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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:
Auswide: Workers Memorial Day
The International Commemoration Day of Dead and Injured Workers is on Wednesday next, April 28. This year's  theme is "mourn the dead and fight for the living". Find out details about events in your neck of the woods.
Vic: Union calls for MFB, CFA to be merged -
Firefighters rally in Melbourne call for a single firefighting service in Victoria.
Victoria's firefighters demand Fire Services' management merger.
The UFU delivers the "Amalgamation of Fire Service in Victoria' submission to the Bushfire's Royal Commission - and launches a campaign to stop cuts to Melbourne’s fire protection.
Vic: Firefighter manager case decision
Fair Work Australia rejects a claim to have staff and managers included in a collective agreement.
WA: Contact woes hurt bushfire battle
Efforts to control the Toodyay bushfire were hampered because of a breakdown in communications says a submission to an internal review. The UFU says the Hay Street communications hub was unaware if firefighters had been dispatched.
Vic: Prisoners unsecured during fire, MFB claims
But prison authorities deny claims. Prisoners wandered around after blaze.
Qld: Fire at Brisbane rubber factory
Firefighters bring large fire in the south under control.
WA: Busselton based FESA helicopter heading off
Chopper helped put out the Busselton bushfire earlier this year.
Vic: Bushfires Royal Commission, reconstruction and preparedness round up:
- Commissioner questions lack of advice on pools, dams.
- CFA's 'very sloppy' approach to sending pager messages.
- Firefighting choppers cost millions on stand-by.
- Minister Cameron defends management of Black Saturday.
- Victorian crisis centre not used on Black Saturday says opposition.
- Lands Alliance urges fuel burn boost.
- Commission urged to abolish fire services levy.
- Government blamed for CFA radio delays.
- Nixon under more pressure to step down.
- Nixon vows to stay on as bushfire recovery chief.
- Nixon's future hangs in the balance.
- Nixon's credibility under spotlight at bushfires inquiry.
- MP swears by embattled Nixon: Bendigo rep calls media "f…wits' in tweet.
- Ex-fire recovery chief lauds Nixon contribution.
- Burns planned before Friday wind.
International:
NZ: NZPFU demands answers to management sprinkler response change.
The Union can find no evidence that its 'International Best Practice' to cut responses to sprinklered buildings to two appliances.
USA: Can lighter PPE make firefighters safer?
One of the most common comments that I hear from firefighters is that they are too insulated from the heat of the fire.
Kyrgyzstan: 5 people die, 158 arrested
Two more bodies have been found by firefighters.
UK: Talks to end firefighter dispute in Essex break down
The Fire Brigades Union calls on Essex management to reconsider decision to withdraw offer.
USA: Federal report says State should require firefighters to wear seat belts
Federal authorities say Massachusetts should enact firefighter seat belt laws: follows fatal fire truck crash in Boston last year.
Canada: Nurses, firefighters may get priority in Vancouver Olympic village
Firefighters, nurses and others who look after the city's health and safety may get priority access to coveted rental homes at Vancouver's Olympic athletes village.
USA: Springfield bars volunteer firefighters from fighting fires
The town council disassociates itself from volunteer fire department: mayor hopes to pass ordinance to hire some volunteers as paid firefighters.
USA: San Francisco firefighters face increased risk of bladder cancer
The San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation (SFFCPF) launches the second phase of its bladder cancer testing program at Local 798's Retiree luncheon.
USA: LA Fire Department earthquake training
Firefighters and search-and-rescue teams will be evaluated on how well they respond to a simulated magnitude-8.0 earthquake.
USA: Deadly explosion
Investigators identify firefighter killed in a silo explosion.
USA: Texas City sues firefighter, Union over vacation time
Aim is to reverse an arbitrator's decision about carryover leave.
India: 66% of fire hydrants non-functional
Intermittent and inadequate water supply in Mumbai causes problems.
USA: Shreveport firefighter's injury leads to proposed law
Arson law changes sought after deliberately lit fire.
USA: Pensions:
- Atlanta firefighters wade into pension battle
Union wants to intervene in a lawsuit filed by an anti-tax group.
- Baltimore Firefighters unions at odds with city over pension fix.
USA: Arbitrator gives Boston firefighters 19% raise
India: Hundreds of shanties gutted in New Delhi
Firefighters take over an hour and a half to bring the blaze under control.
USA: Firefighters to get new hazardous-materials tool
A digital gamma spectroscopy and dose-rate meter for an Arizona county firefighters.
Nepal: Fire guts Nepal Bank storehouse
300 firefighters took four to bring the fire under control.
USA: Sunday fire injures six Union City firefighters
Blaze destroys two apartment buildings.
UK: Firefighters' GLBT issues meet
Hertfordshire Fire & Rescue Service firefighters to attend explorative conference.
USA: New escape device for firefighters
Trapped firefighters can escape out a window and lower themselves to the ground.
Canada: 'There's no good-faith bargaining anymore'
Montreal Firefighters' Association president says that's why the negotiations continue for so long.
USA: Black firefighters still forging a path and serving with valor
Among the 3,000 people lost in the collapse of the World Trade Towers on Sept. 11 2001 were 12 Black firefighters .
USA: Firefighters raising funds this weekend for Muscular Dystrophy
Boots made for filling with cash - for a good cause.
India: Goan women firefighters move
Home Minister's proposal for state government to induct women fire fighters.
China: Altitude sickness forces 200 rescuers to leave China quake zone
Para-military soldiers and firefighters from two coastal provinces evacuated.
Firefighters, soldiers mobilised for search and rescue efforts.
India: Punjab firefighters join annual Sikh festival
Firefighters will attend the Gravesend Vaisakhi procession.
USA: Most firefighter deaths across the United States related to stress
When St. Anna firefighter Steve Koeser died, he became the 26th Wisconsin firefighter to fall in the line of duty in the past 15 years.
USA: Fire Union resists move to increase ranks & reduce overtime costs
A Clark County commissioners claim.
UK: Inquests opened into Southampton firefighter deaths
A coroner has opened inquests into the deaths of two firemen who died tackling a fire at a 15-storey block of flats in Southampton.
USA: Republicans want to abolish Fire Depts
Blog commentary.
South Africa: Firemen stoned
Johannesburg firefighter injured when people stoned fire vehicle on its way to a burning shack in Lawley.
Spain: Elderly man rescued from swollen river (video)
Firefighters in the complicated rescue operation of an elderly motorist.
India: Baywatch firefighters
Firefighters to turn lifeguards on Mumbai's beaches to meet the acute shortage.
USA: Near-Miss Reporting System - Fire Attack
Pass along your lesson to make another firefighter's apparatus check more complete.
USA: Union support - now a campaign curse asks opinion piece?
Candidates are backing away from the once coveted firefighter endorsement, fearing a voter backlash, claim.
USA: Palo Alto Council considers stand against firefighters' petition
Union gathers signatures to amend the City Charter to permanently prohibit Council from laying off firefighters or closing fire stations.
USA: Firefighters across Arizona get WMD training
They received hands-on training in Street Smart EMS, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) secondary devices and more.
USA: Firefighter injured in ammunition blaze
Ventura County firefighter suffers serious eye injury after ammunition exploded during a house fire.
USA: Firefighter burned by power line
Stepped on a downed power line while fighting a grass fire.
USA: Firefighters continue to blast proposed cuts
San Jose firefighters face layoffs and demands for pay cuts.
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