Two communities said "yes" but a third voted "no" in a series of referendums to fund expansion of a fire department serving this part of Walworth County. Voters in the town of Geneva rejected the proposal, while others in the town of Sugar Creek and city of Elkhorn agreed to fund a $1.6 million-a-year expansion of the Elkhorn Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 11/6/2020 1:04:00 AM - SOURCE: Lake Geneva News

Compared to the general public, New York City firefighters and emergency medical workers were 15 times more likely to be infected with the new coronavirus during the first wave of the pandemic, researchers reported on Thursday in ERJ Open Research. They studied nearly 10,800 firefighters and 3,500 emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics.
- PUB DATE: 11/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Reuters

A Delray Beach firefighter is sharing his story of survival from cancer in an emotional post on Facebook. Throughout November, the agency is telling stories about firefighters who have battled cancer. They said it part of an effort to increase awareness of the disease and the importance of prevention for everyone.
- PUB DATE: 11/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPTV NBC 5 West Palm Beach

The Rutgers School of Public Health received a $1.5 million Federal Emergency Management Agency grant to support cancer research for volunteer firefighters. The funding will enhance research already being done in collaboration with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey as part of the Cancer Assessment and Prevention Study.
- PUB DATE: 11/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Rutgers Today

For the past 24 years in Haskell, Texas, Steel Fire Apparatus has been transforming trucks into firefighting machines. “But we take it and add the bed, the tool boxes, the pump, the water,” Wes Steele, owner, said. But before they’re ready to fight brush fires, everything starts with Wes designing the truck on the computer based on a fire department’s needs.
- PUB DATE: 11/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRBC-TV NBC 9 Abilene

As the pandemic lingers, Fond du Lac Fire Rescue finds itself responding to an unusually high number of fire and emergency calls. And it appears the pandemic is the reason for the uptick. When the pandemic started, Fond du Lac Fire Rescue began implementing measures to protect its staff as well as the community it serves.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2020 2:53:21 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

Four firefighters and an off-duty Boston police officer were injured when a Boston Fire Department vehicle crashed into a bank less than a mile away from a fire scene early Thursday morning. The fire truck crashed into a Bank of America around 2:26 a.m. at the intersection of Talbot Avenue and Washington Street in Dorchester.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NECN-TV NBC 10 Boston

The remains of Los Angeles firefighter Francisco “Frank” Aguilar, who went missing in Mexico in August, have been found after a monthslong investigation, officials announced Wednesday. The Baja California central state prosecutor said the badly burned body was found on Oct. 23 in a desolate field in Rosarito, according to Border Report, an online news source from KTLA parent company Nexstar.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTLA-TV WB 5 Los Angeles

Some call it controversial, others call it a life saver. In time for the onset of a second wave of the coronavirus, an all-women’s EMS service in Brooklyn is finally getting an ambulance after overcoming naysayers in the city who tried to prevent it from happening. As CBS2’s Lisa Rozner reported, 4-month-old Sarah Richter sleeps peacefully, even in the pouring rain.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCBS-TV CBS 2 New York

The new Fire Station 8 facility was built on a site that had a doublewide trailer as a temporary station. The new, permanent main station has 14 bunk rooms, a kitchen and dining area, offices, an exercise room, a day room with chairs and a TV, a gear locker room and four garage bays. For the firefighters of Station 8, it goes beyond just a place to come to work.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Business Observer

The voters have spoken in Grand Chute and they overwhelmingly approved the addition of nine more firefighter/paramedics for the town’s fire department. The staffing referendum passed with nearly 70% approval. Grand Chute has grown dramatically in the past decade with the addition of residences and business, in the town, leading to an increase in calls for public safety like the fire department.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2020 2:41:17 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

A deal to share ambulance service among six neighboring rural communities has won voter approval in referendums held Tuesday in multiple towns and villages. The plan to jointly contract a private ambulance company to share two new full-time firefighters was approved by voters in the towns and villages of Walworth and Sharon and the village of Darien.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2020 1:06:05 PM - SOURCE: Lake Geneva News

A barn fire in Brown County killed several cattle Tuesday night as emergency crews responded from nearly two dozen agencies. Fire crews responded around 8:45 p.m. to the fire near Fernando Drive, according to the Hobart Fire Department. Officials said the dairy barn was being used to house young livestock.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2020 9:17:30 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

The city of Madison Fire Department extinguished a fire at a multi-unit residential building Tuesday night on Ski Court in the town of Madison. According to a release, MFD was called to a fire around 10:42 p.m. after a neighbor noticed flames in the direction of the building and called 911. Engine 3 arrived first to the scene and saw a large fire climbing up the back corner of the two story building from a second story balcony toward the attic.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2020 7:41:15 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

The Racine Fire Department was dispatched just before Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. to 3801 S. Memorial Drive for a report of a fire at an industrial building, according to a RFD press release. Fire crews arrived to find stacks of bundled cardboard on fire in the parking lot. Firefighters from two engine companies and a truck company worked to separate the bundles of cardboard to get at the seat of the fire.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2020 5:50:00 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

VIDEO: Heidi Charest of Lady’s Island had the slightest of leads in the finals of the Firefighting Combat Challenge World Championships in Irving, Texas, two weeks ago. Her focus turned to keeping that lead as she dragged a 175-pound mannequin across the finish line. “Just keep moving,” she told herself.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Island Packet - Metered Site

When USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) caught fire at the pier over the summer, sailors from across the waterfront rushed to the scene, some in damage control teams from their own ships and some showing up as individuals who wanted to help. Though the five-day firefighting effort became very organized, the first minutes were confusing: it was a Sunday morning, when most of the Bonhomme Richard crew and leadership weren’t around, and disparate people who knew how to fight fires but hadn’t trained on how to fold in together in an organized way rushed to the scene.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USNI News

Crews battled massive flames at a home in Schuylkill County. Fire ripped through the home in the 1100 block of West Center Street in West Mahanoy Township just after 10:30 p.m. Monday. Emergency officials said it was a single family home, but no one was hurt. Crews were at the scene for several hours battling the flames.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFMZ-TV 69 Allentown

Firefighters love their job, but it comes with hazards that not only threaten their physical safety, but also their emotional and mental well-being. Responding to hundreds of emergency related calls each year exposes firefighters and other first responders to a tremendous amount of trauma, from deadly car accidents and house fires to medical calls.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tallahassee Democrat

Over 44 million people have contracted the novel coronavirus as of Oct. 28, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. About 1.2 million have died. As this pandemic rages across the globe and irrevocably changes more and more lives, its impact becomes increasingly difficult to visualize: 1.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Stacker