Crews in the Appleton area responded to reports of a fire on a second-floor balcony at an apartment building on Tuesday morning. According to a release from the Grand Chute Fire Department, the incident began around 9:45 a.m. at the Tri-Park Villas Apartments, the Grand Chute, Appleton, and Fox Crossing Fire Departments all responded.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2022 12:21:30 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV CBS 5 Green Bay

Two people suffered serious injuries in a crash in northern Sheboygan County Tuesday night. The sheriff’s office says its preliminary investigation shows a vehicle on County Rd. FF in the town of Herman lost control near Franklin Rd. It went off the road and sustained significant damage. The sheriff’s office received a 911 call just after 6:30 P.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

San Antonio firefighters battled a fire at a permanently shut down bar on the city’s Northeast Side early Wednesday morning. The fire was called in just before 4:30 a.m. at what was previously Midnight Rodeo, not far from both Thousand Oaks and Nacogdoches Road. Firefighters said when they arrived they found the 25,000-square-foot building covered with heavy smoke.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSAT-TV ABC 12 San Antonio

VIDEO: The Tulsa Fire Department (TFD) introduced a brand new team of firefighters equipped to respond to emergencies on bicycles. It’s all in an effort to help firefighters cut down response times getting to victims in rugged terrains and crowded places. The two TFD firefighters behind the push to start the team have a passion.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOKI-TV FOX 23 Tulsa

We've seen it happen at soccer games, concerts and other large scale events like the Halloween festival in Seoul, South Korea. Crowd surges can sweep up revelers, causing major injuries and even deaths -- more than 150 people were killed in Seoul alone. How do people die in situations like this? The fire chief said what tends to happen in these large crowds is that something triggers a wave, like someone falling or a fight.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles

Just over a month ago, Chris Husbands’ backyard in North Portland was on fire. The 32-year-old builder of custom vans was in Florida on Sept. 17 when a blaze broke out in a homeless camp behind his house in the Portsmouth neighborhood. It tore through dry blackberry bushes, climbed his wooden gate, and lit his bamboo plants up like a torch.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Willamette Week

Hyundai has issued a recall for certain model-year 2018 Santa Fe sport utility vehicles as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issues a consumer alert – park these vehicles outside – due to the potential for under-hood, ABS-based vehicle fires. This recall is in addition to another one issued in February 2022 for certain 2016-2018 Santa Fe models for the same issue.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Brake Report

This year's City of Milwaukee Christmas tree arrived at its new home, Deer District, after being harvested Tuesday morning. The tree was donated by lifelong Milwaukee resident Erwin Boehme, 93, who said he planted the tree's seeds back in the mid-1980s on land he owned in Columbia County. When it grew to over a foot tall, he transferred it to the front yard of his Milwaukee home on North 58th Street.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2022 1:27:16 PM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online

An exhaust fan fire caused about $10,000 worth of damage to a De Pere apartment complex Tuesday morning. Crews were called to 1015 Coral Street on the city's east side around 9 a.m. for a report of a fire in a second floor bathroom. All occupants safely evacuated and within minutes, crews extinguished the fire.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLUK-TV FOX 11 Green Bay

A chemical leak occurred at Jennie-O located in Barron County Monday morning. Highway 8 was temporarily closed and a temporary preventative shelter in place was implemented by the Sheriff’s Department, according to a social post via the Barron County Sheriff’s Department Facebook Page. According to a media release from the Barron County Sheriff’s Department, preventable shelter in place precautions that the Sheriff’s Department had out have been removed.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV NBC/CW+ 13 Eau Claire

Montgomery County firefighters responded to a three-alarm fire in Rockville Monday morning, that has left more than 100 residents searching for a new place to live, just weeks before the holiday season begins. Fire crews were called to a three-story apartment building in the 800 block of College Parkway just before 9 a.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV CBS 9 Washington DC

VIDEO: El Paso Fire station Number 9 is one of the most haunted fire stations in the country, according to firerescue1.com. ABC-7's Drew Cosgray went to the fire station in Central El Paso to hear about the tale. Firefighters at the station constantly hear doors open and footsteps while no one else is there and will be woken up right before a call in the middle of the night.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KVIA-TV ABC/CW 7 El Paso

When Tom Greif has a day off, one would expect him to unwind from the pressures of being Coeur d'Alene's fire chief. Perhaps spend a day golfing or fishing, two of his passions. Which he might. But disconnect? Even for a few hours? He can't. "Even if I go away for the week or go on vacation, I don't truly unplug.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Coeur d'Alene Press

VIDEO: A New York City artist wanted to thank the men and women who saved his life in the best way he knew how -- with a work of art. Ray Trosa is a New York native hailing from Astoria, Queens whose mixed-media art style spans from large-scale paintings to lighting design. Back in April 2022, Trosa suffered a medical emergency and when members from FDNY Station 49 arrived, his condition worsened and he went into cardiac arrest.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles

VIDEO: Milwaukee firefighters battled a house fire near 24th and Burleigh on Monday. According to the Milwaukee Fire Department, the call came in around 7:30 p.m. Crews did multiple searches and determined no one was inside the building. We Energies was contacted, but gas and electricity had already been cut to the building.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2022 10:31:56 PM - SOURCE: WTMJ-TV NBC 4 Milwaukee

The Beaver Dam Fire Department recently received a grant from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The agency is getting $10,000 from the Forest Fire Protection grant program which is available to state fire departments and county fire associations. The money, along with funds from the Beaver Dam Community Fire and Rescue Association, will help the Beaver Dam Fire Department replace its 2003-year model UTV and skid unit.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2022 10:30:00 PM - SOURCE: WBEV-FM 95.3 Beaver Dam

Door County now has almost twice as many chances to help save the lives of people experiencing a cardiac episode because of the Door County Fire Chiefs Association's Defibs4DoorCounty fundraising campaign. The campaign, which started in February and ran through Labor Day, raised $79,898 and combined those funds with a $75,000 challenge grant from an anonymous donor for a total of nearly $155,000.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Gazette - Metered Site

PHOTOS: Fire crews from both Sedgwick County Fire District 1 and the Wichita Fire Department are still fighting a fire at Evergreen Recycle in north Wichita. The fire broke out Sunday night in the 300 block of W. 53rd Street North. The fire was clearly visible on KSN’s SkyView camera. The Wichita Fire Department said a large mass of wood products was burning and that thousands of gallons have been dumped on the fire.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSNW-TV NBC 3 Wichita

VIDEO: A high school student from Roslindale got the perfect Halloween costume to complement his wheelchair on Friday. Jose Bello suffers from muscular dystrophy, which leaves him wheelchair-bound, but he also loves firefighters. This Halloween, his mother reached out to a company called Magic Wheelchair to get her son a costume.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBZ-TV CBS 4 Boston

Statesboro Fire Department has announced that beginning November 1, 2022 they will be offering “Virtual Fire Inspections” for certain types of fire safety inspections. The department says the program is intended to make fire inspections easier and more convenient for business owners and their employees.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: All on Georgia