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Firefighter- Firefighting Jobs- EMT Training- Paramedic- Search and Rescue. Careers & Education. October 2. 1, 2. 01. Tarshish Jones won $3. Kansas City Fire Department. Task forces from around the country assist in Hurricane Harvey search and rescue efforts.

Prevention & Investigation. October 2. 0, 2. 01. A neighbor banging on the window of a burning house saved three men in Macon- Bibb County. Experts explain the different kinds of chassis suspensions available for fire and rescue vehicles.

Tech & Comm. Vendors from all sectors of the fire service displayed their latest technological achievements at Firehouse Expo. Safety & Health. Firefighters have been injured on the steep terrain of the Santa Cruz Mountains while battling the 3. Bear Fire. Maria Medina reports.

Training & Tactics. Mike Kirby explains how mastering several key factors can help us prevent tragic outcomes. Careers & Education. October 1. 9, 2. 01. Firehouse Editor- in- Chief Tim Sendelbach delivered a tribute to “America’s Fire Chief,” Alan V.

Brunacini. Careers & Education. Greenfield Fire Chief Robert Strahan is on a two- week deployment to help Puerto Rico following the hurricane's devastation.

Training & Tactics. Scott firefighters spent an hour battling a fire that destroyed two homes. Training & Tactics. Belmont firefighter Carson Couch saw a frantic man and jumped in to rescue a 2- year- old from a sinking vehicle. Training & Tactics. October 1. 9, 2. 01.

At Firehouse Expo, FDNY Capt. John Ceriello challenged firefighters to be brave enough to examine themselves.

Careers & Education. October 1. 9, 2. 01. The Wiggins, MS, Fire Dept. Step Up & Stand Out award at Firehouse Expo.

Careers & Education. October 1. 9, 2. 01. The Michael O. Mc. Namee Award of Valor and Thomas Carr Community Service Award were handed out at Firehouse Expo. Safety & Health. October 1. 9, 2. 01. Kenichi Season 1 Episode 17.

Palm Beach County firefighter Ric Jorge transformed his own mental health struggle into helping others. Training & Tactics. October 1. 9, 2. 01. As efforts continue in Northern California, cooler weather and a chance of rain gave firefighters a boost.

Safety & Health. Firehouse is proud to honor the following departments and individuals for their commitment to community. Training & Tactics. October 1. 9, 2. 01.

Retired firefighter and first responder sons pull drowning swimmer from ocean and administer CPR but were too late. Safety & Health. October 1. 9, 2. 01. Seattle strike team used a day off to visit abused and neglected children and Forget Me Not Farm in Santa Rosa. Stations. October 1.

New Fire Station 2 in Saxonville will replace the town's oldest firehouse that has serve for more than a century. Tech & Comm. October 1. Dräger introduced the Sentinel 1. SCBA monitoring system, a fully integrated electronic signal and warning unit to help increase the safety of firefighters. Leadership. October 1.

Company Officer Development Program instructors didn't give students answers, but helped students work to find them. Training & Tactics. October 1. 8, 2. 01. Firefighters visiting Firehouse Expo 2. Wednesday at the Nashville Fire Academy. Rescue. October 1.

University of Extrication's Ron Moore taught a hands- on auto extrication class during Firehouse Expo in Nashville. Careers & Education.

Huachuca City Fire Chief Jon Allmon is accused of felony theft and trafficking stolen property, including fire department equipment. Apparatus. October 1. Three firefighters were injured when the dump truck was unable to stop in time.

Threats to Free Expression Ahead of Kenya’s 2. Elections. Summary. On November 3, 2. Joseph Nkaissery, Kenya’s cabinet secretary for interior and national coordination, appeared before the Parliamentary Accounts Committee to answer questions about millions of dollars his ministry allegedly paid irregularly to suppliers, the bulk on the last day of the budget year. Journalists from several Kenyan media outlets attended the session and published articles the following day. The fallout was swift. Nkaissery warned journalists who reported the proceedings they faced arrest if they failed to disclose their sources, and that leaking such information to the media could jeopardize national security.

The minister either forgot or seemed to ignore the fact that the committee’s sessions were open, and journalists were present when members of parliament questioned him. Authorities in Kenya have committed a range of abuses against journalists reporting on sensitive issues, threatening freedom of expression ahead of elections slated for August 8, 2. Soon after Nkaissery’s warning, police from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) attempted to summon journalists who wrote the stories for interrogation regarding their sources, but they did not comply. Days later, the police bundled the Daily Nation’s John Ngirachu, who was among those summoned, into an unmarked vehicle, and drove him to the DCI headquarters in Nairobi for interrogation. The police denied him access to a lawyer, but released him without charge after four hours.

The state- orchestrated intimidation of journalists after Nkaissery’s committee session is symptomatic of risks and challenges they have faced under President Uhuru Kenyatta, who took office in April 2. August 8, 2. 01. 7. As the election nears, Kenyan government officials are increasingly scrutinizing media reporting and the impact it has on public perceptions of governance, health and education services, security, land rights, state management of public funds and the ongoing lack of accountability for the 2. An independent media is crucial for Kenya’s ability to hold free and fair elections. But rather than protecting free expression and media rights – guaranteed by Kenya’s Constitution and international human rights law – Kenyan officials have responded to critical press coverage with harassment, threats, criminal charges, withholding of advertising revenue and even violence against journalists and media outlets. Based on four months of research and interviews with journalists, editors, bloggers, human rights activists, and government officials throughout Kenya by Human Rights Watch and ARTICLE 1.

Eastern Africa (“ARTICLE 1. It highlights the government’s failure to fulfill its constitutional and international human rights obligations to protect freedom of expression and media freedoms. Human Rights Watch and ARTICLE 1.

Kenya have come under pressure since Kenyatta assumed office in 2. The government has attempted to obstruct critical journalists with legal, administrative, and informal measures, including threats, intimidation, harassment, online and phone surveillance, and in some cases, physical assaults. Human Rights Watch and ARTICLE 1. Human Rights Watch and ARTICLE 1.

In addition, police arbitrarily arrested, detained, and later released at least 1. Despite receiving formal complaints from journalists, police have rarely investigated the attacks or threats. There is no evidence that any state actor has in the past five years been held accountable for threatening, intimidating, or physically attacking a journalist or blogger in Kenya.

Police have themselves been implicated in online surveillance and, at times, in directly threatening and physically attacking journalists. In some cases, police have arbitrarily arrested, intimidated, or harassed journalists, such as John Ngirachu. In 2. 01. 5, Kenyan authorities threatened to ban two foreign journalists working for an international media outlet for reporting on alleged police death squads implicated in extrajudicial killings. Senior editors of media outlets critical of the government say that authorities have called for specific journalists to be sacked. In some instances, the authorities have withdrawn or withheld advertising revenue, demanding apologies for specific editorial content, or asked to tone down coverage of a range of politically sensitive topics, including land, corruption and security issues. Kenyan authorities have often invoked alleged national security concerns as a basis to obstruct free expression and access to information, particularly as elections near. While national security can be a basis for limiting free expression under internationally- accepted principles, governments must use the least restrictive means possible in prohibiting such speech and the national security interests should be legitimate.

Obstructing access to information regarding mismanagement of state funds, for example, is not a legitimate basis to restrict free expression. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Kenya is a party, provides for the right to hold opinions without interference and the right to free expression. The government harassment and intimidation of independent reporting, and lack of police investigations into such abuses, threaten to undermine Kenya’s 2.

For free, fair, and credible elections to take place, the government should protect freedom of expression and work to ensure that no government or security official seeks to silence journalists or arbitrarily obstruct their access to information. The government should respect and uphold its obligations under international human rights law, and voters’ right to receive and obtain information at this critical time. Recommendations. To the President and Government of Kenya.

Publicly restate the government’s commitment to upholding freedom of expression and media freedom ahead of the 2. Publicly condemn physical attacks, killings, threats, harassment, obstruction, intimidation and arbitrary arrests of journalists and bloggers, and direct government officials and security forces to stop harassing threatening or physically attacking journalists and bloggers. Direct the inspector general of police to ensure prompt, thorough, independent and effective investigation of attacks, including the deaths of, and threats against, journalists and bloggers, and to adopt a plan that would address the failure to adequately investigate such cases. Ensure full respect for international law by allowing full, open reporting and commentary on any issues of pressing public interest, including security, corruption, and accountability for past election- related violence. Propose amendments to recent laws, such as aspects of Kenya Information and Communications Act, Media Council of Kenya Act and Security Laws Amendment Act, and administrative measures introduced since 2. Kenya’s obligations under international law regarding freedom of expression.

Ensure that all laws enacted before the passage of the 2. Official Secrets Act, Preservation of Public Security Act, and the penal code are amended or repealed to meet Kenya’s international legal obligations. Ensure all government agencies, including the Government Advertising Agency, do not use threats of loss of government- sponsored advertising in exchange for favorable coverage or as punishment for critical reporting. Ensure that officials, regardless of rank or position, who threaten, harass, or arbitrarily arrest individuals on the basis of unlawfully intercepted or acquired information are appropriately disciplined or prosecuted. Act to ensure that authorities investigate allegations of illegal surveillance by government officials as well as private actors.

In advance of the 2. UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression to visit Kenya. To the Parliament of Kenya.