VIDEO: A power struggle is forming between Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and some state lawmakers. A new bill introduced in Madison could change the way police officers and firefighters fight to get their jobs back. The mayor pointed out only a few years ago, they championed a change that fired police or firefighters, will not continue to get paid as they fought on an appeal. - PUB DATE: 11/2/2017 3:15:55 AM - SOURCE: WTMJ-AM 620 Milwaukee
VIDEO: An Eau Claire man is charged after his family members told police he started a fire inside his home. 27-year-old Jayson Harding appeared in Eau Claire County court via video Wednesday where a judge issued a signature bond. He faces four counts, including arson of a building. According to a criminal complaint, family members told police they went into Harding's home where it was full of smoke on October 27. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2017 11:50:25 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News
The Fitchburg Fire Department put out a small fire in the basement of a Fitchburg apartment complex Wednesday night. The call about the fire came in at 9:52 p.m. and the fire was extinguished at 10:04 p.m., according to Dane County Dispatch. There were no injuries, according to Fitchburg Fire DeputyChief Rich Roth. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2017 10:22:04 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison
Brian Myrland, who was hired as a part-time chief in 2004, announced last month he would retire effective Dec. 31. The new chief will likely be a familiar face, as the Fitch-Rona EMS Commission voted last Thursday night to pursue an internal candidate, one of the two deputy chiefs. Myrland, who also runs a Middleton-based sports equipment business, has had two full-time deputy chiefs reporting to him in recent years. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2017 4:48:25 AM - SOURCE: Fitchburg Star
If the Nov. 14 referendum to raise $250,000 from the village levy to support 24-hour paramedic service from Paratech Ambulance Service fails, the village will move back to just 12-hour-a-day coverage. And the village will begin seeking “other options,” including joining up with neighboring communities to create a joint emergency medical service, according to a resolution approved by the village board’s finance committee on Oct. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2017 3:07:22 AM - SOURCE: Lake Geneva News
A drone and two search and rescue boats were deployed Tuesday along the Chippewa River in a search for a man missing since Saturday night, although police aren’t certain he entered the water. Brenden K. Felton, 25, was last seen Saturday evening in downtown Eau Claire, walking north on First Avenue from Lake Street, police Detective Lt. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2017 2:11:19 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram
VIDEO: About 80 firefighters battled a two-alarm fire Tuesday night on Milwaukee's northwest side. Video from News Chopper 12 first showed a lot of smoke and then flames coming through the roof. Firefighters were called just before 6 p.m. to Appleton Avenue and 75th Street. They remained at the scene several hours to put out hot spots and make sure the fire didn't spread to the restaurants in the strip of businesses. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 8:54:40 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee
VIDEO: Firefighters on Monday night, October 30th were called out to the scene of a fire at Charter Steel -- located near Port Washington and Glen Oak Road in Mequon. The call came in around 9:15 p.m. When crews arrived on scene, flames were shooting out of the roof. Authorities say the fire was so intense, crews had to fight it from the outside. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 11:37:03 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6
A fire in a laboratory hood system brought Madison firefighters and the hazardous materials team to a North Side company Sunday evening, with nobody injured in the blaze. The fire was reported at about 6:35 p.m. at Covance Laboratories, 3301 Kinsman Boulevard, the Madison Fire Department said. "It is believed a spark from within a work station ignited some flammable chemicals, causing a chain reaction that results in a fire large enough to trigger the lab's automatic fire sprinkler system," said MFD spokeswoman Cynthia Schuster. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 8:20:48 PM - SOURCE: Madison
A woman and four children were very fortunate to escape carbon monoxide poisoning in the woman’s Rice Lake home over the weekend, according to Lt. Doug Ripplinger of the Rice Lake Fire Department. The Fire Department responded Sunday just after 9:30 a.m. to 1025 Linden Avenue for a carbon monoxide call after a Barron County sheriff’s dispatcher took a call from the homeowner, Cheryl Grove, reporting that one of the children, a 4-year-old boy, was feeling dizzy and vomiting. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 3:31:00 PM - SOURCE: Rice Lake Chronotype
VIDEO: A man who thought his house was on fire drove to a fire station and pulled an alarm to get firefighters' attention. Wisconsin Rapids firefighters at Station 1, 1511 12th St. S, didn't know what was happening when the station's fire alarm went off at 2:54 a.m. Monday, Fire Capt. Bob Barteck said. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 1:20:48 PM - SOURCE: Oshkosh Northwestern
Mark Pierce, who retired from the South Shore Fire Department in April, received Fire Inspector of the Year honors Thursday night from the Wisconsin State Fire Inspectors Association at the organization’s annual conference, held last week at the Radisson Conference Center near Green Bay. Pierce had a 37-year career with the South Shore Fire Department and its predecessor, the Mount Pleasant Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 7:14:37 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times
Several Chippewa Valley businesses — some for decades and others just recently — have been fighting fires with their ingenuity. Fires have been doused by water churned out by Chippewa Falls-made pumps for 85 years. An Eau Claire manufacturing company is selling a fire extinguisher it sees as revolutionary. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 2:11:58 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram
VIDEO: Firefighters were called to a garage fire on the 300 block of North Water Street Friday afternoon. The garage was engulfed in flames and an SUV in the driveway was also on fire when crews arrived. Officials say the homeowner was home, and was alerted by a neighbor of the fire. No injuries were reported, but the house and a neighboring house sustained heat damage. - PUB DATE: 10/29/2017 3:25:23 PM - SOURCE: WNFL SPORT REDIO
A fire broke out in a silo on a farm in the Town of Plover in Marathon County. It happened around 8:00pm Saturday night. "The homeowners just saw a bunch of smoke," Birnamwood Fire Chief Randy Berger told WAOW NewsLine Nine. The Birnamwood, Easton, and Antigo Fire Departments all responded to the scene. - PUB DATE: 10/29/2017 2:37:03 PM - SOURCE: WRIG-AM Fox Sports 1390
A family of three must find someplace else to stay after a fire severely damaged a two-story house on the village's west side. Firefighters from multiple departments responded about 9:20 a.m. to the blaze at 4 S. Third St., Winneconne-Poygan Assistant Chief Al Andersen said. Two dogs were in the building, and one person was "slightly injured" while leaving. - PUB DATE: 10/29/2017 1:48:51 PM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com
The former Wausau firefighter charged with sexually assaulting a patient he was transporting to the hospital pleaded not guilty Friday.
Clifford Heiser, 32, was arrested by Wausau Police after an investigation into a complaint from a female patient on Sept. 13. The complaint was filed by a 29-year-old woman who was transported to an area hospital by a Wausau Fire Department ambulance. - PUB DATE: 10/27/2017 9:05:09 AM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau
A car burst into flames after being hit by a train in the village of Richfield, the Washington County Sheriff's Office said. The crash happened at 5:31 p.m. Wednesday on Bark Lake Road east of Scenic Road in the Village of Richfield. Deputies said a caller told them the car had been pushed 2,000 feet from the railroad crossing and was located behind a residential subdivision. - PUB DATE: 10/27/2017 7:30:04 AM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee
Two Verona men were charged Wednesday with arson after police said they admitted to setting fire to an abandoned farmhouse and setting off fireworks inside the home. Kyle D. Brazee and Evan R. Ruchti, both 18, were charged with arson for the July 4 fire that destroyed an abandoned house on Highway M, near Shady Bend Road and Liberty Drive. - PUB DATE: 10/26/2017 10:45:14 PM - SOURCE: Madison
A new incident notification system helps Waupaca firefighters find their destination, know what special hazards a site may have, know which volunteers are responding and how soon they will arrive. “It’s peace of mind to know who’s actually coming,” said Steve Fenske, a member of the Waupaca Area Fire District who has been spearheading the implementation of the program. - PUB DATE: 10/26/2017 8:43:23 AM - SOURCE: Waupaca Now
