COVID-19 is continuing to fill U.S. hospital beds. As of July 20, the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 was over 58,000, or about as high as it was in April, when hospitals in the New York City area were scouring the world for ventilators. Surges in hospitalization rates are now showing up in every state in the South and Southwest other than New Mexico.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Think Advisor

For the last 18 years, family members of 9/11 loved ones have descended on Lower Manhattan in a tradition that is as comforting as it is familiar in its ritual. The names of nearly 3,000 victims read aloud, often with personal messages that have changed over the almost two decades that have passed - heartfelt and sad.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spectrum News NY1

Fire officials in Fond du Lac say a carbon monoxide leak has sickened workers at a Quality Packaging warehouse. Crews were sent around 2:30 p.m. Monday on a report of a possible carbon monoxide leak and workers feeling ill. Fire crews began to treat several workers. Alliant Energy also was at the scene and along with fire crews detected elevated levels of carbon monoxide in the warehouse.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 5:27:46 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

It is a proud day for the Fire Department in the Kenosha County Village of Somers. For the second time in three years, firefighters there helped deliver a baby. Firefighters received the call at 12:30 a.m. Monday, July 27. A woman on Sheridan Road said her water broke and she needed help. Fire crews and sheriff's deputies responded and got the woman into an ambulance before heading for the hospital.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 3:43:20 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Firefighters from several departments battled a cabin fire in Oconto County Sunday. At 5:45 p.m., the Nicolet Fire District was called to Horn Lake Road for a report of smoke coming from a cabin. The Town of Lakewood Fire Department said crews tried to fight the fire from inside, but the heat was too intense.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 5:39:59 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

A shared contract to hire firefighters jointly is in the works among six area municipalities that are struggling to find and retain firefighters. If approved, the estimated $405,847 annual contract would staff two full-time, EMS-trained firefighters to serve the neighboring towns and villages of Walworth, Sharon and Darien around the clock.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lake Geneva News

VIDEO: The Macomb County Prosecutor's Office announced Friday that a Fraser woman has been charged with setting a car on fire after video shows her apparently filling the SUV with gasoline and then lighting it, only to have it explode in her face. Sydney Parham, 26, was arrested on arson charges after police said she set the car on fire on Wednesday.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJBK-TV FOX 2 Detroit

Ann Jerome got to see her son for a brief moment before he was flown to Syracuse with injuries critical enough to make his survival expectancy unclear. She was able to touch his hand, then hear him say he was sorry. It was around 4 p.m. on Tuesday when the Parishville Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to a scene where a person was having difficulty breathing.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NNY 360

PHOTOS: As the Indianapolis Fire Department was finishing a pre-planned training exercise Saturday on Geist Reservoir, conservationists with the Department of Natural Resources asked them to help search for a missing prosthetic leg. That leg belonged to Amy Gillum. Her family was out on their boat and when she went to take off her prosthetic leg to get in the water, it slipped and fell in.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTHR-TV NBC 13 Indianapolis

Late-July 1910 saw the Harbor beset by fires, not particularly unusual during the summer in small timber towns. It was the massive holocaust in Hoquiam on July 22, 1910 that killed two and injured many more that held the headlines when the substantial, picturesque four-story Hotel Hoquiam was reduced to rubble in an early morning blaze.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Daily World

The South Shore Fire Department took delivery of its two new E-One fire engines from Fire Safety USA on Wednesday afternoon at Station 9, 2801 89th St. According to South Shore Fire Chief Robert Stedman, the new units replace South Shore’s current Engine 8 and Engine 10 apparatus at a cost of about $655,000 to $666,000 each, inclusive of the truck and the cost to equip it.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2020 2:23:56 PM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

A shared contract to hire firefighters jointly is in the works among six area municipalities that are struggling to find and retain firefighters. If approved, the estimated $405,847 annual contract would staff two full-time, EMS-trained firefighters to serve the neighboring towns and villages of Walworth, Sharon and Darien around the clock.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2020 1:02:57 PM - SOURCE: Lake Geneva News

The Kaukauna Fire Department said a fire occurred at the local Dollar Tree around 7 p.m. Saturday. The Dollar Tree is located at 321 East Ann Street in Kaukauna. Firefighters said flames were in the center of the building and black smoke was spilling out of the structure. According to Dollar Tree employees, none of their employees or patrons were inside the store when fire crews arrived.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2020 8:41:40 AM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

Racine firefighters responded to an early morning fire near State and Superior Saturday, July 25 around 4:15 a.m. According to the Racine Fire Department, fire crews found a small fire involving a space heater and nearby combustibles. According to officials, upon arrival, smoke was coming from the second floor.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2020 9:01:54 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

First responders providing emergency medical services routinely face high rates of depression, burnout and suicidal thoughts. The added stress of the pandemic is making it worse. Speaking at a Wisconsin EMS Association town hall meeting on Thursday, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, said she is working with a group of Democratic senators on legislation that would boost mental health services in the COVID-19 relief legislation that’s being debated in Congress.
- PUB DATE: 7/24/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Public Radio

VIDEO: Geiger Grade and Veterans Parkway have reopened after a large apartment fire broke out at a vacant complex in south Reno. According to the Reno Fire Department, the massive blaze was reported by several people at about 3:15 a.m. on Thursday. When crews arrived on the scene shortly after, there was heavy smoke and flames as a six-story building burned.
- PUB DATE: 7/24/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRNV-TV NBC 4 Reno

A person trapped nearly 100 feet off the ground in Waukegan no longer needs to descend on a ladder guided by a firefighter paramedic. People can now be rescued and lowered to the ground in a basket affixed to a crane mechanism attached to the Waukegan Fire Department’s newest piece of equipment. The Fire Department took possession of its $1.
- PUB DATE: 7/24/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune - Metered Site

For the first time in 108 years, Rockland's volunteer firefighters’ parade and convention will be canceled. Both events were casualties of the coronavirus pandemic. The Rockland County Volunteer Firefighters’ Association board of directors voted on Wednesday to cancel the convention. The annual parade, which was to be hosted this year by West Nyack Fire Engine Co.
- PUB DATE: 7/24/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Journal News (Lohud.com)

First responders providing emergency medical services routinely face high rates of depression, burnout and suicidal thoughts. The added stress of the pandemic is making it worse. Speaking at a Wisconsin EMS Association town hall meeting on Thursday, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, said she is working with a group of Democratic senators on legislation that would boost mental health services in the COVID-19 relief legislation that’s being debated in Congress.
- PUB DATE: 7/24/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Public Radio

One of the leading doctors on the White House Coronavirus Task Force warned state and local leaders on a private phone call that 11 cities, including Cleveland, needed to take "aggressive" steps to limit the virus' spread, a report said. According to a report from the Center for Public Integrity, Dr.
- PUB DATE: 7/24/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKYC-TV NBC 3 Cleveland