The North Wausau Fire Department is receiving a $33,000 grant from the state of Wisconsin. Governor Tony Evers was at the department this morning to announce the investment. $8 million total will be assorted to other departments throughout the state, as well. The money’s coming from the American Rescue Plan and will help with E-M-S Services in Wausau.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

Local residents might have noticed smoke and flames coming from a two-story home on Neitzel Road, near State 73, on Monday evening. Brad and Dave Tork, owners of Fanning Cranberry, donated the house to Wood County-area fire departments to give firefighters the opportunity to practice skills needed to keep themselves and their communities safe.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Rapids Tribune - Metered Site

A Fire Lookout tower in Oconto County is the only tower in the Chequamegon- Nicolet National Forest where visitors can still climb to the top and in 2015, it underwent an extensive renovation. The Mountain Fire Lookout Tower has been standing in this spot in rural Oconto County since the nineteen thirties.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander

VIDEOS/PHOTOS: The site of an unusual and dangerous discovery in West Philadelphia has been decimated by fire less than 12 hours after the initial investigation began. More than 150 jugs of gasoline were found in the vacant home on the 100 block of 59th Street near Arch Street around 8 p.m. Monday. At 9:50 a.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPVI-TV ABC 6 Philadelphia

VIDEO: Last week's Kentucky flood disaster was America's deadliest non-tropical flash flood in 45 years. At least 37 were killed in eastern Kentucky after 6 to 9 inches of rain fell in just 12 hours last Thursday, triggering record flooding on the North Fork Kentucky River in Jackson and Whitesburg, and damaging flooding in several other towns.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Weather Channel

Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue (TMFR) announced Tuesday that one of their fire stations will be temporarily closed due to a bat infestation. Fire Station 30 located at 3905 Old Highway 395 will shut down for an undetermined amount of time. Bats have been found in the living quarters and apparatus bay of the fire station, causing a health and safety risk to fire crews.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRNV-DT NBC 4 Reno

With degrees in chemical engineering, and graduate study at Princeton University’s Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Maximillian Nguyen thought that becoming a volunteer firefighter was out of his “normal wheelhouse.” But he considers himself “a resident of the town of Princeton and not just a University student,” so he decided to give back to the community in appreciation for enjoying what Princeton has to offer.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Town Topics

Canton firefighter Maureen Stoecklein has switched gear from public safety to professional sports as the Detroit Tigers nutrition coordinator. She was invited to become a crucial member of the professional baseball team’s support network in late 2021 and officially retired from firefighting duties this summer to focus on the Tigers’ fuel from food.
- PUB DATE: 8/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hometown Life

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 512 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS WI . WISCONSIN COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE ASHLAND BARRON BAYFIELD BURNETT CHIPPEWA CLARK Severe Thunderstorm Watch 2022-08-02T20:05:00-05:00 2022-08-03T02:00:00-05:00 Actual Alert Met Expected Severe Likely Clark; Langlade; Lincoln; Marathon; Oneida; Portage; Taylor; Vilas; Wood FIPS6 055019 055067 055069 055073 055085 055097 055119 055125 055141 UGC WIC019 WIC067 WIC069 WIC073 WIC085 WIC097 WIC119 WIC125 WIC141 VTEC /O.NEW.KWNS.SV.A.0512.220803T0105Z-220803T0700Z/

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 512 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS WI . WISCONSIN COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE ASHLAND BARRON BAYFIELD BURNETT CHIPPEWA CLARK Severe Thunderstorm Watch 2022-08-02T20:05:00-05:00 2022-08-03T02:00:00-05:00 Actual Alert Met Expected Severe Likely Ashland; Barron; Bayfield; Burnett; Chippewa; Clark; Douglas; Dunn; Eau Claire; Iron; Langlade; Lincoln; Marathon; Oneida; Polk; Portage; Price; Rusk; Sawyer; St. Croix; Taylor; Vilas; Washburn; Wood FIPS6 055003 055005 055007 055013 055017 055019 055031 055033 055035 055051 055067 055069 055073 055085 055095 055097 055099 055107 055109 055113 055119 055125 055129 055141 UGC WIC003 WIC005 WIC007 WIC013 WIC017 WIC019 WIC031 WIC033 WIC035 WIC051 WIC067 WIC069 WIC073 WIC085 WIC095 WIC097 WIC099 WIC107 WIC109 WIC113 WIC119 WIC125 WIC129 WIC141 VTEC /O.NEW.KWNS.SV.A.0512.220803T0105Z-220803T0700Z/

Aman was taken to a local hospital after he was rescued from the drum of a concrete mixing truck in the town of Vienna on Monday night, authorities reported. The Madison Fire Department’s Heavy Urban Rescue Team was called at 9:30 p.m. Monday to assist the DeForest Fire Department and Sun Prairie EMS with the rescue of a man trapped inside the drum of a concrete mixing truck in the 5600 block of Highway V, Madison Fire Department spokesperson Cynthia Schuster said in a statement.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2022 9:15:00 AM - SOURCE: La Crosse Tribune - Metered Site

PHOTOS: Firefighters from the City Point and Sherry Fire Departments break open the front door to a burning hosue on Monday, August 1, 2022, at 4470 Neitzel Rd near Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Firefighters from eight departments around central Wisconsin came together to train for various house fire scenarios before demolishing the house in a controlled burn.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Rapids Tribune

You may have seen a sky full of smoke near Wisconsin Point Saturday —- that’s because Superior Landfill caught fire. First responders were able to contain the blaze, but the fire department says it’s not the first time the landfill has ignited. Battalion Chief Joe Tribbey said that the department responds to fires at the landfill a few times a year.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KQDS-TV FOX 21 Duluth

Sioux Falls police say a man is facing multiple charges after crashing a car into a gas station. Police spokesman Sam Clemens said around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, a man was driving south on Minnesota avenue and tried to turn left onto 41st street. The driver did not complete the turn but instead drove through a gas station parking lot, hitting a gas pump before hitting the front of the building.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSFY-TV ABC 13 Sioux Falls

VIDEO: Aug. 1, 2022 marks 15 years since the Interstate 35 bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring over a hundred others. For at least one Iowan who was responding in the aftermath, it still feels recent. Ankeny Fire Chief James Clack started the job back in 2014, but before that, he held the same job in Minneapolis.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOI-DT ABC 5 Ames

When a business owner and beloved member of Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood was shot outside her apartment late July 15, four calls to 911 — including the first one made — went to Aurora’s emergency operations center, most likely because the callers were using Verizon as their wireless carrier. Technology exists to more accurately route 911 calls from cellphones to the correct 911 communications center, but Verizon — one of the three major carriers in the United States — has refused to install it in Denver and other parts of the country.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Denver Post - Metered Site

Ray Olsen has had it with the pictures. He’s been leaning against the front bumper of a 1966 American LaFrance fire truck, posing for photos as best he can, but there’s a limit, and Ray, a man for whom vanity is not a strong point, has reached it. “That’s it,” he says as Deseret News photographer Ben Braun pauses to check the latest digital images on his camera.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Deseret News

A Baraboo firefighter is recovering following a freak accident. Justin Boak said he was working on his truck when the shop-vac exploded in his face. He was severely burned all over his body. Boak was transferred from Baraboo to the UW Madison Hospital burn unit. "I was standing there vacuuming around it and all of a sudden it exploded," he said.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2022 2:14:00 PM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV ABC 27 Madison

According to the North Shore Fire Department (NSFD), a four-car garage caught fire around 6 a.m. Monday morning. Crews were originally called for a vegetation fire, but once on scene it was determined to be a four-car detached garage. The NSFD worked to quickly put out the fire as it began spreading to the fence and exterior of a duplex next door.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

A detached garage in Superior was destroyed by fire Saturday night. According to the Superior Fire department, firefighters were dispatched to East 5th street around 9:00 p.m. Authorities said when they arrived on the scene, flames were coming out of the roof and the overhead garage door of the structure, and fire was starting to spread to an adjacent garage.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS 3 Duluth