With snowbanks reaching head-height along Kenosha’s streets, the Kenosha Fire Department is asking residents’ help in digging out fire hydrants on the parkway. Guy Santelli, fire prevention division chief at the department, said there are nearly 3,300 fire hydrants in the city. City residents are asked to dig out the hydrants on their parkway as they clear sidewalks in front of their homes.
- PUB DATE: 2/18/2021 1:16:35 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News - Metered Site

The snow squeeze on city streets is making it difficult for first responders trying to keep people safe. Driving through some city streets can be a game of inches for drivers. In some cases, fire trucks, which are about 8 feet wide, only have a few inches spare as they try to respond to an emergency.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2021 10:31:35 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

A Kenosha, Wis. man died Wednesday morning after suffering a medical emergency just after exiting a structure fire in Fountain City. The man, who was not identified, was one of two occupants of a multi-family structure located on South Main Street in Fountain City, according to the Buffalo County Sheriff’s Department.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2021 1:20:19 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

Federal investigators are expected to begin their work Wednesday at the site of a fatal plane crash in southern Wisconsin. Two people died Tuesday when a small plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville. Authorities say the plane went down in a swampy area and was partially submerged in ice and mud.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2021 6:40:59 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

UpNorthLive News has received the fire report involving the M/V Roger Blough while at its winter storage dock in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. According to investigators, the freighter caught fire during the early morning hours of Monday, February 1 at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding. Lieutenant Matt Austad with the Sturgeon Bay Fire Department said responding personnel was able to enter the area by using the stairs of the neighboring freighter, James Barker, before moving across its deck to the Roger Blough.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Up North Live

A roof collapse at a gas station in Racine County leaves damage but no injuries, according to the Union Grove Fire Department. The fire chief said they’re investigating the cause of the roof collapse at Racine Petro at 717 S Sylvania Ave., but they aren’t ruling out whether heavy snow or construction inside was to blame.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2021 2:59:41 PM - SOURCE: WTMJ-TV NBC 4 Milwaukee

The area's unrelenting deep freeze caused problems for firefighters who battled a severe house fire Monday and for the family left homeless as a result. In a nearly six-hour effort in the frigid cold beginning at about 2:45 p.m., firefighters poured water on the stubborn blaze, which officials believe may have sprung from a wood-burning fireplace, on Oakdale Drive south of Lawnsdale Road in the village of Waukesha.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2021 1:18:01 PM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A gas station attendant and a resident heroically sprung into action when a car near some gas pumps ignited on fire on Monday afternoon. According to the Fond du Lac Fire and Rescue, on Monday, crews responded to a report of a vehicle fire near some gas pumps at a local Fleet Farm gas station in Fond du Lac.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2021 9:42:01 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV CBS 5 Green Bay

It's been a busy winter for Milwaukee firefighters, and they were called out again Monday afternoon, Feb. 15. They battled the bitter cold while fighting a fire at Blessed Savior Church at 86th and Villard. The fire started on the second floor in an office area. As you can imagine, the cold and snow made the response much more difficult.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2021 5:25:12 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Portage Fire Chief Troy Haase thought his career in firefighting was over when he retired in 2020 after seven years as division chief of fire prevention and public information officer for the Fond du Lac Fire Department. But an unexpected job change for his wife meant they decided to move more quickly than anticipated and Haase would find new work to occupy his time.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2021 4:41:22 PM - SOURCE: Portage Daily Register

A neighbor stepped up Monday morning to help firefighters reach a burning barn and put down the flames before it could reach neighboring structures. Sun Prairie Fire & Rescue Co. explained the individual used an end loader to plow a path for the fire trucks to reach the building, in the 4800 block of Town hall Dr.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2021 1:46:11 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

The Beaver Dam Fire Department is starting to make its promised hires after voters approved a referendum in November. Beaver Dam voters approved a referendum 66 percent to 34 percent to cover six new full-time firefighter/paramedic positions, with a tax impact of $37 on a $100,000 house in the first year.
- PUB DATE: 2/14/2021 4:39:17 PM - SOURCE: Daily Citizen - Metered Site

A Racine home was caught on fire after a woman heated rubbing alcohol on the stove to use it to melt the ice on her car Sunday morning, Feb. 14. The Racine Fire Department was dispatched to a home in the 300 block of Luedtke Avenue just before 6:30 a.m. Upon arrival, fire officials found the occupants on the front porch trying to extinguish articles from inside the home that were on fire.
- PUB DATE: 2/14/2021 11:09:28 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Developing overnight in Langlade County, the Antigo Fire Department tells NewsChannel 7 that crews responded to a fire at Dejno’s overnight. Fire Chief John Petroskey with the Antigo Fire Department says that there were no injuries reported but there was substantial damage to equipment inside the building.
- PUB DATE: 2/12/2021 3:53:06 AM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

Firefighters battled a fire that spread through apartments in the 300 block of East Main Street in the village late Thursday. According Candi Scheid, a bar manager at Village View Pub at 350 East Main St., firefighters from multiple jurisdictions assisted the Twin Lakes Fire and Rescue Department, which arrived at the scene at about 9 p.
- PUB DATE: 2/12/2021 1:04:40 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News - Metered Site

At least two of the homes that recently burned on Milwaukee’s south side did not have working smoke detectors installed, Acting Fire Chief Aaron Lipski said at a news conference called this week to address fire safety. At the Wednesday news conference, Ald. JoCasta Zamarripa and Mayor Tom Barrett focused on fire safety tips and how renters and homeowners can get free smoke detectors installed in their homes.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2021 1:32:11 PM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

VIDEO: The Sauk County Sheriff’s Office said a 17-year-old boy was arrested in another county following a house fire in Reedsburg. Emergency crews were notified about the fire Wednesday at a home along State Highway 154 in the town of Reedsburg. Everyone inside the home was able to evacuate safely, but pets were still inside when firefighters arrived, according to a release by the Sauk County Sheriff’s Office.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2021 12:40:14 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

Firefighters are battling a house fire Thursday morning on Kickbusch Street. Wausau police officials said they’re at a fire in the 1000 block of Kickbusch Street with the Wausau Fire Department. Official said the scene is active, and the roadway and block surrounding the fire is closed and residents should expect delays.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2021 5:35:11 AM - SOURCE: Wausau Daily Herald

Gov. Tony Evers has ordered flags be flown at half-staff Friday in remembrance of a Columbia County fire inspector who died of COVID-19. David Jerald Tomlinson was a member of the Poynette-Dekorra Fire Department for over 30 years, according to a post from the department’s Facebook page. A news release said he died Dec.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2021 7:24:30 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

A house fire in Marshall led to road closures Wednesday night on Highway 73. Dane County dispatch said it received a call at 6:21 p.m. for a report of a structure fire on Canal Road. Officials said firefighters called a box alarm, meaning agencies from several municipalities were sent to assist. The homeowner told our crew at the scene that everyone was able to evacuate the house safely, including the pets.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2021 6:08:37 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison