A fire broke out in the kitchen of the Mad Rooster Cafe in West Milwaukee on Wednesday, forcing evacuation of the restaurant. The Milwaukee Fire Department, which provides fire and emergency medical services for West Milwaukee, responded to the restaurant, 4401 W. Greenfield Ave., at 10:10 a.m., said Milwaukee Fire Department Deputy Chief Erich Roden.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2021 1:03:21 AM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinal

Over the past year, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has been celebrating quite the milestone: 125 years of protecting people and property. NFPA understands that not many businesses get to celebrate a milestone quite this large, and acknowledges that they did not get to this place alone.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Occupational Health & Safety

During a flight over New Jersey on May 6, 1937, the enormous German airship Hindenburg suddenly engulfed in flames while attempting to dock with its mooring tower. The airship plummeted to the ground in front of terrified onlookers, and in the 32 seconds it took for the zeppelin to be entirely incinerated, 35 people on the airship and one member of the ground crew died.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Interesting Engineering

Ambulance providers in North Texas are rethinking the way they respond to calls, as pandemic-related staffing shortages leave agencies around the United States strapped for paramedics. Arlington Fire Chief Don Crowson said his department is sending fire paramedics to compensate for shortages with American Medical Response, the city’s ambulance provider, where staffing is down two-thirds.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Metered Site

It’s a late-September morning and paramedic Darren Forman steps up to a front door showered with dried corn stalks and fall-themed decor. Forman, holding a bag in one hand and a scale in the other, has arrived for his second appointment of the day. Forman has run Project Swaddle for the Crawfordsville Fire Department since its launch in 2018.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Public Radio Indianapolis

New York City has had a sharp increase in e-bike fires during the pandemic, so fire officials are offering some tips to keep the lithium-ion batteries on the bikes from overheating. E-bike ownership has skyrocketed in New York since the pandemic began, and with it, e-bike fires, according to the New York City Fire Department (FDNY).
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Consumer Reports

She’s the only full-time paramedic in Johnson Creek, but that’s far from the only thing that makes Ginger Conroy remarkable. Recently promoted to the job, Conroy is an example that sometimes the skills that land you a huge opportunity at the office, are the ones learned right at home. Conroy is a mother to two kids, Gus and Eva.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2021 10:09:36 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

Kewaunee County remains at a "critically high" level for COVID-19 activity, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, but its number of positive tests for the virus has decreased dramatically over the past week from the record-high numbers seen in late September. Door County also has seen its weekly positive test numbers cut in half in the past two weeks after averaging about 100 cases a week across the last three weeks of September.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Gazette

No injuries are reported after the New Berlin Fire Department responded to a fire in a single-family home early Wednesday morning at 14570 Fieldpointe Drive, according to a news release from the department. The cause of the fire is still undetermined. New Berlin Police Department also responded to the scene.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Berlin Patch

VIDEO: No one was seriously hurt when an airplane bound for Boston ran off a runway and burned Tuesday morning near Houston, authorities said. The McDonnell Douglas MD-87 was carrying 21 people when it rolled through a fence and caught fire while trying to take off from the Houston Executive Airport in Brookshire.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS News

Tank the Dalmatian from Perry, Iowa, is headed to New York City. He will become the mascot dog for Ladder 20 of the New York City Fire Department in lower Manhattan. Tank is set to replace the dog Twenty, who was given to the Ladder company 20 years ago after they lost seven firefighters when the North Tower came down September 11, 2001.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHOI-TV ABC 19 Peoria

Listen for the skirl of bagpipes, the brassy wail of trombones and the screams of fire truck sirens Saturday morning in downtown Wilmington. What organizers are saying will be one of the largest parades in the city's history steps off at 10 a.m. honoring the 100th anniversary of the Wilmington Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Delaware Online - Metered Site

A lawsuit on behalf of firefighters involved in the deadly Farmington explosion has been settled two years after the incident, according to an attorney. Six firefighters and the estate of Captain Michael Bell settled with C.N. Brown Company of South Paris and Techno Metal Post Maine of Manchester. No other details about the settlement were shared publicly.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News Center Maine

The New Orleans fire department says it received a nice gift from the city: one thousand rapid COVID tests days before the city’s vaccine mandate went into effect. “It’s advantageous in that sense we can test when you get off work and then be ready by the following tour,” said Aaron Mischler. Firefighters work on 24- and 48-hour shifts, so union leader Aaron Mischler says the once-a-week testing requirements work well for their firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WVUE-DT FOX 8 New Orleans

After over three decades of service, Madison's fire chief is retiring, with his last day coming April 1, 2022. Chief Steven Davis wrote about his retirement in a blog post, which in part reads: "When I was appointed Fire Chief on January 2, 2012, I made a promise to the organization, to the community, to my family, and to myself that I would serve to the best of my ability and with honor and dignity for 10 years.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV ABC 27 Madison

Boulder Fire-Rescue (BFR) tweeted Tuesday morning that they are working a large apartment fire in the 2300 block of Pearl Street. BFR said that multiple agencies are helping put out the fire that has affected 83 units in three buildings of the apartment complex. Two minor injuries were reported, BFR said, but those injuries did not require either person to be hospitalized.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KUSA-TV NBC 9 Denver

It looks something like a cross between a robot, a bus and an RV. Until it lights up and moves. Then it’s a fire truck. An electric-powered fire truck. Empire Emergency Apparatus of Lockport Road in Niagara Falls hosted a demonstration of the pumper on Old Falls Street in Niagara Falls for firefighters from Niagara Falls, Buffalo and North Tonawanda on Friday.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Niagara-Gazette

The historic rise of calls for service from first responders across the country has opened the door for deeper training for law enforcement in Greensboro to help EMS and firefighters identify medical-related situations. Guilford County EMS and Greensboro firefighters reported that they have seen a sharp increase in calls related to people having a stroke, seizure, dealing with dementia or another unknown medical problem.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGHP-TV FOX 8 High Point

The types of places that carry the biggest risk for COVID-19 transmission have changed over time - partly because experts have learned more about how the virus works and partly because the virus itself has changed. The delta variant is more than two times as contagious as previous strains, which has obvious implications for transmission.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: HuffPost

VIDEO: A fire at Lucky’s Bridge Motel in Okee near Lodi Sunday night has destroyed the building. The Columbia Co. Sherriff’s Office says crews responded around 8:00 p.m. on Sunday. They add, a MABAS call was sent out and multiple crews assisted the Lodi Fire Department, which is handling the incident.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC 15 Madison