VIDEO: An old wooden farmhouse that wasn’t believed to be structurally sound is now in ashes. Three new recruits for the Caledonia Fire Department were trained at a controlled house burn on Wednesday morning at Highway V and 6½ Mile Road. The training session consisted of lighting a live fire and making entry into a real structure, Caledonia Fire Lt.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 1:14:34 PM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

Safety Town returns Tuesday through Friday, June 8 to 11, at Lake Geneva Middle School, 600 N. Bloomfield Road, Lake Geneva. The safety program is designed for children at least age 5, entering kindergarten in the fall. During a 12-hour program — three hours per day, for four days — children will learn safety from certified teachers and qualified professionals, such as firefighters and police personnel.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 1:12:08 PM - SOURCE: Lake Geneva News

PHOTO: Tenants of a Hartland apartment building were evacuated Wednesday morning after a fire broke out. The Hartland fire and police departments were called to the fire, in the area of State Highway 16 and North Avenue, just after 8:30 a.m. Upon arrival, flames were seen coming from the building's roof.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 12:48:17 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

PHOTOS: Six people are displaced after a home caught fire near 37th and Scott Tuesday, March 30. It happened around 3 p.m. Battalion Chief Brian Gardener with the Milwaukee Fire Department said they received reports of people trapped after a fire on the front porch. However, after a rapid search of the residence, everyone involved was accounted for and self-evacuated.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 7:08:24 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

PHOTOS: No injuries have been reported after a fire engulfed a Chippewa Falls residence. Crews were on scene of a fire just north of Eau Claire, on Debbie Street in Chippewa Falls. The Chippewa Fire District says they received a call at 2:07 p.m. stating that a homeowner was sleeping and woke up to smoke in her house.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV NBC 13 Eau Claire

VIDEO: About 150 firefighters worked feverishly to put out a massive fire at a waste management facility in the Brighton Park neighborhood Tuesday. The wind-blown fire started around 4 p.m. in a prairie near the railway about a block away from Waste Management of Illinois, Inc.'s recycling facility near 48th Place and Christiana Avenue, according to a statement from the company.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago

VIDEO: An Oklahoma City firefighter who lost a fellow firefighter to lung cancer will participate in the American Lung Association’s outdoor Fight For Air Climb in Oklahoma to raise money for research. Cpl. Zach Rowell has witnessed both triumph and tragedy in the battle against lung cancer. He lost a colleague to the disease, but his father survived it.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFOR-TV NBC 4 Oklahoma

VIDEO: Buffalo Firefighters struck three alarms for additional personnel and equipment to handle a fire that broke out Tuesday morning on Bailey Avenue near Clinton Street. Firefighters were called to the scene just after 10:50 a.m. Photos from the scene showed heavy smoke coming from a bowling alley/restaurant known as the Bowl Inn Pizza and Lanes in the 700 block of Bailey Avenue.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGRZ-TV NBC 2 Buffalo

VIDEO: After months of waiting and anticipating the reveal of the new Hattiesburg fire engine, the day finally came Tuesday. The truck is not your average fire truck. The Southern Miss-themed engine is painted black and gold with the USM Golden Eagle logo on its side. The colors were chosen to signify the great relationship between the university and the city of Hattiesburg.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDAM-TV NBC/ABC 7 Hattiesburg

VIDEO: A family was reunited with special belongings left behind after a fire caused them to leave their house more than a decade ago. This wouldn’t have been possible, however, without the eagerness of a Savannah firefighter who made it her mission to put the treasures back into the right hands. The house that once stood there was being used by the Savannah Fire Department for training exercises.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOC-TV CBS 11 Savannah

VIDEO: There are no injuries following a fire this morning at a Winona assisted living facility. Crews were called to Brookdale Senior Living around 7:30 Tuesday morning. When they arrived, the fire which started on the back patio, started spreading into the building’s attic. Winona MTU buses and Winona Health provided temporary shelter for the residents.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 6:25:42 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

VIDEO: Fire danger remains very high for most of the region. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources built a new tool so can stay up to date with fire conditions in your community. Burn bans sweep across the La Crosse area as high winds and dry air scorch the landscape. A season of wildfires — most started by people in Wisconsin.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 3:55:28 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

VIDEO/PHOTOS: A 48-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested, suspected of starting a grass fire Tuesday morning, March 30 under the 27th Street Viaduct in the Menomonee Valley. Police say he intentionally lit some of the prairie grass along the Hank Aaron State Trail before flames burned through parts of Three Bridges Park.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 1:34:06 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

The City of Peshtigo began selling commemorative coins to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Great Peshtigo Fire. The new coin is now on sale. Collectors can buy them for 15-dollars apiece, and come in a black, velvet pouch. Peshtigo mayor, Cathi Malke, tells FOX 11 the idea of coins commemorating what’s known as “America’s Deadliest Forest Fire” isn’t unique.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 7:46:32 AM - SOURCE: WNFL Radio Green Bay

VIDEO: A citizen and two police officers required medical treatment after house fire on Green Bay’s east side. Six people were displaced from the home. Investigators say the home is considered a “total loss.” At about midnight, Green Bay Metro Firefighters were called to a home in the 2700 block of East Shore Drive.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 3:29:10 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

Superior firefighters got some real-world, high-risk training Monday to help rescue one of their own if they were to ever go down during a fire. Fake smoke was pumped into a 5,000-square-foot storage facility behind the new fire station on Tower Avenue. The drill included a two-person team searching through zero visibility for a fellow firefighter in distress with a depleting air pack.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KQDS-TV Fox 21 Duluth

VIDEO: Dallas Fire-Rescue responded to a large apartment fire at the Forest Cove Apartments, in the 9600 block of Forest Lane in Northeast Dallas Monday evening, March 29. Flames were shooting through the roof. The call came in around 5:30 p.m. as flames could be seen inside multiple apartment units.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVT-TV CBS 11 Forth Worth

VIDEO: The driver of an SUV was critically injured and three firefighters have been hospitalized after a firetruck was involved in a head-on crash Monday. Florida Highway Patrol troopers said the crash between a Volusia County firetruck and a Chevy Tahoe happened on Ocean Shore Boulevard in Volusia County at 12:10 p.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WESH-TV NBC 2 Orlando

VIDEO: Imagine going to the grocery store, parking your car, getting your shopping done, checking out, loading your groceries and you’re about to drive away and then BAM… there’s a swarm of bees in your backseat. That’s what happened to a Las Cruces man this weekend. According to a post on the Las Cruces Fire Department’s Facebook page, firefighters were called out to a local Albertson’s grocery store after the man found a swarm of bees had taken up temporary residence in his backseat.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOAT-TV ABC 7 Albuquerque

In a year when so many of us have struggled with feeling isolated in our homes or apartments, living alone in a 14-by-14-foot cabin perched thousands of feet above the wilderness might not sound enticing. For more than a century, though, across the United States, a few intrepid Americans have sought out those remote towers as not just a job, but a lifestyle.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine