A dispute in Attleboro, Massachusetts that has been simmering for years has finally spilled over into a 33 page, 14 count Federal lawsuit that names over 10% of the department and the union as defendants. Captain Dennis Perkins has filed ...

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  A Facebook rant by a Murfreesboro, Tennessee firefighter about a “homeless” woman has again raised the difficult question about First Amendment boundaries. “So the sign says homeless, but she lives in the hotel behind her.  She checks in at ...

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A Virginia EMT who was involved in a fatal ambulance accident in May has been found guilty of improper driving, but has avoided several more serious charges. Justin Kidd, 25, was driving a Campbell County ambulance on May 3, 2012 ...

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Today’s burning question: We were at an emergency scene and a car came driving up really fast, totally disregarding our safety. I even shined my flashlight directly at the driver but he kept on coming. Out of frustration I threw ...

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Sometimes a headline says it all. However, that is not true in this case. Believe it or not there is a more surprising fact: the arrest of a Baltimore city firefighter for running an online prostitution ring and unlicensed after-hours club in a ...

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A sexual harassment suit brought by a female firefighter against her department and her union has been dismissed… sort of. The court concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the suit, and that the matter rightfully belonged in binding arbitration. ...

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  Here is the court’s ruling: 99367055-Order-of-Mandamus-ruling-against-Mayor-Lamarand

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Honolulu Ethics Panel Investigating Fire-EMS Merger Contract. The Honolulu Ethics Commission has begun an investigation into the bid process used to select a consultant back in 2010 to help assist with the merger of the Honolulu Fire Department and the ...

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A Pittsburgh fire captain who retired on June 1, 2012 has filed a lawsuit in Federal Court alleging the city wrongfully withheld payment of his accrued sick leave. How is that a Federal case? He claims the money was withheld ...

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A Texas firefighter has been indicted on charges that he used his smartphone camera to secretly take photos in a fire station bathroom. Last Thursday, a Walker County grand jury returned a true bill against Christopher Alexander Clark, 31, on ...

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DC Fire & EMS is in the news yet again with a new scandal, the filling of a privately owned swimming pool by on-duty personnel during a storm emergency dubbed by Dave Statter as “Watergate”. Regardless of whether it is ...

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Things are heating up again in DC, this time over the demotion of an outspoken lieutenant who has been critical of Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe. Lt. Robert Alvarado was demoted this week over a television interview he did with WTTG-TV ...

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Scranton city workers, led by IAFF Local 60, have filed suit to block the mayor’s attempt to reduce their pay to $7.25 per hour, the Federal minimum wage. Last week Mayor Chris Doherty announced that he was unilaterally cutting the ...

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A lawyer suing the Vancouver (WA) Fire Department for discrimination has gotten himself in a bit of a pickle. Attorney Thomas Boothe stands accused of contempt of court following a mistrial in a Federal court jury trial. Boothe was trying ...

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