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This week's news
Selected links to firefighter workplace, industrial, technology and OHS news stories across the last seven days.
Australia
Vic: The buck stops with me
Qld: Crews fight bread factory blaze
More than 40 firefighters are trying to bring a fire at a bread factory on Brisbane's bayside under control.
NSW: Windy conditions cause fire havoc
The Rural Fire Service volunteers have been called out to more than 35 separate fires in the Kempsey and Nambucca areas on the NSW mid-north coast in the last two weeks alone.
WA: Emergency Services levy - resources
WA Parliament questioning the 30% increase in the levy at the same as emergency services capability is diminishiing.
NSW: Fire rips through Sydney factory
A major factory fire in Smithfield in Sydney's west has been brought under control by around 100 fire fighters.
WA: Chemical bomb scare
A fake chemical bomb complete with swastika insignia sparks a bomb scare in Kwinana.
International
UK: Threat to dismiss all London firefighters triggers ballot
The Fire Brigades Union is to ballot London’s 6,000 firefighters on whether they wish to take industrial action short of a strike.
- Capital facing industrial action by firefighters.
- Chief Fire Officer plans to sack every London Firefighter.
- Union to ballot London firefighters on industrial action.
USA: IAFF's 50th Convention
More than 2,500 fire fighters from the United States and Canada will attend the Convention in San Diego.
Canada: Canadian wildfires burn out of control
Little sign of any progress in the fight against forest fires in Canada's west coast province of British Columbia.
- Cooler weather welcome relief for BC's busy firefighters.
- BC firefighters get help from Mars water bomber.
- BC faces one of worst wildfire years.
USA: New York Firefighters go solar
Firefighters at New York's Bellevue Fire District No. 9 station are looking forward to a bright future
Russia: Heavy downpours help Russia's firefighters
Heavy rain has drenched the Russian capital, helping firefighters battle the remaining wildfires on the city's outskirts.
USA: IAFF announces 2010 Media Awards contest winners
245 entries in the 2010 Media Awards Contest attest to the fact that for today’s firefighter, truth is stranger than fiction.
Croatia: Another fire starts near Split
After around 250 hectares of pine woods and grass were destroyed by a wild fire that started yesterday in Donja Rupotina near Split.
USA: Cross-country run honoring fallen 9/11 police and firefighters
The cause for 36 firefighters/policemen from the US and Australia is a good one.
Spain: Spanish firefighters hope to contain Ibiza blaze
- Ibiza firefighters grapple with beach blaze.
USA: Firefighters battle two California wildfires
Firefighters across California are back on the fire lines trying put out two wildfires burning across the state.
UK: Cumbria traffic accident and water rescue capacity in danger
If the Cumbria Fire Service carries out its plan to cut down the crewing of sophisticated rescue equipment.
USA: Firefighters demand $9 million in compensation for asbestos exposure
Three years ago, during a training session, a number of firefighters from Everett, Washington were exposed.
USA: Birmingham firefighter sues city for overtime pay after pay policy changes
The city "wants to have its cake and eat it too," when it comes to forcing firefighters to work overtime without paying them.
USA: Firefighter vulnerability tool
The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (with support from the US Fire Administration) is developing the tool.
USA: Six Detroit firefighters hurt when roof suddenly collapses
The firefighters were going aggressively at the blaze, even as the licking flames and yellow smoke billowed from the building.
UK: Firefighters attacked by gang of yobs
Bolton firefighters were pelted with stones as they tried to tackle fires in two separate incidents.
USA: Firefighter gator-aid
Massachusetts firefighter's bungee cord wrangling solution.
Armenia: firefighters return
The Armenian firemen were among the first to help Russia with wildfires.
USA: Ohio firefighter cuts 'devastating'
The International Association of Fire Fighters Local 267 also filed a grievance in the matter.
USA: New helicopter to assist San Diego firefighters
Equipped with firefighting capabilities and has the capacity to carry and drop up to 2500 gallons of water on a fire.
USA: LBFD and Boeing firefighters practice downed firefighter rescue
Firefighters from Long Beach Fire Department join firefighters from Boeing Fire Department for a joint rescue exercise.
Portugal: Firefighters fight criminal forest fire in northern Portugal
Around eighty men from Macedo de Cavaleiros' Fire Brigade fought three consecutive criminal forest fires in the remote village of Sezulfe.
USA: Immigrants did much of firefighting
In Spokane, Earle signed up for a temporary firefighting job with the US Forest Service. The pay was 25 cents an hour, meals and bedroll included.
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The state's first fire supremo Craig Lapsley was conceived in a fire station.