Five new recruits are joining the Lake Mills Fire Department, but the chief says the station is not out of the woods when it comes to a staffing shortage. Fire departments around the nation have struggled to keep men and women on the roster, Chief Todd Yandre said, similar to what other chiefs are reporting.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2022 9:54:25 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

PHOTO: Do no put combustible items, hazardous waste, or hot items like fireplace ashes in your garbage. That is the message from the Wauwatosa Fire Department. On Thursday, Feb. 10, a driver for one of the city's garbage trucks smelled smoke – and acted quickly. A Facebook post notes he immediately headed to a safe area to dump the truck.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2022 4:55:49 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

The Madison Fire Department says it was able to quickly put out a fire in the underground parking garage of a downtown apartment building earlier this week. Firefighters were called to the Capitol Center Court Apartments on the 300 block of West Dayton Street in Madison next door to Station #1 downtown at about 10:20 a.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2022 1:32:47 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

While responding to an emergency on East John Street Wednesday morning, Champaign Fire Department’s Ladder 161 was involved in a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of Neil and Green streets. Police said a firefighter on Ladder 161 and the occupant of the second vehicle were both treated on scene and were taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCIA-TV CBS 3 Champaign

PHOTOS: The new Westridge Commissary was a dramatic addition to Casper’s expanding edges when it opened in 1950. The new shopping center was the second operation opened by Commissary Inc., which operated what was likely Casper’s first modern full-service grocery store on 442 E. Yellowstone. By all accounts, the shopping center continued to stay busy with business as usual.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Oil City News

Hyundai and Kia are telling the owners of nearly 485,000 vehicles in the U.S. to park them outdoors because they can catch fire even if the engines have been turned off. The recalls from the two Korean automakers are another in a long string of fire and engine failure problems that have dogged the companies for the past six years.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC News

First H.E.L.P. and FirstNet, built with AT&T, have teamed up to provide dozens of communities and thousands of first responders with world-class mental health training through First H.E.L.P.’s #ResponderReadiness Workshop Series. First H.E.L.P. Chief Learning Officer Joe Willis worked with AT&T to organize these training opportunities for first responders across the country.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Homeland Security Today

How did a late Portsmouth volunteer firefighter’s helmet end up in Ohio? No one can say for certain, but a few city Good Samaritans caught wind of its whereabouts and felt compelled to bring it back to the Seacoast The family of former Portsmouth Fire Department “call man” Stanley Pizz, a Port City native who fought fires from 1955 through 1979, has been given his old helmet, slightly singed from experience and emblazoned with his last name on the back.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seacoast Online

Wednesday afternoon fire departments responded to an ice rescue call on the Fox River near the Highway 172 bridge. After a search, officials said they didn't find any evidence of someone falling through. "Today, [drones] could pick out the ice fishing holes on the ice," De Pere Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Jack Mlnarik said.
- PUB DATE: 2/9/2022 9:42:08 PM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

Two people had to be rushed to a hospital Tuesday morning after their home caught fire. The fire started before 5 a.m. Tuesday morning at a home on Thunderbird Lane, according to the Lac du Flambeau Tribal Police Department. Everyone inside the home was able to get out safely before an occupant called 911.
- PUB DATE: 2/9/2022 6:45:46 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

The La Crosse Fire Department announces their pick for this years' Firefighter of the Year Award. Each year the La Crosse Fire Department selects an individual firefighter that reflects the department and the City of La Crosse in a positive way, on and off duty. Nominations were sent to a committee consisting of the Department Chief and four other firefighters who reviewed and selected the winning candidate.
- PUB DATE: 2/9/2022 5:37:02 PM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 LaCrosse

After a devastating fire left two Algoma teachers with nothing, two different communities are stepping up to help. Fire destroyed a home in the Door County community of Brussels Tuesday, leaving the family without their pets and belongings. At 2:40 p.m., crews responded to the scene in the area of Pit and Ledge Roads.
- PUB DATE: 2/9/2022 10:56:40 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

Residents in a 12-story building Downtown were evacuated Monday due to a water leak in an electrical room, the Madison Fire Department said. Firefighters responded to 314 West Dayton St. shortly after noon because of a fire alarm, fire department said. No injuries were reported. The building contains fire department administration and Ovation 309, an apartment complex, the department said.
- PUB DATE: 2/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com

A massive apartment fire has been burning in northwest Oklahoma City since early Tuesday evening. Around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, crews responded to a fire at The Canton at Classen Curve near Northwest 63rd Street and Grand Avenue near the Nichols Hills area. The fire continued into Wednesday, and crews are still battling flames as of 8:45 a.
- PUB DATE: 2/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOCO-TV ABC 5 Oklahoma City

VIDEO: Trey McDaniel still wonders how much different his life would be if he stayed in bed one minute longer on Feb. 11 last year. “You just play the events over and over and over in your head,” he said. “You know, ‘what could I have done differently?’” He was driving down Interstate 35W South, his normal route to work at MedStar as a paramedic.
- PUB DATE: 2/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas

City residency requirements have been lifted for Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire firefighters. That is the ruling of a neutral arbitrator who has determined the city did not have the right to restrict residency. The arbitrator has now issued a cease and desist order on the city’s enforcement of residency for its firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 2/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KDKA-TV CBS 2 Pittsburgh

When it comes to occupational hazards, few jobs are as dangerous as fighting fires. “I fell through a floor once,” said veteran firefighter Michael Butkus. “High rise fires, those are the worst, and you don't think you're going to get out of there.” Butkus has been with the Chicago Fire Department for three decades.
- PUB DATE: 2/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KJRH-TV NBC 2 Tulsa

PHOTOS: It started with an old black and white photograph from the Grand Junction Fire Department archives. Next came about a half a ton of sheet metal. Then it was time for Jeff Bates to go to work. That was about three months ago. On Tuesday, tucked under a weathered white cowboy hat, Bates and a pair of helpers installed the finished sculpture on the cinderblock wall of Grand Junction Fire Station No.
- PUB DATE: 2/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Daily Sentinel

The Pine River Fire Department said a man was severely injured while performing routine maintenance inside of a silo. The call came in at 5:00 p.m. on Monday, February 7 for a man who was caught in the auger and trapped 30 feet above the ground. Crews on the scene called for a ladder truck from the City of Merrill so they could free the man from the top of the 50-foot silo.
- PUB DATE: 2/8/2022 1:22:34 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

Valerie Rinehart is still visiting the site of her former home in Greenleaf. “I mean, I’m blessed that everyone is out safe. Thanks to the angels that came and got everyone out,” Rinehart said while staring at burned rubble. On January 22nd around 5:30 p.m. a fire that she says began on the roof destroyed her rental home.
- PUB DATE: 2/8/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay