Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines are "highly effective" at reducing the risk of infection from COVID-19, according to the first large study of how Americans who have received a vaccine have fared in the U.S. outside of a clinical trial. In a Centers for Disease Control study of just under 4,000 heath care workers, police, firefighters and other essential workers who received one of the two mRNA vaccines between Dec.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: People

There are only two Hmong firefighters in Wisconsin. One of them lives right here in La Crosse. “Everybody wants to live the American dream,” Batallion Chief Bee Xiong said. “I think that’s what my family and I are doing right now.” Xiong built 19 years and counting with the La Crosse Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2021 5:14:43 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

The Suamico Fire Department cut the ribbon on its new fire station on Sunday. The ceremony was private, for firefighters, families, and village staff. The new building replaces the old building right down Riverside Drive, which is about 60 years old. The new station has several upgrades, such as a decontamination hallway for firefighters to use to clean themselves after responding to fires.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2021 1:57:49 AM - SOURCE: WNFL SPORTS RADIO

Authorities are investigating the bizarre circumstances surrounding a car fire which sparked a large blaze at a gas station in Baldwin Park early Monday morning. The fire occurred at about 12:50 a.m. at a Mobile gas station in the 12600 block of East Ramona Boulevard near the 605 Freeway. Security video provided to CBSLA showed a car pull up to a pump.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCBS-TV CBS 2 Los Angeles

Twenty-three years ago, a firefighter rushed into a burning home in Poughkeepsie with two young brothers inside. One of them died in the fire but the 3-year-old brother was rescued, and he reunited with the man who saved him over the weekend for the first time. William Porter is now retired and that little boy, Jacob Tsukroff, is now 26 years old.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNBC-TV NBC 4 New York

It has been a challenging year for all of us, but it has been especially hard for first responders and frontline workers who were struggling even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Now these heroes on the front lines of community service are finding help through a new equine therapy program in Tucson healing with horses.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KVOA-TV NBC 4 Tucson

Hundreds of emergency responders in Pennsylvania have been killed while providing roadside assistance. Beginning April 27, new changes to Pennsylvania’s Move Over Law will take effect to prevent future deaths. In July 2020, Tyler Laudenslager was struck and killed by a driver while providing roadside assistance in Berks County on Interstate 78 west.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPMT-TV Fox 43 York

More than 15% of the total U.S. population has been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With more than 143 million doses administered, over 93 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine and more than 51 million people have been fully vaccinated.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: U.S. News & World Report

Six people are displaced after their home caught fire Sunday due to improperly discarded smoking materials, according to the Madison Fire Department. Around 2:30 p.m., Madison firefighters responded to the 1100 block of Starlight Drive for a structure fire. A resident of the home reported visible smoke and flames on an outside wall of the home.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2021 10:06:56 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

Ten residents of a Racine apartment building have been displaced by a Saturday morning fire. The Red Cross is providing assistance to those in need. The Racine Fire Department was called to the fire, near 8th and College, around 9 a.m. A total of 25 firefighters responded to the two-story, six-unit building.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2021 2:55:58 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

The Fire Department quickly extinguished a fire in a three-apartment residence Friday, March 26, 2021. Dispatched at 6:55 p.m. to the 700 block of West Third Street, firefighters arrived in approximately two minutes and had the second-floor fire under control five minutes later, according to a new release.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2021 9:44:31 AM - SOURCE: RiverTowns

VIDEO: A new, expanded EMS coordination team at Marshfield Clinic Medical Center in Marshfield is working to make all of the people involved in responding to medical emergencies better. The center always had an EMS coordinator, but when she retired and Marshfield Clinic looked to fill the position, the emergency department medical director, Dr.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2021 5:41:37 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

The City of Sun Prairie’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Department, Police Department, and Fire Department are the recipients of a Homeland Security Exercise grant for $8,500. In partnership with Dane County Emergency Management and awarded through Wisconsin Emergency Management, the grant allows the city’s public safety teams to continue to build upon their emergency preparedness efforts.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sun Prairie Star

VIDEO: Storms in April are nothing new in St. Louis. In fact, we’ve come to expect them. But there was a storm no one saw coming back in the spring of 1976. And, as you’ll see in this edition of Vintage KSDK, this one blew helmets off firefighters and could have wiped out the entire city. “This is a firestorm,” explained Charles Kamprad, the St.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSDK-TV NBC 5 St. Louis

VIDEO: The way Matt Boney describes it, what happened on Wednesday sounds like the biggest-hearted game of telephone ever, which managed — for 40 minutes — to turn a nightmare into the birthday surprise of any 6-year-old boy's dreams. On Tuesday, Spring Valley firefighter Jared Lloyd, 35, died in the smoke and flame of the Evergreen Court Adult Home fire.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Journal News - Metered Site

On March 11, the House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee introduced the Next Generation 9-1-1 Act of 2021 as part of the LIFT America Act (H.R. 1848). This legislation will provide $15 billion to update our nation’s 9-1-1 infrastructure, protect this infrastructure from cyber threats and ensure that first responders will be able to efficiently use Next Generation 9-1-1 technology to save lives.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: IAFC.org

PHOTOS: Firefighters were on the scene of a structure fire at the Alvin's Island retail beach store in Destin on Thursday. Firefighters from multiple agencies were on the scene and a ladder truck with firefighters was inspecting the roof of the building. West and eastbound lanes of U.S. Highway 98 shutdown for an extended period of time as they battled the blaze.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Northwest Florida Daily News

PHOTOS: While things have begun to change in recent years, female firefighters are still relatively rare. But what’s even more uncommon is to have two female firefighters, in the same small department, expecting babies at around the same time. Heather Jones thought it was rare enough that she decided to ask fellow firefighter, Cindy Simon, to join her in a photo shoot that turned out to be an excellent recruiting tool for the Gibraltar Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News-Herald

One man was injured and a pet cat was killed after a fire broke out at a Baraboo home Thursday afternoon. Firefighters with the Baraboo Fire Department responded to 420 West Maple Street around 3:15 p.m. for an active structure fire. Authorities said in a Facebook post that crews found fire and heavy smoke coming from the rear of the house when they arrived.
- PUB DATE: 3/25/2021 11:09:25 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

The project to demolish the 80-year-old Fire Station No. 4 on Gillette Street has been a waiting game. “We’ve been talking about replacing the old Station 4,” La Crosse Fire Department chief Ken Gilliam said. Those plans have been in the works since 2018. “I’m adjusting strategy now to try and get something done in 2021,” Gilliam said.
- PUB DATE: 3/25/2021 5:36:53 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse