A bill is being discussed in a Kansas Senate committee Tuesday that would give fire investigators law enforcement powers in the state. This means, if an investigator encounters a crime in progress, they would have the legal right to pull-over, detain, and even arrest someone. The Kansas Fire Marshal, Doug Jorgensen, made clear during his testimony in favor of the bill that investigators would not be conducting traffic stops.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSNT-TV NBC 27 Topeka

A few Upstate ambulances are now carrying a cooler that can save lives. The No. 1 cause of preventable deaths that ambulances deal with is loss of blood, said Aaron Dix, Prisma Health's executive director of emergency medical services. If someone has a severe gunshot wound or hemorrhaging or has been in a severe accident, they could lose blood faster than an ambulance can get them to a hospital, Dix said.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Greenville News

Firefighters are responding to a residential fire in the village of Windsor on Tuesday night. Dane County dispatch said it received a call at 6:55 p.m. for a report of a structure fire on the 3400 block of Heatherstone Ridge. Officials said a box-level alarm has been issued, meaning multiple agencies have been sent to the scene.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2020 5:45:54 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

The Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue will be using their firetrucks to deliver Dominos pizzas to customers to celebrate “Firetruck Day” on March 10. According to Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue, they have partnered with the local Dominos to deliver pizzas to nine lucky customers on Wednesday between 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2020 12:39:31 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

Legislation that would give full-time first responders compensation for post traumatic stress disorder diagnosis is gaining momentum in the Senate and Assembly, but coauthor state Sen. Patty Schachtner said she hopes it won’t stop there. Senate Bill 511 and companion Assembly Bill 569, both backed with bipartisan support, are good places to start, according to the Somerset Democrat; however, they leave a large demographic out of the mix.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2020 11:12:50 AM - SOURCE: Rivertowns

The Appleton Fire Department is investigating a fire on a Valley Transit Bus. Firefighters say the fire occurred on South Schaefer Street, south of Calumet Street, Tuesday. According to the Valley Transit route map, the area the fire occurred is serviced by the Route 8 Telulah line. Valley Transit Center General Manager, Ron McDonald, reports no one was injured in the fire and bus routes have not been significantly impacted.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2020 6:45:41 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

As of 6 a.m. on Monday, March 9, Sun Prairie Fire & Rescue Companies Station 1 at 135 N. Bristol and Station II at 2598 W. Main Street will be identically staffed 24 Hours a day, 7 days a week. With the city’s projected population increases and rapid development of our city’s west corridor, with projects including a new high school, two new middle schools, a hotel, numerous apartment buildings, and new subdivisions.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2020 1:41:08 AM - SOURCE: Sun Prairie Star

VIDEO: A new partnership hopes to increase the number of people in Indiana who can donate tissue after they die. The partnership is between Carmel Fire Department and Indiana Donor Network. The changes that this partnership brings could impact thousands of people a year. Organs cannot be donated from people who die outside of a hospital.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISH-TV CW 8 Indianapolis

“This is - ‘Follow me, follow me, follow me.’ Left, right, upstairs, basement, ‘Show me your basement.’ That’s a good question - ‘Where’s your bedroom?’ You would want to know ‘Is the baby in the bedroom?’’’ Cindy Hanzes, of Connellsville, demonstrated words in American Sign Language to firefighters attending a special class at the Morrell Volunteer Fire Company.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Herald-Standard - Metered Site

The man who would become Patient Zero for the new coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. appeared to do everything right. He arrived Jan. 19 at an urgent-care clinic in a suburb north of Seattle with a slightly elevated temperature and a cough he’d developed soon after returning four days earlier from a visit with family in Wuhan, China.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bloomberg Businessweek

A fire lieutenant used bad judgment when he tried to make a training exercise more realistic and ended up starting a blaze that injured a fellow firefighter, Fire Chief John Oates said Monday. Lt. Doug McKeon, a 21-year department veteran, was suspended without pay for 14 days in January and February, according to a disciplinary letter released after a Freedom of Information request.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hartford Courant

The Green Bay Metro Fire Department received a large donation from the Reach-A-Child organization. Reach-A-Child helps first responders comfort children in crisis through books, giving them a tool that makes it easier for a child to cope in scary situation. 22 reach bags will be placed on the fire trucks and other department vehicles.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2020 3:44:07 PM - SOURCE: NBC 26 Greenbay

The City of Beloit Fire Department paid tribute to one if its own who died after falling in a parking lot and was struck by a vehicle in a Monday morning post on Facebook. On Saturday, police identified the 76-year-old man as Charles “Jim” Cheadle. The fire department noted Cheadle, an Air Force veteran, was one of the very first firefighters to complete its paramedic program.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2020 10:52:04 AM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

No one was injured early Monday morning during a house fire in the 300 block of Greenfield Avenue in Waukesha. Firefighters and police arrived on scene around 1:44 a.m. Monday to the single-family home. The fire was located and extinguished on the second floor and attic, with minor damage to the remainder of the structure.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2020 6:37:35 AM - SOURCE: Greater Milwaukee Today - GM Today

The Cumberland County Coroner’s Office has released the names of the two people killed Monday morning in a fire in Monroe Township. Jerome Guise, 34, of Boiling Springs, was a firefighter with the Mount Holly Springs fire department, Coroner Charley Hall said. Guise was killed when the front porch of the home on the 1500 block of Boiling Springs Road collapsed while he was fighting the fire.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: PennLive Patriot-News

They’re not the Bravest when it comes to the coronavirus. The FDNY won’t dispatch its firefighters to potential coronavirus patients, leaving its paramedics and EMTs to handle them alone, The Post has learned. The department issued an order Friday temporarily relieving firefighters from responding to calls of the second highest priority for patients with fever, coughing, difficulty breathing or even those who are unconscious.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

When the Jaws of Life don’t work and a man is dying, a little ingenuity and a big engine could prove to be the best combination. West Springfield and Westfield firefighters pulled a crashed vehicle apart with a fire truck to extricate a seriously injured driver Wednesday, said West Springfield Lt. Andrew Lyne.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Republican - MassLive

Some residents in northeast Albemarle County are concerned about a proposal to move daytime fire-rescue staff farther away from their area. As part of County Executive Jeff Richardson’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2021, Albemarle County Fire Rescue would reallocate weekday, daytime fire-rescue staff from Stony Point Volunteer Fire Company and East Rivanna Volunteer Fire Company to the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department and Pantops Public Safety Station to meet system-wide response time standards and call volume.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Daily Progress

Florida lawmakers were on the verge of sending Gov. Ron DeSantis legislation Friday that requires panic buttons at every school, the latest security measure being implemented on campuses after the Parkland school shooting two years ago that killed 17. The measure, known as “Alyssa's Law,” would establish an electronic link between schools and law enforcement — and reduce the confusion that became so apparent as a gunman roamed the grounds of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day 2018.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News

First responders in the Milwaukee area are taking the usual precautions and extra steps amid concerns about coronavirus in the U.S. Capt. Dan Tyk at North Shore Fire & Rescue said his firefighters and EMS are handwashing before and after every call, and they're disinfecting all equipment weekly -- if not daily.
- PUB DATE: 3/7/2020 4:48:53 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee