PHOTO: A Syracuse Fire Department pickup truck stolen early Friday morning was found using the vehicle’s GPS heading onto the New York State Thruway, fire officials said. The truck was stolen at about 1 a.m. from in front of a residence in the 100 block of North Edwards Avenue in the city’s Eastwood neighborhood, Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jon Seeber said.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Syracuse.com

VIDEO/PHOTOS: The benefits and shortcomings of social media are often debated, but two local families are crediting Facebook with solving a mystery that was decades in the making. The story began to unfold when a couple began cleaning out a storage area in the basement of their new home in Lorain, and discovered an old firefighter’s helmet.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJW-TV FOX 8 Cleveland

In the 1950s, a group of local farmers felt nostalgic. Before World War II, they tended the land with wheat thrashers and steam engines, but as technology improved, their tools fell out of use and things started to change. Channeling their nostalgia into action, farmers pulled their old equipment out and invited the public in.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Salem Reporter

VIDEO: The Mobile Fire-Rescue Department (MFRD) showed off some brand new vehicles today. Four firetrucks and three ambulances joined the MFRD’s fleet along with two special additions... a hydration truck and training trailer. The hydration unit is a response to high temperatures. “It is a rehabilitation unit for firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WALA-TV FOX 10 Mobile

A Baraboo home was declared a “total loss” by the Baraboo Fire Department early Sunday morning after crews arrived to discover the house already entrenched in flames. The fire department, along with the Baraboo District Ambulance Service and Baraboo Police, were notified of a garage fire at 620 Ash Street around 5:21 a.
- PUB DATE: 7/24/2022 10:36:13 AM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC 15 Madison

A fire Saturday night damaged an east side home, leaving six people temporarily homeless. Two people were treated for smoke inhalation after the 9:10 p.m. blaze at 1635 Farlin Ave. The fire began in an upstairs bedroom; smoke and flames were visible from the upstairs window and roof when firefighters arrived.
- PUB DATE: 7/24/2022 9:27:17 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette - Metered Site

A family was forced to evacuate after a fire at an east Madison apartment Saturday. Crews were sent to the building in the 400 block of Walbridge Avenue just before 7:30 p.m. First responders reported seeing heavy fire coming from a first-floor window. Firefighters put out the flames on the outside of the building before moving inside.
- PUB DATE: 7/24/2022 8:06:08 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

Authorities resumed their search Friday morning for a missing man on Lac La Belle. The man had been swimming toward the middle of the lake Thursday evening when he went missing. A 911 call at 7:18 p.m. reported a possible drowning, according to a statement released by the Western Lakes Fire District.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2022 7:32:00 AM - SOURCE: Milwaukie Journal Sentinel - Metered Site

A bright red, shiny, new fire truck has been on many a youngsters’ letters to Santa, but no toy compares to the real thing. That’s exactly what was unveiled on Thursday by the Sheboygan Fire Department. Engine 1864 was placed into service at noon yesterday at Fire Station 4, replacing a 29-year-old unit, and is expected to serve as a frontline apparatus for the next 10-15 years before being placed on reserve status.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2022 3:57:59 AM - SOURCE: WHBL-AM 1330 Sheboygan

VIDEOS/PHOTOS: A packed Orange Line train transporting commuters on a bridge that runs over the Mystic River in Somerville caught fire on Thursday morning, sending hundreds of people scrambling for safety. Video shared with Boston 25 News showed flames shooting from a train car and thick smoke billowing into the air.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFXT-TV FOX 25 Boston

VIDEO/PHOTOS: Brad Hillegass had operated a crane plenty of times but never with the lives of nine men in the balance. That changed July 24, 2002, when nine miners were trapped 240 feet underground at the Quecreek Mine in Somerset County and his job was to safely lift them to freedom one-by-one in a slim, yellow, metal capsule through a precariously narrow shaft dug by rescuers.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: TribLIVE

VIDEO: Staffing shortages are being felt in every office across the country. Many companies have come up with new and creative ways to get people in the door. The Wilson County Emergency Management Agency is one of them. "We’re basically starting over again, with a new curriculum. A lot of our administration a lot of our in house instructors have worked very diligently to set this up.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVF-TV CBS 5 Nashville

California Society of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery (CalDerm), the leading voice for Dermatologists, announced the launch of the Firefighter Skin Cancer Prevention Screening Program in California in partnership with the Firefighters Cancer Support Network. CalDerm, alongside our partners at the Firefighter Cancer Support Network, is pleased to utilize the framework built by their professional colleagues in Boston and offer their expertise in skin cancer prevention and screenings to firefighters on the firelines in California.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Morningstar

VIDEO: When you call 911, you expect an ambulance within minutes. But Thursday, emergency services providers offered a bleak prognosis to state lawmakers. "You can sum it up in two words,” said Bruce Baxter, president of the Connecticut EMS Chiefs Association. “It's a financial concern and a workforce concern.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News 12 Connecticut

Investigators are looking for clues as to what might have caused the second fire in four days at the former Northridge Mall on Milwaukee’s far northwest side. According to the Milwaukee Fire Department, crews were called to the sprawling shopping center, which sits on 22.3 acres of land at 9009 N. Granville Station Road at 5:10 p.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2022 12:58:26 PM - SOURCE: BizTimes

VIDEO: One of the city's largest fires was sparked in 2007 by multiple explosions that destroyed the unfinished four-story $13.25 million Landmark Square senior living center downtown. The city's skyline glowed orange from the fire's blaze on that early March morning, forcing the evacuation of 139 residents of a nearby nursing home and injuring two firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2022 6:00:42 AM - SOURCE: Sheboygan Press - Metered Site

The state is moving forward with efforts to collect and dispose of roughly 25,000 gallons of firefighting foam that contain harmful forever chemicals known as PFAS. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is partnering with the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to accept bids for the state’s PFAS-containing firefighting foam collection and disposal program.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2022 3:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Public Radio

The victim in a fatal motorcycle crash last week has been identified as Eugene Faust, a 2021 graduate of Union Grove High School and a current volunteer firefighter. Faust, 18, of Union Grove, died July 14 at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, where he was taken after crashing on his motorcycle the night before on State Highway 11.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chippewa Herald

Northwood Technical College invites the media to attend a demonstration and competition from area youth who are participating in a Fired up for the Future Post 343 Firefighting/EMS/Leadership camp at Chippewa Valley Council Camp Phillips in Haugen, WI on Thursday, August 11 at 9:30 a.m. The competition is the culmination of a five-day camp, which is focused on teaching seventh through 12th graders rescue skills in firefighting, emergency medical services and leadership.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Dryden Wire

PHOTOS: Crews with the Shreveport Fire Department responded to the scene of a two-alarm fire Thursday morning. The call came in around 2:30 a.m. on July 21 to the 200 block of Wall Street in Shreveport’s Highland neighborhood. When firefighters got on the scene, they found one home to be fully involved.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSLA-TV CBS 12 Shreveport