Recent Gov1 News

• School safety funding landscape after the pandemic

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  The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act includes funding to expand mental health and support services in schools

• Verizon Frontline debuts THOR’s Hammer trailer for enhanced public safety communications

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  The nearly 30-foot trailer can serve as a private 5G standalone network connected to the THOR command center vehicle

• 2 Mich. firefighters suspended over delayed response to EMS call

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  Officials are investigating the delay, and the patient died several hours after the crew was on scene

• Firefighters honored for rescuing 130 people in Ky. floods

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  Lexington crews worked with firefighters from other departments to check more than 4,459 structures

• N.C. Sheriff makes appeal for a new jail

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  "I'm afraid someone is going to get hurt or killed on my watch. I don't want to get sued. If I get sued, you all will get sued."

• Voters to decide if L.A. County supervisors can remove elected sheriff

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  If approved by voters, the ballot measure would give the board the authority to remove a sheriff "for cause" on a four-fifths vote of the five-member panel

• AG swears in new U.S. prisons chief in push for reform

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  Colette Peters, former director of the Oregon state prison system, replaces Michael Carvajal

• Ohio county jail administrator has 11-point wish list for a new jail

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  After touring newly built jails, Cuyahoga County Jail Administrator Ronda Gibson has design ideas to improve inmate processing, housing and CO training areas

• Western wildfires explode in size amid hot, windy conditions

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  California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency, making it possible for resources from other states to assist crews with the McKinney Fire

• 2 N.Y. capital-area FDs to receive nearly $1M in U.S. grants to address staff shortages

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  Troy Fire Chief Eric McMahon: "This grant will fund the training of firefighters to the level of paramedic. This funding could not have come at a better time"

• Fla. city firefighters to get 18.5% raises

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  Tampa's contracts with Firefighters Local 754, the Police Benevolent Association and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1464 include pay increases over three years

• Time to read: 11 library grants for schools

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  These grants benefit libraries and librarians as they help provide access to information through literature and non-fiction

• Former Mass. EMT files suit against town, former chief for bias, harassment

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  Lt. Rich Michelson alleges discrimination, a lack of due process and that a faulty misconduct claim was used to fire him

• La. firefighters protest pay, low staffing

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  Lake Charles officials said that raises were approved recently; each firefighter also earns $6,000 in annual supplemental pay in addition to the $11.17 per hour rate

• Fla. chief, union, city leaders push for more training, staffing after FF's death

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  Apopka Fire Chief Sean Wylam wants new ambulances, gear and firefighters, but the local union leader wants a dedicated training officer

• Ore. city settles suit, pays $93K to former FF-medic who alleged discrimination

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  Gabriel Watson said his job was “constructively terminated;” Portland officials said he was laid off after he blacked out on duty and refused to take a fitness test

• Judge combines lawsuits from Vanessa Bryant, other victims' families

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  Both suits allege that the L.A. County sheriff's and fire departments violated the plaintiffs' 14th Amendment rights when employees shared photos of the scene

• Firefighters make progress against growing wildfire near Yosemite

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  Nearly 3,000 firefighters are battling the Oak Fire, which has destroyed 41 homes and other buildings near the national park

• Md. county commissioners OK $52K for medical director for new fire/EMS department

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  Johns Hopkins School of Medicine will do the hiring; officials said the partnership would include the use of hospital sites for training and cover liability costs

• Calif. governor declares emergency over wildfire near Yosemite

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  More than 400 firefighters are battling the Oak Fire amid hot weather, low humidity and bone-dry vegetation

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