Paramedic Trent Bowers received a call on a recent January night: A woman had been beaten at a St. Louis Family Dollar store. When Bowers arrived, the woman showed him injuries across her body. “This looks like it’s out of place,” he said, looking at her knee. He suggested she take the ambulance to the hospital, but the woman said she couldn’t afford it without insurance.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

When firefighter Richard “Dick” Boyer responded to a fire call at the Reading YMCA on a bitter cold morning in January 1985, he immediately sensed something wasn’t right. “The fire hose on the sidewalk was burning, and the handle on the Knox box had melted,” recalled Boyer, 76, a retired Reading fire chief.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Reading Eagle

Milwaukee firefighters are remembering one of their own who served nearly three decades with the department after he died off-duty on Saturday. Darrin Jones was about to celebrate 29 years at the Milwaukee Fire Department. He worked at Fire Station 12 near 22nd and Oklahoma as part of the Incident Command Post, or ICP.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2020 4:36:24 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

A house in the 7200 block of 39th Avenue in Kenosha is uninhabitable as a result of smoke damage sustained from a fire that started early Friday night on a mattress in a first floor bedroom. The Kenosha Fire Department was called to respond to the structure fire at 6:15 p.m., Battalion Chief Jeff Johnson, said.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2020 11:21:46 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

A Saturday morning apartment fire on the city's west side has left one person without a place to live. The Green Bay Metro Fire Department responded around 11 a.m. Saturday to an apartment building in the 1500 block of Capitol Drive in Green Bay for a report of smoke in the building's hallway, according to a news release from the department.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2020 3:24:16 PM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

I think that all the equipment and big trucks are really cool,” Participant Jack Jansen said. 10-year-old Jack Jansen is spending his Saturday learning about police officers and firefighters. Jansen said he has dreams of becoming an officer one day. "My dad is a firefighter and he has some connections with police officers,” Jansen said.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2020 2:41:01 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

We first told you in August about the Bellevue Fire Department's plan to move to 24-7 staffing. Previously the department was not staffed after five at night on any given day. “The guys are still getting used to it,” said Fire Chief, Jack Mlnarik. “You can tell that some of these calls when they're waking up at night.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2020 5:48:04 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

A 12-year-old bulldog lived up to its name on Friday, Jan. 31 -- after being rescued from Lake Michigan by the South Milwaukee Fire Department. Tuff apparently ventured out onto some ice to retrieve a stick and fell through the ice and into the frigid water. Officials say he was reportedly submerged for ten minutes or more.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2020 2:31:23 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

The City of Chicago is suing a Rockford-based coffee company for trademark infringement, claiming the company’s logo is an imitation of the Chicago Fire Department’s symbol. Fire Department Coffee and the Fire Department both feature logos that consist of the letters D, F and C intertwined in a stylized monogram, which is likely to confuse consumers into thinking the city has endorsed or sponsored the business, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Sun Times

A Vancouver firefighter is heading across the state to become Kennewick’s new fire chief. Chad Michael is leaving a spot as the deputy chief of operations at the Vancouver Fire Department to return to his roots in Eastern Washington. He starts March 16 and will be sworn in at the March 17 city council meeting.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tri-City Herald

Top Fire Department officials told a City Council committee Jan. 28 that the department’s policy of “promoting” Emergency Medical Technicians to become Firefighters, who are paid tens of thousands of dollars more a year, had produced a major gap in Emergency Medical Service staffing. As a consequence, they conceded that even as the city continued to set records for EMS call volume, and response times for those calls were rising, there had been a decline in the number of ambulance crews available, a circumstance they said would take “a couple of years” to rectify.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Chief Leader - Metered Site

When Brian Kernohan complained to his doctor of merciless headaches two summers ago, he expected to get a prescription for a sinus infection, not a diagnosis of brain cancer. The 37-year-old firefighter’s eardrums were curved inward, so his doctor suggested a CT scan. It found a tumor the size of a golf ball sitting on his right cerebral artery, daring a stroke with every heartbeat.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUFT-TV PBS 5 Gainesville

Residents displaced when flames tore through a 1960s-era Los Angeles apartment tower and injured 13 people this week are wondering why the management company didn't install sprinklers after another destructive blaze seven years ago. City officials said after the 2013 fire “that it shouldn’t take another tragedy” to get sprinklers into older buildings that are exempt from retrofitting rules, City Councilman Mike Bonin said Thursday.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles

Two fire departments in Northeast Wisconsin are now among an elite group of agencies statewide. They have paramedics trained at the advanced level to treat injured police K9s. Demand has grown over the last two years after state lawmakers passed a bill giving paramedics the ability to treat injured animals.
- PUB DATE: 1/30/2020 4:45:43 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

The Oshkosh Fire Department rescued a puppy from the Fox River at about 8 a.m. Thursday. Witness video shows a crew member holding a puppy while being pulled from the icy water with a rope system. The puppy apparently got away from its owner, as it was wearing a harness, collar and leash, Oshkosh Fire Department Public Information Officer John Holland said.
- PUB DATE: 1/30/2020 3:37:39 PM - SOURCE: NBC 26 Green Bay

The Humane Society of Waupaca County is praising the Waupaca Fire Department for their quick response to a call to smoke in the building Wednesday. The Humane Society posted photos and the story to its Facebook page. On Wednesday, the staff noticed smoke in the building and called the Waupaca Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 1/30/2020 7:47:02 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

Milwaukee Police say a reckless driver crashed into a Milwaukee Fire truck Wednesday night around 9:51 p.m. Authorities say the car was driving 70-80 miles per hour with its lights off when it hit a MFD truck that had its emergency lights and siren on. The driver of the car was taken to the hospital with a possible broken leg.
- PUB DATE: 1/30/2020 5:49:36 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Students at Central High School in Paddock Lake were briefly evacuated from the school Wednesday morning after machinery in the shop area of the school began smoking, setting off fire alarms. Salem Lakes Fire Department Assistant Chief James Lejcar said the department received the call at 9:04 a.m., with school staff reporting smoke in the building, 24617 75th St.
- PUB DATE: 1/30/2020 1:49:05 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News

VIDEO: Two adults were critically injured after a massive fire tore through part of a high-rise in the Brentwood area Wednesday morning, the same building which was the site of a fire more than six years ago. Helicopters were used to rescue several residents who fled up to the roof for safety. The blaze broke out at Barrington Plaza, a 25-story residential building located at 11740 Wilshire Blvd.
- PUB DATE: 1/30/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCAL-TV CBS 9 Los Angeles

To better protect the residents of Lower Pottsgrove Township and nearby communities, Ringing Hill Fire Company has launched a comprehensive volunteer recruitment campaign. A new slogan, “Reach New Heights at the Hill,” will be used to promote all the opportunities volunteers can gain at Ringing Hill Fire Company, or as volunteers call it, The Hill.
- PUB DATE: 1/30/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Mercury