First responders are getting some specialized training this week. Crews from Jerry's Towing teamed up with the Riverside Fire Department to show firefighters some specialized equipment that will help them respond to different crash scenarios, including semi rollovers. This equipment will not only make their jobs easier, it'll make them safer, too.
- PUB DATE: 9/18/2019 8:57:06 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

It was one year ago that torrential rains caused widespread flooding on Green Bay's east side. More than six inches of rain fell in a matter of hours. Green Bay's Fire Station 5 was among the buildings damaged in the flooding. Crews were called to a building collapse. They found the station under water.
- PUB DATE: 9/18/2019 2:07:01 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

The renovation of the Shorewood fire station will move forward, thanks to construction bids that came in well under budget. Shorewood officials and the North Shore Fire Department had agreed the fire department's total costs could not exceed $4.1 million. The projected cost estimate was $3.95 million, which would include $2.
- PUB DATE: 9/18/2019 1:07:15 PM - SOURCE: Ozaukee Now

A Chippewa Falls committee recommended approval of a plan Tuesday to provide EMS and ambulance services for a portion of the town of Wheaton, paving the way for the town to leave the Chippewa Fire District. Last week, the Wheaton town board voted 4-1 to leave the Fire District, contingent on its ability to obtain contracts for EMS/ambulance services from Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire.
- PUB DATE: 9/18/2019 8:38:43 AM - SOURCE: Chippewa Herald

Firefighters extinguished a house fire in Marathon County Tuesday night. Mosinee Fire Chief Stephen Haas said crews responded to the blaze around 8:30 p.m. on Lone Pine Lane near Knowlton. Haas said there was heavy fire coming from the house when crews arrived, and it was under control by 10 p.m. Haas said there were no injuries reported, and no one was in the house.
- PUB DATE: 9/18/2019 4:55:56 AM - SOURCE: Wausau Daily Herald

Multiple units from the Madison Fire Department responded to a large early-morning commercial fire on the city's west side Wednesday. The Madison Fire Department said it is investigating the cause of a fire at Cowboy Jack's on John Q. Hammons Drive that was reported at about 3:30 a.m. The responders who were first to the scene saw "heavy fire and smoke coming from the building," according to the report.
- PUB DATE: 9/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Channel3000.com

Following the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund being permanently extended by the federal government this summer, hundreds of Lower Manhattan community members attended a Sept. 16 informational seminar to learn about access to 9/11-related healthcare. Speakers at the event included officials and advocates, including Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and comedian Jon Stewart.
- PUB DATE: 9/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Villager

"Excellent dad, the best. They don't come any better than him," says Kalina Shouse when asked about her husband Erik. The couple have two beautiful, intelligent, active little girls but Kalina Shouse no longer has the man who helped make them; Erik Shouse died last year at just 40, suddenly and unexpectedly.
- PUB DATE: 9/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

Since East St. Louis was freed of oversight from the Illinois Financial Authority in 2013, the city has fallen nearly $2.3 million short in mandated payments to the fund that supports firefighters and their families in retirement, according to an audit. The East St. Louis Fire Pension Board on Monday voted unanimously to recover those contributions from the city through an “intercept procedure,” in which it would petition Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza’s office to seize state payments to the city and deposit them directly to the pension funds.
- PUB DATE: 9/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Belleville News-Democrat

Responding to a medical call in a rural area outside of town, emergency responders pause for a moment to figure out how they can access a property. By the way, it’s the middle of a moonless night. “We used to do that with our old manual map books and open it up,” Capt. Rich Saalsaa, Philomath Fire & Rescue’s fire and life safety officer remembered.
- PUB DATE: 9/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Corvallis Gazette-Times

During a late night of emergency calls last year, Dallas firefighter and paramedic Paul Clarke decided he was sick of drinking bad coffee to keep him alert during shifts. He wanted to create a better brew for himself and his fellow first responders. But before he could, Clarke—an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve—was deployed to Iraq for nine months.
- PUB DATE: 9/18/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: D Magazine

A proposed capital improvement budget, with a price tag of $50.8 million, includes $3 million dedicated to begin construction of a new North Side fire station. City Council Member Jessica Olson spoke about her concerns with borrowing money for the new fire facility before plans have been finalized during Tuesday’s public input meeting of the City Plan Commission.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2019 11:48:11 AM - SOURCE: Lacrosse Tribune

The body of the Captain Michael Bell who died Monday in the explosion in Farmington will return home Tuesday morning. Fire Capt. Michael Bell, 68, was a 30-year-member of the Farmington Fire Rescue and died in the powerful, apparent gas-related blast at LEAP Inc., that leveled the building, killing Bell and injuring seven others.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NewsCenterMaine.com

Twenty Prince George's County firefighters have scabies, a highly contagious condition in which tiny mites burrow under the skin and cause severe itching and rashes, fire and health officials announced Monday. Prince George's County Fire Chief Ben Barksdale said 205 employees of the department were tested.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRC-TV NBC 4

The U.S. Honor Flag came back through Utah, making several stops along the Wasatch Front. It travels the country honoring first responders who have given their lives for the community. It has made its way 7 million miles in the last 18 years, starting as a way to honor the hero’s of Sept. 11, 2001.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KUTV CBS 2 Salt Lake City

Firefighters have approved a contract that gives them an 11 percent wage increase over the course of the 6-year agreement, but also boosts the employee pension contribution and limits the number of retirees in a given year. The document between the city and Local 825, IAFF, AFL-CIO has been sent to the Board of Alders, which must act on it by Oct.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register

An interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of California, Irvine has developed a new technique for predicting the final size of a wildfire from the moment of ignition. Built around a machine learning algorithm, the model can help in forecasting whether a blaze is going to be small, medium or large by the time it has run its course – knowledge useful to those in charge of allocating scarce firefighting resources.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: UCI News

A Madison man is dead after his car crashed into a pole in Monona Monday night. Dane County dispatch said the Monona Fire and Police departments responded to the crash in the 4600 block of Winnequah Road at 7:23 p.m. The driver, 21, was the only person in the car, and no other injuries were reported.
- PUB DATE: 9/16/2019 7:46:19 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

The Village of Suamico continues to see growth and its fire department is looking to grow right along with it. Village leaders are in the process of designing a brand new fire station. It's expected to cost $5-6 million. The department has outgrown its current fire station, built in 1967, along Riverside Drive in the heart of downtown Suamico.
- PUB DATE: 9/16/2019 2:46:25 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

A Madison middle school was evacuated Friday afternoon after staff smelled a natural gas and firefighters traced the odor to rotting cookies. According to the Madison Fire Department's Public Information Officer, Cynthia Schuster, fire crews investigated the odor at 2:38 p.m. Friday at Blackhawk Middle School on Wyoming Way.
- PUB DATE: 9/16/2019 11:53:30 AM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison