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| Tactical Pause on Sept. 2 – Focus on Risk Management
Author: National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group
We are in the height of the 2020 Western fire season and we have been reminded that the wildland fire environment is dangerous whether you are on the ground or in the air. Along with the increase in fire activity, there has been an increase in close calls, serious accidents, injuries, and fatalities. Please honor those that have fallen, most recently our aviators, by actively managing risk. It is now the beginning of September and long-term fatigue is setting in, which exacerbates the complexity of a fire season made even more difficult by COVID-19. We ask you to take a tactical pause at some point on Wednesday, September 2nd, to discuss current risks to which you are exposed. read more |
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| Cresson volunteer firefighter dies while battling wildfires on the west coast, department says A firefighter with the Cresson Volunteer Fire Department died Monday, officials announced via Facebook. Some of the department's firefighters traveled to the West Coast and western U.S. to battle wildfires. Cresson is about 25 miles southwest of Fort Worth. One of the firefighters updated her Facebook profile photo Sunday to show the terrain where she was working, the department said. However, on Monday, Cresson fire officials said they learned that the woman had died while on the fireground. "Our department is numbed by the news and we are hurting," the department said on its Facebook page. The department has not publicly released the firefighter's name. WFAA-TV ABC 8 DALLAS - FORT WORTH Assistant Potter County Fire Chief dies unexpectedly The Assistant Potter County Fire Chief, Pat Fitzpatrick, has died unexpectedly at his home Saturday morning. According to the Potter County Fire and Rescue Facebook page, Fitzpatrick served Potter County since 1995 a volunteer member and was hired as paid staff in 2001. He also served the Amarillo Emergency Service for many years as a volunteer and a past Commander. The Potter County Fire and Rescue appreciates any prayers and condolences given to his family and his friends. The Randall County Fire Department also extends their condolences. Funeral arrangements are pending and will be announced as soon as possible. KVII-TV ABC 7 AMARILLO Related: Fire departments show respects to Fire Chief Fritzpatrick’s passing during his escort to Amarillo Dispatchers recall trauma of mass shooting in Odessa City of Odessa Public Safety communications dispatchers work four days on, four days off and 12-hour shifts. They take calls and dispatch the appropriate first responders to those in need. Inside their office is a light blue tile floor leading to multiple monitors and call-taking stations. The television is on and the volume is low. The dispatcher's voices are calm regardless of what or who is on the other end. Sonya Cortez, 35, wasn't supposed to work on Aug. 31, 2019, but a dispatch supervisor was moving to a new house and had asked for the day off. So, she covered for her colleague as one of the five call takers who were on duty that holiday weekend. That would be the weekend that gunman Seth Ator would shoot seven people to death and injure another 25 in a shooting spree that took him all over Odessa and parts of Midland. Ator would die in a field near Cinergy Theater that day after a gun battle with law enforcement. ODESSA AMERICAN Related Photo Gallery: 32 Seconds Of Silence at Fire Stations Across Odessa At least 3 dead of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at Port Arthur business Two separate incidents Friday involving carbon monoxide poisoning led to three deaths and 23 others injured, four critically. At least three people are dead, four hospitalized in critical condition and two others treated and released in a suspected case of carbon monoxide poisoning at a Port Arthur business, according to information provided to KFDM/Fox 4 by Police Chief Tim Duriso and Justice of the Peace Brad Burnett. Duriso says it happened at Bida Vinh pool hall, 720 9th Avenue. Duriso and Judge Burnett says preliminary information indicates several people needed a place to stay and they were staying inside the business. A generator had been placed outside. Duriso and Burnett say when someone went to check on them this morning, they found the generator inside. Police, Fire and EMS responded shortly after 10 a.m. Friday. KFDM-TV CBS/CW+ 6 BEAUMONT Related: Port Arthur authorities detail dangerous, deadly impact of carbon monoxide poisoning Man rescued from top of crane in downtown Austin A man was rescued by emergency personnel from the top of a crane Monday morning at a construction site in downtown Austin. Austin-Travis County EMS said they had the man on the ground around 8:43 a.m. He was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center with "minor medical complaints," the agency's final tweet about the incident said. The construction site was in the 700 block of East Third Street between Red River Street and the Interstate 35 frontage road. The agency tweeted at 7:24 a.m. that someone needed help getting down from the crane, and about 20 minutes later updated the tweet saying they've made contact with that person. ATCEMS said they are clearing the scene. KXAN-TV NBC 36 AUSTIN Former Tyler fire station no. 1 won't be vacant much longer There's a plan in store for the City of Tyler's former fire station number one. Smith County used CARES Act funding to buy the $320,000 building from the city. The plan is to use it for county COVID-19 testing and PPE storage, but this building is the answer to a problem the county is facing since the COVID-19 outbreak began. Smith County Fire Marshal and Emergency Management Coordinator, Jay Brooks, says, "early on in this pandemic we were having to look for a place to house our first responders that were either exposed or had come down with COVID-19 and TJC just did a fantastic job for our community. They stepped up and provided us with their housing as their students moved out." Unfortunately, this wasn't a long term solution. First responders that used Tyler Junior College dorms knew that students and staff would return to that housing in the fall. KLTV-TV ABC 7 TYLER PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| ‘We're mourning,' Minnesota firefighters say after 3 of their own die in short span When Tommy McDonough learned to talk, one of his first words was "fire truck." His father, a longtime St. Paul firefighter, never doubted he would follow in his footsteps. For Mike Paidar, his path to the St. Paul Fire Department came after a successful career as a TV photojournalist. He joined the department when he was 44. And Floyd Jones, who was born and raised in St. Paul, was a trailblazing firefighter who served the city for more than two decades. Members of the St. Paul fire service and their families are mourning the recent losses of the three — men in the prime of their lives whose deaths demonstrate some of the greatest risks for firefighters, said Chris Parsons, president of Minnesota Professional Fire Fighters. One was battling cancer, another had cancer in recent years, and one died by suicide. Studies have found that firefighters are at greater risk of cancer, due to smoke and hazardous chemicals they are exposed to in their work. TWIN CITIES PIONEER PRESS Wisconsin firefighters ride 183 miles in honor of late firefighter More than a dozen Milwaukee firefighters recently rode their bicycles 183 miles. It was all for a fellow firefighter who gave her life to save others. It was the first-ever Pedal for the Brave. "We have people joining us that never cycled before two months ago, but then to do a 100-mile ride one day is just a testament to the kind of grit and will that they have," said Milwaukee firefighter and Ignite the Spirit president, Joe Flick. Flick, 12 of his fellow firefighters, and a couple of civilians rode from Milwaukee to Wisconsin Rapids- the site of the Wisconsin State Firefighters and EMS Memorial. It's a trip that would take a little over two hours by car but took two days by bicycle. "We may have all gotten more than we bargained for," joked Flick. Money raised from the ride helped set up a scholarship in honor of late Milwaukee Fire Lieutenant Kristen Ciganek-Schroeder. She passed away from duty-related cancer. WTMJ-TV NBC 4 MILWAUKEE 3-alarm fire destroys Louisiana apartment complex VIDEO: More than two dozen people are homeless after a 3-alarm fire at an apartment complex in New Orleans' Central City area Monday night. The New Orleans Fire Department said the fire was reported around 8:38 p.m. at a two-story U shaped apartment complex in the 1600 block of Washington Avenue. Firefighters arriving at the scene found the building heavily involved in flames. The fire department said as firefighters moved their hoses to the building, several residents ran from their apartments covered in towels as hot, thick black smoke rolled over their heads. NOFD said that 26 people were living inside 20 apartment units, but no injuries were reported. One resident's dog died in the fire. "Thanks to the remarkable job done by our firefighters and other emergency service professionals, there were no civilian or firefighter injuries reported," the fire department said. WWL-TV CBS 4 NEW ORLEANS CDC says 94% of COVID deaths in US had underlying conditions A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 847,000 people worldwide. Over 25.3 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The criteria for diagnosis -- through clinical means or a lab test -- has varied from country-to-country. Still, the actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some national governments are hiding or downplaying the scope of their outbreaks. Since the first cases were detected in China in December, the virus has rapidly spread to every continent except Antarctica. The United States is the worst-affected country, with more than 6 million diagnosed cases and at least 183,399 deaths. ABC NEWS Largest minority class set to join ranks of New York fire department The Rochester Fire Department is expecting to welcome the largest minority group of new firefighters to its ranks during a graduation ceremony at 10 a.m. Sept. 2. Of the 30 recruits on schedule to graduate, 13 are Black, 9 are Latino and one is Asian. Two are female, including one Latina. The minority candidates comprise about 80 percent of the class. Should all recruits complete their training, their presence would bring minority service in RFD to nearly 30% of the total uniformed crew. Currently, there are 18 uniformed females in RFD. The recruit class started in January 2020. On-site training at the Monroe County Public Safety Training Facility was suspended in mid-March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The recruits combined customized distance-learning and hands-on training at Genesee Valley Ice Rink. Wearing masks, physical distancing, hand-washing and continuous decontamination of equipment was a part of the daily training routine. Recruits returned to the training facility in mid-May. ROCHESTER LA VOZ PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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