A Platteville man is sharing his experiences with fire as a way of teaching fire safety during holiday weekends and summer months. Scott Travis was only 9-years-old when he had his first experience with fire. Attending the UW-Platteville homecoming parade, a friend of Travis threw a firecracker on one of the nearby floats.
- PUB DATE: 6/17/2021 6:33:24 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

The Green Bay Metro Fire Department is congratulating one of its captains as he prepares to retire Thursday. Captain Jon “JFred” Fredrickson has served the community in the City of Green Bay and the Village of Allouez and Bellevue for the last 35 years, beginning his career on March 26th, 1986 as an EMT Paramedic.
- PUB DATE: 6/17/2021 6:22:19 AM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

A woman is accused of killing her grandmother by suffocation and setting her house in Fort Atkinson on fire days later. Elizabeth Durkee told investigators the 72-year-old woman was in ill health, spent most of her time in bed and wanted to die, so on June 7 she covered her grandmother's nose and mouth with duct tape and she eventually stopped moving, according to a criminal complaint filed in Jefferson County.
- PUB DATE: 6/17/2021 4:45:59 AM - SOURCE: Greater Milwaukee Today

VIDEO: Firefighters are battling a large fire which broke out Wednesday afternoon at a Cherokee County vehicle recycling facility. The fire happened at Carguts just off Highway 5 near US-29 just east of Blacksburg. No injuries have been reported in the fire but one firefighter was treated for heat exhaustion.
- PUB DATE: 6/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSPA-TV CBS 7 Spartanburg

VIDEO: Thursday is the deadline to save the Spirit of Oklahoma fire truck. While the fundraiser is still thousands of dollars short, there is new, last-minute hope that the truck will be rescued. The truck symbolizes a bond between New York and Oklahoma firefighters after two terror attacks. If the Calera Fire Department can't come up with the money in time, a museum may step in to front the rest of the money, but there are no guarantees.
- PUB DATE: 6/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KWTV-DT CBS 9 Oklahoma City

PHOTOS: Two years after creating a business plan with marker and construction paper, 11-year-old Lucas Vetter has raised $112,000 to purchase life-saving CPR machines for local fire departments. When Lucas was 9 years old, he visited Howell Area Fire Department with his family, which is where he first saw the LUCAS CPR device.
- PUB DATE: 6/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Livingston Daily

VIDEO: Fire officials say a massive apartment fire two months ago in Greenwood highlighted a weakness in Indiana building codes that they would like to see changed. The fire displaced 59 residents during the overnight hours and resulted in injuries to one civilian and one firefighter. Investigators determined the April 14 fire at the Meridian Oaks apartment originated on an outdoor, second floor balcony.
- PUB DATE: 6/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIN-TV Fox 59 Indianapolis

VIDEO: Rare twin tornadoes barreled through the northeast Nebraska town of Pilger seven years ago today, killing two people, injuring 20 more and forever changing the lives of the nearly 350 people who called the town home. Pilger, a Stanton County village, is 80 miles northwest of Omaha. The storm destroyed or heavily damaged an estimated three-fourths of Pilger, including the middle school, Midwest Bank, the co-op, a convenience store, the post office, numerous houses, city hall, the firehouse and St.
- PUB DATE: 6/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lincoln Journal Star

The Egg Harbor Fire Department was kept busy with a pair of blazes still under investigation on Wednesday. A little after 11 a.m., firefighters headed to a trailer fire on West Carlsville Road where they found it fully engulfed. Egg Harbor Fire Chief Andy Staats said it appears it started in a back bedroom but no cause has been determined.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2021 4:59:50 PM - SOURCE: Door County Daily News

Two families were displaced from their westside apartments Tuesday night after a fire broke out in one of the units. Madison fire officials said they responded to the 7900 block of Tree Lane around 10:15 p.m. for a water flow alarm. When crews arrived at the apartment complex, they found the fire alarm ringing and residents evacuating the 45-unit building.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2021 1:32:35 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

Eight people were displaced by a fire at a three-family home in Green Bay Tuesday night. There are no reports of injuries. At about 8:48 p.m., Green Bay Metro firefighters were called to 909 Day Street on the city’s east side. They arrived to find heavy smoke, heat and fire on the second floor of the home.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2021 5:16:28 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

A giant waterslide at a New Jersey waterpark lived up to its name Tuesday, when it went up in flames. The ride called 'High Anxiety,' went up in flames at Mountain Creek Water Park in Vernon. A spokesperson for the water park says the fire broke out when the park was closed, and there were no reported injuries.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 7 New York

Representatives for Albany’s fire department said if the city doesn’t fix their pay scale, it’s just wasting taxpayer dollars. Union members told WALB Investigates, that firefighters were given a choice between getting a city-wide raise or fixing issues with the department scale. Most chose to correct the scale.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WALB-TV NBC/ABC 10 Albany

Volunteer firefighters in North Carolina may someday qualify for state retirement benefits. On Monday, Congressman Patrick McHenry (NC-10) was joined by Congressman Ted Budd (NC-13), Congressman Richard Hudson (NC-08), Congressman Greg Murphy (NC-03), Congressman Dan Bishop (NC-09), Congressman Madison Cawthorn (NC-11), Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (NC-05) and Congressman David Rouzer (NC-07) in introducing H.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLOS-TV ABC 13 Asheville

Paramedics were put to the test Tuesday at a conference that attracted hundreds of first responders to South Florida. The paramedic competition was a highlight at the "First There First Care" Conference at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino & Hotel in Hollywood. Dema Ammar is a student at Palm Beach State College and studying to become a paramedic.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVJ-TV NBC 6 Miami

On June 15, 1991, just days before scheduled improvements were to begin, a lightning bolt split and seared the roof of KU’s Hoch Auditorium, sparking a massive blaze. “The fire started around 3:20 p.m., shortly after a violent thunderstorm began pelting the Lawrence area with heavy rain and pea-sized hail,” said Kansas Alumni magazine.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WIBW-TV CBS 13 Topeka

A large fire south of the Wisconsin border is still burning more than a day later. On Monday, Illinois fire officials called in reinforcements to fight the chemical fire at a plant in Rockton, Illinois. Multiple departments from Walworth County, including the City of Delavan Fire Department, answered.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2021 5:54:41 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources warns that the risk of fire is high due to dry conditions. Firefighters worked to put out a grass fire in Kenosha Tuesday, June 15. "We haven’t had any rain in the past four weeks," said Guy Santelli, Kenosha Fire Department. The Kenosha Fire Department is gearing up for what could be a busy couple of weeks.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2021 5:16:59 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

A 36-year-old Fort Atkinson woman has been arrested and charged in connection to a deadly June 11 fire. Elizabeth Durkee is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, strangulation and suffocation, arson of a building and mutilating a corpse. The suspicious death and residential fire investigation also involved a statewide Amber Alert late Friday night, June 10 that resolved with the safe recovery of the child, shortly after the alert was issued.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2021 4:49:17 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

Training police officers in emergency medical services and creating a separate countywide paramedic department were among the ideas to come out of an open house that Thiensville village officials hosted last month on the Ozaukee County fire and EMS study. About 20 people attended the event, a number that caused concern among members of the Thiensville Committee of the Whole last week.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2021 5:40:18 AM - SOURCE: Greater Milwaukee Today