DAWN ZURCHER of the Payson (AZ) Fire Department has been named the 1998 United Firefighter of

•DAWN ZURCHER of the Payson (AZ) Fire Department has been named the 1998 United Firefighter of the Year by United Fire of Tucson, Arizona, a fire equipment distributor. Zurcher, a member of the department since 1995 and a paramedic since 1993, implemented a critical incident stress debriefing (CISD) program in her department, a formal school program to teach students positive behaviors in fire safety and injury prevention, and a program to fund and install smoke detectors in area homes.

Dave McGlynn and Brian Zaitz

The Training Officer: The ISFSI and Brian Zaitz

Dave McGlynn talks with Brian Zaitz about the ISFSI and the training officer as a calling.
Conyers Georgia chemical plant fire

Federal Investigators Previously Raised Alarm About BioLab Chemicals

A fire at a BioLabs facility in Conyers, Georgia, has sent a toxic cloud over Rockdale County and disrupted large swaths of metro Atlanta.