Hunting season is in full swing in Wisconsin, and we are just weeks away from one of the biggest annual traditions in the state, the gun deer season. Fond du Lac Fire Rescue is teaming up with Hoppers Silk Screening and All-Star Trophy to bring awareness to the hunting season, and promote safety during the hunt.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFIZ-AM 1450 Fond du Lac

VIDEO: It took 100 firefighters about an hour and a half to get the upper hand on a blaze that gutted a Koreatown karaoke bar and pool hall at 207 S. Vermont Ave. on Thursday. The Los Angeles Fire Department said they were actually able to get crews inside the building at first, but the intensity of the fire grew in the attic.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCAL-TV CBS 2 Los Angeles

VIDEO: A Lubbock native is headed to Chicago in December as he embarks on a new role in the hit television show Chicago Fire. First, he wanted to stop by and learn from his hometown heroes. “I think it’s very, very important whenever you can become this character months before,” Ynez Spencer said. “And, I think it’s very important to show up ready to go.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCBD-TV NBC 11 Lubbock

The Seminole County Fire Department says golf carts and other low-emission vehicles are becoming more popular in Central Florida but they are also causing a fire concern. "The big problem we are worried about with hydrogen gas is the explosiveness of the hydrogen gas it has a wide flammable range," said Lt.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOFL-TV FOX 35 Orlando

The North Carolina Department of Justice filed suit Thursday against more than a dozen manufacturers of firefighting foam that contains toxic "forever chemicals," accusing the companies of failing to tell those using the foam how to properly handle it, leading to groundwater contamination at four sites across the state.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Times News

The U.S. has settled into an uneasy, drawn-out exit from the delta surge that took hold over the summer. For many weeks, declining cases and hospitalizations have offered hope ahead of the holiday season, when Americans travel and spend more time indoors, but progress has stalled recently, with cases rising or plateauing in more than 20 states.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAE-FM 90.7 Charlotte

Crews from the Milwaukee Fire Department responded to a fire on Milwaukee's north side Thursday morning, Nov. 4. When they arrived to the area of Fond du Lac and Villard around 3:30 a.m., they found flames coming through the roof of a business. It was eventually updated to a 2-alarm fire as it spread to the building next to it.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 5:15:53 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

The City of Jefferson continues to actively pursue its goal of becoming what Mayor Dale Oppermann in 2020 called a “solar city” with the recent installation of high-tech, sun-absorbing panels on the roof of its fire and EMS facility. The fire and EMS home base on East Racine Street is the new home of the panels as a result of some help from the community’s locally owned, not-for-profit utility, Jefferson Utilities.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Union

A vehicle caught fire and spread to a garage during the early hours of Wednesday morning in Two Rivers. According to the Two Rivers Fire Department, On Nov. 3 around 3:30 a.m., a call came in for a fire on the 2700 block of 12th Street in Two Rivers. A vehicle was on fire in the driveway between two homes.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV CBS 5 Green Bay

Crews responded to a fire in Chippewa Falls Wednesday afternoon. According to a release from the Chippewa Falls Fire Department, Wednesday at 4:29 p.m., Chippewa Falls Fire & Emergency Services was dispatched to smoke coming from a home at 12 W Birch Street. First arriving units noted moderate smoke coming from the rear, upstairs corner of the two-story home.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV NBC 13 Madison

PHOTOS: After a car struck a deer in the early hours of the morning, a tanker truck then collided with the car, causing the truck to overturn and explode, police said. According to police, Marissa Patterson, 18, of Forked River, was driving east on Route 37 at around 3 a.m. when a deer ran out in front of her car.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Jersey Shore Online

St. Paul Fire Capt. Mike Paidar loved helping people and his family is hoping a new determination about his death will allow that legacy to live on. Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington recently concluded Paidar’s death from cancer was linked to his work and therefore occurred in the line of duty, making his family eligible for public safety officer death benefits.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pioneer Press - Metered Site

VIDEO/PHOTOS: A unique piece of history has returned home to one North Texas town. A 1948 fire engine was recently discovered in a field by landowners in Sweetwater, Texas. Anna Fire Chief Ray Isom says the landowners contacted the department and offered to donate the engine back to the city. “They actually sent photos of it,” Isom said.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Fort Worth

Mitch Hokanson was making noise on the side of Oasis Rd. and causing drivers to turn their cars around to see what he was creating. Hokanson was in the middle of carving a large fish out of wood with a chainsaw, and this is his twentieth year finetuning his craft. Hokanson creates chainsaw wood art and said he was first taught skills from his artistic mom and learned woodcutting from his dad, but he is also has learned a lot on his own.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRCR-TV ABC 7 Redding

First responders across Massachusetts are warning residents to avoid a scam text message claiming to be running a t-shirt sale to benefit local fire departments. The texts, fire officials say, impersonate the “friends of” groups of towns’ fire departments and offer limited edition t-shirts to support the firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Masslive.com

VIDEO: The Chippewa Valley Technical College is getting a new training experience in virtual reality for its firefighting program “The FLAIM system is a virtual reality or immersive learning system,” Mark Schwartz, CVTC Fire, and EMS continuing education coordinator said. Schwartz says CVTC is the first technical college in Wisconsin to have a VR firefighter simulator.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV NBC 13 Madison

One person was taken to the hospital with serious injuries after falling approximately 8 feet into a maintenance tunnel typically covered by a grate around noon on Monday. The City of Madison Fire Department said Medic 5 and Engine Co. 9 responded to the 3800 block of Regent Street and located the person lying on their back in the opening just inside the building entrance.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

VIDEOS: Firefighters battled a fire in Everett on Wednesday morning. Heavy smoke could be seen filling the air as crews worked to put out the flames coming from a three-story, mixed-use building on Broadway. The Everett deputy fire chief says everyone inside the building was able to make it out and there are no reported injuries.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHDH-TV ABC 7 Boston

Los Angeles City Fire Department firefighters who commute thousands of miles to work each month could be forced to relocate to Southern California if a residency requirement is imposed in order to keep emergency personnel closer to the city in the event of a major disaster. A report prepared for the Board of Fire Commissioners showed 115 firefighters currently live out of state, including 36 about 1200 miles away in Idaho, 10 about 2000 miles away in Tennessee, 11 about 1300 miles away in Texas, and 15 more than 600 miles away in Utah.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles

VIDEO: The Chippewa Valley Technical College is getting a new training experience in virtual reality for its firefighting program “The FLAIM system is a virtual reality or immersive learning system,” Mark Schwartz, CVTC Fire, and EMS continuing education coordinator said. Schwartz says CVTC is the first technical college in Wisconsin to have a VR firefighter simulator.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV NBC 13 Eau Claire