Firefighters with muscles, and puppies, in a calendar. This is how Milwaukee Fire Department members are raising tens of thousands of dollars to help firefighters during times of need. Two years ago Ignite the Spirit-Milwaukee launched as a nonprofit organization that supports firefighters when they can't be at work for family or personal health reasons.
- PUB DATE: 10/30/2019 4:57:45 AM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Authorities are searching for the Pine-Strawberry Fire Chief who has been reported missing after setting out to hike an Arizona trail last week. Sheriff's officials say 73-year-old Chief Gary Morris was reported missing around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. Deputies say Chief Morris, an avid hiker, was scheduled to do 51 miles over four days of the Arizona Trail with the ending point being in the Doll Baby area, southwest of Payson.
- PUB DATE: 10/30/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC 15 News Arizona

VIDEO: Harrowing video of San Francisco firefighters sent into the Kincade Fire drives home the reality that our first-responders are risking their lives when they step in to battle raging wildfires. Firefighters from San Francisco Fire Department were deployed to help fight the Kincade Fire, which has now burned 74,000 acres in Sonoma County.
- PUB DATE: 10/30/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGO-TV 7 News

A Cessna 414 plane crashed into a suburban New Jersey home Tuesday morning, igniting a massive fire and completely destroying the house, local fire officials said. The crash was in Colonia, about 22 miles outside of New York City. Video from the scene shows massive flames and plumes of smoke rising into the air.
- PUB DATE: 10/30/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News

At least 13 shots were fired into the Ona Volunteer Fire Department building, damaging three trucks, Cabell County Sheriff Chuck Zerkle said Tuesday. The sheriff said someone shot through the station’s garage doors, hitting three truck’s radiators and transmission lines. As a result, two of the trucks will be out of service.
- PUB DATE: 10/30/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSAZ-TV NBC 3

The town’s full-time firefighters say the current paid firefighting service is too thin for a town of York’s size, and they are seeking residents’ support to add two more people to their ranks. But as much as they seek relief from their 56-hour work week, it is just as important to them that the town hire a full-time paid fire chief.
- PUB DATE: 10/30/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fosters.com

Firefighters from seven central Wisconsin municipalities got the chance this week to practice rescuing people in a real-life agricultural setting and not just with a simulator. The Pittsville Fire Department regularly uses a simulator to train firefighters on how to rescue someone caught in a grain bin.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 5:56:57 PM - SOURCE: Wisconsin State Farmer

A man is facing criminal charges, accused of taking a fire chief's all-terrain vehicle during a festival in Big Bend. Surveillance images show the fire department's six-wheel ATV just outside the station in July during the Big Bend Rumble by the River. The chief was using it to deliver water and snacks to police and firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 3:38:16 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

Kent Gilles has been responding to 911 calls in one fashion or another for more than three decades. Wisconsin State Assembly recently awarded the lifelong Plum City resident with the 93rd Assembly District First Responder Award. The Wisconsin Assembly honors first responders from each district. Rep.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 8:33:26 AM - SOURCE: Rivertowns

Officers with the Madison Police Department are investigating a house fire Monday night as a possible arson. Officers were sent to a home along the 100 block of North First Street around 8:30 p.m., according to Sgt. Benjamin Schwarz with MPD. No one was hurt in the fire, Schwarz said. If anyone has information about the fire call the Madison Police Department or Madison Area Crime Stoppers at 608-266-6014.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 7:57:59 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

In the last 24 hours, firefighters have responded to an estimated 330 fires across California, Governor Gavin Newsom stated in a press conference Monday afternoon. The update comes as the Kincade Fire, which sparked northeast of Geyserville on October 23, continues to burn across Northern California.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: SF Gate

Alex Graham was a fixture behind the wheel of Engine 21, part of a crew known as the Alley Rats that raced to calls around Northwest Washington’s Adams Morgan neighborhood. But it was in Graham’s less flashy work on the training grounds at the other end of the city where the 48-year-old became the department’s go-to fix-it man, making sure water flowed from engines and through hoses at the required rate and that ladders could be raised to burning structures.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Washington Post

They did the time — now they’re going to get paid for it. A federal jury ordered the city to cough up millions of dollars to FDNY emergency medical technicians and paramedics who were stiffed for time spent on preparations before and after their shifts, attorneys for the first responders said Saturday.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

A firefighter battling the explosive Kincade Fire near Geyserville was forced to deploy his personal fire shelter to prevent two residents from being overcome by flames as the blaze surged Friday evening, state officials said. Fire shelters are used as a last resort, and the rescue, at about 6:20 p.m.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle - Metered Site

Fairfield officials are debating whether to accept a federal firefighting staffing grant because of the city’s own financial obligations that come with the funding. Fairfield was awarded a nearly $1.26 million Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant so the fire department could hire six firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Journal-News

A fire that the Black River Falls Fire Department believes is "suspicious in nature" likely destroyed a garage Monday in Jackson County. The fire, reported shortly before noon, occurred in an unattached garage at N9193 Wren Lane in the town of Adams. Upon arrival, firefighters from the Black River Falls and Hatfield fire departments saw flames and found heavy smoke coming from the 40-by-40-foot building.
- PUB DATE: 10/28/2019 5:09:48 PM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

A Janesville home damaged by fire months ago caught on fire again early Sunday morning. The home is located at 121 South Academy Drive, according to a release by the Janesville Fire Department. Firefighters arrived at the home around 3:15 a.m. Sunday, to see flames coming from a boarded-up house. The owner of the property told firefighters the home had been unoccupied since a fire back in April.
- PUB DATE: 10/28/2019 6:48:38 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a crash that left two people dead early Sunday morning on Sprague Road, west of state Route 252. According to officials, 31-year-old Keith Liedtke, of Columbia Station, was driving a 2007 Pontiac G5 in the eastbound lane of Sprague Road. Twenty-seven-year-old Brent Reszler, of Columbia Station, was in the passenger seat.
- PUB DATE: 10/28/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKYC Studios

An ongoing dispute between neighboring fire department jurisdictions in northern Beaufort County could mean that, beginning Friday, the closest firefighters won’t always respond first to an emergency. Leaders of the Beaufort-Port Royal Fire Department and Burton Fire District say their departments are equipped to keep residents adequately safe despite the latest escalation in the spat.
- PUB DATE: 10/28/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Island Packet

The recent fatal fire on Coffin Ave has brought renewed attention to the fire department’s blackout policy. First responders were able to locate and evacuate 85-year-old Louise Barboza on the third floor of her three-story home after receiving reports of a structure fire, but she suffered second and third degree burns and later died at the hospital.
- PUB DATE: 10/28/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: South Coast Today