VIDEO: The Pine Lake Fire Department has long seen the need to add a ladder truck to add to their fleet of firefighting equipment. After years of searching for a budget friendly option for such an expensive piece of equipment, Fire Chief Brian Gehrig is pleased to announce the department has successfully acquired one.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander

VIDEO: A driver smashed into an Albuquerque Fire Rescue truck in July. The crash happened as the fire truck was responding to a different crash in the Northeast Heights. The crash was caused by a driver officials say had been drinking earlier that night, and it left the fire truck out of service. Luckily no one was injured, but the video shows just how much damage was caused by the crash.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRQE-TV CBS/FOX 13 Albuquerque

VIDEO/PHOTOS: The Orchard Park Fire District will be using a cloud-based software called Florian. The fire district will be the first fire and emergency medical service provider in Western New York to use the software. The district fire chief called the technology "indispensable," for the Windom Volunteer Fire Company, which is technically the only volunteer fire department that serves a major NFL team.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKBW-TV ABC 7 Buffalo

VIDEO: First responders deal with traumatic events every day. And soon, more of them will get the mental health help they might need, thanks to nearly $1 million in federal funding coming to the Vegas valley. Previous research shows elevated rates of suicides among first responders, compared to the rest of the adult population.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KVVU-TV FOX 5 Henderson

VIDEO/PHOTOS: The annual Miami Valley Antique Fire Apparatus Show was held on Saturday, August 31. This was the fifth year the show was held at Carillon Historical Park. It is hosted by the Miami Valley Antique Fire Apparatus Association (MVAFAA). Over 30 pieces of firefighting antiques displayed 150 years of firefighting history.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKEF-TV ABC/FOX/MyNetworkTV 22 Dayton

PHOTO: The Milwaukee Fire Department is investigating a house fire that led to two other buildings catching fire near Center and Bremen around 11:20 p.m. September 3. Fire officials confirmed to CBS 58 upon arrival a fire was showing from all three floors of a two-and-a-half story building, which then spread to two other buildings.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

If you think the majority of calls to the Green Bay Metro Fire Department are fire-related, you’d be wrong. The bulk of calls, 68% of them so far this year, to be exact, are EMS calls. “We have highly trained and skilled paramedics and that is really the backbone of our agency and what we do,” says Matthew Knott, Chief of GBMFD.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTAQ-AM 1360 Green Bay

A stubborn five-alarm fire burned for hours through a tire shop in Jamaica, Queens on Tuesday. Firefighters responded to 150-17 Liberty Ave. around 5:15 p.m. The fire started in the rear of a two-story tire shop where flames were seen billowing 20 feet into the air. Part of the building and roof collapsed.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 7 New York City

VIDEO: When you call 911, the first responders who come to your rescue have gone through rigorous training to get there. Firefighters at Bonita Springs Fire Control and Rescue District are training up. Jordan Green is the Lieutenant Paramedic and leads operations. He says in the case that someone is stuck in a car, firefighters go through a specific process to safely get them out.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFTX-TV FOX 4 Cape Coral

VIDEO: Eight-year-old Romeo Weaver had a dream of being a firefighter, and the Gulfport Fire Department made that happen. Though there have been several tests, Romeo is technically still undiagnosed, but his mother says they are labeling it cerebral palsy. She added that before he caught COVID, Romeo was able to feed himself and use his walker, but after that, things went downhill.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLOX-TV ABC/CBS 13 Biloxi

Two stores in a Town of Buchanan strip mall have been temporarily closed after a driver crashed into the building shortly after 7:30 a.m. on Saturday. A release from the Town of Buchanan Fire & Rescue states that firefighters were called to the N100 block of Eisenhower Drive for reports of a driver who was trapped inside a vehicle after they had crashed into the building.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV CBS 5 Green Bay

Working smoke detectors helped save a family of six and their dog from a house fire over the weekend. According to a press release from the Racine Fire Department (RFD), crews were called shortly after 6 p.m. on Sun., Sept. 1, to a home in the 1200 block of West Lawn for a report of a house fire. When firefighters arrived on scene, they found heavy smoke coming from the front door and flames inside the home.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Racine County Eye

A massive fire destroyed the Wolf Lodge Inn near Coeur d'Alene Monday. The fire was reported around noon and multiple fire trucks and ambulances responded. Firefighters upgraded to a four-alarm fire requesting assistance from Idaho Department of Lands, Idaho State Police, Spokane County, and Shoshone County.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

PHOTOS: George C. Hale served as the Chief of the Kansas City, Missouri, fire department for 31 years. At the end of the 19th century, he revolutionized firefighting with his more than 60 patented inventions, including the Hale Water Tower and the telephone fire alarm, and helped bring the country's fire departments into the modern era.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCUR-FM 89.3 Kansas City

PHOTOS: The Anne Arundel County Fire Department officially welcomed the newest addition to its maritime fleet with the first of two state-of-the-art 50-foot Defiant NXT Fireboats on Tuesday at Sandy Point State Park. Representatives from Metal Shark, which manufactured the boat, delivered the first fireboat via waterways from Louisiana to Maryland.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Bay Net

At 912 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking gusty showers along a line extending from Phelps to near Rainbow Flowage to near Squirrel Lake. Movement was southeast at 30 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Rhinelander, Eagle River, Lac Du Flambeau, Newbold, Phelps, Tipler, Popple River, Squirrel Lake, Crystal Lake Scout Reservation, and Willow Lake. Special Weather Statement 2024-08-31T21:13:00-05:00 2024-08-31T21:13:00-05:00 2024-08-31T21:13:00-05:00 2024-08-31T22:00:00-05:00 Actual Alert Met Expected Moderate Observed Vilas; Oneida; Forest; Florence 46.14,-89.09 46.02,-88.8199999 46.01,-88.68 45.99,-88.67 46.02,-88.53 45.9799999,-88.42 45.9799999,-88.37 45.71,-88.8199999 45.6,-89.51 45.62,-90.04 45.9799999,-90.05 45.9799999,-89.93 46.01,-89.93 46.05,-89.7099999 46.2,-89.39 46.14,-89.09 SAME 055125 SAME 055085 SAME 055041 SAME 055037 UGC WIZ005 UGC WIZ010 UGC WIZ011 UGC WIZ012 AWIPSidentifier SPSGRB WMOidentifier WWUS83 KGRB 010213 NWSheadline GUSTY SHOWERS WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN FOREST...VILAS... NORTHWESTERN FLORENCE AND ONEIDA COUNTIES THROUGH 1000 PM CDT eventMotionDescription 2024-09-01T02:12:00-00:00...storm...307DEG...26KT...46.05,-89.05 45.89,-89.47 45.84,-89.8 maxWindGust 40 MPH maxHailSize 0.00 BLOCKCHANNEL EAS BLOCKCHANNEL NWEM BLOCKCHANNEL CMAS EAS-ORG WXR

The Richard Garner Memorial Ride has become a very special event for Madison-area firefighters and the greater Madison community. On Saturday, Sept. 14, hundreds of people will come out to participate in a 100-mile ride starting at Harley-Davidson of Madison and ending with an after-party at Wisconsin Brewing Co.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Madison365

Students at the University of Wisconsin in Superior will start their classes next week. Although many students have already arrived on campus. Before the fall semester begins, however, the Superior Fire Department has an important safety message for all college students. It’s about fire prevention and safety in the residence halls like the shared kitchens or bedrooms.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDIO-DT ABC 10 Duluth

As a massive plume of black smoke permeated the sky above Fort Wayne Wednesday, the blaze reminded some of a historic fire that happened in southeast Fort Wayne nearly 27 years ago. On Aug. 30, 1997, a fire broke out at an abandoned tire warehouse on Bowser Avenue in southeast Fort Wayne. The fire happened less than a mile from Wednesday’s fire at the intersection of Wayne Trace and New Haven Avenue.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WANE-TV CBS 15 Fort Wayne

A national report indicates Kansas is one of the leading states for arson incidents. Last year, there were 5,440 arson incident reports made to the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Kansas made up 6% of the nation’s arson reports with 307 cases. Kansas had the fifth most cases of incendiary fires in the U.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSNT-TV NBC 27 Topeka