MORGANTOWN — Fire Prevention Week has arrived and the Morgantown Fire Department will teach area children about important sounds of which to be aware. The MFD is teaming up with the National Fire Protection Association for this year’s campaign, ‘Learn the Sounds of Fire Safety’, ...
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia's fall forest fire season begins Oct. 1 and with it comes additional safety protocols residents are required to follow. “A lot of this stuff is common sense, if you think about it,” said Morgantown Fire Department Fire Marshal Ken ...
MORGANTOWN — The moment Eugene Deem first found out paid firefighter positions existed, he began looking for ways to make it his career. Deem became chief of the Morgantown Fire Department this week. He replaces Mark Caravasos, who announced his retirement in May after 34 years of ...
An expert witness calculated the City of Morgantown underpaid its firefighters by over $4.6 million from June 7, 2014, to February 18, 2020, when the holiday pay issue was fixed. The number was determined by Roger A. Griffith, a CPA since 1970, for the members of the International ...
MORGANTOWN — The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals granted firefighters from the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 805′s motion to dismiss an appeal filed by their city on Friday. The dismissed appeal challenged Judge Laura Faircloth’s ruling in Martinsburg that ...
MORGANTOWN — Morgantown and its firefighters are headed back to court after another failed attempt at resolving a backpay issue through mediation. The suit was filed in June 2019 and at a pre-trial hearing in June 2021, Monongalia County Circuit Court Judges told Morgantown and the ...