Fire chief troubled by new regs

Sundance’s firefighters plan to stand against “severe” new regulations proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), says Fire Chief Gari Gill.

“There’s quite a pushback throughout the nation on it,” he said last week.

The proposed rules were published in the Federal Register on February 5 and would replace the existing “Fire Brigades Standard” with one titled “Emergency Response”.

It would, according to the publication, “address a broader scope of emergency responders and would include programmatic elements to protect emergency responders from a variety of occupational...