Lodi firefighter and Local 1225 member Kris Graves is used to taking on whatever work throws at him on his 24-hour shift at Lodi's Fire Station 1. But recently, he stretched the 24-hour time frame to its absolute limit when he and his fraternal twin brother Michael competed in "24 Hour Restaurant Battle," a Food Network reality TV show...
The number of on-duty firefighter deaths is the lowest since 1977. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) today released its annual Firefighter Fatality Report at the NFPA Conference & Expo, which shows that a total of 72 on-duty firefighter deaths occurred in the United States in 2010.
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...Remember that awful public sector union pension crisis that was going to bankrupt every state from California to Wisconsin? A little less Armageddon in the coffee, please. Reuters is reporting some interesting details from a new report by the National Conference of Public Employee Retirement Systems.
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...San Diego's controversial plan to privatize retirement could wind up costing the city more, not less. An analysis of the ballot proposal to replace secure pensions with 401(k) plans says the proposal may actually force the city to pay more into the pension system, at least in the short run.
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...California's first responders join San Francisco Fire Fighters Local 798 in mourning the loss of a second San Francisco firefighter in the line of duty,Firefighter Paramedic Anthony Valerio, 53, died early Saturday morning, two days after he was critically injured battling a Thursday morning house fire. Valerio and 48-year-old Lt. Vincent Perez...