State Rep. LaKeshia Myers (D-Milwaukee) re-introduced on Friday, Oct. 22 the "Safe Roads Save Lives Act" – better known as the "Red Light Camera Bill." "It has become commonplace to see cars running red lights, stop signs, and weaving in and out of traffic for no good reason," Myers said. Reckless driving continues to take the lives of people across Milwaukee.
- PUB DATE: 10/22/2021 9:08:58 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

National Move Over Day, held Saturday, Oct. 17, was established to raise awareness for the safety of first responders, including tow operators, police, fire, medical and other emergency workers. Wisconsin law requires drivers to shift lanes or slow down in order to provide a "safety zone" for a squad car, ambulance, fire truck, tow truck, utility vehicle, or highway maintenance vehicle that is stopped on the side of a road with its warning lights flashing.
- PUB DATE: 10/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Oregon Observer

After 32 years of service, including ten in Madison, Fire Chief Steven Davis is retiring. Ten years of Davis’s career were spent as Chief of Madison’s Fire Dept. However, Davis has spent his entire life proudly serving his community through firefighting. “I love the fire service,” Madison Fire Chief Steve Davis.
- PUB DATE: 10/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC 15 Madison

VIDEO/PHOTOS: On February 20, 2003, 100 people were killed and more than 200 were injured when The Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, burned to the ground. It was one of the deadliest club fires in American history. Three people were charged, including the club owners Jeff and Michael Derderian, but they say there is more to the story.
- PUB DATE: 10/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS News

Continuing an initiative to install solar panels on buildings in Asheville and Buncombe County, the City of Asheville recently "flipped the switch" on solar panels just installed at Fire Station 10. Located on Old Haywood Road, Fire Station 10 became the second facility to include renewable energy production.
- PUB DATE: 10/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLOS-TV ABC 13 Asheville

VIDEO: The medical director of Dallas Fire-Rescue has something he hopes you see that could save your life in the fight against COVID-19. FOX 4’s Shaun Rabb got personal with DFR Medical Director Dr. Marshall Isaacs about his tattoos. They mark his journey of overcoming and finding hope. He now hopes his tattoos will lead others to make a decision that could save their lives.
- PUB DATE: 10/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KDFW-TV FOX 4 Dallas

Standing beside a table full of the contents from a time capsule “buried” at the fire station in 1936, retired Fire Capt. Bob Ferris remarked on the photo of his grandfather, former Fire Chief Herb Ferris. “It was a little emotional to see this,” Bob Ferris said. On Thursday afternoon, city officials, including Mayor Roxann Wedegartner, and a handful of members of the Fire Department were invited to the temporary fire station on Hope Street for the opening of a time capsule taken from the southeast cornerstone of the former fire station on Main Street.
- PUB DATE: 10/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Recorder - Metered Site

A major earthquake in California is likely to knock out many communications services for days or weeks, including the vast majority of cellphones in the areas closest to the epicenter, according to a landmark new analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey. The widespread disruption would imperil the public's access to 911 operators and lead to delays in reporting fires and calls for medical help.
- PUB DATE: 10/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Yahoo News

The Western Lakes Fire District on Thursday, Oct. 21 showed off its advanced, unmanned aircraft for the first time. Using drones is still a new concept for a lot of first responders, but the Western Lakes Fire District is learning that the sky is the limit when it comes to their one-of-a-kind aircraft.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2021 5:20:56 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

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