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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: 10 more fires linked to insulation scheme
Vic: Man to stand trial over deadly Gippsland fire
A Victorian man accused of lighting a deadly blaze at Churchill on Black Saturday has been committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court.
Vic: Gillard opens new Marysville SES
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has praised emergency service workers as she officially opened the new SES building in the bushfire affected town of Marysville.
NT: Boy, six, run over by fire truck
Six-year-old boy was run over by a fire truck south of Darwin last night.
International
NZ: Home Fire Safety Checks concern
The Union has real concerns about many aspects of the Fire Service’s proposal to commence 'Home Fire Safety Checks'.
UK: Firefighters’ Union condemns broken government pledge
Both coalition parties renege on election campaign promise to scrap the previous government’s plan for nine big regional control centres.
USA: House of Reps gives fire fighters collective bargaining rights
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill to give collective bargaining rights to fire fighters and other public safety officers.
China: China bus fire kills 24 workers
A shuttle bus carrying steel factory workers catches fire in eastern China, killing 24 people and injuring at least 19 others.
UK: Call for action over attacks on firefighters
The Fire Brigades Union today called for the immediate publication of a long-promised Welsh Assembly report,
USA: City police, firefighters protest pension changes
About two dozen members of the Baltimore police and firefighters unions protested the city's new pension legislation.
UK:
Blaze inside nuclear power station
Emergency plans were put into effect as more than 45 firemen tackled the
blaze at the Sizewell B station near Leiston, Suffolk.
USA: Illinois mob shoots fireworks at police, firefighters
Authorities say the emergency personnel who came under attack were responding to reports of fires, a shooting and illegal fireworks in the area.
UK: Major fire tackled on cargo ship
Firefighters are tackling a major fire on a cargo ship on the west coast
of Scotland.
USA: St. Louis City files lawsuit over fire department residency rule
The firefighters union, International Association of Firefighters Local 73, feels the city is unfairly targeting them over other city departments.
USA: First female lieutenant named
Firefighter Cameron served in the US Army 1st Armored Division in Afghanistan as a bomb clearer.
USA: Bay City firefighters ratify Union contract, avoid layoffs
The contract passed Wednesday night, allowed the department to avoid losing five firefighters.
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The Federal Government says 189 house fires have now been linked to its home insulation scheme.