PHOTO: A specially painted lifeguard tower at Mother's Beach in Marina del Rey is promoting the Los Angeles Fire Department's new Sirens of Silence program, which helps raise awareness and acceptance of Autism Spectrum Disorder. The program is a partnership with the county fire department, Fourth District County Supervisor Janice Hahn and the Department of Beaches and Harbors.
- PUB DATE: 6/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Marina Del Ray Patch

The City of Cayce will have its 1936 fire truck back on the streets Wednesday, June 9, as part of the South Carolina State Firefighters’ Association 2021 Convention at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. The fire truck, which was restored in 2019, will be escorted to the convention center at 11 a.
- PUB DATE: 6/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Columbia Star

Overdoses in Jacksonville are increasing at an alarming rate, and the pandemic only made the situation worse. The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department said 2020 was the highest year it’s seen for overdose calls: the department responded to 5,050 overdose calls. Another 2,800 calls were reported as opioid-related.
- PUB DATE: 6/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJXT-TV News 4 Jacksonville

The Madison Fire Department's Lake Rescue Team responded to calls of a broken down boat on fire Thursday. The team was dispatched to Lake Monona just after 11 a.m. Officials reported they launched from Olin Park and found the boat a quarter-mile offshore from the near-east side of Madison. But it was not on fire when they arrived.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2021 5:42:53 PM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV ABC 27 Madison

A firefighter suffered an injury while fighting a fire at a Fox Crossing restaurant. On Wednesday, crews were called to Michiels Bar & Grill, 1100 Appleton Road, for a report of smoke and flames. Crews found fire in the kitchen hood and used a hose line to put it out. Damage estimates are $30,000-$50,000, according to the Fox Crossing Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2021 1:24:25 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

Wisconsin regulators have fined a Delaware contractor more than $40,000 for violating state pipeline safety rules after excavators punctured a high-pressure gas line in a residential area of Marathon County. According to a Public Service Commission investigation, Sunnyworld LLC was drilling near an apartment complex in Weston on Sept.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2021 1:17:28 PM - SOURCE: Lacrosse Tribune - Metered Site

Three neighboring fire departments would merge into a single regional operation, under a newly released plan to improve fire and ambulance service in growing western Racine County. The idea of consolidating the Union Grove-Yorkville, Kansasville and Raymond fire departments is included in a study showing that existing service, based largely on volunteer firefighters, might be inadequate to serve the region’s growing population.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2021 3:23:08 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times - Metered Site

Flashover is a very dangerous phenomenon, in which all of the exposed combustible materials in an enclosed area near-simultaneously ignite. Thanks to a new AI-based system, however, firefighters may soon receive warnings when flashover is imminent. Typically, flashovers occur when a structure fire causes the temperature in an enclosed space to reach at least 593 ºC (1,100 ºF) – this is the approximate autoignition temperature of many commonly used organic materials.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Atlas

PHOTOS: For 30 years, Ramon Barreto has worked as a San Francisco firefighter, responding to calls within the city and facing down some of the region’s most challenging wildfires. But by night, he brings that blazing energy into the ring as one of the Bay Area’s most legendary wrestlers: Chicano Flame.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: SF Gate

It all started after a furniture factory burned down. The factory, once located at the end of Putnam Street in the Chesterfield community, caught fire at a point when fire service was provided in the area by a joint effort from the city of Morganton, Oak Hill Fire and what later became Triple Community Fire Department, Chesterfield Fire Chief James Robinson said.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The News Herald

VIDEO: The St. Louis Fire Department is showing off its newest fire truck, all thanks to Ameren Missouri. The truck costs about $1 million dollars and it took 9 to 10 months to design and another to build. Ameren Missouri helped with the design and donated the truck to the fire department. St. Louis City has two to three significant underground every year that can burn for hours, which can extensive damage and outages.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMOV-TV CBS 4 St. Louis

VIDEO/PHOTOS: Firefighters were able to return a woman's American flag from her apartment after losing her home to a 4-alarm fire in Myrtle Beach Wednesday morning. The flag was all she had left. It was emotional devastation for firefighters, and the people who stood watching the fire destroy their homes.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPDE-TV ABC 15 Florence

A Madison man was sentenced Wednesday on a federal charge of arson for starting a fire in the City-County Building last summer. Marquon Clark, 26, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven years in federal prison after admitting to the crime, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea’s office.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2021 3:06:36 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

A huge Dane Co. blaze caused more than three-quarters of a million dollars in damages Tuesday as flames ripped through two large buildings, damaging a wide variety of vehicles inside. According to the Dane Co. Sheriff’s Office, firefighters could see a large shed fully engulfed in flames around 2:40 p.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2021 11:31:43 AM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

Firefighters on Wednesday morning, June 2 responded to the scene of an apartment fire on Taywood Circle in Brookfield. The call came in around 1:15 a.m. When crews arrived on the scene they found light smoke coming from a second-floor apartment window. The fire was contained to the kitchen of a single upstairs apartment unit and was nearly extinguished by the building’s sprinkler system that had activated prior to fire department arrival.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2021 8:24:14 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

A 33-year-old Holmen motorcyclist died in a collision with a car Monday afternoon after trying to elude Onalaska police at speeds of up to 100 mph, according to the city’s police department. An officer noticed motorcyclist Tou Yia Lor speeding southbound on Hwy. 35/Second Avenue South near Main Street shortly before 1 p.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKBT-DT CBS 8 LaCrosse

A Los Angeles County firefighter appeared to have a longstanding job-related dispute with the colleague he shot and killed at their small fire station in what became California’s second deadly workplace shooting in less than a week, authorities said Wednesday. The gunman also wounded a fire captain at the station about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Los Angeles on Tuesday before setting his house on fire in a nearby community and apparently killing himself, officials said.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTLA-TV 5 CW Los Angeles

A firefighter killed a co-worker and wounded another at their small fire station before setting his own home ablaze and apparently killing himself in California’s second deadly workplace shooting in days. The gunman, a firefighter specialist and engineer, was off-duty when he apparently drove the 10 miles (16 kilometers) from his home in Acton, north of Los Angeles, and opened fire Tuesday morning at Los Angeles County Fire Station 81, authorities said.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTLA-TV 5 CW Los Angeles

VIDEO/PHOTOS: Horry County Fire Rescue responded to a two-alarm fire at an apartment building in the 9000 block of Shore Drive Tuesday night before it turned into a four-alarm fire. Crews were initially dispatched at 11:01 p.m. when a second alarm was sent. Firefighters were pulled from the Ocean Bridge apartment building around 6:30 a.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPDE-TV ABC 15 Florence

Sometimes careers start from the most unusual beginnings. So it was for Aaron Knotts, now chief of the Chillicothe Fire Department. “The summer between my eighth- and ninth-grade years,” he began, “I went to South Carolina with a friend and his family for a weeklong vacation. While down there, we had purchased some fireworks that were legal in SC.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chillicothe Gazette