbell made a PowerPoint presentation on the status of the department. After Campbell took over as chief some of his community's risks began to lessen. FORT BEND INDEPENDENT Attic fire displaces residents of northwest side San Antonio apartment complex More than 20 units responded to the 8600 block of Fairhaven Street just before 2 a.m. to fight a fire that broke out in an attic, a spokesperson with SAFD said. Firefighters were able to quickly knock down the fire that was going in building 9 of the Fountains Apartments. A total of 26 units were dispatched to the fire that ultimately displaced 14 residents. We've been told that the displaced residents were able to stay in other units on the property due to high carbon monoxide levels. The cause of the fire was reportedly a burned up motor in an A/C unit. Damages are estimated to be around $15,000. KENS5.COM SAN ANTONIO Grimes County signs off on five Volunteer Fire Department contracts The Grimes County Commissioners Court met in a Regular Meeting Wednesday, Oct. 23, and with a 4-1 vote approved the firefighting services contract with the Bedias, Richards, Shiro, Todd Mission and Whitehall volunteer fire departments (VFD) as written and authorized the county judge as signatory. Pct. 1 Commissioner Chad Mallett cast the dissenting vote. Fire chiefs present were Cort Norwood, Richards; Dan Sharron, Shiro, Cassandra Malone, Todd Mission and Freeman Vickers, Whitehall. The contracts now go to the VFDs for final approval. Today's vote follows the Aug. 14 decision to terminate the contract with the Grimes County Fire Fighters Association (GCFFA) in favor of contracting individually with the county's eight volunteer fire departments. NAVASOTA EXAMINER San Antonio man smelled smoke, escaped home before fire broke out A local man escaped his home before a fire broke out, according to the San Antonio Fire Department. The fire occurred just after 4 a.m. at a duplex in the 5100 block of Baum Road located on the city's Northeast Side, not far from Randolph Boulevard and Interstate 35. According to officials, the resident was in bed when he smelled smoke inside his house. The man was able to get out of the house but the fire tore through both sides of the duplex, causing an estimated damage of $30,000, SAFD said. The resident told SAFD he thinks it was his sweater that caught fire in his closet. It is unclear, however, how the fire started. CONEXION SA Students at Murchison Middle School in west Austin evacuated due to utility pole on fire Students at Murchison Middle School in west Austin were briefly evacuated Friday morning due to a fire. Austin firefighters responded to the scene at 3700 North Hills Drive and were able to contain the fire to a utility pole and transformer. They said the fire was located at the side of the school near portable classrooms. The evacuated students were let back into the school by 8:15 a.m.. Austin Energy is also on its way to the scene. KXAN-TV NBC 36 AUSTIN PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| Alaska fire and rescue chiefs: We won't send crews into dangerous situations with limited DOT maintenance on Seward Highway Some local fire and rescue chiefs are pushing back against the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities closure of the Silvertip Maintenance Station, located at the junction of the Seward and Hope highways. DOT&PF says five staffers have been moved and the station will no longer be responsible for plowing and maintenance of the the 17-mile Hope Highway, as well as Turnagain Pass from mile markers 45 to 74. The department also says there will be no regular maintenance between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. "If the road isn't plowed, sanded and serviced then I can't imagine that we're going to be able to roll our equipment out to go help anybody," said Brendan Maguire, who is the chief of Hope Sunrise Emergency Services. It's something that has people who live there worried as well. KTVA-TV CBS 11 ANCHORAGE Trump signs bill renaming Wisconsin post office for fallen Fire Captain Cory Barr President Donald Trump has signed a bill renaming the Sun Prairie post office after a firefighter killed in an explosion last year. U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin's office says Trump signed the bill Thursday renaming the post office after Cory Barr. He was killed in a natural gas explosion in downtown Sun Prairie in July 2018. Workers installing fiber-optic cable triggered the explosion when they mistakenly struck an underground gas line. Barr was among a group of firefighters who evacuated more than 100 people from the area ahead of the blast. Six buildings were destroyed but no one else was killed. Baldwin and Wisconsin's other U.S. senator, Ron Johnson, introduced the bill in April. The Senate passed it in July. The House passed it Oct. 16. WKOW-TV ABC 27 MADISON Mitigation Played Important Role In Saving Homes During Colorado's Lake Christine Fire, New Report Says A new study on the Lake Christine fire finds that wildfire mitigation, like using flame-resistant construction materials and clearing vegetation around homes, played a significant role in saving property. The study, by the Community Wildfire Planning Center, was presented to the Eagle County board of commissioners by wildfire mitigation coordinator Eric Lovgren on Tuesday. "The report was fabulous in highlighting what a difference mitigation does both for the work the firefighters need to do but also in terms of saving property," commissioner Jeanne McQueeney said. It found that homes threatened by the fire survived due to both mitigation and actions taken by firefighters. The report says that residential areas that hadn't mitigated were fortunate that adequate firefighter resources were available. But it cautions that may not always be the case. ASPEN PUBLIC RADIO Proposed public safety pay changes met with criticism in Georgia county A proposed change in the way Cobb County's public safety officials are compensated has come under criticism from police and fire fighter representatives. Under the so-called "step and grade" table presented to county commissioners earlier this month, public safety employees would receive a 3-percent "step" increase each year. One sticking point is that the annual raises would not be automatic— they would only be paid if the commission approves them each year as part of the budget.The "grade" part of the plan would increase entry-level salaries by 9 percent, to $45,775 from $41,615, and double the salary increase for a promotion from lieutenant to captain — to 20 percent from 10 percent. ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION Private firefighting industry growing Private firefighting continues to grow as an industry. With fires scorching the state of California, some homeowners and insurance companies contract out companies to protect homes and structures in wildfires. "We've been doing the private sector for three years," Ryan Bellanca, of Bella Wildfire & Forestry Inc., says. "And we've had one that was successful and another was cancelled and that happens, you get called and get dismissed all the time." Mark Winkelman is a battalion chief with the Reno Fire Department who says during wildfires it can be challenging to coordinate with private crews. "The problem we have with the private firefighting companies is actually knowing they're on the fire," Wingelman says. "It's important to us to have accountability on all the firefighters that are working and sometimes those folks get lost in the shuffle because they don't come through federal contracts so it makes it difficult to track what they're actually doing on the fire." KOLO-TV ABC/CW+ 8 RENO PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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