There is an urgent need for public safety workers in rural Wisconsin, according to state officials. Many rural rescue operations in Wisconsin are on the brink of shutting down due to a lack of staff and funding to keep going. It's the shortage is a problem that leaves our most vulnerable without enough emergency medical staff to help them when they need it most.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 6:45:51 PM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

Officials are working to determine the cause of a fire after it blazed through a Dane County residence Monday night. The Dane County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded around 7:40 p.m. to the fire on Appleby Circle in the Village of Mazomanie. Firefighters stated no one was home at the time of the fire in the single-occupancy home.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 6:36:28 PM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC 15 Madison

VIDEO/PHOTOS: No injuries were reported Tuesday morning after a tractor-trailer erupted into flames along southbound I-39/90, outside of Beloit, the city’s fire department reported. In a Facebook post, the fire department shared photographs showing the still burning skeleton of the semi as firefighters continued getting it under control.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC/CW+ 15 Madison

One person died when an Ashland home went up in flames Monday night. According to the Ashland Fire Chief, crews got the call about the single-family house fire near 14th St. W. and Beaser Avenue around 10:27 p.m. Monday. Firefighters arrived five minutes later and had the fire, which was contained to one room, extinguished by 10:42 p.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

High school students in the Dells area will have fire training and certification available to them starting this fall. The Wisconsin Dells School District, in conjunction with Delton Fire Department and Kilbourn Fire Department, is offering a specialized introductory fire fighting course every other Wednesday, starting in the 2022-23 school year at Wisconsin Dells High School.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Dells Events

State Highway 146 has reopened south of Cambria in Columbia County after an earlier grass fire, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The road was closed just after 4 p.m. and fully reopened just after 6:30 p.m., WisDOT said. A Columbia County dispatcher said the closure was between County Highways A and G.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

Most of the early day buildings around the Enid downtown square in 1901 were built of southern hard pine. A few painted walls and some brick walls were beginning to be used. Wooden sidewalks were the standard. According to the Enid Fire Department history, the Enid City Council on Dec. 28, 1893, approved the appointment of a fire warden and assistant fire marshal, plus each business around the downtown square would be required to keep a barrel of water for protection against fire and six fire hand grenades (glass spheres containing carbon tetrachloride) to help put out any fires that occurred.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Enid News & Eagle

The Coeur d’Alene Fire Department wants you to help it name some of its newest team members. Fire Rescue crews just got their two new water rescue training dummies and they need to be named. One of the dummies is child-sized and the other is adult-sized. The Coeur d’Alene Fire Department posted pictures of the new dummies to its Facebook page and asked for help picking out names.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

VIDEO: Brownsburg firefighter Jason Stumm, in the industry for more than 20 years, says each day is unpredictable. “There are days, weeks and months sometimes that you go on runs and it’s not really stressful. It’s a daily event, but then you have that one run in the middle of the month that you remember.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTHR-TV NBC 13 Indianapolis

The omicron subvariant BA.2 is continuing to gain ground in the U.S., according to Covid-19 tests sequenced over the last two weeks. Helix, a San Diego-based genomics firm, has been watching the BA.2 variant since it first popped up in the U.S. in early January. Although it was initially slow to take hold, Helix now estimates that 50% to 70% of all Covid cases nationwide are BA.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bloomberg

An electrical fire in a Sheboygan residence caused an estimated $35,000 in damages, and left one without a home. According to the Sheboygan Fire Department, on March 21 around 3 a.m., crews responded to a reported fire in the 1800 block of Saemann Avenue. Crews found a small haze of smoke on the second floor and the attic when they arrived.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV CBS 5 Green Bay

Five people have been left without a home after a house fire on St. Cecelia Drive in Chesterfield, leading the Chesterfield Fire Department to issue a warning to other residents. The fire department received a call at 8 am and the first crews arrived on scene within 4 minutes. There, they found flames emerging from the roof of the home.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRIC-TV ABC 8 Richmond

VIDEO: Two Sparks firefighters are now providing a piece of equipment to fire stations all over the country. ‘We came up with an idea of trying to find a way to protect the lens of our SCBA mask,” said co-owner Cody Cavin. What started as an idea became BA Shields, where they manufacture shields that cover the lens of a firefighter’s self-contained breathing apparatus.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOLO-TV ABC/CW+ 8 Reno

PHOTOS: The city of Highland Park has added a $1 million truck to its firefighting fleet, the first new vehicle for its Fire Department since a private resident donated one nine years ago. The city received about $850,000 from the state to buy Ladder 1 with the help of state Rep. Helena Scott, D-Detroit, according to Highland Park Mayor Hubert Yopp.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit News - Metered Site

Some familiar faces to the first-responder industry this week announced the Public Safety Towers Company (PSTC), which enters the competitive wireless-infrastructure space while promising to take a public-safety-centric approach in an effort to find synergies between government-owned assets and commercial-carrier needs.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: IWCE's Urgent Communications

PHOTOS: The Baltimore City Fire Department’s largest boat could be used to rescue a cargo ship that has been stuck in the Chesapeake Bay since mid-March, according to the local firefighters’ union. The Baltimore Firefighters IAFF Local 734 said in a social media post on Sunday that the fireboat has the ability to help with operations to safely remove the Hong Kong-flagged ship Ever Forward from the bay.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJZ-TV CBS 13 Baltimore

The Cambridge Volunteer Fire Department is mourning the death of Second Assistant Chief Randy North. In a Facebook post Saturday the fire department announced North’s death, saying the crew is “beyond saddened.” According to the fire department, North served with CFD for 24 years. He was also a driver for the Cambridge Area Emergency Medical Service and involved with the Jefferson County Firefighters and Chief’s Associations.
- PUB DATE: 3/20/2022 10:05:25 AM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC/CW+ 15 Madison

Carbon monoxide levels in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee dorm where a gas leak sent 17 people to the hospital hit dangerously high levels, a police report obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel shows. The Milwaukee Fire Department registered readings in excess of 190 parts per million upon arriving at the Cambridge Commons dorm after arriving on scene at about 10:20 p.
- PUB DATE: 3/19/2022 5:27:32 AM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Metered Site

Chris P. Carbon was selected as the next Madison Fire Chief, according to release from the City of Madison Board of Police and Fire Commissioners (PFC) this Friday. According to the PFC, Carbon is a lifelong Madisonian, having attended Madison West High School, as well as graduating from the UW-Madison with a Bachelor of Science degree.
- PUB DATE: 3/18/2022 2:46:00 PM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV ABC 27 Madison

A heat lamp sparked a fire in Casco Thursday, according to officials. At 1 p.m., the Luxemburg Community Fire Department responded to a fire at a home at County Road E in the Town of Casco. It required mutual aid. Firefighters arrived to find flames and smoke coming from a two-story farmhouse. The homeowner escaped without injury.
- PUB DATE: 3/18/2022 10:09:30 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay