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Fire Department Considers Encrypting Scanner Traffic
The D.C. fire department could soon follow the Metropolitan Police Department's lead and encrypt some of its radio transmissions, according to Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Paul Quander. Quander says...
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Morning Links
D.C. Council committee gives the OK to $11.50 minimum wage. [WAMU, Post] Poll shows residents backing $12.50 wage. [LL] Fire chief hires former Prince George's chief as his No. 2. [Times] Office of...
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GAO rejects budget autonomy referendum. [City Desk, WAMU, Post, Times] Fire lieutenant on leave during investigation into man's death outside fire station. [Times, Post] DCPS was warned about...
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Wells Calls on Deputy Mayor, Fire Chief To Resign
As the chairman of the D.C. Council's public safety committee, mayoral hopeful Tommy Wells knows better than most about the myriad scandals in the District's Fire and Emergency Medical Services...
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Can the D.C. Fire and EMS Department Ever Be Fixed?
Earlier this month, District firefighters’union president Ed Smith did something he hadn’t done in a while: He felt good about the District’s fire chief. Well, the District’s almost fire chief....
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Interim Fire Chief Wants Harsher Punishments for Firefighters Charged in...
The secretive trial-board panels convened to hand out punishments to firefighters after the death of 77-year-old Medric Mills have delivered their punishments, but interim fire chief Eugene A. Jones...
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Firefighters Stay Out of Attorney General Race, Back Silverman for At-Large
Count one more organization confused about how the District's first elected attorney general fits into city politics. The union that represents D.C. Fire and EMS personnel will be sitting out the...
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Land Ho: The District’s Best Fireboat Is on Ice
Party cruisers in the Washington Channel expect to get some sights along with their cocktails. Besides Hains Point and Fort McNair, though, these days they’ll also see something a lot less appetizing:...
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Audit: D.C. Fire Department Hasn’t Implemented More than a Dozen EMS...
Nine years after David Rosenbaum died following a botched emergency response, a new report from the D.C. Auditor says that the D.C. Fire and EMS department has followed through on less than half of the...
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DCFEMS Medical Director Quits After Just a Few Months
More woes for the District's troubled D.C. Fire and EMS department. New DCFEMS medical director Juliette Saussy, once touted as part of Chief Gregory Dean's plans to reform the department, resigned...
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