Members from the Beaver Dam Fire Department recently took part in a program to help improve firefighter health and fitness. It is called Fit To Thrive and is designed to get those in the firefighting industry be more active, more often so they can experience the benefits of regular exercise. Beaver Dam Fire Chief Michael Wesle says this opportunity was available to them through grant funding.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2023 7:15:00 AM - SOURCE: WBEV-FM 95.3 Beaver Dam

Fond du Lac County is making use of new, clever technology to get first responders to the right location. The technology, called “what3words,” converts numeric GPS coordinates into words. The words are then decoded by first responders using the what3words app in the field. Fond du Lac County Communications Director Amy Haase says this eliminates the risk of typing in a wrong number for GPS coordinates in degrees, minutes and seconds or decimal degrees.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

VIDEO: The We Energies Foundation awarded $100,000 to help first responders across Wisconsin purchase life-saving equipment. Officials joined the North Shore Fire Department and several other police and fire departments on Thursday, Sept. 7 to show off their newly acquired safety tools. Those include hazardous gas detectors, AEDs, an electric vehicle emergency response plug, and a speed detection radar device.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

An arson investigation is underway after a raging inferno tore through a mechanic shop in Miami on Friday morning. At 5:20 a.m., the City of Miami Department of Fire-Rescue responded to reports of a fire at the scene. Firefighters arrived to find a vehicle fire raging on the exterior of the mechanic shop located near the intersection of Northwest Seventh Avenue and 79th Street.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSVN-TV FOX 7 Miami

VIDEO: As another anniversary of 9/11 sits on the horizon, officials at Seneca East Local Schools are paying tribute. “As I’m taking my last breaths of life, I realized that my life was over and I did something I hadn’t done in a long time, I closed my eyes and said a prayer,” Joe Torrillo, a retired lieutenant with the New York City Fire Department said.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVG-TV ABC/CW 13 Toledo

VIDEO: Ten firefighters from Belgium are spending the week with the Fresno Fire Department. “We have a small organization in Belgium that tries to bring firefighters to the U.S. to visit the fire department and to do some hands-on training, to do ride along to see how the job is done over here and to make a comparison on how we do it,” said Marc Opstal who is a Battalion Chief in Belgium.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSEE-TV NBC 24 Fresno

Whelen Engineering, a global leader in the emergency warning industry for more than 70 years, Richard Childress Racing (RCR), and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) have teamed up to honor fallen fire heroes at the NASCAR Xfinity Series race on September 9, 2023, at Kansas Speedway. RCR’s No.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: RCR Racing

Fond du Lac County is making use of new, clever technology to get first responders to the right location. The technology, called “what3words,” converts numeric GPS coordinates into words. The words are then decoded by first responders using the what3words app in the field. Fond du Lac County Communications Director Amy Haase says this eliminates the risk of typing in a wrong number for GPS coordinates in degrees, minutes and seconds or decimal degrees.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

The kitchen of a nursing home on Madison’s east side is shut down after a stovetop fire, the city’s fire department explained Wednesday. The kitchen fire was reported to Madison Fire Department around 5:10 a.m. Wednesday. Firefighters were told that the fire had already been put out while they were on their way to the 100 block of Belmont Road.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2023 4:53:00 AM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC 15 Madison

VIDEO: This weekend, Sun Prairie Fire & Rescue is set to join a powerful event to remember September 11 and the sacrifices of first responders. The 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb will be at Lambeau Field in Green Bay Saturday. Participants are invited to walk the equivalent of the 110 stories of the World Trade Center, a way to honor more than 300 firefighters who died in the line of duty.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2023 12:55:00 AM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC 15 Madison

PHOTOS: A rapidly spreading fire consumed as many as six rowhomes near Patterson Park. SkyTeam 11, Baltimore's only news helicopter, reported that firefighters were called Wednesday afternoon to the 300 block of South Robinson Street. Baltimore City Fire Department said commanders on the scene found one two-story row home involved with flames eventually spreading to a total of six homes.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAL-TV NBC 11 Baltimore

VIDEO: The Wichita Fire Department hosted a special surprise presentation on Wednesday for a former Wichita firefighter. Rebecca (Downum) Chandler became Wichita’s first female firefighter in 1983. “It was a wonderful time. I didn’t really know how long I could do it, but I did it as long as I could,” she said, “I enjoyed doing it.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KWCH-DT CBS 12 Hutchinson

VIDEO: New York and Nashville researchers studied blood cell mutations in 9/11 first responders and determined some cells were cloning out of control and causing cardiovascular disease. Thanks to this research, an exercise fanatic discovered he had underlying and extensive heart disease. Roger Grad exercises 90 minutes a day, five days a week.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISH-TV CW 8 Indianapolis

VIDEO: Fairfield firefighters gathered Thursday night to shave a mullet for a good cause. The mullet had been growing out for 798 days by Lt. Lee Corbo. Corbo decided to create a fundraiser and shave his hair in support of the Tommy Fund for Childhood Cancer. He is also supporting a Norwalk firefighter who has been diagnosed with cancer.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News 12 Connecticut

PHOTO: Wisconsin’s Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS) stopped by the Southern Door Volunteer Fire Department station on Wednesday to recognize the importance of volunteer fire services. During the visit, DSPS Secretary-designee Dan Hereth presented Chief Rich Olson of the fully-volunteer fire department with a check worth nearly $23,000.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2023 7:50:27 PM - SOURCE: WNFL-AM 1440 Green Bay

A resort in Door County will be closed for the foreseeable future after a fire. According to our Green Bay affiliate, the fire started around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon at Rowley’s Bay Resort in Ellison Bay. All fire departments from Door County were called out there. A local fire chief said it was a challenging fire to fight because the building has so many additions, which means additional layers.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2023 5:45:00 AM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9 Wausau

PHOTO: A firefighter and a civilian were injured in an apartment fire in Green Bay on Tuesday night, according to Green Bay Metro Fire Department Chief Matthew Knott. Knott tells NBC 26 the firefighter was treated and released for smoke inhalation. Knott said the fire was at a 24-unit apartment building on 1830 August St.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2023 1:43:00 AM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

VIDEO: A wildland fire burned nine acres of prairie grass fields and pines in Waupaca County. The Waupaca Area Fire District was dispatched to the fire just after 2 p.m. on Labor Day on State Highway 22, south of West Road in the town of Dayton. Firefighters from multiple departments, along with the DNR, were on scene for more than five hours, suppressing the fire until it was contained.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLUK-TV FOX 11 Green Bay

One person was injured after a boat caught fire on City Island Tuesday just before 6 p.m. The small powerboat sunk in the Long Island Sound shortly after firefighters were able to get the blaze under control. The boat was just off the fuel dock at 673 City Island Avenue in the Bronx when it went up in flames.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 7 New York

VIDEO: A volunteer firefighter in Ascension Parish is using his hobby of photography to bring the public into their world. Blake Stone has what some could call a burning passion for capturing the moment. As a volunteer firefighter, he knows from firsthand experience what it takes to stand on the front lines and serve the community.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBRZ-TV ABC 2 Baton Rouge