VIDEO: A pair of pint-sized brothers in Brooklyn are making a big impact on their community. Gideon and Josiah Trank, ages eight and seven, have raised hundreds of dollars for first responders with their front yard lemonade stand. Friday, they rented the Cocky’s Bagels food truck for the Brooklyn police and fire departments with their earnings.
- PUB DATE: 6/7/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEWS-TV ABC 5 Cleveland

The West Allis Fire Department said a woman is dead after a fire broke out in a home near 56th and Rogers around 2 a.m. on Sunday, June 6. Fire officials say the fire started in a second floor bedroom. A woman become disoriented by smoke and became trapped in the home. She ultimately died, officials say.
- PUB DATE: 6/6/2021 10:07:41 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Fire officials say the Red Cross is helping seven people following a duplex fire in Fond du Lac late Saturday night. According to the Fond du Lac Fire Department, crews were called to a home on the 300 block of W. Division Street at 11:16 p.m. for a report of a fire on the upper level porch leading to the entrance of an upper unit of a two family residential duplex.
- PUB DATE: 6/6/2021 9:09:37 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

A dump truck caught fire at a New Berlin Kwik Trip on Friday night, June 4. Fire units arrived at the fully-involved vehicle around 5:45 p.m. The driver was inside when the fire started, New Berlin fire officials said, but no injuries were reported to anyone involved. During an investigation, crews found that the truck's file tank was leaking diesel and runoff made its way into the drainage system.
- PUB DATE: 6/5/2021 5:35:03 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

New leadership roles have been filled at the Portage Fire Department. The roles have always been available, but new fire chief Troy Haase filled the position to give the engineers more leadership opportunities. “It is not going to change much within the department at first. It is a chance to switch from task-oriented work to more individual responsibilities,” Haase said.
- PUB DATE: 6/5/2021 3:48:23 AM - SOURCE: Portage Daily Register - Metered Site

VIDEO: Firefighters on Friday morning, June 4 responded to the scene of an apartment complex fire in Hales Corners. The fire broke out at the Plum Tree Apartments – located near 108th and College Authorities say one building is a total loss. The buildings are eight units each. Three buildings were evacuated.
- PUB DATE: 6/4/2021 7:41:26 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

VIDEO: The Baltimore City Fire Department, in an effort to increase diversity and equity within the agency, named its first LGBTQIA+ liaison, and some in the community are applauding the move. Baltimore City Fire Department paramedic Kyle Lovell is the department's first LGBTQIA+ liaison. He's a five-year-veteran of the department and a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community.
- PUB DATE: 6/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAL-AM 1090 Baltimore

It was a sad and hard thing to see this past weekend when pictures emerged from a fire on Mackinac Island at the 120-year-old Brigadoon Cottage. The Memorial Day weekend fire to the historic location caused damage to the structure estimated to be close to $1 million. Thankfully there were no injuries, and as they say, things can be repaired and replaced, but people can't.
- PUB DATE: 6/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCRZ-FM 108 Flint

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