A construction dispute between a California fire district and a contractor over refurbishing a fire station has ended up in court. Sonoma County Builders filed suit against Southern Marin Fire Protection District claiming the district failed to pay $156,014.94 of ...

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Public officials in Connecticut are in an uproar over a recent state supreme court decision that requires the addresses of police officers, corrections officers and firefighters to be redacted from publically accessible motor vehicle tax lists. The decision has implications ...

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The California Court of Appeals has upheld the dismissal of a strange wrongful death case against a fire department for not properly handling a swarm of Africanized bees. On September 18, 2008, the Niland Fire District of Imperial County responded ...

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Baltimore Fire Chief James Clack has announced that EMT students at the city’s fire academy were not to blame for the recent testing controversy. The Chief stated publically that: “No recruit, no student in any of these classes engaged in ...

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What can local officials do when concerns arise over how a local volunteer fire company spends taxpayer funds? How do local volunteer fire departments prevent politicians from interfering with their internal operations? That tug-of-war has been playing itself out for ...

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A group of firefighters and police officers in Scranton, Pennsylvania, have filed suit to reverse a layoff decision that they claim violates a local ordinance. Mayor Chris Doherty ordered the layoffs on July 29, 2011 seeking to save roughly $212,000 ...

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I received a digital imagery/social media question from a fire chief that has an interesting twist. QUESTION: A member of my department recently posted several photos from the scene of a fatal accident in my jurisdiction on his Facebook page. ...

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A strange case out of West Virginia seems to be coming somewhat back down to earth. Firefighter AJ Shinn, 34, of the Nitro Fire Department was accused of being 2 minutes late for work on April 14, 2011. He was ...

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A volunteer fire company in Pennsylvania has been sued for wrongful death after a mother and child were struck and killed by a passing freight train. The basis for liability was an opening in a fence on the department’s property ...

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The trial of a former Boston firefighter on mail fraud charges began this week in US District Court. Albert Arroyo, 49, took a disability retirement in 2008 following what he claimed was a debilitating slip and fall injury. Two months ...

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There’s a very interesting case out of San Antonio, Texas that I have been trying to find enough time to write about. It involves an issue that Mike Morse and I discussed a while back concerning living wills, durable powers ...

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