...SNOW SHOWERS AND GUSTY WINDS CREATING REDUCTIONS IN VISIBILITY THIS EVENING... Scattered snow showers are expected to continue across the region through late this evening as gusty southwest winds gust to 30 to 40 mph. The combination of the gusty winds and snow showers will create quick and brief reductions in visibility to one mile or Special Weather Statement 2022-04-15T00:00:00-05:00 2022-04-14T23:30:00-05:00 Actual Alert Met Expected Minor Observed Brown; Calumet; Door; Florence; Forest; Kewaunee; Langlade; Lincoln; Manitowoc; Marathon; Menominee; Northern Marinette County; Northern Oconto County; Oneida; Outagamie; Portage; Shawano; Southern Marinette County; Southern Oconto County; Vilas; Waupaca; Waushara; Winnebago; Wood FIPS6 055009 055015 055029 055037 055041 055061 055067 055069 055071 055073 055075 055078 055083 055085 055087 055097 055115 055125 055135 055137 055139 055141 UGC WIZ005 WIZ010 WIZ011 WIZ012 WIZ013 WIZ018 WIZ019 WIZ020 WIZ021 WIZ022 WIZ030 WIZ031 WIZ035 WIZ036 WIZ037 WIZ038 WIZ039 WIZ040 WIZ045 WIZ048 WIZ049 WIZ050 WIZ073 WIZ074 VTEC

The Mequon Common Council voted Tuesday night to approve an agreement to merge fire departments with the village of Thiensville. Thiensville, which approved a memorandum of understanding to share emergency medical services with Mequon, will vote on the agreement at a future meeting. Mequon City Administrator William Jones said Ozaukee County approved $5 million in federal pandemic relief funds to hire 18 paramedics and fund a study to determine how local fire departments should be consolidated.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Metered Site

A risk of explosion and toxic smoke from a raging fire at a food processing plant in south Salinas has prompted the Salinas Fire Department to begin evacuating nearby residents. The evacuation notice is for the areas near the fire -- at the Taylor Farms Processing Facility -- between South Main Street, East Alisal Street, Alisal Road and Harris Road.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles

There's a big red bag on board the Special Operations vehicle for Pennsylvania Ambulance, and it's not just extra medical supplies. Bruce Beauvais from Pennsylvania Ambulance says every time they respond to a fire, this kit will go with them. Inside is equipment to check for carbon monoxide levels in a victim's bloodstream and the air around them, along with an antidote for hydrogen cyanide poisoning, which can happen when you inhale too much smoke.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNEP-TV ABC 16 Scranton

John Orndorff says he’s an adrenaline junky - that’s one of the reasons he became a firefighter more than 17 years ago. But being a lieutenant at Frederick County Fire and Rescue in Winchester, Virginia, means some days are a little less high octane. “We have an elderly community back here behind us that we service,” Orndorff says.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Virginia Public Media

VIDEO: The difference between a click and a call matters in a dispatch center, and before April 5, dispatchers at the Thornton Emergency Communication Center had to call other agencies to be able to dispatch them, instead of seeing in real time where they were, and clicking to send them. "So it could take up to one to two to almost three minutes sometimes, depending," said Brandi Seaton, the Communications Center Supervisor.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KUSA-TV NBC 9 Denver

The World Health Organization and the Biden administration are both saying that COVID-19 remains a public health emergency, even as global deaths from the virus have reached the lowest levels since March 2020. Both the WHO and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first declared COVID-19 a public health emergency in January 2020.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NPR

The Fond du Lac Fire Department visited students at Chegwin Elementary School Tuesday, April 12 to deliver some items and give the kids a tour of their fire trucks. The firefighters donated 40 sleeping bags and 40 hygiene kits to 2nd graders. The students recently learned about community leadership and wanted to give the sleeping bags to children in their school who they identified as in need of these supplies.
- PUB DATE: 4/13/2022 1:13:59 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

A subcontractor working on the renovations at Camp Randall Stadium was seriously injured in a fire Wednesday morning, the University of Wisconsin revealed, adding new details to the initial Madison Fire Dept. report. According to the fire department, firefighters responded just after 8 a.m. to the Badgers home stadium after being alerted to a fire and an individual who had been injured.
- PUB DATE: 4/13/2022 7:54:00 AM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC 15 Madison

At around 2:45 Tuesday afternoon, the Newbold Fire Department and DNR responded to a brush fire. Both agencies responded to the uncontrolled fire which occurred off of Lake Mildred Road. They were able to get it under control after nearly four acres burned. Lake Mildred Road is just off Highway 47 near the Newbold Town Hall.
- PUB DATE: 4/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander

Falls were the most common form of injury for individuals ages 70 or older last year. That’s according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. The Rhinelander Fire Department says elderly individuals falling is one of the most common 911 calls the department receives. Lieutenant Paramedic Adam Johnson says some falls just involve helping the individual back into a sitting or standing position.
- PUB DATE: 4/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander

A hotel under construction in Camarillo was destroyed when a massive fire broke out Tuesday night. Firefighters with the Ventura County Fire Department were called to the hotel located at Ventura Boulevard and Las Posas Road at about 7:15 p.m. When crews arrived, heavy smoke was pouring out from the second and fourth floor, investigators said.
- PUB DATE: 4/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles

The fire of a vacant rowhome in southwest Baltimore that took the lives of three Baltimore City firefighters in January has been ruled a homicide. Lt. Paul Butrim, Lt. Kelsey Sadler, and Firefighter/EMT Kenny Lacayo lost their lives battling the deadly fire at 205 South Striker Street on January 24.
- PUB DATE: 4/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAL-AM 1090 Baltimore

VIDEO: The Bowling Green Fire Department received a unique donation Monday - a fire-engine red corvette from the National Corvette Museum. The corvette will be used this year for school prevention classes, parades, and special events. ”Working here going on 125 years, you know, this year and we’ve had this corvette plant here for quite some time.
- PUB DATE: 4/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBKO-TV ABC/FOX/CW+ 13 Bowling Green

Negotiating new pay for the first time in four years, the City of Austin received some major blowback after offering a 14 cent raise for entry-level employees in Austin’s emergency medical services department. According to the Austin EMS Association, 26% of its staff are considered low income. In a statement, the city said a pay study found the maximum pay for Austin EMTs and paramedics is higher “than that of comparable agencies when you adjust wages for regional costs.
- PUB DATE: 4/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAN-TV NBC 36 Austin

VIDEO: Two young first responders to the Oklahoma City bombing are now leading their departments. It is their mission to make sure new OKC fire and police recruits know what happened that day almost 27 years ago. Both men responded in the hours and days after a bomb went off outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that killed 168 people.
- PUB DATE: 4/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOCO-TV ABC 5 Oklahoma City

After a balcony fire on the city’s east side, Madison firefighters are reminding residents Tuesday to properly dispose of cigarettes and other smoking materials. The Madison Fire Department responded to a fire at a residential building around 2:55 p.m. Monday on Brandie Road. Crews reported the fire started on a second-story building and was possibly spreading to the first floor.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2022 1:29:23 PM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC 15 Madison

State officials are warning counties in western and central Wisconsin about a high risk of wildfires. On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources reported very high fire danger in 28 counties in the western half of the state, from St. Croix and Taylor counties down to Dane and Green counties.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2022 12:48:02 PM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Public Radio

VIDEO: Not everyone gets the privilege of living to be 100 years old... but one woman in Sauk City turned 100 Wednesday. Fidalia “Dale” Breunig has four children, seven grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. Breunig’s one wish for her 100th birthday was to ride a fire truck around town, so that’s exactly what she did.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC 15 Madison

A driver suspected of being under the influence crashed into a box truck on a north metro overpass Monday afternoon, causing a fiery chain reaction. The Minnesota State Patrol says the crash happened at about 2:30 p.m. on Highway 10 over MN 65 in Spring Lake Park. A MnDOT camera captured the incident, showing a speeding sedan driving erratically onto the highway from an on-ramp.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCCO-TV CBS 4 Minneapolis