PHOTOS: Asheville Fire Department’s dual driver ladder truck is a tiller truck or a tractor drawn aerial (TDA). This hook-and-ladder truck features a specialized turntable ladder mounted on a semi-trailer truck. Ladder 1 was purchased for $1.2 million back in 2019. It runs out of the downtown station and responds to more than 2,800 calls per year.
- PUB DATE: 3/1/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The City of Asheville

A team of investigators at the University of Kansas is collecting data and designing interventions to improve the quality of sleep for firefighters and paramedics in the Lawrence Douglas County Fire-Medical Department. For these first responders, better sleep could improve their quality of life and boost their performance as they encounter life-and-death situations.
- PUB DATE: 3/1/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Medical Express

On February 20, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the first person in the United States had died from COVID-19 — a man in his fifties living in Washington state. Since then, close to 28 million Americans have been infected with the novel (new) coronavirus, officially known as SARS-CoV-2, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.
- PUB DATE: 3/1/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Everyday Health

PHOTOS: While warmer temperatures melt snow across southeastern Wisconsin, it could make for dangerous conditions on the ice. That's why local fire departments on Saturday, Feb. 27 trained in Kasnasville for ice rescues. As lakes begin to thaw, a reality sinks in: Ice rescues could start happening more often.
- PUB DATE: 2/27/2021 5:59:20 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

A house fire Friday afternoon in Chippewa Falls caused about $100,000 in damages, according to Chippewa Falls Battalion Chief Jason Thom. The fire at 359 Maynard St. was reported at 1:05 p.m. The Fire Department reported to the structure fire, where they found furniture on the front porch was well-involved in fire, and it was spreading into the residence, Thom said in a press release.
- PUB DATE: 2/27/2021 3:58:44 PM - SOURCE: Leader-Telegram

The heat from a fire caused a loaded gun to discharge, critically wounding a firefighter who was working to douse flames in northwestern Wisconsin, fire officials said. Justin Fredrickson, 35, is out of the intensive care unit and recovering, the Cornell Area Fire Department said in an update Friday on Facebook.
- PUB DATE: 2/27/2021 8:39:28 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

The Appleton Fire Department report that crews were successful in controlling a fire that had ignited at the Copper Leaf Hotel in Appleton on Saturday morning. According to the station, at around 4 a.m., crews responded to a Fire Alarm at the Copper Leaf Hotel in Appleton. Officials say the initial report indicated to firefighters that the Fire Alarm was detecting presence of smoke in the basement of the building.
- PUB DATE: 2/27/2021 5:35:40 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV CBS 5 Green Bay

A fire Friday in the town of Rice Lake resulted in about $135,000 worth of damage to a 30-by-100-foot quonset-style structure. According to a Rice Lake Fire Department news release: Firefighters were dispatched at approximately 12:05 p.m. to a structure fire located at 1858 19th St., the property of Darren Rohde.
- PUB DATE: 2/27/2021 5:07:26 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

The State of Wisconsin is resuming enforcing a code provision requiring fire sprinkler systems in certain multi-family homes, a policy that may help stop a plague of home fires in the Milwaukee area this winter. Multi-family homes taller than 60 feet, or six stories, and with three or more attached dwelling units will need to have an automatic fire sprinkler system installed.
- PUB DATE: 2/26/2021 5:55:10 PM - SOURCE: WTMJ-TV NBC 4 Milwaukee

The Cornell Area Fire Department is rallying behind one of their own after a firefighter was shot by a gun that discharged due to heat from a fire, ending up in the hospital. "He went from work and he was on a hose line spraying water. This was probably at least an hour into the fire when he was struck by a bullet that was shot out of a gun inside the house," said Fire Chief Dennis Klass, of the Cornell Area Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 2/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire

The Oshkosh Fire Department received a rating of one by the Insurance Service Organization (ISO) for the first time ever. According to officials, the ISO rates over 40,000 fire departments across the nation based on a scale from one to ten. One is the best possible score and in 2020 only 388 departments nationwide received a rating of one.
- PUB DATE: 2/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV CBS 5 Green Bay

Now that the city’s new fire engine is in service and responding to calls, the old 1989 Ford it replaced will be sold at auction. City Council on Tuesday night unanimously approved the sale of Engine 7 through Ripon, Wisconsin-based Auction Associates. No date for the auction was provided. The truck no longer meets National Fire Protection Association specifications and would not be cost-effective to refurbish, according to a staff report.
- PUB DATE: 2/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: River Towns

A homegrown nonprofit working to help ease the stresses of active military members, veterans, first responders, and their families is on the cusp of getting its first forward operating base. The Delafield Town Plan Commission recently granted Wisconsin Heroes Outdoors the initial permission it needs to use the town’s former Fire Station #2, W329-S890 Kettle Moraine Drive, as its headquarters, and the town and the nonprofit are currently working out the details of a three-year-lease for the property.
- PUB DATE: 2/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: GM Today

VIDEO: Three workers were injured as a massive North Texas foam recycling plant fire burned all day Thursday and into the next day. The fire broke out at the Richland Hills corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility for Advanced Foam Recycling at 2525 Handley Ederville Road, southwest of Texas 121 and Loop 820, at about 12:45 p.
- PUB DATE: 2/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Fort Worth

VIDEO/PHOTOS: A Brockton fire truck that has been missing for a number of years is making its way home where it will serve as a permanent memorial to the lives lost at a deadly fire decades ago. The nearly 100-year-old Squad A truck was used to battle the massive Strand Theater fire in 1941 that claimed the lives of 13 firefighters, four of whom rode to the blaze in that very truck.
- PUB DATE: 2/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHDH-TV ABC 7 Boston

PHOTO: Making a positive difference in people's lives is what motivates Laurel Countian Nathan Kirby. So he took his artistic talents, his past and present experience and his passion for others and combined those qualities to enhance his interests to recognize his profession and the professionals who save lives.
- PUB DATE: 2/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Sentinel Echo

The process of tracking down where COVID-19 vaccines are available could soon get a little easier, thanks to a tool backed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The goal of VaccineFinder website is to make it easier for the public to find information about locations that carry vaccines in their communities and how to make an appointment.
- PUB DATE: 2/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIA-TV NBC 11 Atlanta

Sgt. Dan Carbonaro of the Port Authority Police was in the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 when a bomb went off. He told the Staten Island Advance, “You couldn’t see your hand in front of your face. I was in Vietnam, and this was worse than any explosion I witnessed in Vietnam.” At 12:17 p.m.
- PUB DATE: 2/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Penn Live

Green Bay Metro Fire Chief David Litton joined Local 5 to talk about updates regarding the Green Bay Metro Fire Department (GBMFD). Chief Litton says the Bellevue Fire Chief resigned and was seeking other communities to potentially merge with, before finally setting on Green Bay. The merger will benefit taxpayers from both municipalities, says Chief Litton.
- PUB DATE: 2/25/2021 7:58:28 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV CBS 5 Green Bay

Consultants have determined the City of Platteville needs a new fire station. They proposed a nearly 32,000-square-foot concept that includes eight truck bays, training rooms, administrative offices and living quarters. A preliminary assessment indicated that a new structure could cost $8 million to $13 million.
- PUB DATE: 2/25/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Telegraph Herald