Madison firefighters and medical personnel responded to a string of wrecks Monday evening spread across several Milwaukee Street intersections. According to the Madison Fire Dept., when the first emergency responder responding to calls about the crashes shortly before 8 p.m. turned off of Hwy. 51 and onto Milwaukee Street, they spotted a pickup truck.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2021 3:41:28 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

A 13-year-old Wisconsin boy is being credited with saving his four younger sisters from a house fire while their parents were at the grocery store. He tried to put the fire out himself but couldn’t, his dog eventually leading him away. Days after a fire tore through her home with her five kids inside, Kelly Omar searched through the rubble for anything she could salvage.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Valley News Live

VIDEOS: Smoke continues to pour from the yard of the Republic Services Recycling Center in North Las Vegas as firefighters work to put out a blaze that sent black smoke billowing over the northeast valley Monday morning. The large 2-alarm fire at the recycling center just north of Cheyenne Avenue at Commerce Street is still burning.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KLAS-TV CBS 8 News Las Vegas

VIDEO: A 13-year-old Wisconsin boy is being credited with saving his four younger sisters from a house fire while their parents were at the grocery store. He tried to put the fire out himself but couldn’t, his dog eventually leading him away. Days after a fire tore through her home with her five kids inside, Kelly Omar searched through the rubble for anything she could salvage.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Valley News Live

The St. Paul Fire Department has proposed a new $600,000 program in the 2022 city budget to embed social workers with firefighters, police officers and other city workers, hoping to improve responses for mental health and people experiencing homelessness. Fire Chief Butch Inks presented the initial plan to the city council last week, but he promised to release full details in the next 30 to 45 days.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KARE-TV NBC 11 Minneapolis

There are so few women in Daly City’s Fire Department that the women’s bathroom was converted into a private restroom for male captains. In Alameda County, department-wide communications frequently refer to all firefighters as “he” or “him,” despite the longtime presence of women like Fire Captain Kimberly Larson.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Examiner - Metered Site

VIDEO: On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, first responders in Superior gathered to honor the lives lost, and ensure future generations never forget the ultimate sacrifice of the law enforcement and firefighters. At the sound of the bugle, the flag at U.W.S. lowers to half-staff.
- PUB DATE: 9/13/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KQDS-TV FOX 21 Duluth

The Port Washington Fire Department responded to a side-by-side structure fire in Port Washington Sunday, Sept. 12. Authorities say the fire was coming from a duplex 404 N. Wisconsin Street in Port Washington. Reports indicate that one side of the duplex got heavy damage, while the other side of the residence wasn't severely damaged.
- PUB DATE: 9/13/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

The Town of Peshtigo Fire Department has placed a new rescue craft into service that is available to respond to water rescues and other water-related emergencies. The new 15-foot Mercury Ocean Runner rigid inflatable rescue boat has been outfitted with a 40 HP Mercury outboard motor and equipped with state-of-the art navigation, lighting and rescue equipment.
- PUB DATE: 9/13/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Eagle Herald Extra

VIDEO: A raging fire in southwest Atlanta displaced people from about a dozen apartments on Saturday morning. The flames gutted Harvest Oak Apartments at 2989 Delmar Lane. A battalion chief said the call came at 3:40 a.m. and the first units to arrive encountered heavy fire in the center of the building.
- PUB DATE: 9/13/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAGA-TV FOX 5 Atlanta

Former FDNY commissioner Thomas von Essen told "Fox News Reporting" on Saturday that the 343 firefighters who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks were the "best fire chiefs in the world." Of the 2,753 people killed at the World Trade Center, 343 were first responders from the Fire Department of New York, while another 71 were law enforcement officers from 10 different agencies.
- PUB DATE: 9/13/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FOX News

PHOTOS: Madison County took delivery of a new one-of-a-kind 20th Remembrance of 9/11 Rosenbauer 101 King Cobra Fire Truck on Thursday afternoon. The new $1.4 million truck was delivered after being featured at a national fire chiefs conference recently where it was highlighted because of its one-of-a-kind 9/11 paint job to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11 featuring all the names of the New York Firefighters who were killed responding to the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers.
- PUB DATE: 9/13/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Online Madison

If you worked at or near the site of the building collapse in Surfside, researchers with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine want to examine your toenails. Dr. Natasha Schaefer Solle, a research assistant professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said the nail can reveal cancer risks.
- PUB DATE: 9/13/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPLG-TV ABC 10 Miami

Green Bay fire crews only used a fire extinguisher to clear a fire that had ignited in an apartment unit on Saturday afternoon. According to the Green Bay Metro Fire Department, on Saturday at around 1:11 p.m., crews responded to the 1300 block Western Avenue for reports of a fire that was in the bathroom of one of the apartment units in the building.
- PUB DATE: 9/12/2021 1:18:50 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV CBS 5 Green Bay

Twenty years ago this Saturday, 351 firefighters died in their efforts to save people after the 9/11 attacks. On that day, almost 3000 people were killed when al-Qaeda militants hijacked four airplanes in suicide missions against targets in the United States—including the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon just outside Washington D.
- PUB DATE: 9/10/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUWM-FM 89.7 Milwaukee

Most of us remember September 11, 2001 as a horrific day. For the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), however, the horror stretched on. Fires around the World Trade Center Plaza, including two of the biggest in New York’s history, took three days to subdue. It took three months to extinguish the smoldering fires in the stories upon stories of rubble, rubble which included more than 90 vehicles and spewed out toxins and hampered the search for identifiable remains.
- PUB DATE: 9/10/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Harvard Business Review

VIDEO: On Thursday, WALB News 10 was given its first look at the Valdosta Fire Department’s (VFD) new mobile medic unit, which residents will be seeing cruising around. A lot of the calls the department gets are medically related, making this addition crucial to VFD’s services. The unit will help reach patients in medical emergencies, wherever they are, including on rough terrain or unreachable areas.
- PUB DATE: 9/10/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WALB-TV NBC/ABC 10 Albany

PHOTOS: Frank Siller had a message about heroism for the students at Blessed Sacrament School Thursday morning: It’s all around us. “What do heroes do?” the CEO of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation asked the seventh- and eighth-graders gathered in the rain to greet him upon his return to Staten Island during his “Never Forget Walk.
- PUB DATE: 9/10/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Staten Island Advance

VIDEO: The 20th anniversary of 9/11 is now just one day away. The event changed the way crews across the country plan for and respond to emergencies, and that includes here in Wisconsin. There’s one system more than 86% of fire departments use when disaster hits in Wisconsin, the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System, or MABAS.
- PUB DATE: 9/10/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC 15 Madison

VIDEO: Hundreds of volunteers from across the country are in South Louisiana easing some of the burdens from Hurricane Ida. Many of these volunteers are feeding neighborhoods, but now, one group is dealing with a disaster of their own. Over the last several days, Celebration Church in Terrytown has housed a group of volunteers from Oak Park Church in Mobile, Alabama.
- PUB DATE: 9/10/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKRG-TV CBS 5 Mobile