Chandler Tackles Island Fire Coverage: City Council Will Discuss Protection for 1,800 Losing Service From Rural/Metro
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By Chris Markham, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Dec. 12--Chandler City Council members will try to figure out a plan Thursday for dealing with about 1,800 county island homes that don't have permanent fire service.
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By Erica Curless, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Sep. 14--The battle over Kootenai County's rural lands continues tonight as two developers will ask to change the growth plan to allow megaprojects in the countryside.
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Private ferry operators need public-funding lifelines to stay afloat, City Council officials warned yesterday. Alarmed by service cutbacks announced recently by the financially troubled NY
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By Pat Reavy Deseret Morning News  They risk their lives to protect the public, but often it isn't a bullet or the flames from an inferno that law enforcers and firefighters have to worry about.
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By Tony Davis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 5--A proposed 2,500-home subdivision near the Pima-Santa Cruz County line may be dead for the second straight year.
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Electricity available day and night is due to come online for a small island community for the first time.
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City ladder trucks should never roll without at least four firefighters onboard and protective gear should be updated, a panel recommended Wednesday in response to a furniture store inferno that killed nine firefighters.
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By Fraser Sherman, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 9--On Monday, Destin's city councilors will have their first chance to discuss the latest plan for the future of the city's harbor area.
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By Ronald L. Littlepage  This is for all of you folks who are salivating over the prospects of a massive cut in property taxes and who believe city government can do without.  The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department is a good example of why it isn't as easy as you think.
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By Alexis Huicochea, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 5--The Tucson Fire Department is getting closer to filling eight vacant fire inspector positions after an exhaustive effort to recruit firefighters within the department, officials said.
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By ARIZONA DAILY STAR  A wildfire that burned about 1,190 acres in the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge was contained Sunday evening, the Arizona State Land Department said.
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By Travis Tritten, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Sep. 23--A local state senator and fire chief are planning condominiums next door to the Waterside Drive neighborhood just outside Myrtle Beach, but the project became clouded by resident outcry this week.   Sen.
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Sir, I hope that all city councillors saw the Country Calendar programme, Saturday January 27. The programme graphically showed the importance of wetlands. Such areas were prolific around our estuaries in 1961. The destruction of our wetlands around Tahunanui, Annesbrook and Stoke horrifies me.
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By Neil Gonzales  ATHERTON -- Problems with Atherton's building procedures have resulted in some of the town's large homes possibly becoming fire hazards, according to a San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury interim report released this week.
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350,000 San Diego County homes evacuated   Fierce winds fuel fires; 400,000 acres burnEvacuees find shelter in schools, stadiumOfficial: Not "enough fire engines in the state"
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By Elmer Ploetz  The Orchard Park Town Board has set an Oct. 18 public hearing regarding the creation of a "conservation management overlay district" that could change how some of the town's larger housing developments are done.
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By Gene Warner  A fire at a Grand Island home early Friday caused an estimated $400,000 damage and led to the arrest of the 44-year-old homeowner, who was accused of interfering with firefighters and police officers.  Volunteer firefighters responded to a 2:46 a.m.