Bill Carey
Senior Editor at Aviation International News
Aviation and technology reporter based in Washington and Massachusetts. Author of 'Enter the Drones: The FAA and UAVs in America' (2016). Opinions are my own.
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1 week ago |
police1.com | Bill Carey
JOLIET, Ill. — A police officer and firefighter are being credited with a swift and effective rescue after an apartment fire trapped a family on the third floor. The blaze broke out on June 9 around 12:30 p.m. at 115 Essington Road. Joliet Fire Department Battalion Chief Dan Berta was returning from a vehicle crash on Interstate 80 when the initial alarm was dispatched and he was the first one on the scene, the Herald News reported.
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2 weeks ago |
firerescue1.com | Bill Carey
WASHINGTON — Jeremy Greenberg, who leads FEMA’s National Response Coordination Center, submitted his resignation on June 11 and will officially leave the agency in two weeks, just as the 2025 hurricane season begins to ramp up. Greenberg’s exit marks the latest in a string of high-level departures at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, raising concerns about stability at the nation’s primary disaster response agency, CBS News reported.
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2 weeks ago |
firerescue1.com | Bill Carey
JOLIET, Ill. — Joliet Fire Department Battalion Chief Dan Berta and a Joliet police officer are credited with a swift and effective rescue on June 9, after an apartment fire trapped a family on the third floor. The blaze broke out around 12:30 p.m. at 115 Essington Road. Berta was returning from a vehicle crash on Interstate 80 when the initial alarm was dispatched and he was the first one on the scene, the Herald News reported.
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2 weeks ago |
firerescue1.com | Bill Carey
SEATTLE — At the SLEEP 2025 conference, Nicole Bowles, PhD, an assistant professor at Oregon Health & Science University, highlighted the unique sleep challenges faced by firefighters, particularly those working under staggered shift schedules like Portland Fire & Rescue’s 1323 model.
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2 weeks ago |
firerescue1.com | Bill Carey
MURRAY COUNTY, Minn. — Several fire departments in Murray County are preparing to test a soy-based firefighting foam that could serve as an alternative to conventional products containing PFAS chemicals. Soybean growers in the region donated pails of SoyFoam — a product developed by Cross Plains Solutions — to departments in Currie, Dovray, Fulda, Iona, Lake Wilson and Slayton, the Marshall Independent reported.
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