If it’s approved by voters, Moraine Park Technical College’s $55-million-dollar referendum could bring a new fire training facility to Dodge County. College President Bonnie Baerwald detailed the project during a recent appearance in WBEV’s Community Comment. “It will be about a 14,000-square foot addition…it would give us the opportunity to train not only firefighters but EMS/paramedics and a brand new fire/medic program that we are looking to roll out next fall,” says Baerwald.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2022 10:10:00 PM - SOURCE: WBEV-FM 95.3 Beaver Dam

Pierce Manufacturing, Inc. announced Wednesday its zero-emissions pumper has won the "Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin" competition for 2022. The Pierce Volterra Electric Fire Truck received tens of thousands of votes. Pierce, an Oshkosh Corporation company based in Appleton, was among 16 finalists in this year's competition.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTMJ-TV NBC 4 Milwaukee

Sheriff's investigators in Wisconsin are willing to forgo any possible underage drinking violations in order to get more information about a bonfire explosion that injured more than a dozen people, including some critically, officials said Tuesday. The Shawano County Sheriff's Office says as many as 40 current and former Pulaski High School students were at the bonfire Friday night in the Town of Maple Grove, which is about 25 miles (40.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCCO-TV CBS 4 Minneapolis

PHOTOS: A large commercial fire is burning southeast of Chickasha. McIntyre Law Chopper4 was over the structure early Wednesday afternoon. Pilot Mason Dunn says flames are shooting as high as 200 feet into the air. He also reports the blaze is burning very hot and is catching other items outside the building on fire.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFOR-TV NBC 4 Oklahoma City

After a three year hiring freeze, the Madison Fire Department is accepting applications for full-time firefighters and EMTs, no longer requiring applicants to have U.S. Citizenship. According to a news release by the City of Madison Fire Department, "in spirit of inclusion and accessibility," this year's process will incorporate new approaches throughout the hiring process to minimize barriers that previously limited people from applying, like time constraints, and also adapting to a "changing economic and technological landscape since the Covid-19 pandemic.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com

The Mansfield Fire Department posted an educational video last week to its website that teaches youths how to react in fire emergencies. In honor of fire prevention week, Mansfield firefighter David Kepleskey created a rap song and video in his firehouse featuring fellow firefighters Rick Landry, Jared Morse and Captain Will Cornell.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Daily Campus

Ten years ago Wednesday, Big Tex burned. And there was no saving him. A reported electrical fire sent the State Fair of Texas icon up in flames, nearly incinerating him into a heap of ashes. Only a fried skeleton of the famed cowboy and his waving hands were left in the end. And if you don't think Big Tex means a lot to some people, just go back and look at our coverage from the day it happened.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas

VIDEO: It's the gameplay with a play on words in the title: Cascadia 9.0 Researchers at Lewis & Clark College are taking interactive measures to make sure people know what to do in case of an earthquake emergency. In doing so, they've created a video game to pay homage to the notorious fault, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and its potential to produce a magnitude-9.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVL-TV CBS 10 Medford

After a three year hiring freeze, the Madison Fire Department is accepting applications for full-time firefighters and EMTs, no longer requiring applicants to have U.S. Citizenship. According to a news release by the City of Madison Fire Department, "in spirit of inclusion and accessibility," this year's process will incorporate new approaches throughout the hiring process to minimize barriers that previously limited people from applying, like time constraints, and also adapting to a "changing economic and technological landscape since the Covid-19 pandemic.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2022 4:30:00 PM - SOURCE: Madison.com

Training is expanding for firefighters in Central Wisconsin. Mid-State Technical College partnered with the Adams Fire District to establish a new fire training center in Adams. The ten year long agreement will also fund the installation of new equipment, including a splash pad for ladder training, and burn towers.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2022 5:40:00 AM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9 Wausau

A new device is being used by local first responders to help save lives, and it's name is LUCAS. The LUCAS device is a machine that delivers chest compressions so that paramedics can perform other life-saving tasks. Smaller departments rely on LUCAS since they are struggling with staff shortages, and it allows one paramedic to do the job of two.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2022 2:02:00 AM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9 Wausau

Three duck hunters assisted in rescuing two 23-year-olds who were clinging to their capsized boat on the Wisconsin River near Bukolt Park in Stevens Point on Tuesday morning. At 5:55 a.m. Portage County Communications center received a dispatch call of a capsized boat in the Wisconsin River near Bukolt Park.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSAU-AM 520 Wausau

People driving through Midtown Tuesday could probably still smell the smoke from a massive fire that destroyed an apartment complex on Monday night. The fire started in the Peachtree Walk Apartments, and damaged a number of businesses on 12th Street. Firefighters were finally able to knock it down with some help from a drone pilot who helped them identify the hotspots.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIA-TV NBC 11 Atlanta

PHOTOS: On Oct. 17, 1966, 12 firefighters were killed in what was the deadliest day for the New York City Fire Department until the 9/11 terror attacks. Two chiefs, two lieutenants and eight firefighters lost their lives as they tried to battle a fire at 22nd St. by entering a building on 23rd St. before it collapsed.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News - Metered Site

A newly published guide is intended to help firefighters talk with their health care provider about the unique health risks they face on the job. Developed by the National Volunteer Fire Council, the International Association of Fire Fighters, the International Association of Fire Chiefs and the First Responder Center for Excellence, the Provider’s Guide to Firefighter Medical Evaluations details the physical challenges firefighters face and how they impact health.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Safety and Health

What do you do when there’s an earthquake? Drop, cover and hold on, says the Earthquake Country Alliance, a “public-private-grassroots” partnership made up of people, organizations and regional alliances geared around raising disaster preparedness in the face of earthquakes and tsunamis. Orange County residents may receive text alerts Thursday morning, encouraging them to do just that and take cover as part of the statewide Great California Shakeout.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Pilot - Metered Site

The first of more planned advanced Critical Care Rescue Units are operating on Jacksonville’s streets now, funded from Jacksonville’s 2023 budget. Along with the usual advanced life-saving equipment when someone is injured in a fire, crash or other incident, the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department’s two new rescue units also carry high-level critical care medications like blood clot stabilizers and drugs to lower rapid heart rates.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJCT-FM 89.9 Jacksonville

VIDEO: The neighbors of a man who was asleep when his house started on fire on Tuesday was rescued by two neighbors who entered the home and alerted the resident that the house was on fire. According to a press release from the Beaver Dam Fire Department, dispatch received the report of a fire at 414 E.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2022 3:30:00 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

A fire in Sheboygan County caused moderate damage to a two-story home on Monday evening. Around 7:30 p.m., the Sheboygan County Emergency Communications Center received a 911 call from a homeowner on the W3000 block of County Road V in the town of Lima. The homeowner explained to dispatch of a chimney fire.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2022 4:16:05 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV & WJMN-TV CBS 5 Green Bay

The Fort McCoy Directorate of Emergency Services Fire Department was reaccredited for a third time by the Commission on Fire Accreditation International. Taking place every five years, the accreditation process looks at the department and its programs as a whole but it also requires documentation and sitting before the accreditation board.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2022 12:23:00 AM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 La Crosse