The Onalaska Town Board decided to take a wait-and-see plan of action regarding a $100-impact fee proposal for the Holmen Area Fire Department’s capital fund. The board decided at its meeting Tuesday to table an agenda item that would authorize a board representative to negotiate the fee schedule for the proposal.
- PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 2:12:42 AM - SOURCE: Onalaska Holmen Courier Life

On August 4, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

New York state has issued 14 violations to two fire departments regarding the Dec. 19 line-of-duty death of Mount Marion volunteer firefighter Lt. Jack Rose. The Public Employee Safety and Health Bureau of the state Department of Labor issued the violations in early May. The Times Herald-Record obtained the reports on the two departments through a request under the Freedom of Information Law.
- PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Middletown Times Herald-Record

Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedics now have access to ballistic kits that can protect against rounds from high-powered rifles, like those used in the ambush on Dallas police officers last month. The kits are part of a modification to the active-shooter policy for DFR that will ultimately include collaboration with DPD.
- PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas - Fort Worth

The Warfield Volunteer Fire Department has filed a lawsuit in Martin County, Kentucky, to get its repossessed firetrucks back. In May, First Government Lease Co. of Northfield, Ill., took the vehicles. Paul Graver, doing business as First lease Company and AA Repo East, LLC of Lexington, Ky., are named as defendants in the lawsuit.
- PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCHS-TV

A former volunteer firefighter has admitted to holding four colleagues hostage at the LaMott Fire Company in Cheltenham while armed with a handgun a day after he was expelled by the company’s board of governors. Paul Anthony Jordan, 27, of the 400 block of West Wellens Avenue, Philadelphia, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court on Thursday to charges of kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, terroristic threats, possession of a weapon and simple assault in connection with the 10:30 a.
- PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pottstown Mercury

Let me start out by saying that there is no such thing as a perfect company officer. I was fortunate enough to serve as a company officer for almost six years, and have been a chief officer for more than nine years. As a company officer, I was far from perfect. While I think I was a competent company officer during my tenure, I look back and realize that I could have been a much better company officer in so many ways.
- PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse

VIDEO: The responsibility for picking up discarded drug needles in La Crosse now lies with the Fire Department, but health agencies are discussing the possibility of a shift. The AIDS Resource Center has a needle exchange program, which works as a harm reduction strategy to prevent disease. Although most of the needles the center gives out make it back, not all are properly disposed-and some are left outside.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 5:11:55 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

Two tenants could be displaced after a small duplex fire near Memorial Drive on Thursday morning, Deputy Fire Chief Bill Ruchti said. Something was left cooking on the stove at the upstairs residence at 815 Harding St. before 11 a.m., causing the fire. Firefighters used an extinguisher to put out the flames within about 15 minutes, Ruchti said.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 9:49:03 AM - SOURCE: Janesville Gazette

Three people escaped a house fire unharmed late last night in Milwaukee. The fire was reported to the Milwaukee Fire Department around 11:55 PM in a two-story wood frame house at N 21st Street and W Concordia Avenue. According to fire officials, the fire was located on the second floor of the home.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 7:11:15 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Police are investigating an early Thursday morning fire at The Cabaret Bar as a possible arson. Wausau Police Lt. Melinda Pauls said a caller reported flames and the sound of glass shattering at around 5 a.m. Thursday at The Cabaret on Rib Mountain Drive. Pauls said the bar was closed at the time of the fire but a witness saw someone walking near the tavern around the same time, which is one of the reasons investigators are considering the fire to be suspicious.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 6:12:21 AM - SOURCE: Wausau Daily Herald

PHOTO: A portion of Washington Avenue was temporarily shut down Wednesday afternoon after a small porch fire broke out at a multi-family dwelling. The fire was reported at 1:35 p.m. at 1010 Washington Ave., between 10th and Racine streets. That entire section of Washington (Highway 20) was closed for about 30 minutes as the Racine Fire Department battled the fire.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 2:35:24 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

Floyd E. Clark seemed to have broken a glass ceiling in 2011 when he was promoted to chief of the Ontario Fire Department, the first African-American to hold the top job. But Clark was fired in late June, an action he says was racially motivated when he complained about hiring practices within the department.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: dailybulletin.com

Facing mounting financial losses and a burned-out volunteer staff, Bath is prepared to end its EMS service for good. Instead, the borough's roughly 2,700 residents will be served by Bethlehem Township EMS, an agency that's no stranger to the borough, having served as the advanced life support service for more than 35 years.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Allentown Morning Call

A fire broke out Wednesday afternoon in the apartment of a volunteer firefighter who received a threatening and racist letter earlier this week. Firefighters were called early Wednesday afternoon to the blaze at an apartment house at 1096 Oliver St. in North Tonawanda where Kenneth Walker lives. When the fire was discovered, Walker said that no one was in his apartment, where he lives with his wife and their two children.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Buffalo News

It can come down to a matter of minutes. “It can be the difference between life and death” Chief Richard White of the Natick Fire Department told FOX25. In the Natick , there are four fire stations to serve 32,000 people and the average response time is below the national standard of 6.5 minutes set by the National Fire Protection Association, or NFPA.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fox25boston.com

It's a warm, sunny morning at the Homestead National Monument of America in southeastern Nebraska. A burn crew dressed in yellow and green flame-resistant clothing is about to set a patch of tall-grass prairie on fire — on purpose. These kind of burns aren't unusual. But today's burn is; a team from the University of Nebraska is testing a fire-starting drone.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kuow.org

The Beloit Fire Department has a history of too much overtime and too many unnecessary emergency calls. The Fire Department is projected to spend $320,800 in overtime which is $60,000 more than budgeted but is the approximate total spent each of the last four years, Fire Chief Brad Liggett said. The department spent $320,345 in 2015 overtime and was budgeted $295,000.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2016 7:01:37 AM - SOURCE: Beloit Daily News

The Lake Delton Fire Department welcomed a new chaplain into its fold Monday night. The Rev. Steven G. Keller, long-time pastor for Wisconsin Dells United Presbyterian Church, received his chaplain badge from Lake Delton Fire Chief Darren Jorgenson during a brief induction ceremony at the station. Keller steps into the role held by the Rev.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2016 5:52:08 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Dells-Events

VIDEO: A fire damaged a home in Wausau early Wednesday morning. Dozens of firefighters were at the scene on Pearson Street. The blaze was called in just before 4 a.m. Authorities from the Marathon County Sheriff's Department say the family was able to get out of the home safely. The families two pet rabbits also made it out safely, but their bird was not as fortunate.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2016 5:33:21 AM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9-Wausau