The federal agency investigating the firebombing of a Downtown Madison government office during a Black Lives Matter protest last month has offered another reward for information in the case and released images of five more people it thinks might have been involved in the incident or who know people who were.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin State Journal

On person is dead following a head-on crash early Thursday morning. According to the Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Office, a 911 call was received at approximately 4:43 a.m. on July 16, reporting a 2-vehicle crash on Highway 35 near Bemis Street in the Town of Trempealeau. When deputies arrived, they located a crash between a truck and a car.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKBT-DT CBS 8 LaCrosse

VIDEO: A massive 4-alarm fire tore through a waterfront apartment complex under construction in Everett Thursday, creating a raging inferno that damaged two homes up a nearby hill and partially burning an ambulance and fire truck that had responded to the scene. The fire in one of the two large buildings broke out around 5:45 p.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

Nationwide, firefighter suicides have been growing and are continuing to outpace line of duty deaths. It's a trend that has persisted in the last few years, especially for states like Nevada and California who are hit hardest by wildfires. One study found that 37 percent of fire and EMS professionals have contemplated suicide, nearly 10 times the rate of American adults.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRNV-DT NBC 4 Reno

For years, the department has lacked manpower in emergency situations, making response times longer when timing is crucial. Lives could be in danger in Georgetown County, where firehouses face chronic manpower shortages. In some cases, fire engines continually go out with only one firefighter on the truck, while national standards call for a minimum of four.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Myrtle Beach Online

The city of Oakland, California, will pay more than $32 million to settle lawsuits brought on behalf of victims of the deadly 2016 "Ghost Ship" fire in which 36 people died, officials announced. "This was a horrific tragedy that deeply impacted every corner of our community," a statement from the city attorney's office said.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC News

The Magic City will host the World Police and Fire Games (WPFG), an event featuring more than 10,000 first responders competing in 1,600 medal events, from June 27 to July 6, 2025. The city’s successful bid for the event was announced in May by local officials and The World Police and Fire Games Federation.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Village Living Online

Dennis Eisenberg was working on the eaves of his house on May 7, and felt chest pain afterward. He went to the hospital that night and spent five hours having medical tests done. However, doctors couldn’t find anything wrong and sent him home. At 1:30 a.m. the next day he was trying to go to sleep and couldn’t get comfortable.
- PUB DATE: 7/16/2020 6:40:12 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

Should the Milton and Town of Milton Fire Department consolidate with the Janesville Fire Department or stand on its own? Either way, the costs associated with consolidating or shoring up the Milton department will be in the millions of dollars, and each scenario likely will require asking taxpayers for money.
- PUB DATE: 7/16/2020 2:26:43 AM - SOURCE: Janesville Gazette

Police, firefighter and correction officers unions have asked a judge to block the release of officers’ disciplinary records in cases where claims against them are unsubstantiated following Albany’s repeal 50-A law, according to new court papers. The some 60,000 officers who are represented in the lawsuit, claim that when the records concerning officers disciplinary matters are released beginning as early as Wednesday, they will also include non-final and unsubstantiated allegations.
- PUB DATE: 7/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

EMS agencies and officials are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the nation's first paramedic act, signed in California on July 15, 1970. The Wedworth-Townsend Act, signed by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan 50 years ago on Wednesday, legally recognized the practice of paramedicine and protected paramedics administering intensive prehospital care in the state, the California Ambulance Association and National EMS Museum recounted in a news release marking the anniversary.
- PUB DATE: 7/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: EMS1

A new tool developed by Georgia Tech allows people to look up their risk of encountering COVID-19 at event, based on the county they live in. The interactive map allows users to choose a county anywhere in the United States, choose the event size (anywhere from 10 people to 10,000), and then calculate the risk that at least one COVID-19 positive person will be present.
- PUB DATE: 7/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTHR-TV NBC 13 Indianapolis

VIDEO: More than 50 children in the U.S. died from heatstroke after being left in hot cars last year. Rising temperatures during the summer are one reason why parents must be more alert than ever when driving with children in the back seat. “It doesn’t take as long as you think it will to build up to a dangerous situation inside a car,” said Gulfport Fire Chief Mike Beyerstedt.
- PUB DATE: 7/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLOX-TV ABC/CBS 13 Biloxi

Today, First Lady Melania Trump made an unannounced visit to Engine Company 9 fire station in Washington, D.C. to deliver a donation of boxed lunches prepared by the White House chefs, Be Best tote bags, reusable face masks and hand sanitizer. The First Lady met with firefighters and Emergency Medical Service (EMS) personnel from Engine Company 9 and policemen and women from the neighboring DC Metropolitan Police Department Third District.
- PUB DATE: 7/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Whitehouse.gov

The Madison Fire Department and Madison Police Department rescued a dog stuck in a backyard fence Wednesday according to an MFD incident report. A neighbor on Winter Frost Place noticed the dog in distress as it was stuck between two vertical stiles and called 911. Firefighters determined the safest and quickest solution to freeing the dog was to cut one of the stiles.
- PUB DATE: 7/15/2020 4:48:44 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

Dozens of firefighters responded early Wednesday morning battle a blaze at a Lodi house. According to Lodi Area Volunteer Fire Dept. Chief Bobby Annen, fire crews were called around 6 a.m. to the vacation home at W11360 Hwy. V, near Lake Wisconsin. In all, approximately 25 firefighters were called in and they were able to get the flames under control in about a half-hour, Annen said.
- PUB DATE: 7/15/2020 8:50:32 AM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

Two dogs died in a house fire in the Village of Richfield Tuesday night, July 14. Firefighters were called to the scene shortly before 8 p.m. Upon arrival, firefighters found the home to be on fire, and they extinguished it. Two dogs perished in the fire. Scenic Road in the area of the fire was closed for several hours.
- PUB DATE: 7/15/2020 5:48:20 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

The fire that broke out on the USS Bonhomme Richard on Sunday was still burning at the time of writing. The blaze has caused at least 20 casualties, and the fate of the ship is unclear, with Navy officials stating it was too soon to say if the vessel will be salvageable. But new firefighting technology might have stopped the fire before it ran out of control.
- PUB DATE: 7/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Forbes

A Daytona Beach man positive with HIV was accused of passing on the virus by spitting on a South Daytona firefighter-paramedic, police said. Julio Rivera, 41, who was being investigated in a domestic violence case on Tuesday, was charged with criminal transmission of HIV, battery on a firefighter by way of spitting, domestic violence battery, resisting arrest without violence, fleeing and attempting to elude police, giving a false name, unlawful possession of molly/ecstasy, possession of drug paraphernalia, and grand theft.
- PUB DATE: 7/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Daytona Beach News-Journal

Evansville Fire officials are forging ahead with a diversity and inclusion training program from the firefighters' union. The move comes months after a fire inspector's use of a racist slur on the job pushed issues of race in the department into the headlines. A diversity sub-committee set up by the Evansville Fire Department Merit Commission will undergo a five-hour virtual training next week with the International Association of Fire Fighters, Fire Chief Mike Connelly announced at a commission meeting Tuesday afternoon.
- PUB DATE: 7/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Courier & Press