This page tells the tragic story of the Hotel Vendome Fire & Collapse, which occurred during the mid to late-afternoon hours of Saturday, June 17, 1972. As the fire in the upper floors of the former 7-story hotel (including penthouse) was being extinguished, a collapse of the southeast corner of the building occurred.
- PUB DATE: 6/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Fire Historical Society

Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D-7th District) introduced a bipartisan bill aimed at honoring lives lost on September 11, 2001. Spanberger, along with Rep. Peter King (R-New York), filed H.R. 7183 — the National Nine-Eleven Victims and Emergency Responders Flag of Remembrance, Gratitude, and Education for Tomorrow Act, or the National NEVER FORGET Act.
- PUB DATE: 6/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVR-TV CBS 6 Richmond

The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) announced today that Fire-Rescue International (FRI) 2020, scheduled to take place August 19-21 in Phoenix, AZ, has been cancelled due to the impact and ongoing concerns about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). A virtual FRI format will be announced on July 7, 2020, and will take place over the week of August 19th.
- PUB DATE: 6/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: IAFC.org

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed five coronavirus cases among staff members at the Lakeland, Fla., base for its famed “Hurricane Hunter” research aircraft. The cases raise the possibility that one of the country’s vital early-warning systems could be hobbled during what is already an unusually active hurricane season.
- PUB DATE: 6/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Washington Post - Metered Site

An investigation has been opened into a fire at a home near Fort Atkinson Tuesday night. According to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, deputies received a call just before 6 p.m. about a possible burglary at a house on County Highway A near Highway 106 in the town of Sumner. When a deputy got to the scene, they said shots were fired from the home.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2020 11:29:47 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

A man's body was found in a burning garage Tuesday afternoon in Milwaukee. Firefighters called to the scene of the blaze in the 300 block of East Center Street found the body of a 35-year-old man inside a garage, according to Milwaukee police. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The fire was reported at 2:46 p.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2020 6:45:41 PM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

More than 20 people have been displaced by a fire at an apartment complex at 5323 Westport Road. According to Dane County Dispatch, the call came in at 7:52 a.m. Tuesday. A representative with the Waunakee Fire Department said based off of the information in the initial call, before firefighters even arrived on scene they called a box alarm.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2020 3:41:33 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison

Four adults, three children, and a dog are all safe after a fire claimed their Howard home Monday evening. According to the Village of Howard Fire Department, crews from fire departments across the Green Bay arrived at a home in the 2000 block of Shawano Avenue around 6:40 p.m. Firefighters say they found the attached garage on fire, the roof collapsed, and the fire burning across the roof of the home.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2020 12:02:58 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

A Fond du Lac County barn is a total loss following a Monday afternoon fire. The Sheriff’s Office and Alto Fire Department were dispatched to a residence on HWY 49 shortly after 1:20 p.m. for a fully engulfed barn fire. Upon arrival crews found the fire had spread to the barn from a nearby brush pile that had been smoldering.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2020 7:48:48 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

PHOTOS: Firefighters on Tuesday morning, June 16 responded to the scene of a fire at a vacant, boarded-up church near Buffum and Chambers in Milwaukee. The call came in around 2:40 a.m. No additional details have been released — including the cause of the fire or the amount of damage sustained.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2020 5:35:07 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

Emergency crews are responding to a report of a fire at an apartment complex in the town of Westport. Firefighters were called about 7:50 a.m. to the complex in the 5300 block of Westport Road according to Dane County dispatch. A mutual aid call has been send for help from additional departments. Waunakee firefighters said "smoking materials" started the blaze which has displaced some 20 people.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV ABC 27 Madison

The Newton Firefighters Association said on Monday it is taking legal action against the city for taking down a remembrance flag last week that had been hanging inside Station 4 for the last 2½ years. Marc Rizza, Local 863 president, said in a statement that hanging the Thin Red Line flag “is a protected activity under the collective bargaining laws of the Commonwealth.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wicked Local Newton

New numbers released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offer a comprehensive picture of who in the United States has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and how they fared. The latest figures confirm that older people, minorities and those with preexisting health conditions are at the highest risk of death.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN

Had the parlor game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon instead been designed with Lisa Camp in mind, everyone in Friendswood and La Porte would have been directly or indirectly touched by the longtime emergency medical services leader. The Friendswood native is the EMS chief for the volunteer fire departments in both Friendswood and La Porte.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle

Within a few months, teams of mental health workers and EMTs will be dispatched in some Alameda County cities to help people having a mental crisis or substance abuse problems. The pilot program, called the “Community Assessment Treatment and Transport Team,” or CATT, will roll out in Oakland, San Leandro, Hayward and Alameda sometime this summer.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times - Metered Site

The following highlights some of the notable fires or building collapses in the lower Valley in the past 10 years... Sept. 11, 2010: Fire destroys the Housatonic Wire complex in Seymour. The building was slated to be the site of a new development. Jan. 6, 2014: A four-story Howe Avenue building opposite the Shelton end of the Derby-Shelton Bridge burns and collapses, leaving five injured and several homeless.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CT Post

The Madison Fire Department responded Monday morning to a blaze at an apartment complex on the city's north side. When firefighters arrived shortly before 9 p.m., they spotted the fire in the rear of the building and were able to quickly put it out. Nobody was hurt in the fire. Although, seventeen people live at the complex, in the 3700 block of E.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2020 9:16:25 AM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

Chief Gary Ludwig, IAFC President and Chairman of the Board, asked Congress to support local fire and EMS departments as he testified before the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. During his testimony, Chief Ludwig highlighted the importance of local fire and EMS departments to helping victims of COVID-19.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: IAFC.org

Survivors of COVID-19 are donating their blood plasma in droves in hopes it helps other patients recover from the coronavirus. And while the jury’s still out, now scientists are testing if the donations might also prevent infection in the first place. Thousands of coronavirus patients in hospitals around the world have been treated with so-called convalescent plasma — including more than 20,000 in the U.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC News

Firefighters across Ohio are mourning the death of Russell Brode, the former president of Akron’s firefighter union, who they said died Saturday from what’s referred to as “occupational cancer,” or cancer he acquired through fighting fires. Brode, 54, spent years pushing for better care and training for Ohio firefighters facing the same risk from inhaling cancer-causing toxins released by smoke and other chemicals.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Beacon Journal