City of Chicago Fire Department
Public Safety |
Fire Department - Professional
1360 South Blue Island Avenue, Chicago, IL 60608
Recent News About City of Chicago Fire Department
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Gov. Rick Perry's office is now accepting nominations for the 2014 Star of Texas Awards, which honor peace officers, firefighters and emergency medical first responders who were seriously injured or killed in the line of duty.
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The Jefferson County Bar Association will host a free legal advice clinic for area veterans.
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In the Marx Brothers film "Duck Soup," Chico, disguised as Groucho's character, Rufus T. Firefly, responds indignantly to someone who challenges his impersonation: "Who you gonna believe," he demands, "me or your own eyes?"
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The 9th Court of Appeals today reversed an arbitrator's decision reinstating James Mathews as a firefighter with the Beaumont Fire Department.
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Ann Huff joined a unique group this month when she became the first woman chief of the Beaumont Fire Department. The appointment makes Huff one of four female chiefs in Texas and one of 36 in the United States.
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A Mississippi family is suing Entergy, claiming Merrell Robinson was killed because the power company placed a guy wire too close to the road. Robinson died on Feb. 24 when his motorcycle went off the road in Sabine Pass.
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After an appeals court overturned an arbitration decision late last year, the city of Beaumont and its local firefighters union finally came to an agreement Feb. 6 with the approval of a four-year contract.
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Arbitrator Zane Lumbley of Monroe, Wash., abandoned his neutrality so outrageously for the benefit of Beaumont firefighters that he hurt every municipal employee in Texas.
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When Kathryn Reddell saw her 11-year-old boy in flames, she heroically tried to extinguish the flames with her own body.
