A $1.3 million referendum in Fond du Lac to hire additional firefighter-paramedics and police officers has passed. According to results posted on the Fond du Lac County website, the referendum passed by a vote of 5,085-2,355. As previously reported by Action 2 News, the referendum asked taxpayers to pay an additional $43 per year for property tax valued at $100,000 or more.
- PUB DATE: 4/6/2021 11:13:23 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

The Madison Fire Department says used charcoal is to blame for a large dumpster fire on the city’s far west side earlier this week, and it’s part of a larger trend they’re seeing lately. Ladder 7 was called out to the 6500 block of Raymond Road just after 9 a.m. Monday for a fire in a fenced-in dumpster area.
- PUB DATE: 4/6/2021 1:36:16 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

Firefighters in Lakewood were busy Monday. They responded to two fires. One blaze spread to a home. At 11:14 a.m., the Town of Lakewood Fire Department was called to a “large fire” in a residential back yard on Brer Rabbit Ln. They found a camper on fire. The fire spread to a wooded area near the camper.
- PUB DATE: 4/6/2021 5:23:24 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

VIDEO: Wood County Sheriff's Department say that shortly after noon on Monday, an individual reported a fire in a ditch with a person down in the fire. The fire was located at CTH A at Marshfield Road in Marshfield. Police say upon arrival, they located a 79-year-old man dead in the burn area. Police say in a press release they believe the man tending to the fire when he "suffered an unknown issue and succumbed to the fire.
- PUB DATE: 4/6/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9 Wausau

PHOTOS: Trenton Firefighters battled a multi alarm (3 Alarm fire) on the 300 block of Enterprise Ave early Tuesday morning. The fire broke out just after 12:30 Am at the All County Recycling yard, Firefighters arrived on the scene to the whole yard nearly on fire with multiple explosions from the yard as 3 trucks went up in flames.
- PUB DATE: 4/6/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Peterson's Breaking News of Trenton

PHOTO: A prayer bench used by the Rev. Mychal Judge, a Fire Department chaplain killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, was driven to the New York area on Sunday to join the collection of the Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum, museum officials said. The bench formerly belonged to Judge's twin sister, Dympnia Jessich, and spent the last five years at an Episcopal monastery in Rising Sun, Maryland, according to Sister Teresa Irene, a Carmelite nun there.
- PUB DATE: 4/6/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNBC-TV NBC 4 New York

VIDEO: Firefighters continue their search for a cause for Friday evening’s fire on La Crosse’s Northside. Crews used half a million gallons of water to put the fire out. Last Friday La Crosse fire crews fought an industrial fire at Alter Metal Recycling in the La Crosse Industrial Park on the Northside.
- PUB DATE: 4/6/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKBT-DT CBS 8 La Crosse

PHOTO: The Sioux City Fire Department is now flying a “Donate Life” flag at one of its stations. Iowa Donor Network donation services coordinator John Jorgensen says it’s hoped the flag will inspire more people to become organ donors. “This is the first one that we are aware of that’s ever happened at a fire station.
- PUB DATE: 4/6/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Radio Iowa

Firefighters continue their search for a cause for Friday evening’s fire on La Crosse’s Northside. Crews used half a million gallons of water to put the fire out. Last Friday La Crosse fire crews fought an industrial fire at Alter Metal Recycling in the La Crosse Industrial Park on the Northside. The thick black smoke shot in the air came from, what La Crosse Fire Department officials confirm, were 100 cars burning in a scrapyard.
- PUB DATE: 4/5/2021 5:28:05 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

PHOTOS: Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has declared a state of emergency due to elevated wildfire conditions. The entire state of Wisconsin is under very high fire danger, according to the Department of Natural Resources. There have been 320 wildfires in Wisconsin this year. More than 1,400 acres have burned.
- PUB DATE: 4/5/2021 11:12:34 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

VIDEO: A destructive four-alarm fire left a row of Queens businesses badly damaged and two firefighters with serious injuries by the time officials got the blaze under control. The commercial fire started on Springfield Boulevard in Queens Village early Saturday morning, prompting the response of dozens and then eventually hundreds of firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 4/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNBC-TV NBC 4 New York

PHOTOS: The last thing he remembers is someone offering him a doughnut. The next few days are a blank for a Green Township firefighter who was poisoned with cyanide while fighting a fire in Alpena County two weeks ago. Matt Cohoon, the 37-year-old chief of the Green Township Fire Department, was a mystery to doctors when he showed up at MidMichigan Medical Center-Alpena on March 16.
- PUB DATE: 4/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Alpena News

VIDEO: In March, a truck carrying two people crashed on Interstate 84 near Malad Gorge State Park. The truck would up going over the edge of the interstate, where it was left suspended over the interstate's rail, kept above the gorge floor by only the chain connecting its trailer and the car's right front axle, which was perched on the interstate's ledge.
- PUB DATE: 4/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMVT-TV CBS 11 Twin Falls

PHOTOS: For an hour midday Thursday, the pond behind Bass Pro Shops was the safest body of water in Denham Springs. Anyone who might have been unlucky enough to find themselves in distress in the water would have quickly been pulled aboard a brand new, bright red rescue boat Livingston Parish Fire Protection District No.
- PUB DATE: 4/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Advocate - Metered Site

VIDEO: A firefighter with the Birmingham Fire Department has started a new business with the hope of connecting with more kids in the community, a mission that was partly inspired by his late mother. James Patton’s new business, Gamez on Fire, is a mobile gaming trailer that started a few months ago.
- PUB DATE: 4/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRBL-TV CBS 3 Columbus

An apartment fire damaged two units at Chalet Gardens apartments on Sunday evening. Fitchburg Fire Rescue say multiple residents called around 5 p.m. after seeing heavy smoke coming from the exterior of one of the apartments. Firefighters were able to quickly enter the apartment and put out the fire.
- PUB DATE: 4/4/2021 11:41:39 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

Every Wisconsin county remains under a very high risk for fire danger, officials with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources reported Sunday, April 4, noting more than 150 fires over the Easter weekend, including the 230-acre Marcy Road fire in Menomonee Falls. We don't yet know how that fire began, but it did prompt a warning from firefighters for the public to be more careful.
- PUB DATE: 4/4/2021 7:35:46 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

A fire at a nursing home in Sheboygan caused $60,000 worth of damage Saturday afternoon. Firefighters responded to a report of fire alarms going off around 3:45 p.m. at Sunny Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 3014 Erie Ave. The fire had been controlled by the sprinkler system when firefighters came to the room of the fire, according to the Sheboygan Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 4/4/2021 3:02:40 PM - SOURCE: Sheboygan Press

VIDEO: The Grand Rapids Volunteer Fire Department felt they had to do something for Easter after their annual Easter Egg Hunt was canceled last year. Today, they pulled off a drive-thru version of that event. “It was exciting, She was jumping up and down and yeah, she was happy,” Stephanie Haworth said about her daughter.
- PUB DATE: 4/3/2021 2:17:25 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

A fire started by an illegal burn damaged one and a half acres of a cornfield in Fond du Lac. The fire came as the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources suspended burning permits and warned of very high fire danger statewide. Firefighters say they responded to the 600 block of Whispering Springs Drive shortly after 11 a.
- PUB DATE: 4/2/2021 9:49:27 PM - SOURCE: WNFL SPORTS RADIO