My friend Michael Morse from Rescuing Providence has posed a new EMS related scenario regarding the right to enter property to check on the well being of a patient.  Recall last month I wrote about a fire department’s right to ...

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Another hazing case is in the news, and once again sex is at the center of it.  In New Mexico, the Rio Rancho Fire and Rescue disciplined five employees following an investigating into allegations that four male firefighters in the ...

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Bensalem Township, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania suspended the operations of the Union Fire Company yesterday, citing “operational issues” that posed a safety risk to both residents and firefighters. The fire company had been in operation since 1928 and is one ...

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Its been a busy day for news stories about firefighter misconduct. We have one where two New Mexico chiefs handcuffed and assaulted a firefighter with a crowbar; another where an Indiana chief is accused of propositioning a female subordinate; another ...

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Gallinas Volunteer Fire Department Chief Tobias Lucero and Deputy Chief Lorenzo Montoya have been suspended from the fire department following allegations of that they handcuffed and struck another volunteer firefighter with a crowbar. According to the victim the supervisors have ...

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Last week we witnessed the outrage in Alameda when firefighters stood by and watched for an hour as a suicidal man drowned. Crews were waiting first for a Coast Guard boat, and then for a Coast Guard helicopter to arrive ...

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An Orange County, Florida firefighter has been terminated and his officer demoted back to firefighter following a road rage incident caught on the engine company’s dash cam. The incident occurred on May 1, 2011 while Engine 58 was responding to ...

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A bizarre story is emerging from Piermont, New York where a father is alleging that his son was sodomized as part of a ritualized hazing of new members in a volunteer fire department. Mark Bernstein has filed suit against the ...

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Last summer we covered the story of Fire Chief David Davis, of Odenville, Alabama who was accused of flushing two premature (20 weeks) stillborn fetuses down a toilet last July while on an EMS run. Yesterday, Kimberly Chyann Garrison, filed suit ...

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An inactive volunteer firefighter who was battling lung cancer has been sentenced to 35 days in prison for the theft of $8,900 worth of fuel. Cathlamet, Washington Fire Department firefighter Karl V. Moody, 52, and his wife Lisa R. Moody, ...

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Northampton, Massachusetts Firefighters IAFF Local 108 have filed an unfair labor practice charge against the town over an incident that occurred February 24, 2011. The unoccupied home of an elderly man collapsed under the weight of snow on February 8, 2011, ...

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A Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania volunteer firefighter was sentenced yesterday to 1 ½ to 3 years in prison for setting a fire last August. Brandon Cooper, 19, was with the Arnold Volunteer Fire Department when he set a fire in a ...

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Rochester Firefighters, IAFF Local 1071 won a major victory last week, prevailing at the New York Court of Appeals on the proper use of a 2% levy on insurance premiums charged by out of state insurers. The union alleged the ...

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I get questions daily from readers and earlier this week I received a great EMS related question that I wanted to share. Here it is: Last night we were called to a patient with altered mental status. We ended up ...

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