The Beaver Dam Fire Department rescued a man who was stuck on Beaver Dam Lake Tuesday morning after falling through the ice and calling 911. According to a press release from Beaver Dam Fire Department Capt. Lee Smith, the 911 call came in at 5:37 a.m., but the person on the line was not communicating with dispatchers and then the call was disconnected.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 5:58:07 PM - SOURCE: Chippewa Herald - Metered Site

With the holidays upon us Green Bay firefighters are again making sure hospitalized kids, still get to enjoy some Christmas magic. Kris Schuller has more on their annual trip to St. Vincent Children’s Hospital and the special guest they brought along. Outside HSHS St. Vincent Children’s Hospital, a fire truck sits, filled with presents just for kids.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 4:24:54 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV CBS 5 Green Bay

Kenosha County Sheriff’s Deputy Colin Coultrip said he didn’t give much thought to the potential danger when he climbed into a canoe and began pushing the boat with his hands across a barely frozen pond toward a man who had fallen through the ice and was struggling in the water. “I just went for it,” Coultrip said.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 7:21:31 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News

A fire destroyed a large playground set at a Fond du Lac Park on Monday, Dec. 21. The Fond du Lac Fire Department was called to the park, located on Park Avenue, around 4:18 p.m. The fire was put out by crews but not before officials say the equipment was destroyed. “This is quite disturbing”, said Fire Chief Peter O’Leary.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 5:11:53 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

State officials say they’re expecting thousands of doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine to arrive later this week. Monday afternoon, Governor Tony Evers announced the state will receive an initial shipment of 16,000 doses, and in the coming weeks, will receive a total of 100,000 doses. Moderna’s vaccine can be stored in normal freezers, allowing it to be directly shipped to vaccinating units.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

Two buildings were destroyed Monday night in a major emergency fire in North Hollywood that burned for nearly two hours before being extinguished. The fire was first reported around 9 p.m. in the 5400 block of North Tujunga Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The fire was "well developed" by 9:15 p.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles

The 91st class of 65 new Orange County Fire Rescue recruits marks the department’s most diverse class in history. Department officials say more than half of the members in the group are Hispanic, Black or Asian. Recruit Paris Nunn, a graduate of the University of Central Florida, is one of 19 women in the class.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKMG-TV CBS 6 Orlando

At 5:15 p.m. today church bells will ring downtown, not for the upcoming Christmas holiday but for a more somber reason — the 100th anniversary of the Lyons Union School fire that killed two young girls and destroyed the school. It will be exactly 100 years to the time when a fast-moving blaze tore through the William Street building, trapping and killing 12-year-old Helen Baltzel and 13-year-old Elizabeth Burns.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Finger Lakes Times - Metered Site

As health care workers and nursing home residents await the first syringes of the COVID-19 vaccine, few realize that when they will get a dose depends a lot on what state they live in. Though they’re first in line for the vaccine, some people in those groups may get vaccinated after people in other states who are deemed lower priority.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today

PHOTOS: Dating back to 1938, the New Deal-financed Austin Central Fire Station No. 1 sitting at 401 East Fifth Street on the northwest corner of Brush Square is an unlikely gem of downtown architecture, one of the few really striking examples of the Art Deco subset known as Moderne or Streamline Moderne in the city’s stock of public buildings — unfortunately, great vintage design doesn’t necessarily mesh with the facilities requirements of modern firefighting, meaning the Austin Fire Department has tolerated a growing list of frustrations with operating out of the the aging structure despite its obvious historic merit to those of us not actually fighting the fires.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: TOWERS Austin

The pandemic didn’t stop Pepin County residents from seeing Santa this holiday season. The Durand City-Rural Fire Department hosted it’s annual “Ride Along with Santa”. Flanked by firefighters. Fire truck hosting the jolly old fellow cruised through the streets of Durand. The firefighters handed out candy canes to people along the route.
- PUB DATE: 12/21/2020 8:05:27 AM - SOURCE: WLAX-TV FOX 25 La Crosse

A report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum shows greater cooperation among fire departments in small communities could help address a shortage of first responders in the state. The report looks at fire and emergency medical services in the La Crosse area. Commissioned by La Crosse County and the La Crosse Area Planning Committee, it looks at opportunities for the departments to share resources given the growing need for services in many of the communities.
- PUB DATE: 12/21/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Public Radio

VIDEO: Four firefighters in Routt County suffered minor injuries after the fire truck they were in rolled off 200 feet down a steep embankment. The crash happened on Saturday after the firefighters were leaving the scene of a garage fire. The West Routt Fire Protection District responded to the home on Peak View Court to find the back of a garage on fire.
- PUB DATE: 12/21/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCNC-TV CBS 4 Denver

VIDEO: A paraglider dressed as Santa Claus was rescued after being caught in power lines in Rio Linda on Sunday. Santa was removed safely from the power lines near 7th Avenue after being trapped for over an hour, according to the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District. SMUD, the Sacramento Fire Department and California Highway Patrol units in North Sacramento were called to the scene for assistance.
- PUB DATE: 12/21/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOVR-TV CBS 13 Sacramento

VIDEO: Flames tore through the rectory of a Townsend church early Monday morning, sending a priest to the hospital with burns to his hands, officials said. The rectory of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, at 20 Highland St., still had flames shooting from the roof just after 5 a.m. and fire crews from several towns were called in to help as the fire, which started just before 2 a.
- PUB DATE: 12/21/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Telegram & Gazette

On Dec. 14, 1920, a shiny, new, red truck rumbled into Mount Vernon. It wasn’t Santa’s sleigh come to spread early holiday cheer, but was instead the newest addition to the Mount Vernon Fire Department — Skagit County’s first motorized fire engine. “It was something new and different than what a lot of people had,” said retired Mount Vernon firefighter Terry Hill.
- PUB DATE: 12/21/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Skagit Valley Herald

Many first responders in the Tampa Bay area say they won’t take the coronavirus vaccine. Local fire and police departments conducted surveys about the coronavirus vaccine, and a significant number of first responders say they are not taking it or are undecided. “It’s just so new and it’s been so highly publicized and so highly politicized, I think for a lot of our members,” said John Klinefelter, Clearwater Fire & Rescue Division Chief of Health and Safety.
- PUB DATE: 12/21/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFTS-TV ABC 28 Tampa

Afire in Wonewoc that destroyed a home near downtown was allegedly the result of arson and set by a juvenile, police say. According to Wonewoc Police Chief Mike Stahlke, the Wonewoc Fire Department was called to a house fire at 206 S. East St. in Wonewoc at about 8:30 p.m. Dec. 16. “First responders observed the house fully engulfed along with a separate smaller fire in a detached garage,” Stahlke said in a press release.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2020 7:58:18 AM - SOURCE: Lacrosse Tribune

There are no reports of injuries after a house fire in Oconto Thursday. At about 2:32 p.m., Oconto Fire Rescue crews were called to 225 Michigan Ave. Crews arrived to find smoke and flames coming from a two-story, wood frame home. The occupants escaped the home without injury. Crews used a hose line to fight the fire from the outside.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2020 6:22:38 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

An overloaded circuit on the second floor sparked an Uptown fire that damaged the Rockhead’s Comics & Games building. The fire began around 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 16., at the structure at 2328 Roosevelt Rd. To battle the fire, the Kenosha Fire Department called in an additional two units, Fire Chief Charles Leipzig said Thursday.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Racine County Eye