“Hey, We Energies, can you take down a power line so we can make sure we’re ready to save people who fall through the ice?” “Yeah, sure, no problem.” That may not be exactly how the conversation between the Kansasville Fire & Rescue Department and the electric/natural gas utility went, but it’s close enough.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2022 1:03:05 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News

A large fire tore through the Villa Hills Civic Club and destroyed it early Thursday, fire officials say. A passerby reported the blaze at 2:46 a.m. The club’s single-story building is located off Rogers Road near Lakeshore Drive and the Villa Hills Police Department. Fire crews with the Crescent Springs Villa Hills Fire Department responded to find it fully engulfed in flames.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIX-TV FOX 19 Cincinnati

Located at corner 14 North Monroe Street, the New York City Fire Department (FNDY) fire station was built in 1903 by Hook & Ladder Company 8. Initially, the building was designed to be the first in a series of Beaux-Arts-style firehouses by Alexander H. Stevens who was the city superintendent of buildings.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Travel

On Monday, Feb. 14 the Helena Fire Department shared a sneak peek at their new fire trucks. The trucks truly stand out from their predecessors in that they are Helena’s signature Husky blue as opposed to the traditional red. “Our love for the community is now on display,” the department wrote in a Facebook post.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Shelby County Reporter - Metered Site

The Brockton Fire Museum was built to preserve the proud history of Brockton Firefighting which includes a special tribute to the 13 firefighters who lost their lives at the Strand Theatre fire in 1941. Brockton Firefighters Local IAFF 144 was instrumental in purchasing the historic Squad A truck that made its return to Brockton in 2021.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCVB-TV ABC 5 Boston

The Eau Claire Fire Department is showing how its fighting fires without spreading harmful chemicals. Firefighters say the suppressant, known as F-500 is an environmentally friendly encapsulator agent. This means though it can put out many types of fires effectively. It doesn’t have harmful man-made chemicals known as P-FAS, like its predecessors.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2022 6:45:42 PM - SOURCE: WLAX-TV FOX 25 LaCrosse

Just days after he was announced as the preferred candidate, JB Moody has formally accepted the position of Fire Chief in the City of Stevens Point. The process was finalized Wednesday following a vote of the city’s Police and Fire Commission. Moody will begin his duties on March 2nd. “I am very happy with the selection of Jb Moody as the new Chief,“ said Stevens Point Mayor Mike Wiza.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2022 2:30:25 PM - SOURCE: WSAU-AM 550 Wausau

PHOTOS: All lanes on I-41/US 45 northbound at WIS 145 closed after a semi truck caught fire Tuesday evening. Lanes reopened around 10:15 p.m.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTMJ-TV NBC 4 Milwaukee

A virtual reality tool is helping firefighters train in the field without leaving the station. Northcentral Technical College and Illinois-based GTI Energy partnered to develop emergency response testing modules for firefighters. The project was State funded by the Department of Transportation. Each module simulates an emergency situation on a highway with vehicles.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9 Wausau

There’s a way for you to support the families of the fallen Mineral Point firefighters and get a tasty meal in the meantime this weekend. Firefighters and first responders in Highland are helping host a chicken BBQ Sunday, Feb. 20. Crews were approached by Greg Gorious of the Red Zone Bar in town with the idea at first.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

A tanker crashed into the front of a Rockville Centre business, going up in flames and closing Sunrise Highway for the Wednesday morning commute. The driver of the tanker, carrying approximately 9,200 gallons of gasoline, lost control on Sunrise Highway at North Centre Avenue at around 1:10 a.m. The vehicle overturned and crashed into the front of a vacant storefront that until recently housed a La-Z-Boy showroom.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 7 New York

Along Blue Heron Boulevard and Congress Avenue, construction is officially underway for a new fire station in Riviera Beach. On Tuesday, City leaders broke ground on a $17 million fire house that is expected to be up and running by the end of next year. The new station will be one of the most state-of-the-art fire stations in the county if not the state, Fire Chief John Curd said.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPTV NBC 5 West Palm Beach

PHOTOS: Several days of ice rescue training for Monroe Fire Protection District firefighters last week proved useful when a call came in about what appeared to be a person's head visible above the ice near the Lake Monroe spillway. Friday afternoon, firefighters from Station 21 were dispatched to the Lake Monroe spillway after receiving a report of a person’s head sticking out of the ice.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Herald Times Online

VIDEO: Those who knew lifelong firefighter Donald E. Whitaker said he had a love for people and a passion for fire service. “They didn’t call him by name, it was Chief, Chief Whitaker” Wife Ethel Whitaker said. “Yea Chief Whitaker,” Niece Jane Jones said. “Chief what can I do? What do you need? It was Chief.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFMY-TV CBS 2 Greensboro

The seven-day average of new Coronavirus infections in the United States has fallen to a number not seen since the delta surge of last summer began to die down, though cases remain higher than during much of the pandemic. The country had an average of 153,029 cases per day as of Monday, according to tracking by The Washington Post.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Washington Post

They rush toward emergencies every day, but on Monday, Feb. 14, a Greendale firefighter learned the call to help at a house fire in Muskego was actually at his home. Now, firefighters across the state are pitching in to help him. Photos from a neighbor show a garage mostly in flames around 5:30 Monday evening.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2022 1:31:49 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

A dramatic video of a firefight in Sherman Oaks shows the moment when a Los Angeles firefighter falls through the roof of a garage that had caught on fire. Remarkably that firefighter was not hurt, according to officials. Advertisement The fire broke out at a home in the 4500 block of N. Sunnyslope Avenue just before 6 p.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles

VIDEO: This week marks 20 years since a prank at a student apartment complex turned deadly in Greensboro. Janet Danahey, a UNCG student, set outside items on fire at a Campus Walk apartment. She said she was trying to get back at an ex-boyfriend. The fire spread to the entire building. Four people, sisters Rachel and Donna Llewellyn, Elizabeth Harris and Ryan Bek, died, and many others were injured.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFMY-TV CBS 2 Greensboro

VIDEO: Gabriel Shaffer had just gone back inside from watching Krewe du Vieux when he says he saw the bright light from a flame thrower out his back window. According to police this happened Saturday evening in the 900 block of Royal St. “It was dumb and disrespectful at the same time in my head,” said Shaffer.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WWL-TV CBS 4 New Orleans

With less than a week to go before it stops accepting applications, the Dayton Fire Department says it could have its most diverse pool of fire recruit applicants ever. The fire department is overwhelmingly white but has become more diverse in recent years. Officials say new, enhanced and ongoing initiatives to reach minorities and women seem to be working.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Dayton Daily News - Metered Site