If your house catches fire, your husband has a heart attack or your cat gets stuck in a tree in Reno this year, you might find yourself the unsuspecting star of a new "COPS"-style reality TV show that airs in real time. At its meeting Wednesday, the Reno City Council will decide whether to sign a contract with A&E's "Live Rescue" that would allow television production crews to embed with firefighters responding to calls.
- PUB DATE: 1/8/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Reno Gazette Journal

The Toledo Fire & Rescue Department (TFRD) is rolling out a new way to recruit with a focus on the community. Fire Chief Brian Byrd has assigned a specific team to recruit even more diverse candidates. They will work with community leaders like Toledo City Council members and Toledo Public Schools to fill the 50 open spots for the next class.
- PUB DATE: 1/8/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNWO-TV NBC 24 Toledo

A leaking heating and cooling unit prompted authorities to evacuate Edgerton High School on Tuesday afternoon. Kindergarten students, who have been using the high school building were also evacuated. At 1:20 p.m., the fire department was called to the school after a staff member smelled natural gas in the library, said Fire Division Chief Brandon Whitmore.
- PUB DATE: 1/7/2020 2:29:48 PM - SOURCE: Janesville Gazette

VIDEO: As winter continues, the risk of an accident while out on the ice remains. FOX 11's Maggie LaMere spends the morning with members of the De Pere City Fire Department and learns the practices they use to ensure safety while out on the ice! The department shares ice safety basics, steps used when making a rescue and a demonstration of a rescue using a portable rescue boat.
- PUB DATE: 1/7/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox 11 Online

VIDEO: Firefighters in New Bedford protested the mayor's inauguration Monday night over the city's longstanding blackout policy. Fire station blackouts have been in effect since 2009 when the former mayor, Scott Lang, initiated the policy as a way to try and save money during the Great Recession. Through the policy, a different station is closed, or "blacked out", for a 24-hour period to cut back on staffing, therefore reducing costs.
- PUB DATE: 1/7/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLNE-TV ABC 6

The city faces $10,800 in fines from the state for safety violations at the Warrenton Fire Department. The state Occupational Safety and Health Administration initiated an investigation after anonymous complaints. It fined the city $7,500 for not ensuring a proper respiratory protection program, $2,100 for not ensuring employees wore the right protective equipment, $420 for improper training, $420 for not maintaining a safety committee, $180 for a lack of equipment inspections and $180 for not keeping a hazard communication program.
- PUB DATE: 1/7/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Daily Astorian

VIDEO: York police said a registered sex offender has been arrested after showing up to emergency scenes pretending to be a firefighter. Robert Shipman, 29, was arrested Saturday after officers said he blocked the roadway at a serious accident on East Jefferson Street and had red lights on his truck.
- PUB DATE: 1/7/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSOC-TV ABC 9 Charlotte

Engine 72 used to put out fires in North Olympia. Now one rages inside of it, guaranteed to cook a fresh pizza in two minutes. Christopher and Janene Murray are the owners of Murray’s Rustic Pie, a wood-fired pizza operation built in a converted fire engine. The mobile food truck has been in commission for the pizza business since last summer, traveling to farmers markets, breweries, community events — even weddings — when they’re not serving about 30 pies a day from the driveway of the Murray home at 536 NE C St.
- PUB DATE: 1/7/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Walla Walla Union-Bulletin - Metered Site

The city contends the firefighters union shouldn’t be permitted to intervene in a civil lawsuit filed by a state board seeking an injunction to stop Youngstown from reducing the number of battalion chiefs. It also argues in a Monday filing that the State Employment Relations Board, which filed the lawsuit Dec.
- PUB DATE: 1/7/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Vindicator

Fire destroyed a home Saturday night just north of Algoma, but all its inhabitants managed to escape. The house, on the 600 block of Lower Lasalle Road, off of Door County U, ignited just after the family went to bed, Southern Door Fire Department Chief Gary Vandertie said. Firefighters responded about 9:15 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/6/2020 11:23:50 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

A woman sustained "significant injuries" after a house fire broke out in a Mount Pleasant home. At 11:31 p.m. Sunday, the South Shore Fire Department was dispatched to 1119 N. Summerset Drive for a report of a possible structure fire, according to a South Shore Fire Department news release. Mount Pleasant police officers arrived on scene and confirmed smoke was visible from a single family home.
- PUB DATE: 1/6/2020 9:00:35 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

Authorities have identified the two snowmobile riders who died and a third who survived when their machines plunged into a lake in northern Wisconsin early Sunday morning. Killed were David N. Erdman, 31, of Hubertus, and Kurtis W. Shernell, 27, of Hustisford, the Oneida County Sheriff's Office reported on Monday morning.
- PUB DATE: 1/6/2020 7:42:12 AM - SOURCE: Lacrosse Tribune

Nine people lost their home after a fire on the city’s east side early Monday morning. Fire crews responded to the blaze after 1 a.m. in the 300 block of South Quincy Street and found smoke coming from a first-floor window of a two-story home, according to the Green Bay Metro Fire Department. Officials said firefighters extinguished the blaze in less than 10 minutes.
- PUB DATE: 1/6/2020 3:49:34 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

VIDEO: Karina Figueroa and her family likely lost everything in a Sunday morning house fire that claimed the life of a metro firefighter. Right now they are not thinking about themselves. “We can start over again, the firefighter's family can’t. All they have left is the memories," Figuroea said. Officials have identified the West Peculiar firefighter who was killed as 30-year-old Chuck McCormick.
- PUB DATE: 1/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDAF-TV FOX 4

When Carol Brown joined the Boulder Fire Department in 1991, she was one of roughly a dozen female firefighters. Today a shift battalion chief, Brown is one of seven. Though Boulder was among the earliest to admit females to its force — the first two women were hired in 1978, according to Brown — the number of women in the city’s firefighting force has fallen over the years as older employees have retired.
- PUB DATE: 1/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Boulder Beat

In 2009, when Fire Chief Tom Burgasser was told to cut 20% of his budget, he knew exactly what to do. Transporting patients to the hospital instead of handing them over to a private ambulance company seemed like a no-brainer, the chief recalled more than 10 years later. It cut out the middle man. It would decrease the department’s spending while increasing revenue.
- PUB DATE: 1/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Canton Repository

As he stood in the third-floor corner room that served as his office from 2000 to 2009, retired Hartford Fire Chief Charles Teale reflected on some of the more historic moments that had taken place at the Pearl Street headquarters during his tenure. He recalled firefighters coming into the room after the 9/11 attacks and dumping piles of money they had collected for the 343 firefighters who perished at Ground Zero out onto the long conference table that dominated the room.
- PUB DATE: 1/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hartford Courant - Metered Site

VIDEO: An internal investigation has been opened to look into the procedures and training protocol of the Saint Joseph County Dispatch Center. ABC57 is still following the New Year's Eve tragedy that killed four-year-old James and his sister, two-year-old Natalie Kleven and left mother, Brook, and her 3-month-old son in critical condition.
- PUB DATE: 1/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBND-LD ABC 57 South Bend

In 2019, roughly 75% of the 911 calls received by the Racine Fire Department were for medical emergencies, and firefighters expect that to grow. An emerging program within the department is aimed at combating this problem at home. FOX6 News on Sunday, Jan. 5 caught up with Braiden Moriarity, Racine firefighter/paramedic, as he made home medical visits.
- PUB DATE: 1/5/2020 8:52:21 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

Dozens of firefighters from multiple departments responded to a large apartment fire Sunday morning in Genoa City. The five-alarm fire was reported just before 9 a.m. at the Pebble Brook Apartment complex on Walworth Street. William McCormack was visiting family across the street. He said he didn’t think twice about running in.
- PUB DATE: 1/5/2020 2:41:54 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee