Chief Joseph Adamson of the Horicon Police Department has responded to many overdose calls in his career. He now carries Narcan with him everywhere. “You never know when you’re going to run into an opportunity to help save a life,” Adamson said. He was excited to help install one of the first public opioid rescue kits in Wisconsin inside the lobby of his station.
- PUB DATE: 3/12/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spectrum News 1

VIDEO: Colleen Walz shattered the glass ceiling to become the first female lieutenant in the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire in 1995. Last week, Kari Burnham was honored in a ceremony as the second woman to hold the position. Burnham said, "This is something I love to do. It's like a dream come true." But why did it take decades for another woman to rise in the ranks? Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire chief Darryl Jones said, "It was an embarrassment not only that it took so long to promote a female to the rank of lieutenant to a company officer, but the number of females that we have on the job is way below the national average.
- PUB DATE: 3/12/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTAE-TV ABC 4 Pittsburgh

The public information officer for the Chesterfield Fire Company has been charged in connection with crash scene photos he took without permission and posted to his agency’s Facebook page last month, according to an arrest warrant. Steven E. Frischling, 45, of Carriage Hill Drive in Niantic, was charged with two counts of illegally taking or transmission by first responders of images of crime or accident victims, according to a warrant for his arrest.
- PUB DATE: 3/12/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Connecticut Post

VIDEO: A doctor performed a field amputation on a worker who became ensnared in a conveyor belt at an iron company in Oklahoma City. The emergency situation occurred Thursday afternoon in the 1500 block of East Reno, near Reno and Martin Luther King Avenue. The worker’s hand became caught in a conveyor belt, suffering extreme injury and could not be freed without an amputation being performed.
- PUB DATE: 3/12/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFOR-TV NBC 4 Oklahoma

After years of minimal staffing and low budgets, Hopedale’s fire chief said this week that he has found a way to double the town’s number of firefighters at no cost to taxpayers. “The runs are coming in, the staffing isn’t,” Fire Chief Thomas Daige told selectmen this week, referring to emergency calls that need firefighters and EMTs.
- PUB DATE: 3/12/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Milford Daily News

As world leaders grapple with how to efficiently and safely deliver COVID-19 vaccines to 8 billion people, the task of building vaccine-administration pods will fall to thousands of local hospitals, clinics, and community centers. There will be no “one size fits all” solution to this challenge; core design elements, based on basic principles of continuous improvement (or lean management), offer a roadmap.
- PUB DATE: 3/12/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Harvard Business Review - Metered Site

Firefighters responded to a partial building collapse and gas leak at a spa store in Grand Chute Thursday morning. At about 11:26 a.m., the Grand Chute Fire Department was called to Master Spas, 2138 W. Wisconsin Avenue. As a result of the collapse, a gas meter was damaged and leaking. The meter was covered by debris from the collapse and was “blowing gas.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2021 1:26:12 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

The Ripon Area Fire District responded to a fire at the Alliance Laundry Systems facility near Vermont Street and Lyon Street tonight (Wednesday). A general alarm call came in around 9 p.m. that reported smoke was in the building, with visible flames. According to the reporter on scene, there was no visible smoke or flames from outside of the building.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ripon Press

It's long been recommended that you change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors when you change your clocks at the beginning or end of daylight saving time. But this year, Wisconsin Emergency Management recommends you go one step further and press the test button on your alarms as you spring forward this weekend.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLUK-TV FOX 11 Green Bay

PHOTOS: An historic Kentucky landmark has been destroyed by fire. According to a Facebook post by the Washington County Sheriff's Office, the Mt. Zion bridge was consumed by flames around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. The 280 foot long bridge, which spanned spans the Little Beech Fork, was built in 1871 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAVE-TV NBC 3 Louisville

VIDEO: This year has been incredibly stressful for all of us, but our first responders have bravely and selflessly led the way. On Wednesday, one of our frontline heroes got the healing opportunity to make music on a legendary piano. It's something a volunteer firefighter and EMT in Princeton hasn't done since the pandemic began.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPVI-TV ABC 6 Philadelphia

VIDEO: Fire Station 13 sits in the shadow of SheiKra, the towering roller coaster at Busch Gardens. The station gets more calls for service than anywhere else in Tampa. It's so busy city councilman Luis Vera says it's earned the nickname 'Nightmare on Annie Street' because if you work here, don't plan on getting much sleep.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFTS-TV ABC 28 Tampa

The results of a new survey conducted by the Illinois Public Pension Fund Association (IPPFA) indicate the majority of Illinois firefighting and law enforcement professionals continue working in a variety of professions after retiring from their first responder jobs. Firefighters and law enforcement officers typically retire at a younger age due to the demands of the occupation than those in other lines of work.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Canton Daily Ledger

Public safety agencies are one of the fastest-growing adopters of unmanned aircraft systems technology. Utilizing UAS provides opportunities and advantages to law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency management personnel, but knowing where to start in developing a UAS operation can be complicated.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: sUAS News

Members of the Dallas Area Ambulance squad, with headquarters next to the Prairie Farm Fire Hall, took part in the Fun on the Flowage celebration held at Pioneer Park on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2020. With temperatures that stayed at or below zero the entire day, the event wasn’t as well attended as many of the sponsors would have liked, including the ambulance personnel who were hoping to raise money that day with a snowshoe race, human sled-dog race and ice-skating race.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2021 1:16:14 PM - SOURCE: Barron News Shield

A crystal ball magnified sunlight shining into a Sauk County home Monday, causing a nearby couch to ignite before the fire eventually spread throughout the living room. Firefighters with the Delton Fire Department responded to the Fox Hill Road residence in the Town of Delton around 4:15 p.m. to find smoke coming from the home.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2021 6:39:51 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

The Wisconsin Dells community is helping a retired firefighter and his family rebuild after a fire destroyed their home March 5. At least two online fundraisers and two drop-off donation sites have been set up in Wisconsin Dells and Baraboo to help Chris and Stephanie Lawton recover after a fire destroyed their home at 911 Fawn Court.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

For a few minutes on a Wednesday afternoon Lt. Shauna Walesh was all about “Interstellar Cinderella.” Holding the book up, she read into a cellphone mounted on a tripod, broadcasting the story live to Facebook. The reading is part of a weekly program, Storytime (CQ) with a Firefighter. It started as a way to provide fire education during Fire Prevention Week last fall when many kids were at home.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spectrum News 1

One person was killed and five firefighters were injured when a blaze broke out at a Bronx apartment building Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. Firefighters were called responded to a fire on the fourth floor of an apartment building in the vicinity of West 165 Street and Anderson Avenue in the Highbridge neighborhood around 12:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPIX-TV CW 11 New York

It seems the adage is true: It takes a village. In this case, an outspoken one. Following a recent decision from village officials to close the fire station at 831 E Lake Ave. and reallocate its resources to the other stations, a group of Glenview residents spoke out. In response, the village decided to reverse its plan, keep all five stations open and revisit the data to explore other options.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune - Metered Site