VIDEO: A firefighter took a fall but is going to be OK during a response to a house fire near 29th and Scott in Milwaukee Thursday morning. According to Milwaukee Fire Dept. officials at the scene, it was a "close call" but that the firefighter will be OK. They responded around 9:30 a.m. Thursday to find a large fire in a two-and-a-half-story building.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2023 2:24:00 PM - SOURCE: WTMJ-TV NBC 4 Milwaukee

VIDEO: The Oshkosh Fire Department announced a creative approach to recruiting this week. Thanks to an anonymous and generous donation, the department is teaming up with Fox Valley Technical College and Firefighter’s ABC’s to offer a grant program to attract underrepresented groups to pursue a career in firefighting and emergency medical services.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2023 12:05:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

VIDEO/PHOTOS: : A spokesperson from the Dane County Sheriff's Office told 27 News one person has died and a fire investigation is underway in a Cottage Grove. The death was separate from the fire. The fire started around 8:40 a.m. Wednesday at a home at 4663 Baxter Road. Lt. Jason Kudrna with the Cottage Grove Fire Department confirmed Wednesday evening the house is a total loss.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV ABC 27 Madison

VIDEO/PHOTOS: As crews continue to battle the Pallet Fire, departments in the area are highlighting the difference between fighting a wildfire compared to a structure fire. Dozens of fire crews across the state have been on the scene of a large wildfire in Waushara County since Monday. Most departments in the Fox Valley aren't specifically trained in wildfire firefighting.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLUK-TV FOX 11 Green Bay

At least one person was rescued Wednesday as firefighters battled a large fire that spread to multiple apartment buildings in Hollywood. The fire broke out around 5:21 p.m. at a building on 7764 W Hollywood Blvd., just east of Fairfax Avenue. Investigators said two vehicles were spotted burning in a carport.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles

At least one person was rescued Wednesday as firefighters battled a large fire that spread to multiple apartment buildings in Hollywood. The fire broke out around 5:21 p.m. at a building on 7764 W Hollywood Blvd., just east of Fairfax Avenue. Investigators said two vehicles were spotted burning in a carport.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles

VIDEO: When someone goes missing at one of the Triangle’s many lakes, the search process can be long and put first responders at risk as well, but the Wake Forest Fire Department is using the help of an underwater drone to get the job done faster. Firefighter Korey Floyd said the department has been using the technology for two years and has assisted in searches across the state.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNCN-TV CBS 17 Goldsboro

VIDEO: A local fire department has become the unintentional catalyst of conversation after changing their drug policy and allowing its firefighters to use CBD products. Despite CBD being legal in Indiana since March of 2018, the decision for White River Township Fire Department to change their policy to allow its staff to use CBD products has turned out to be quite controversial among Indiana’s firefighting industry.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIN-TV FOX 59 Indianapolis

PHOTOS: The apocalyptic scene is still burned into Mike Buttery’s memory 50 years later: Black smoke billowing from the top floor of the Military Personnel Records Center; bits of paper wafting through the air as dozens of firefighters tried desperately to stem the inferno. “They’d hit it (the paper) with the water, and the water would knock it back up in the air, and then it would float around some more out there,” Buttery, then a janitor at the center, recalls of the wind-whipped paper swirling around the massive six-story building outside Saint Louis.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Air Force Times

An expanding, intensifying heat wave prompted the National Weather Service to issue heat alerts for more than 112 million people on Thursday morning, with no letup in sight for some areas. Why it matters: The heat will topple longstanding records, especially in the Southwest, and the duration of this event that's set to continue well into next week increases public health dangers.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Axios

One person was found dead at the scene of a fire near 29th and Bobolink Tuesday night, July 11. It happened around 9 p.m. Fire officials said firefighters found heavy fire on the second floor of the two-story home. When they were searching the second floor, they found a 60-year-old Milwaukee man dead.
- PUB DATE: 7/12/2023 1:44:25 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

VIDEO: Officials confirm the wildfire in Waushara County, which we first alerted you to Monday afternoon, has burned more than 800 acres and led to eight firefighters injured. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources confirmed Tuesday the fire was caused by debris burning from several days prior.
- PUB DATE: 7/12/2023 12:47:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

A barn caught fire Monday morning in Rosholt. It sparked a huge local response from firefighters, with more than 100 firefighters and 50 rigs showed up, as well as departments from all across the state when the five-alarm fire was issued. Emergency service workers took water from a local creek to help in the process of putting out the fire.
- PUB DATE: 7/12/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9 Wausau

Five years ago on Tuesday, a massive fire gutted a grocery store in north Phoenix, covering homes in ash. A monsoon storm caused a roof collapse, rupturing a gas line and sparking that fire at the Safeway store at 35th Avenue and Northern Avenue. Even with a huge response from firefighters, the store could not be saved.
- PUB DATE: 7/12/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVK-TV 3 & KPHO-TV CBS 5 Phoenix (AZ Family)

VIDEO: A Chicago Fire Department firetruck flipped on its side after colliding with a car on the South Side Tuesday night. The crash occurred at about 11:25 p.m. in the 300-block of East 79th Street, police said. Police said a vehicle ran a red light and struck the firetruck, causing the fire truck to flip on its side.
- PUB DATE: 7/12/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago

PHOTOS: More than a dozen homes have been evacuated in Rolling Hills Estates, California, after the ground shifted, causing extensive damage, city and Los Angeles County officials said. Twelve homes were red-tagged as of Monday night, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said on Twitter. Sixteen residents had been displaced by that point, the department said.
- PUB DATE: 7/12/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN

Firefighters are dying on the job from heart attacks more than any other risk they face, but researchers and firefighting professionals say increased focus on physical fitness with annual medical and fitness testing could increase their resiliency. Heart disease and other cardiac issues have long been recognized as significant health risks for firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 7/12/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KVII-TV ABC/CW+ 7 Amarillo

Smoke was coming from the front windows when the Kiel Fire Department was dispatched to a house on E. Chicago St. Monday afternoon. Firefighters grabbed hose lines and found the room where the fire was burning. They had the fire out in 3 minutes of arriving shortly before 4:30. Everyone in the house was outside before the fire crews arrived, and no one was hurt, the fire department says.
- PUB DATE: 7/11/2023 1:02:00 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

Firefighters regularly risk their lives in dangerous situations, but most deaths on duty are not directly caused by fire or smoke inhalation. Instead, approximately 40% of on-duty fatalities come from sudden cardiac death. Now, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have used a form of AI known as machine learning to accurately identify abnormal cardiac rhythms in firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 7/11/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NIST

A fire at a Paramount commercial building burned for four hours early Monday, but firefighters prevented flames from spreading to nearby businesses. The fire was reported around 12:30 a.m. in a 40,000-square-foot building in the 7500 block of East Rosecrans Avenue. Firefighters took up positions outside the burning building as flames shot through the roof and a large cloud of black smoke formed over the southern Los Angeles County community.
- PUB DATE: 7/11/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles