VIDEO: Emergency staff from several fire departments responded to a fire at Festive Foods in the town of Belmont. Many were at the scene for nearly nine hours. Festive Foods is a food processing plant that makes frozen pizzas. It’s located south of Amherst, near the Waupaca and Portage county line. According to Waupaca Fire Department, it started around 9:00 a.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

When an eight-vehicle crash left Ross Kopfer and his 11-year-old son trapped in their Ford F-150 pickup, the hood in flames, they never imagined passersby would save them. But as some onlookers captured video on their smartphones of the bloody scene on Interstate 39-90-94 near Lodi, a truck driver, a mom and her two young adult children rescued the injured Kopfers seconds before their vehicle exploded, saving two lives on June 12, 2020, in a chain-reaction collision that killed four.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KION-TV CBS/CW+ 46 Monterey

The state Department of Health Services announced Monday that it will begin receiving requests for applications for $12 million dollars in EMS Flex Grant funding recently unveiled by Gov. Tony Evers alongside an additional $22 million investment toward emergency response in the state. This investment comes from the American Rescue Plan Act Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Chronotype

An investigation is underway to determine how a large fire spread through a Kilgore hotel Monday night. Multiple fire crews were called around 8 p.m. to the Best Western Inn of Kilgore, located on business Hwy 259 near Walmart. Kilgore Fire Chief Mark Henderson said the fire started in one of the rooms on the west end of the hotel.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KLTV ABC 7 Tyler

PHOTOS: The New Hope Eagle Fire Company pulled out all the stops on Saturday for its 200th anniversary by hosting a fire parade through the streets of town. As sirens wailed, more than 65 companies from throughout Bucks County - and beyond - rolled down Main and Bridge streets, showcasing the latest in fire apparatus and restored antiques.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Hope-Lambertville Patch

VIDEO: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in Baltimore on Monday to help unveil the new mission for a very old fireboat named after her dad. The Mayor Thomas D'Alessandro Jr. fireboat is now ready for the public to experience after an extensive renovation and an emotional unveiling. "I do believe that the firemen across the country are our country's nobility," Pelosi said.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAL-TV NBC 11 Maryland

The New York City Fire Department is looking for consultants to help it prevent doxing of its 16,000 firefighters, emergency medical technicians and administrative support personnel across the five boroughs. Doxing -- or the weaponizing of an individual’s personal information to punish, harass or to encourage threats – is a growing problem, potentially affecting anyone on the wrong end of a grudge, including police, poll workers and school officials.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: GCN

A measure sponsored by State Senator Sara Feigenholtz will allow Chicago firefighters to add MRSA to the list of occupational disease disability benefits if they contract the infection on duty. “In recent years, firefighters have seen increased staph infections, including MRSA,” said Feigenholtz (D-Chicago).
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Illinois State Democrats

A dive team responded to the area near 27th and Loomis Monday, June 13, in search of an 11-year-old child and two men who authorities say were swept into a drainage tunnel. In a press conference Monday evening, authorities said a preliminary report indicates that an 11-year-old child slipped into the drainage ditch leading into the Kinnickinnic River.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2022 10:35:48 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

The Waupun Fire Department is investigating why a gas main was struck during street reconstruction Friday, resulting in the evacuation of 20 homes. Fire Chief B.J. DeMaa said crews responded to the area of South Madison and Doty Streets around 3 p.m. and confirmed a 4” gas main was leaking after being struck by a piece of construction equipment.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2022 7:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

The Bristol Renaissance Faire became the site of an “active shooter” drill Sunday as hundreds of law enforcement, fire and rescue, and emergency management personnel descended on the grounds to train. In the wake of several mass shootings nationwide, the exercise was conducted by Kenosha County Emergency Management, which tested the area’s multi-agency response to a simulated mass casualty incident at the grounds at 12550 120th Ave.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News - Metered Site

VIDEO: People inside the Satanic Temple said they got notifications on their phones from their doorbell camera. Someone was on the porch, and the video showed he was lighting the place on fire. The video showed a man walking from Bridge Street onto the property at about 10 p.m. Friday. In the video, the man walked onto the porch, dropped a backpack and started pouring flammable liquid, according to police.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBZ-TV CBS 4 Boston

A collaboration between three Butler County communities is the first in the region to provide a vehicle to be used exclusively to protect first responders at crash scenes. West Chester Township, Monroe and Liberty Township have agreed to terms of a memorandum of understanding establishing a traffic incident management safety unit that would be dispatched to crash scenes whenever requested.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Cincinnati Enquirer - Metered Site

Responding to a fire or medical emergency often results in tense moments for firefighters as well as anyone who has called 911 for help if there is a language barrier. The situation can become overwhelming and scary for anyone who doesn’t understand what is going on and can’t provide information. That’s the type of scenario that Richmond Fire Department Battalion Chief Bailey Martin hopes to rectify by getting help from the Virginia Commonwealth University Community Action Council and council member Anita Nadal, an assistant professor in the VCU School of World Studies and faculty fellow for community engagement in the College of Humanities and Sciences.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: VCU News

Jeremy Oster awoke the morning of June 14, 2021 as his wife told him to go outside. What greeted him was a startling sight he would not soon forget. “There were pieces of black debris 5 inches long throughout my yard and I could see the burning Chemtool plant,” Oster recalled. “I thought at first we were under attack.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Beloit Daily News - Metered Site

Thousands of renters across the state will soon be getting new trashcans — with new regulations taking effect next month for valet trash services and new building codes aimed at reducing fire hazards. This comes after a deadly fire at the Aurella Cary Apartments in March, which was caused when cardboard and trash caught fire in the breezway.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRAL-TV NBC 5 Raleigh

One person was found dead after an apartment fire in Downtown Madison Sunday morning, according to the Madison Fire Department. Around 5:40 a.m., MFD was called to 730 Braxton Place to investigate an odor in the building. Firefighters arrived and searched the building for the source, and found an apartment unit with evidence of fire that had been self-extinguished.
- PUB DATE: 6/12/2022 8:45:50 AM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC 15 Madison

...PATCHY DENSE FOG EARLY THIS MORNING... Patchy dense fog, with visibilities of 1/4 mile or less, will impact parts of north central Wisconsin early this morning. The fog is expected to dissipate between 7 am and 8 am. Motorists can expect rapidly changing and poor visibilities at times, especially in low-lying areas. If you encounter fog, use Special Weather Statement 2022-06-12T04:57:00-05:00 2022-06-12T08:00:00-05:00 Actual Alert Met Expected Minor Observed Florence; Forest; Langlade; Lincoln; Marathon; Oneida; Vilas FIPS6 055037 055041 055067 055069 055073 055085 055125 UGC WIZ005 WIZ010 WIZ011 WIZ012 WIZ018 WIZ019 WIZ030 VTEC

A federal judge has sentenced a Racine man to 40 months in prison for starting a fire that destroyed a furniture store during protests over a police shooting in Kenosha in 2020. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller sentenced 23-year-old Devon Vaughn on Thursday.
- PUB DATE: 6/10/2022 7:27:14 PM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

Calling the nearly 50-year-old home of the Union Grove-Yorkville Fire Department outdated, the two neighboring communities are considering spending more than $9 million to build a new fire station. The project calls for replacing the existing firehouse with a new facility three times its size. It would be funded jointly by Union Grove and Yorkville taxpayers, although a voter referendum might be required in either or both villages.
- PUB DATE: 6/10/2022 4:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Journal Times Online - Metered Site