Two men were seriously injured in a crash near the intersection of Highway 54 and Miller Road in the town of Black Creek at 6:50 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Outagamie County Sheriff’s Office. A pickup truck traveling east by a 67-year-old man from Minnesota crossed the center line and struck a pickup truck traveling west by a 27-year-old New London man, according to the initial scene investigation by the sheriff's office.
- PUB DATE: 4/7/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

VIDEO: An eight-alarm fire tore through an apartment building in Queens Tuesday afternoon, leaving 21 injured, including 16 firefighters, and displacing more than 200 residents. The fire broke out as four-alarm blaze on the top floor of the six-story building on 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights around 1 p.
- PUB DATE: 4/7/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 7 New York

Six firefighters lost their lives responding to a fire in a century-old, abandoned warehouse in Worcester, Massachusetts, in December 1999. Worried that civilians were trapped inside, rescue teams initiated a rapid intervention; but, unfamiliar with the layout of the building, the smoke-filled warehouse became a labyrinth for those that entered.
- PUB DATE: 4/7/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Homeland Security Today

VIDEO: There are big changes coming to the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire, which include recruiting more women and minorities at Pittsburgh Westinghouse High School. When Mark Black puts on firefighting gear and trains to one day become a firefighter after completing the Career and Technical Education program at Pittsburgh Westinghouse High School, he hopes more female firefighters will be by his side.
- PUB DATE: 4/7/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTAE-TV ABC 4 Pittsburgh

North Carolina firefighters remain cautiously optimistic as two Senate Republicans introduced bill to provide financial assistance for cancer treatment. For the past several years, firefighters across the state have been fighting to get presumptive cancer coverage expanded for themselves and their colleagues.
- PUB DATE: 4/7/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGHP-TV Fox 8 High Point

Just five states have accounted for about 43% of new coronavirus cases over the last week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. New York, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and New Jersey had for more than 196,400 of the country's 453,360 cases reported in the last week, according to data available Wednesday morning.
- PUB DATE: 4/7/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN

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