As part of their 24-hour work shifts twice a week, Bob Gillman and Scott DeVault essentially live together. Working for Medix Ambulance Services in Delavan for the past five years, they make breakfast together. They do chores together. They’re like brothers. “He’s just a phenomenal person to be around.
- PUB DATE: 7/23/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse.com

Global climate change could make fire seasons more severe, and loss of critical technology more frequent, according to some fire officials. However, one Bay Area county is the first to secure funding for new equipment to help first responders in the event of catastrophe. In the case of natural disasters, first responders depend on communications infrastructure to warn the public, and plan their response.
- PUB DATE: 7/23/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVU-TV FOX 2 Oakland

A bigger, better, faster and stronger fire district. That is what the fire chiefs of two local fire districts say a proposed merger would bring to their communities. On the Aug. 6 primary ballot is a proposal to merge District 8 in Lake Stevens into Snohomish County District 7, which serves more than 116,000 people from Mill Creek to Monroe and beyond.
- PUB DATE: 7/23/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: HeraldNet.com - Metered Site

VIDEO: 12 years ago, a fire changed David Griffin’s life forever. He was driving a fire truck when he responded to the scene. Griffin spoke Monday night at the Steeple, telling local firefighters the story. The giant furniture store had no sprinkler system. It was nighttime, and dozens of firefighters went inside.
- PUB DATE: 7/23/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPMI-TV NBC 15 Mobile

A year after Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services experienced their first-career line of duty death while battling a massive house fire in Clarksville, a review committee has returned a series of recommendations to improve safety and accountability in the department. Lt. Nathan Flynn was part of the first team of firefighters to respond to the house in the 7000 block of Woodscape Drive at about 2 a.
- PUB DATE: 7/23/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMAR-TV ABC 2 Baltimore

A Get Gephardt investigation reveals the shocking way ordinary Utahns are starting fires without knowing it, and what you’ll have to pay if you start a fire by accident. 538 wildfires have already flamed in 2019. Even with the late rain, we are on track to match 2018's fire totals. All that firefighting costs millions.
- PUB DATE: 7/23/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KUTV CBS 2 Salt Lake City

La Crosse Fire Chief Ken Gilliam hopes 2020 will be the year fire station improvements first proposed in 2012 move forward, he said Monday in a meeting to discuss next year’s capital improvement program budget. The La Crosse Plan Commission began the daunting task of winnowing $36 million in funding requests to the city’s self-imposed limit of $7.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2019 5:23:26 PM - SOURCE: Lacrosse Tribune

A lot has happened to firefighter Alexis Metko in the 2½ years since she fell headfirst from a ladder during an exercise at Fox Valley Technical College's Public Safety Training Center in Greenville.Metko, 32, has sufficiently recovered from her injuries, which included fractures to her skull, femur and wrist and lacerations to her liver and spleen.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2019 1:06:13 PM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com

On July 19, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 21, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Roswell firefighter Jeff Stroble, 46, died Sunday at a hospital in Lubbock, Texas. Stroble was working to prepare fireworks for the City of Roswell's Fourth of July fireworks display when an explosion occurred – leaving him in critical condition. Roswell Fire Chief Devin Graham shared the following statement: "It is with great sadness we announce the passing of one of our own Roswell Fire Department Firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOB-TV NBC 4 Albuquerque

Eleven firefighters and one resident were taken to an area hospital Friday when a noxious combination of cleaning supplies triggered a Level 3 hazardous materials situation at a building in Boston's South End. The building was evacuated after a combination of bleach and Murphy's Oil Soap created a noxious, potentially dangerous combination on the third floor of a 5-story rooming house, Boston fire officials said.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBTS-TV NBC 10 Boston

It’s literally one of a kind, and Hadley Township Fire Chief Kurt Nass says his department’s shiny new pumper truck is the “future of firefighting” and the department is excited to show off the new vehicle. Nast said since his department tries to get 24-25 years out of each of its vehicles. “We don’t want to order what he need right now,” said the chief, and instead they try to think of what they’ll need 10-15 years from now.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The County Press - Metered Site

Last year, the deadliest wildfire season in state history swept across California. More than 8,000 fires burned nearly two million acres and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to suppress.* In a matter of minutes, a town named Paradise was engulfed in flame and almost completely destroyed; 85 people died.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Smithsonian.com

The rescue of the driver of a runaway school bus was caught on camera in Minnesota. Police say the driver suffered a medical issue, then drove straight into the path of oncoming traffic. No children were on board. In an attempt to stop the bus, a police officer pulled in front of it and slammed on his brakes, but it was still pushing his cruiser forward.
- PUB DATE: 7/22/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTHR-TV NBC 13

Members of the Tichigan Fire Department came to the aid of an elderly man who was trying to clean up a fallen tree and downed wires after Saturday's storms. Two firefighters came across the tree in 5800 block of Marsh Road. Upon investigating, the homeowner was found on the other side of the tree with a chainsaw and he was pulling on the wires trying to remove the tree himself.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2019 5:48:22 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

The Vilas County Sheriff's Office says a building is a total loss after it caught fire Saturday morning. Firefighters were called to the 4000 block of County Highway G, in the Township of Lincoln, just after 11:30 Saturday morning. A caller said K & M Services was on fire. A press release from the Sheriff's office says the owner was on scene, and told first responders that no one else was inside.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2019 4:04:14 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

No one was hurt after a fire broke out at 12:10 p.m. July 19 in a two-story home at 2254 N. 73rd St. in Wauwatosa. Fire crews found light smoke coming from a bedroom on the second floor. The fire was extinguished within minutes of the crew’s arrival, according to a fire department press release. The cause of the fire is undetermined, but the fire appears to have started in the northwest corner of the upstairs bedroom.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2019 2:59:30 PM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf ordered the commonwealth flags in Westmoreland County to be lowered to half-staff to honor a firefighter who died hours after returning from a call. North Belle Vernon volunteer fireman Neil Cope, 46, died Tuesday after assisting Rostraver firefighters at a house fire. “We were there probably an hour, an hour and fifteen minutes and they controlled the flames.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPXI-TV NBC 11 Pittsburgh

Who was it that said “Girls just wanna have fun?” Albany Fire Department Apparatus Engineer Operator/Driver Christy Bengis, an 18-year AFD veteran who is one of two females to serve in that capacity, put that notion to rest when she became the first female firefighter in the department to lead an entire engine company for a 24-hour shift Wednesday.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Albany Herald