The Metro Atlanta Fire Chiefs Association
Annual Holiday Dinner

Rockmart Fire & Emergency Services begins 2012 with a list of new goals, which includes those not reached during 2011. “We feel that setting goals gives us a framework for the new year,” said Chief Todd Queen. “We have also found this process is a good way to maintain focus and keep us on task.”
- PUB DATE: 1/27/2012 1:31:54 AM - SOURCE: Polk Fish Wrap

Cedartown firefighters blocked off a portion of Main Street around 1 p.m. Thursday after smoke was reported inside Bussey’s Florist and Gifts, 302 Main St. According to the Cedartown Fire & Rescue report, employees smelled a persistent smell as though wood was burning in a back room. The business was temporarily evacuated.
- PUB DATE: 1/27/2012 1:05:35 AM - SOURCE: Polk Fish Wrap

A Clayton County jury Thursday afternoon got the case of a man accused of dousing his girlfriend with gasoline and setting her on fire. Orville Brooks of College Park is charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery and arson in the attack against Tara Best at their apartment last January. Seventy percent of the woman’s body was burned, and she spent three months on life support.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2012 2:32:37 PM - SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

PHOTO: A dog stuck in a 36-inch-diameter drainage pipe under a Mill Valley fire road was rescued by a firefighter who crawled in and pulled the animal out. The incident unfolded about 1 p.m. Wednesday when Mill Valley firefighters were called by a dog walker who reported an elderly collie under her care was stuck in the pipe at Two Tanks Fire Road above West Blithedale Avenue.
- PUB DATE: 1/27/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: marinij.com

When a warehouse fire exploded and threatened surrounding businesses near Chelan last October, fire officials asked Wenatchee to send a ladder truck and crew. But the Wenatchee Fire Department couldn’t help. Its ladder trucks were both out of service. With one or more of its aging fire trucks down for repairs at any given time, the department has been barely equipped to cover its own fire emergencies, let alone helping out its neighboring fire departments.
- PUB DATE: 1/27/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wenatcheeworld.com

Two Carlisle firefighters were recognized as community heroes on Thursday morning after rescuing a man in an apartment fire on Wednesday night. Capt. Micah Dewhurst and firefighter Josh Martin, both of Union Fire Co. No. 1, were dispatched with other firefighters around 10:11 p.m. Thursday to the 400 block of North Bedford Street after a resident reported smoke in the apartment.
- PUB DATE: 1/27/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: cumberlink.com

U.S. Fire Administrator Ernie Mitchell encourages fire departments to provide physical exams and implement a comprehensive fitness program this New Year.

Application procedures have been announced for the 2012 Harvard Fire Executive Fellowship Program. The program is once again sponsored through a partnership between the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), /International Fire Service Training Association/Fire Protection Publications (IFSTA/FPP), the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA). Applications are due no later than February 21, 2012.

United States Fire Administration announced today there were 81 on-duty firefighter fatalities in the United States as a result of incidents that occurred in 2011. This represents an almost seven percent decrease from the 87 fatalities reported for 2010.