Any tool that helps firefighters do their jobs faster and with improved safety is definitely a welcome addition. On Tuesday, July 28, the St. Francis Fire Department demonstrated a new tool called the Fire TKO. It's essentially a small, portable block that can be thrown into a burning room and effectively extinguish a fire.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2020 1:51:17 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

The Appleton Fire Department battled a kitchen fire on the southeast side of the city. It happened at a home at around 11 a.m. Monday on the 2100 block of East Lourdes Drive. When crews arrived on scene they found light smoke coming from vents in the roof. Inside the home crews found dark smoke and fire on the kitchen counter, cabinets and stove top.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2020 4:57:14 AM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

There are no reports of injuries after an apartment fire in Fond du Lac Tuesday morning. The scene is located at the James Grace Apartment Homes at 130 Forest Ave. Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue posted video and photos on social media. Images and video show heavy smoke coming from a third-floor apartment. A ladder truck is outside the window.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2020 4:47:43 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

Several firefighters were overcome while battling a fire in New Jersey that spread to several homes. Four homes were burned and two were destroyed when a fire started in a basement on Passaic Street around 2 p.m. At least nine firefighters were hospitalized and needed assistance after suffering from heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 7 New York

Firefighters in Hingham said they won’t comply with an order from the police and fire chiefs to take “thin blue line” flags off firetrucks, and have asked them to reconsider the decision. Fire Chief Steve Murphy and Police Chief Glenn Olsson explained in a letter to personnel that the blue and black flags, which are black-and-white versions of the American flag with a single blue line in the center, will have to be removed from where they’ve flown atop Hingham fire trucks after a citizen complaint.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Patriot Ledger

When a large battery used to power a neighborhood in Surprise failed and began smoking last year, firefighters didn't have a response plan for how to deal with the problem, which contributed to an explosion that injured several first responders. That is one of the conclusions of a report released on Monday about the April 2019 explosion at the McMicken Energy Storage facility near Grand Avenue and Deer Valley Road, owned by Arizona Public Service Co.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: AZ Central - Metered Site

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