A local family has been displaced after a structure fire Thursday afternoon in the Putnam Heights neighborhood. Eau Claire firefighters responded at 12:41 p.m. to the fire at 1013 Bradley Ave., according to a news release from the Fire Department. Two fire engines, two ladder trucks, one medic unit and two chief officers responded to the call.
- PUB DATE: 2/18/2021 8:27:15 PM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

With snowbanks reaching head-height along Kenosha’s streets, the Kenosha Fire Department is asking residents’ help in digging out fire hydrants on the parkway. Guy Santelli, fire prevention division chief at the department, said there are nearly 3,300 fire hydrants in the city. City residents are asked to dig out the hydrants on their parkway as they clear sidewalks in front of their homes.
- PUB DATE: 2/18/2021 1:16:35 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News - Metered Site

Local firefighters braved the snowy and frigid conditions while they battled a large warehouse fire in Princeton Wednesday night. The Princeton Fire Department responded to a structure fire at the old Leroi building on South Seminary Street shortly after 8:00 p.m. Caldwell County Emergency Manager Joey McCaslin tells the News Edge 24 firefighters responded to the fire with an aerial truck and two pumper trucks.
- PUB DATE: 2/18/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKDZ Radio 106.5 FM

Decatur is offering an incentive package to get vaccinated for COVID-19 as an encouragement for hesitant city employees, especially first responders. The DeKalb County city is offering extra vacation time, health insurance credits and raffled gift cards to try to increase vaccination rates. Fewer than half of the city’s 150 first responders — police officers, firefighters and public works employees — have gotten vaccinated, Deputy City Manager Hugh Saxon told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- PUB DATE: 2/18/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Porterville Fire Department will honor the memory of two fallen firefighters one year after Capt. Ramon Figueroa and Patrick Jones died making sure nobody was trapped inside a burning library. A virtual memorial service will be posted to the department's social media at 4 p.m. Thursday, officials announced.
- PUB DATE: 2/18/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Visalia Times Delta - Metered Site

VIDEOS: Emergency crews rescued 12 people from boats in frigid conditions Wednesday night after the roof of a boat dock collapsed in Old Hickory. Both the Nashville Fire Department and Office of Emergency Management responded to the Blue Turtle Bay Marina in the 2000 block of Riverside Road. Callers to 911 reported the roof of the boat dock collapsed on top of multiple houseboats with people inside.
- PUB DATE: 2/18/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKRN-TV ABC 2 Nashville

Scientists have identified seven new coronavirus variants that have emerged in the United States, according to a study awaiting peer review. All seven variants contained a similar mutation and were found to have emerged as early as July 2020. Scientists say it's not surprising that they're just now identifying new viral variants in the U.
- PUB DATE: 2/18/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News

The snow squeeze on city streets is making it difficult for first responders trying to keep people safe. Driving through some city streets can be a game of inches for drivers. In some cases, fire trucks, which are about 8 feet wide, only have a few inches spare as they try to respond to an emergency.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2021 10:31:35 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

A Kenosha, Wis. man died Wednesday morning after suffering a medical emergency just after exiting a structure fire in Fountain City. The man, who was not identified, was one of two occupants of a multi-family structure located on South Main Street in Fountain City, according to the Buffalo County Sheriff’s Department.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2021 1:20:19 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

Federal investigators are expected to begin their work Wednesday at the site of a fatal plane crash in southern Wisconsin. Two people died Tuesday when a small plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville. Authorities say the plane went down in a swampy area and was partially submerged in ice and mud.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2021 6:40:59 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

UpNorthLive News has received the fire report involving the M/V Roger Blough while at its winter storage dock in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. According to investigators, the freighter caught fire during the early morning hours of Monday, February 1 at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding. Lieutenant Matt Austad with the Sturgeon Bay Fire Department said responding personnel was able to enter the area by using the stairs of the neighboring freighter, James Barker, before moving across its deck to the Roger Blough.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Up North Live

VIDEO: Firefighters battled a large fire in Duncanville that could be seen from Texas Sky Ranger. The fire engulfed five townhomes at 1408 Crosspointe in Duncanville near Clark and Wheatland Road. Michelle Monterro's home was destroyed by the fire. She said her neighbors had work crews in the home doing some sort of repair work when the fire broke out.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Fort Worth

An agreement was reached Tuesday to protect firefighters with more safety on film sets throughout New York City Eileen Davidson, the widow of a firefighter killed on a movie set in 2018, has pushed hard for the safety crackdown. Michael Davidson, 37, was killed on the set of "Motherless Brooklyn" on March 23, 2018 in Harlem.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 7 New York

Glasgow Assistant Fire Chief Adam Maulden said in his 19-years of service, he has never been as scared as he was Monday at a massive fire when that nearly killed his colleague. At around 4:30 p.m., the Glasgow Fire Department responded to a fire at Hughes HVAC Supply on West Main Street. The building is a complete loss.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNKY-TV NBC/CBS 40 Bowling Green

The Coal Township Rescue Squad's fire station was temporarily turned into a bakery as members continued a longtime tradition of making doughnuts for Fat Tuesday. "The amount of years I've been here and the last couple of years, this is the most I've seen us make," Kayla Hoffman said. The volunteer firefighters started cooking thousands of doughnuts at midnight and have been here all day.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNEP-TV ABC 16 Scranton

A 29-year-old firefighter who worked for departments in Iredell and Rowan Counties died from COVID-19 last week. Now his family at home and in the fire service have a message they want the community to hear. They spoke very candidly about taking COVID seriously. They say their hope is that their experience will save another family from having to go through the pain they have endured for the last five weeks.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBTV CBS 3 Charlotte

A roof collapse at a gas station in Racine County leaves damage but no injuries, according to the Union Grove Fire Department. The fire chief said they’re investigating the cause of the roof collapse at Racine Petro at 717 S Sylvania Ave., but they aren’t ruling out whether heavy snow or construction inside was to blame.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2021 2:59:41 PM - SOURCE: WTMJ-TV NBC 4 Milwaukee

The area's unrelenting deep freeze caused problems for firefighters who battled a severe house fire Monday and for the family left homeless as a result. In a nearly six-hour effort in the frigid cold beginning at about 2:45 p.m., firefighters poured water on the stubborn blaze, which officials believe may have sprung from a wood-burning fireplace, on Oakdale Drive south of Lawnsdale Road in the village of Waukesha.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2021 1:18:01 PM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Eight families were displaced by an intense fire that destroyed a Passaic multi-family home Friday night. No injuries were reported. Flames blew through the roof, part of which collapsed less than a half-hour after the four-alarm blaze broke out on the second floor of the wood-frame building at Hope and Highland avenues around 8 p.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: South Passaic Daily Voice

PHOTO: The morning a Winter Storm Warning was issued for Austin and Central Texas, a fire truck in Travis County rolled over, injuring four firefighters. Austin-Travis County EMS confirmed to KVUE's Mike Marut that a Pedernales Fire Department truck rolled over at around 8:39 a.m. in the 16000 block of W.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KVUE-TV ABC 24 Austin