Authorities in Madison say an automatic sprinkler system helped put out an apartment fire after a candle was left burning in a bedroom on the city's south side over the weekend. According to the Madison Fire Department, people who live in an apartment on the 4700 block of Jenewein Rd. left the candle burning just after 11:30 a.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2016 9:43:19 AM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC

VIDEO: Crews responded to an overnight fire at Hog Wild Bar in Two Rivers. Crews got the call around midnight to a bar on the 2500 block of Woodland Drive. Fire officials activated Mavis which is common for a fire of this size. The fire chief said they were able to get the fire out and under control around 3 a.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2016 7:17:34 AM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

A man with the same name and date of birth had been the subject of a domestic violence restraining order petition filed in Milwaukee County Circuit Court in April 2015. But the suspect was not properly served, and the court denied the restraining order and dismissed the case. It was not clear Sunday whether the petitioner who sought the restraining order was the mother of the child.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2016 5:57:07 AM - SOURCE: Oshkosh Northwestern

On July 31, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 29, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 27, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Four firefighters were burned in a backdraft that erupted during a blaze Sunday afternoon at a West Side residential building. The fire, in the 4900 block of West Potomac Avenue in the city’s Austin neighborhood, had been extinguished as of about 12:30 p.m., according to the Chicago Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: chicago tribune

Austin fire Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr responded to the censure she received Thursday night from the city’s firefighter union by saying her department’s employees have been “seriously misinformed.” In a statement, Kerr said Bob Nicks, the president of the Austin chapter of the International Association of Fire Fighters, embarked on a “one-sided misleading personal vendetta” that has damaged conversations about how to keep firefighters healthy and safe.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: austin statesman

At its annual membership meeting in Albuquerque, July 19-21, the principal membership of the National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM) elected, by unanimous acclamation, four State Fire Marshals to serve two year terms on the Association's Board, announced NASFM President H. "Butch" Browning, Louisiana State Fire Marshal.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fire engineering

The Fire Department has both fewer firefighters and fewer administrators, with six upper-command positions vacant, including the chief's job. For several months, Public Safety Commissioner Steven Paré has been acting chief as the city searches for a new department head from outside the city — an effort that has hit some bumps since it began a year ago.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: providence journal

Brad Morris was driving an ambulance on Feb. 13, 2004, when he and other paramedics and firefighters responded to a domestic violence call on Adams Lane in rural southern Fayette County. His co-worker, Lt. Brenda Cowan, Lexington’s first black female firefighter, was gunned down that day by a man who shot and killed his wife before paramedics arrived.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: lexington herald-leader

A prank call of a downed plane drew the attention of many EMS services for a wasted effort Friday afternoon. Dispatchers received a 911 call that there was a plane down in the Town of Norrie, but the cell signal dropped during the call. A medical helicopter, the Hatley fire department, and the Marathon County Sheriff's Department were called in to search, but were unable to locate a plane.
- PUB DATE: 7/31/2016 6:23:14 AM - SOURCE: WNCY-FM Y100

On July 30, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

When severe storms rolled through Plum City Tuesday, July 5, the fire whistle didn’t go off in town; it wasn’t hooked up to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department, who can set sirens off remotely, said Plum City Fire Chief PJ Hines. Hines and firefighter Ron Anderson told Plum City Village Board members July 11 that firefighters don’t receive any more advanced notice than residents when it comes to severe weather warnings.
- PUB DATE: 7/30/2016 7:57:01 PM - SOURCE: Rivertowns

On July 28, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 27, 8 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The Eau Claire Police and Fire Commission is pleased to announce, after conducting a nationwide search, that Mr. Christian M. Bell has been appointed to the position of Fire Chief for the City of Eau Claire. Mr. Bell started his firefighting career as a volunteer in 1995 and joined the Eau Claire Fire Department in 1997 as a Firefighter/Paramedic.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2016 8:32:44 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

The Milwaukee Common Council's rejection this week of a $55 million apartment high-rise was largely the result of opposition from people living in a neighboring east side condo building. But the neighboring condo owners were joined in their campaign by a unexpected figure: the president of the local firefighters union, who lives 13 miles from the proposed project site.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2016 5:11:19 AM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

VIDEO - The Bay City Department of Public Safety has shared two new videos showing the public how its officers transition from a law enforcement officer to a firefighter. The videos were posted on the agency's Facebook page the morning of Friday, July 29. They depict public safety officers Eric Sporman and Brandon Murphy simulating how they would respond to a structure fire.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: mlive.com

Dover Fire Chief Richard "Turkey" Mattison, who died on Wednesday, will be honored with a fireman's service on Monday evening and a fireman's procession on Tuesday morning. Mattison, who served in Dover's fire department for 43 years, was "just an all-around great guy," said Deputy Chief Bill Gilbert, who retains that title while now running the department.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Newark Star-Ledger