We all know how easy it can be to carry our jobs home with us. For those responding daily to calls of gun violence, reckless driving crashes and fires, the stress weighs extra heavy. The Milwaukee Fire Department is seeking answers in faith. The Milwaukee Fire Department is building in a new support team for when emergency responders need some help of their own.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

The American Red Cross is helping 15 people affected by three separate fires in Northeast Wisconsin Thursday. A family of 8 was displaced by a fire on S. Andrews St. in Shawano. A family of 4 was displaced from their home on He-Nis-Ra Lane in Green Bay. And another family of 3 was forced from their home on Olson Rd.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

A Sullivan County firefighter is recovering from his injuries after he was forced to dangle from a window during a fire at a senior living complex - and it was all caught on camera. The Liberty volunteer firefighter is seen in the viral video clinging for safety to a fifth-story window Tuesday night.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News 12 Westchester

VIDEO: KWWL news is currently on scene of a fire at the Lost Island Theme Park, currently under construction at the south edge of Waterloo, near the Isle Hotel and Casino, on the south side of Shaulis Road. The fire began between 7-8 p.m. There are no injuries. Eric Bertch, owner of the Lost Island, says an approximately 1500-square foot queue shelter building caught on fire at the far southwest edge of the park.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KWWL-TV NBC/CW 7 Waterloo

A Lafayette firefighter was injured after being forced over the ledge of an overpass when a semi-truck hit a nearby firetruck. The Lafayette Fire Department was on the scene Thursday night of a crash on Interstate 10 westbound near the Interstate 49 split. The firetruck was parked on the road while fire personnel helped with that crash, said Lafayette Police Department spokesperson Sgt.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lafayette Daily Advertiser - Metered Site

The St. Louis Fire Department is creating a software database that will track the condition of vacant buildings. Thousands of vacant buildings lie in the city, and they often pose a threat to firefighters. But assembling the information for a database is a process. While the program has been in the works for years, recent events pushed it to the forefront after vacant building fire claimed the life of St.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSDK-TV NBC 5 St. Louis

Another new COVID-19 variant has been detected. The World Health Organization has confirmed that the new variant, dubbed Deltacron — a combination of Delta and Omicron — has been detected in the France, Denmark and the Netherlands. "The hybrid genome harbors signature mutations of the two lineages," said IHU Méditerranée Infection's Philippe Colson in a study published Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: People

VIDEO: A Forsyth County environmental official was shocked when he learned how much pollution an inferno at a Winston-Salem fertilizer plant was sending into the air. Between midnight and 6 a.m. on Feb. 2, an Environmental Protection Agency air monitor set up at the Wake Forest University Police Station detected that particulate matter, called PM2.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The News & Observer

Some city employees will no longer be tested for marijuana on their drug screenings, and if the contract between the city and the firefighters union is approved, the list of exempt employees could soon grow longer. If the contract is ratified, firefighters will not be tested for marijuana when they go in for drug tests.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WICS-TV ABC 20 Springfield

PHOTOS: More than two years, $50 million and one ocean crossing later, San Francisco has its newest fire station. And it floats. The San Francisco Fire Department's two-story Fireboat Station 35 opens for operations Thursday on the Embarcadero at Pier 22½, more than a year after it was floated across the bay at low tide in the predawn dark from Treasure Island, where the superstructure was constructed.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle - Metered Site

Two Phoenix firefighters took him big titles just days ago at The Arnold Classic. Daniel Camacho was named the World’s Strongest Firefighter and even got a shout-out from Arnold Schwarzenegger on Instagram. “We all grew up watching him, admiring him, so yeah, it’s hard to explain that feeling, you know,” said Camacho.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KASW-CW6 & KTVK-3TV (azfamily.com)

Four months after the deadly Astroworld tragedy that killed 10 concertgoers, rapper Travis Scott announced a $5 million initiative dubbed "Project HEAL" that he says will be a "catalyst for real change" to heal in the aftermath. Scott, 30, detailed Tuesday a four-pronged project that includes solutions to address "challenges facing today's youth, especially those from marginalized and at-risk communities": $1 million in academic scholarships to historically black colleges and universities, free mental health resources, a creative design education program and a new tech-driven solution for event safety.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today

A report released Wednesday says more than $6 million in additional annual funding is needed to address reported staffing issues within the Western Lakes Fire District (WLFD), and the money could be raised by levying a wheel tax, holding a referendum or by cutting back on services. The WLFD's current budget is $6.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Greater Milwaukee

Waukesha police said a computer error delayed fire crews from getting help to a burning apartment building on Tuesday morning, March 8. The city's fire and police chiefs said they are reviewing the automated dispatch system. It never sent fire crews after the first 911 call came in. "We identified that the system didn’t work as ideally as we would want it to," said Fire Chief Steve Howard said.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISN-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

A massive Milwaukee fire is the latest example of how firefighters are using new tools to keep you safe. As flames shot through the roof of Schuster Metals at 30th and North Monday night, March 7, firefighters battled not only the two-alarm fire, but also, dangerous chemicals and several explosions. They used ladder and tower trucks to get that under control, but they also used drones to keep people safe and get a different perspective.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

“On behalf of our 6,000 members and 360 EMS departments, we wish to thank the Wisconsin State Senate for their actions today by unanimously approving three EMS legislative proposals,” stated Alan DeYoung, Executive Director of the Wisconsin EMS Association. “Senate Bills 680 and 681 would expand worker’s compensation coverage of diagnosed PTSD for EMS providers.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Politics

PHOTO: NASCAR teams know the next time a driver gets inside the car, it might be their last time. Traveling at such high speeds, death is, unfortunately, a part of the sport. On Tuesday, the NASCAR community was shocked with news that one of the team haulers traveling to this weekend’s races in Phoenix was involved in a fatal accident in Texas, killing the driver.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sportscasting

The only woman employed as a firefighter in the city of Fargo needed four tries to pass the entrance exams and finally get the job offer. That was 13 years ago for Dawn Stollenwerk, who’s worked her way up to battalion chief and assistant fire marshal. Fargo Fire Chief Steve Dirksen said since then, only one other woman has passed the physical agility test to be a firefighter and was offered a position, but ultimately turned it down.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: INFORUM - Metered Site

VIDEO: A North Andover teenager is on a mission to build Lego fire trucks for every city in Massachusetts. Cristian Sciaudone, 16, started building the sets with his dad when he was just 4-years-old. He starts by designing each truck with a computer program then spends about three hours building each one.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHDH-TV ABC 7 Boston

PHOTOS: After cigar ashes ignited a fire in Wenatchee’s Central Market the evening of July 6, 1909, dry winds propelled the flames through several downtown streets. Most of the buildings were made of wood and easily caught fire. Dozens of businesses and residences burned — as did Wenatchee’s first fire station, next to the jail on Columbia Street.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Foothills