The De Pere City Fire Department is currently investigating a garage fire that took place on Monday afternoon. According to the fire department, at around 5:30 p.m., crews responded to a report of a fire at a home located on the 400 block Erie Street in De Pere. Upon arrival, firefighters say they found a garage in flames and were able to extinguish the fire in about five minutes.
- PUB DATE: 8/17/2020 10:34:23 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV CBS 5 Green Bay

A carbon monoxide emergency on Madison’s west side could have been the result of child’s play early Monday morning, according to the Madison Fire Department. An incident report said a family living on the 6800 block of Tottenham Road told officials their carbon monoxide detector went off shortly after 1 a.
- PUB DATE: 8/17/2020 8:41:53 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

Firefighters from several agencies responded to another fire in Portage on Monday night. Columbia County dispatch said it received a call at around 5 p.m. regarding a structure fire at 224 West Albert St. The Portage Fire Department told News 3 Now the fire started in the garage and eventually spread to an attached porch and portion of the house.
- PUB DATE: 8/17/2020 7:57:53 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

Facing mounting outrage over its decision to cancel the Tribute in Light, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum has backed down and agreed to stage the beloved display on the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. “In the last 24 hours we’ve had conversations with many interested parties and believe we will be able to stage the tribute in a safe and appropriate fashion,” CEO Alice Greenwald said in a statement.
- PUB DATE: 8/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

The Shreveport Fire Department unveiled a new duty uniform t-shirt Friday to promote COVID-19 safety measures. Mayor Adrian Perkins joined Shreveport Fire Chief Scott Wolverton and Willis Knighton Health System Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Brian Crawford to unveil the new t-shirt, which is printed with messages on the back reminding people to mask up when in public, wash up at least 20 seconds, and keep up with current CDC guidelines.
- PUB DATE: 8/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTAL-TV NBC 6 Shreveport

PHOTOS: Raised on blocks to ease stress on the wooden wheels, the 111-year-old Union steam pumper traveled 50 miles Saturday on a flatbed truck from Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, to Reading. The crew transporting the 1909 pumper stopped in Leesport to weigh it before bringing it to the Reading Area Firefighting Museum at Fifth and Laurel streets.
- PUB DATE: 8/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Reading Eagle

The Jan. 11 crash that killed two Lubbock first responders remains an open investigation as detectives await critical information from an out of state laboratory that was temporarily closed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Lubbock police spokesman Lt. Leath McClure said investigators expect to have the information soon as the the lab hopes to reopen next week.
- PUB DATE: 8/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Nearly six full months after leaving the track in an ambulance following one of the most horrifying accidents in recent memory, NASCAR veteran Ryan Newman made his return to the Daytona International Speedway on Sunday for the Cup Series' Go Bowling 235. And before he took the green flag for his first laps on the speedway's Road Course, he took a moment to offer a thank you to those who worked to make sure he could eventually walk away and race again.
- PUB DATE: 8/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: 247 Sports

A Newburg firefighter says he's lucky to be alive after a fire call took a turn for the worse, but the 11-year veteran credits that call for saving his life. July 26 was the hottest day in more than two years, with a high of 95 and a heat index of 107, but when the tone sounded for a car fire down the road in the Town of Trenton, members of the Newburg Fire Department suited up, including Bob Stanczyk.
- PUB DATE: 8/16/2020 7:42:41 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

A 56-year-old woman was found dead after a two-alarm fire broke out at the Lake Shore Tower Apartments on S. Lake Drive in Cudahy on Sunday morning, Aug. 16. Another 50 residents were displaced -- and one firefighter was taken to the hospital for treatment of heat exhaustion, along with "several" residents.
- PUB DATE: 8/16/2020 9:50:57 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

Racine firefighters rescued three people from a fire in a duplex on Ohio Street near Goodland School in Racine early Sunday morning, Aug. 16. Firefighters were dispatched to the fire on Ohio Street shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday. When they arrived on the scene, the first responders reported heavy fire coming from the basement of the home.
- PUB DATE: 8/16/2020 5:30:57 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

The Columbus Fire Department is garnering support to restore a true hero in Columbus – the first motorized fire truck ever purchased for the city. “We received a $20,000 donation from the estate of Eugene and Carol Niehoff that is earmarked for the restoration of our antique fire engine,” Columbus Fire Chief Randy Koehn said.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 2:45:23 PM - SOURCE: Columbus Journal

Firefighters on Thursday, Aug. 13 responded to the scene of an apartment complex fire in Burlington. The call came in around 12:30 p.m. Upon arrival, the multi-unit apartment complex was being evacuated as the sprinkler system was activated on the third floor. Additional units from the Town of Burlington Fire Department and Rochester Volunteer Fire Company also responded.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 7:44:52 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

The Manitowoc Fire Department is investigating the cause of a fire at an apartment in the 1200 block of S. 13th Street. At about 12:29 a.m., crews were called to the scene for a report of smoke and flames on the second floor. Residents escaped without injury. Firefighters were met with heavy black smoke and high heat conditions as they searched for the cause of the fire.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 6:51:50 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

You don’t see it often. Even less so in Wisconsin — bipartisan legislation. The state got that last year in restricting firefighting foam containing PFAS, compounds that have been linked to cancer and other illnesses that have turned up drinking wells across the U.S. After some debate, lawmakers agreed to regulate the use and disposal of PFAS.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WIZM News Talk 1410 AM

It was the worst of the worst. Good young men. Running for their lives. Nowhere to hide. The fire was relentless. This month marks the 83rd memorial anniversary of the worst forest fire disaster in Wyoming history when it comes to loss of firefighter lives. In an obscure and difficult place to reach called Blackwater, a group of forest rangers and Civilian Conservation Corps firefighters lost their lives on Aug.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cowboy State Daily

When everyone who tests positive for coronavirus in your community gets a call from a public health worker asking them about their contacts, and those contacts are then asked to quarantine, that can be a powerful way to keep the virus from spreading. But contact tracing can do more than that: At scale, the data gathered in those calls also offers vital information about where transmission is happening in a community.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Public Radio

VIDEO: Prankster Stephen Gilchrist Glover, better known as Steve-O, was removed from a Hollywood billboard to which he taped himself Thursday. Glover posted a selfie on Instagram, showing several layers of what appears to be black tape covering his body from his armpits to his thighs. Video of him being removed from the billboard showed he only wore what appeared to be white underwear underneath the tape.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCAL-TV CBS 9 Los Angeles

A Lebanon firefighter who was injured in an explosion at a hotel on Christmas Eve morning last year is telling what happened. Capt. Jeffrey Egner was one of two firefighters who were injured in an explosion at the Element Hotel in Lebanon on the morning of Dec. 24. According to the Lebanon Fire Department, they received an alarm just after 5:15 a.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPTZ-TV NBC 5 Plattsburg

Eric Retterbush has never liked taking photos of people. The practice feels invasive and risks overlooking the beauty of, say, a wheelbarrow or a particularly striking façade, he says. It also teeters on voyeurism. How many in the throng of a bustling Burmese market—one of the countries he works in as a travel guide (his day job)—have been photographed without their permission? Wasn’t it Honoré de Balzac who said all physical bodies were made of ghostlike images, “an infinite number of leaflike skins laid one on top of the other,” and repeated exposure to a camera stripped these—that is, the very essence of life—off? No—street photography, candid portraiture, a shot of someone who doesn’t know you—it was never Retterbush’s pull.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Daily Sun