A house incurred extensive damage and firefighters coped with trying conditions due to the hot weather at the scene of a fire Monday afternoon. Caledonia and South Shore firefighters were dispatched just after 2 p.m. Monday to the residence located at 6821 Beechnut Drive, just south of Six Mile Road.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2020 3:44:00 PM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

Fire officials were called to a house fire near S. West Avenue and Richard Street around 10 p.m. Sunday, July 6th for a report of the smell of smoke in the building. Upon arrival crews found smoke coming from the roof of a two-story, four-family building. Fire crews immediately entered the building and assisted one resident out.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2020 1:30:39 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

Improperly discarded fireworks caused a house fire on Madison’s west side Sunday night, according to a release from the city’s fire department. Crews were dispatched to a home along the 400 block of Seven Nations Drive around 11 p.m Saturday for reports of a porch on fire. Firefighters arrived to find flames and smoke coming from the front of the house, the release said.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2020 10:03:40 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

A fire destroyed a detached garage and caused significant damage to the exteriors of two homes on Appleton’s southeast side Sunday evening. Firefighters found the two-stall garage engulfed when they responded to the report of a fire on the 1200-block of S. Walden Ave. at 6:45 P.M. They had the fire out in 10 minutes, but it took another 45 minutes to cool down the hot spots.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2020 5:51:13 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

The Houston Fire Department said its firefighters are running on empty as they try to keep up with the city’s pandemic surge. HFD Chief Sam Pena said about 300 firefighters are in quarantine. Pena said the ones not in quarantine are overworked and there is no end in sight. “Yes, they’re being stretched thin, and yes, they’re being overworked and it is stressful for them,” Pena said.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU-TV CBS 11 Houston

VIDEO: An Oakland fire crew was delayed on making an emergency medical call July 4th evening when an unruly mob near Lake Merritt blocked its path and climbed onto the engine. The incident was captured on a video released Sunday night on the Oakland Firefighters Facebook page. The video showed a crowd gathered around an Oakland fire truck at the intersection of Lakeshore and Brooklyn Avenues on the east side of Lake Merritt.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPIX-TV CBS 5 San Francisco

Four Beech Grove firefighters are recovering after a drunk driver drove a car into the fire engine and then hit the officers. Five firefighters were responding to a trash fire Saturday night in the 5900 block of East Troy Avenue near North 25th Avenue just after 10 p.m. As the firefighters were deploying the hose line, a car crashed into the fire engine and hit a light pole and four of the firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTHR-TV NBC 13 Indianapolis

After consistently moving toward flattening the curve, positive cases of COVID-19 have been climbing in the last two weeks across several states. Florida had the most dramatic increase of cases, jumping from 3,235 daily new cases per 100,000 people on June 22 to 9,019 daily new cases June 27, according to the Johns Hopkins University & Medicine Coronavirus Resource Center.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Marshall Independent

VIDEO: The fire believed to have been sparked by illegal fireworks that severely damaged a South Buffalo house Friday offered a pair of grim reminders. One was of the danger of fireworks. The other was of a tragedy that still resonates within the Buffalo Fire Department. “This fire was eerily similar to a fire that took the life of one of our firefighters, Michael Seguin, some 23 years ago,” Fire Commissioner William Renaldo said.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Buffalo News

A barn is considered a total loss after a fire in Dodge County. According to the Reeseville Fire Department, crews were called to W10409 Highway I around 7:40 P.M. Friday night. Fire Chief Nic Gay said upon arrival the barn was engulfed in flames and a nearby shed was also on fire. Initial reports said that four people were accounted for as they went back into the barn to rescue animals, according to firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2020 5:38:51 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison

The Lake Mills Fire Department is mourning the loss of one of its own. Capt. Mark Bentheimer, 55, died this week after battling leukemia for four months. He was the department's most senior captain. "His passion was definitely the fire department, his family, his grandkids," said his wife, Peggy Bentheimer.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2020 4:41:50 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Fond du Lac Fire and Rescue crews responded to three fires involving garbage and recycling containers in a matter of two hours on Saturday, July 4 into Sunday, July 5, officials say. Crews were called to the area of Western Avenue and S. Brooke Street for a report of a dumpster fire around 12:20 a.m.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2020 10:37:51 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

Firefighters said they responded to a house fire caused by improperly discarded fireworks Saturday around 11:45 p.m. The Manitowoc Fire Rescue Department (MFRD) said the fire was on the 900 block of North 22nd Street. First responders reported flames and smoke visible from the garage that were extending into the home.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2020 9:46:02 AM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

Nine people have been displaced after a fire starts within a 16 unit apartment building on Saturday night. According to the Green Bay Metro Fire Department, at around 8:30 p.m., crews responded to the 2700 block of Humboldt Road for a report of a fire in a 16 unit apartment building. Arriving crews said they observed fire coming out of a second-story window and due to the fire being within the apartment building and the hot weather, additional fire units and ambulances were requested.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2020 7:44:45 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV CBS 5 Green Bay

Cleanup was underway Thursday at a multistory health club shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic that collapsed into a heap of rubble in Brooklyn a day earlier. Videos posted on Citizen app show FDNY trucks, an ambulance, and numerous police officers and other first responders near a pile of rubble and debris where the three-story building in Carroll Gardens used to stand at the corner of Court Street and Union Street.
- PUB DATE: 7/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNYW-TV FOX 5 New York

Three U.S. Department of Commerce agencies, the Economic Development Administration (EDA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority), announced the awardee of the Accelerate R2 Network (R2 Network) Challenge. The R2 Network Challenge is an interagency program that connects stakeholders in the response and resilience (R2) industries, accelerating the speed at which startups and other organizations can bring innovations to the public safety market, create new businesses and jobs, and support community resilience.
- PUB DATE: 7/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: U.S. Economic Development Administration

Students in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 have been attending parties in the city and surrounding area as part of a disturbing contest to see who can catch the virus first, a city council member told ABC News on Wednesday. Tuscaloosa City Councilor Sonya McKinstry said students have been organizing "COVID parties" as a game to intentionally infect each other with the contagion that has killed more than 127,000 people in the United States.
- PUB DATE: 7/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News

How severe is the spread of COVID-19 in your community? If you're confused, you're not alone. Though state and local dashboards provide lots of numbers, from case counts to deaths, it's often unclear how to interpret them — and hard to compare them to other places. "There hasn't been a unified, national approach to communicating risk, says Danielle Allen, a professor and director of the Edmond J.
- PUB DATE: 7/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Public Radio

VIDEO: Nearly 400,000 Nissan vehicles on the road right now could catch fire. Nissan has issued multiple recalls about the problem, impacting some Muranos, Maximas, Infinitis and Pathfinders, but the company has no fix for the defect that has burned down vehicles, homes and even caught a car dealership on fire.
- PUB DATE: 7/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPRC-TV NBC 2 Houston

La Crosse Fire Chief Ken Gilliam’s Annual Community Report for 2019 reflects optimism, even as he acknowledges that 2020’s continuing COVID-19 curse presents whole new challenges. Among the highlights of the year were responding to an increased annual volume totaling more than 6,800 incidents, recording no civilian fire casualties in 2019 and achieving cardiac arrest survival rates far above national averages, Gilliam wrote.
- PUB DATE: 7/1/2020 4:39:55 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse