Two men are recovering from burns Sunday morning after a car caught fire in Little Suamico. Fire Chief Todd Zuge tells Action 2 News the car was on Brown Road when firefighters arrived, and that the fire was knocked down in about ten minutes. Officials say the young men suffered burns around their legs and on their hands.
- PUB DATE: 7/12/2020 9:37:15 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

The Salvation Army and Manitowoc residents worked together to hydrate local firefighters as crews worked to extinguish a garage fire on Saturday morning. According to the Manitowoc Fire Rescue Department (MFRD), at around 9 a.m., firefighters responded to a report of a garage fire on S. 32nd Street in the 500 blocks.
- PUB DATE: 7/11/2020 3:56:22 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV CBS 5 Green Bay

Two adults and a 6-year-old girl died as a result of a fire in Spring Brook Township on Friday evening. Merrill Tande, 76, Christopher Rouse, 49, and a 6-year-old girl, all of rural Menomonie, were pronounced dead. Based on the initial investigation, authorities do not believe the cause of the fire is suspicious.
- PUB DATE: 7/11/2020 2:43:10 PM - SOURCE: Dunn County News

Nearly 100 were in attendance Friday evening, as officials in Sun Prairie unveiled a statue honoring the late Cory Barr. On July 10 2018, Barr was killed after a natural gas explosion happened in the city’s downtown. Barr, who served as a volunteer fire captain, was attempting to evacuate buildings when the explosion happened.
- PUB DATE: 7/10/2020 10:20:49 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Ashippun Fire Department picnic will go on this Saturday. Although the three day event has been narrowed to one day, Ashippun Fire Department President Rob Sterr said it’s the department’s opportunity to give back to its community. While Watertown’s Riverfest, the Dodge and Jefferson County fairs, Milwaukee’s Summerfest and Wisconsin State Fair were canceled because of the pandemic, the Ashippun picnic remains on the calendar.
- PUB DATE: 7/10/2020 8:49:05 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times

Josh Bostedt is the new chief of Oconto Fire Rescue Department. Bostedt, the department’s deputy chief since March 2019, had been serving as interim chief since the retirement of John Reed on June 15. The Police and Fire Commission decided in April that it didn’t need to waste time on a search for a new chief.
- PUB DATE: 7/10/2020 8:18:52 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

A juvenile is recovering after suffering burns in a boat fire at a northwestern Wisconsin campground. It happened Tuesday night at the Black Lake Campground in Sawyer County. The 46-year-old boat operator said when he tried starting the boat several times there was a small explosion. Authorities say the juvenile's right forearm and leg were burned.
- PUB DATE: 7/10/2020 3:48:35 AM - SOURCE: KBJR-TV NBC 6 Superior

VIDEO: Two workers were pulled from scaffolding that was dangling from the side of an apartment building in Boston's Chinatown on Thursday morning. The incident happened 13 stories in the air at Tai Tung Village, a housing and business complex. Witness Andres Mateo told NBC10 Boston he saw the scaffolding drop.
- PUB DATE: 7/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBTS-TV NBC 10 Boston

As coronavirus cases surge in much of the country, issues with testing availability and access have once again arisen in nearly every aspect of the testing supply chain, local officials and hospital leaders in several states told ABC News -- a troubling echo of the shortages that plagued the nation's initial response to the virus months ago.
- PUB DATE: 7/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News

A 100-year-old technique is still being used by firefighters to save lives in St. Bernard Parish. Firefighters at the St. Bernard Fire Department say they are incorporating the use of tourniquets when responding to emergencies. "How are you going to help somebody with a gunshot wound," said Mark Caruso, with the St.
- PUB DATE: 7/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDSU-TV NBC 6 New Orleans

Survivors of the Camp Fire can get an online sneak peek of the Ron Howard documentary Rebuilding Paradise this weekend. The original plan of the filmmaker to have it first shown in the Paradise Performing Arts Center. This couldn't happen, however, due to the coronavirus outbreak. Instead, the film's debut was at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, which was attended by former Paradise mayor Woody Culleton, who was one of several survivors featured in the documentary.
- PUB DATE: 7/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRCR-TV ABC 7 Redding

VIDEO:Some 7 hours and 45 minutes after it closed down, Highway 53 just south of Eau Claire has reopened. Crews spent the majority of the day cleaning up after a truck hauling 26,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, 300 gallons of diesel and an unknown amount of dynamite tipped over. "When these materials are mixed together, they can be ignited and have some explosive properties to them and that is why we took all the steps that we could to minimize and mitigate the incident," said Allyn Bertrang, deputy chief of the Eau Claire Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 7/9/2020 1:04:53 PM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire

Frustration continues for a group of Central Florida firefighters being forced to use personal time to self-isolate. This follows a weekend of positive coronavirus tests among some of the Reedy Creek firefighters. The firefighter WESH 2’s Bob Hazen spoke to says he worries he’s going to run out of sick days soon.
- PUB DATE: 7/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WESH-TV NBC 2 Orlando

PHOTOS: Village police are asking the public for help in finding the vandals who cut down a flagpole at the center of a 9/11 memorial that honors five firefighters from the area who died in the World Trade Center collapse. The severed pole was discovered and reported early Wednesday morning. Washingtonville Police Chief Brian Zaccaro said the culprits used a tool to cut through the composite material at about four to five feet from the base, and scrawled a message in marker on the part of the pole that remained standing.
- PUB DATE: 7/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Times Herald-Record

Michigan Treasurer Rachael Eubanks on Wednesday announced two new grant programs offering a total of $300 million in hazard pay to first responders for working during the coronavirus pandemic. The First Responder Hazard Pay Premiums and the Public Safety and Public Health Pay Roll Reimbursement programs are aimed at helping first responders receive premium hazard pay and reimbursing local governments for payroll costs incurred due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a July 8 state news release.
- PUB DATE: 7/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MLive.com

Screening based on conventional COVID-19 symptoms may not be sensitive enough to identify which 911 patients should be tested for infection, a retrospective cohort study published today in JAMA Network Open found. In the study, researchers in Seattle evaluated data from surveillance systems and the electronic medical records of 124 patients with COVID-19 seeking 911 emergency medical services (EMS) in King County, Washington, from Feb 1 to Mar 18.
- PUB DATE: 7/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy

PHOTOS: Smokey, a 1935 Ford pumper truck, is back on the road thanks to Easton fire Lt. Jason Healey and resident Chuck Hurley. Smokey began its career as an Easton fire engine. During the 1970s, it was used as a brush truck and then for school visits and parades. “It was sitting in the back bay of the fire station for a long time, broken and collecting dust,” Fire Chief Kevin Partridge said.
- PUB DATE: 7/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wicked Local Easton - Metered Site

It's said cats have nine lives, but two dogs are lucky to be alive thanks to a Caledonia Police Department K-9 officer who pulled one of the canines from a burning home on Monday afternoon, July 6. CPD released the dramatic body camera video Tuesday. Shortly after 2 p.m. on Monday, Caledonia K-9 Officer Cory Radke and his partner, Lou, were on their way home when he saw a lot of smoke in the sky.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2020 6:39:28 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

Brown County Emergency Management officials say two tornado sirens in the area are currently down. According to the County, the siren on Lombardi Avenue just west of Oneida has been taken down and will need to be replaced. Currently, the replacement date by the City of Green Bay is still to be determined.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2020 5:58:01 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

The City of Sun Prairie is expected to unveil a statue and memorial Friday in honor of the firefighters who assisted during 2018’s downtown explosion. Sun Prairie Fire Chief Chris Garrison told News 3 Now the ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. and last for about a half hour. Officials said the statue will be of a firefighter whose hands are holding the helmet of Fire Captain Cory Barr, who was killed after responding to the gas leak that caused the explosion in July 2018.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2020 4:49:16 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison