Firefighters said they were called to a garage fire Sunday just before 4:30 p.m. The Green Bay Metro Fire Department said the fire happened on the 500 block of N Maple Avenue. Crews said when they first arrived they saw smoke coming from a two stall detached garage that was in a back alley behind the home.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2021 5:32:14 PM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

Four people, including a 12-year-old boy, died in separate house fires early Saturday in Grant and Jefferson counties, officials said. The 12-year-old boy and a 33-year-old man died from injuries caused by a fire at 105 Jay St. in the village of Blue River reported at about 3:40 a.m., the Grant County Sheriff’s Office said.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2021 1:26:20 PM - SOURCE: WISC News

COVID-19 doses are a "very precious resource." That's the message the Department of Health Services' deputy secretary is sending to vaccinators. So what happens when there are extra doses? "Once you've opened a vial and reconstituted it, you cannot put it back in the refrigerator or the freezer. You have to use all the doses in that vial," said deputy secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2021 9:16:08 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

No one was hurt during a fire at a nursing home in Oconto Thursday evening. At about 7:40 p.m., Oconto Fire and Rescue was called to the Bay at Oconto Health and Rehabilitation Center at 101 First St. Oconto Police arrived on scene to find all residents evacuated to a safe location within the building.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2021 6:47:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

With a generous gift from Husky Energy, the Superior Fire Department is now equipped with four brand new ice rescue suits. Husky Refinery had reached out to the fire department at the end of last year, asking about making a donation to help out with some winter gear. The refinery gave $2,500 for the new suits, which will replace the previous ones that had begun showing their age including some that leaked.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KQDS-TV Fox 21 Duluth

VIDEO: A massive fire at a potato plant in Walden brought fears of an exploding ammonia tank, forcing the evacuation of nearly a third of the town for several hours. The fire broke out at the Washington Potato Plant around 5:30 p.m. in one of the dehydrators, according to Kyle Foreman with the Grant County Sheriff's Office.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

Andrea Hall, a career firefighter and union leader from Fulton County, Ga., led the Pledge of Allegiance during the inauguration of President-elect Biden. Hall recited the familiar words of the pledge out loud and in American Sign Language. According to The 19th, a nonprofit news organization, Hall was the first Black woman hired and assigned to a station at the City of Albany Fire Department, and then the first Black woman to serve as fire captain at Fulton County Fire Rescue.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NPR.org

State of the art technology that can help save lives when seconds count is now in Southwest Florida. A patient’s information can be sent directly to a doctor in real time. We learned how this will help evaluate medical emergencies before arriving at the ER. North Collier Fire Control and Rescue District recently bought new technology that helps paramedics get patient information to hospitals before they show up.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WINK-TV CBS 11 Fort Myers

UC Irvine scientists are working on developing a vaccine that would attack all strains of COVID-19 as well as a potential breakthrough that would solve many of the problems related to distributing the medicine, a UCI professor on the project said Thursday. Lbachir BenMohamed, a UCI School of Medicine professor, said his team is developing what they envision will be a vaccine that could work on all strains in the SARS-CoV-2 family.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles

Young adults who turn 19 this year were born after 9/11, the day in 2001 when planes flew into the World Trade Center and Pentagon killing around 3,000 people. These teens know it as Patriot’s Day. It has been 20 years this coming September since the U.S. was attacked by air and hundreds of first responders, some fallen heroes, answered the call of duty to help at Ground Zero.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Herald - Metered Site

The Oshkosh Fire Department is joining a national pilot program that uses the latest technology to collect data, analyze the risks for a potential fire, and help the fire department educate neighbors about those risks. As one of only 250 fire departments across the country selected, Oshkosh will soon be able to build a community risk assessment digitally.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2021 11:45:16 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

Raelynn Wankowski is only 10 weeks old, and she already has been to her first reunion. The newborn and her parents, Justin and Rachel Wankowski, went to the local firehouse Wednesday to reunite with the firefighters who helped to deliver Raelynn into the world. It was the first baby delivery in the nearly 70-year history of the Tichigan Volunteer Fire Co.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2021 2:33:26 PM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

Three people were seriously injured when a pickup crashed into a large tree at 9-1/2 Avenue and 21st Street in Prairie Lake Township around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 20. Two helicopters were called in to airlift two injured occupants. At the scene, a Ford F-150 pickup had collided head-on with a large pine tree.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2021 1:06:47 AM - SOURCE: Barron News Shield

A house fire in western Wisconsin on Wednesday night left a man dead and a woman hospitalized. The Hudson Police Department says officers and fire crews responded around 6:30 p.m. to the fire at a single-family home on the 400 block of Locust Street. When they arrived at the home, they found it fully engulfed in flames.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCCO-TV CBS 4 Minneapolis

The American Red Cross is providing temporary lodging for 25 residents from 14 units that were affected by Wednesday’s apartment fire in Menasha. According to a release, the American Red Cross is presently providing comfort, temporary lodging, food and health resources to those that were affected by the fire.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

The city was growing and needed additional fire protection in the 1890s. There were calls made to build a second fire station. Back in October 1892, according to a newspaper clipping from the 1890s provided by Katie Reilly of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center, the city decided that a new fire department house would be built by the city on the south side of the river.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sheboygan Press

Cy-Fair firefighters rescued two people from a house fire overnight after a father was desperately trying to save his family, and the entire rescue was caught on helmet camera video. Northwest Harris County neighbors noticed a garage fire at a home in the 21500 block of Wellsford Glen Dr. before 11 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTRK-TV ABC 13 Houston

Oakland, Calif., will begin deactivating some of its fire engines and shuttering stations temporarily on Thursday in a budget-cutting move that drew criticism from firefighters and neighboring communities that contract with the city for fire protection. The fire department will deactivate three engines for six days at a time over the next five months, effectively closing three of the city's 25 stations, each of which operate with one engine.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Government Technology

VIDEO: Bonita Springs Fire Control & Rescue District confirmed Wednesday one of its fire engines flipped over on the way to a kitchen fire. According to the fire district, firefighters were heading to the scene of a kitchen fire at a home in the city when the truck they were in rolled over on Snell Lane.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WINK-TV CBS 11 Fort Myers

VIDEO: One final push officially opened the city's newest fire station Wednesday morning. As part of a tradition, Columbus Division of Fire firefighters and paramedics pushed a fire engine inside the garage bay doors of the new Station 16, located at 1465 Oakland Park Dr., which will provide service to North Linden and the surrounding area.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Columbus Dispatch