By Ihosvani Rodriguez Miami Bureau April 21 2005 The widow of a Miami-Dade firefighter recruit killed in 2003 during a training exercise at Port Everglades filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week against the facility's owner and the city of Hialeah. Wayne Mitchell, 37, a … [Read more...]
FIRE & POLICE DISPATCH TECHNOLOGY FRUSTRATES FAIRFAX COUNTY
By Tom Jackman Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, April 17, 2005 Less than a year after installing a multimillion-dollar computer system in Fairfax County to dispatch its emergency vehicles, county officials are talking about discarding it and buying a new one. Since May, … [Read more...]
CITY DENIES RESPONSIBILITY FOR FIREFIGHTER’S DEATH
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- City officials were not negligent in the death of a Lexington firefighter killed in the line of duty, attorneys said in response to a lawsuit. Lt. Brenda Cowan was fatally shot last year while responding to a domestic-violence call. The executor of Cowan's … [Read more...]
NO CRIMINAL CHARGES IN CALIF. FIREFIGHTER’S DEATH
- Wyatt BuchananSaturday, April 9, 2005 The Santa Clara County district attorney has decided not to file criminal charges in the electrocution of a county fire captain who died after touching a downed power line at a house fire in Los Gatos. Investigators from the county Fire … [Read more...]
FDNY’S HARDY HERO COMES HOME
By STEVE DUNLEAVY - NY POST One of the hero firefighters injured in the Fire Department's worst day since 9/11 will be released from St. Barnabas Hospital today. Jeffrey Cool of Rescue Co. 3 was one of six firefighters forced to jump from a fourth-story apartment after the group … [Read more...]
Bill Olive / ChronicleSouth East Church of Christ Minister Michael Harbour speaks about the life of church member HFD Capt. Gary Burke, pictured with his two daughters Hailey (left) and Hannah, in an image projected over the pulpit at his church. Grady Burke was a warrior who … [Read more...]
BY STEVE DUNLEAVY 2-10-05".....and again, you keep on thinking over and over, this wonderful life could have been saved but for a lousy piece of rope...." RELICS OF A HERO: Jeanette Meyran, with FDNY friend Marty Curran yesterday, holds pieces of a metal guard from the window … [Read more...]