BALTIMORE MAYOR SHEILA DIXON said Wednesday that she plans to make additional changes in the leadership of the city’s Fire Department after a state agency charged that the department made “willful” violations of safety standards during a fatal training exercise.  In today’s Baltimore Sun HERE.

A SMALL KITCHEN FIRE IN A Maryland apartment pumps out enough CO to kill 3 young girls in their sleep.  Washington WTOP radio REPORTS.

HEAVY FLOODING IN ENGLAND, mainly in the North, has generated more than 7,300 rescue calls.  In what is described as the biggest rescue effort ever in peacetime, the Government has been accused of underestimating the scale of the flood rescue effort after new figures showed as many as 3,500 people have been rescued by the fire service in the past few days.  Read The Guardian HERE.

THE 5,200 ACRE MERCER CANYON fire in the rugged mountains west of Utah Lake has managed to barely stave off containment for three days, tying down about 200 fire fighters, vehicles and supporting aircraft.  Crews are aggresively setting backfires because the weather is expected to change for the worse.  Salt Lake Tribune story HERE.

SOUTH TAHOE WILDFIRE LEAVES retired battalion chief homeless.  The Nevada Appeal has an interview with him HERE.

TWO MEN HAVE BEEN KILLED by forest fires whipped up by Greece’s worst heatwave for more than a century, while firefighters efforts are hindered by exploding land mines remaining from World War II.  Reuters story HERE.

Trackback This Post | Subscribe to the comments through RSS Feed