The 70th anniversary of the Mann Gulch fire tragedy in Montana won’t go unmarked. The U.S. Forest Service and its partners, including the Museum of Mountain Flying, are formulating plans for a public event on Monday, Aug. 5, near the Meriwether Picnic area at the Gates of the Mountains north of Helena.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Missoulian

If you call 911 in the District, chances are you may not always get an ambulance. “In the past, we would always have to transport no matter what,” said Captain Richard Hall with Engine 2, in Chinatown. “It wasn’t even a question of what the emergency was." The fire department is one of many stations within the city that is working with the Right Care, Right Now nurse triage diversion program, meant to reduce calls that first responders don’t always deem life-threatening.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTTG-TV FOX 5 DC

The city and firefighters’ union have agreed to a memorandum of understanding that changes the future staffing distribution of the New Haven Fire Department and creates a potential path to cutting required staff levels. As compared to the collective bargaining agreement that expired in June 2018, the agreement mandates two squads, tactical and special operations companies, each be replaced with a Heavy Rescue/tactical company and an additional Advanced Life Support, or ALS, unit, bringing the department’s total to three.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register

The DeForest Windsor Fire Department is getting closer to purchasing two more vehicles. An internal fire department committee approved plans to purchase an ambulance and rescue truck. Those plans were brought before the DeForest Windsor Fire Protection Board during its July 3 meeting. According to LaFeber, the rescue truck would be ready for delivery in approximately nine to 12 months.
- PUB DATE: 7/16/2019 1:01:04 PM - SOURCE: DeForest Times

On July 15, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

One man was found dead following a house fire in the Village of Lyndon Station early Monday morning. The Juneau County Medical Examiner's office confirmed one person was killed on Monday. Family members tell NBC15 25-year-old Cody Madden was found dead after a fire started just after midnight in a home on the corner of W.
- PUB DATE: 7/16/2019 10:03:10 AM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

A damaged gas line sparked an explosion that leveled a home in a Murrieta neighborhood, leaving at least one person dead and 15 others injured. The explosion was reported before 12:15 p.m. in the 23500 block of Wooden Horse Trail, where crews initially responded due to a ruptured gas line, Murrieta Fire & Rescue Deputy Chief David Lantzer said.
- PUB DATE: 7/16/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCAL-TV CBS 9 Los Angeles

20 Buffalo city firefighters have been injured on the job in the last week. Thursday, 7 Eyewitness News reported a firefighter had to be rushed on a stretcher from a blaze on Frankfort. Division fire chief Daniel Bossi said a first year firefighter from Engine 22 lost consciousness. At that point last week, Fire Commissioner Bill Renaldo said there had been 15 firefighters injured fighting three, two alarm fires since the night before.
- PUB DATE: 7/16/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKBW-TV ABC 7 Buffalo

The call came in on July 5, 2018, at 12:31 pm: a vegetation fire in the vicinity of Klamathon Road, near the town of Hornbrook, California, just a few miles south of the Oregon border. It was a hot, windy day, and bone-dry. Tim Thurner, fire chief for the Hornbook Fire Protection District, was heading to Yreka to have lunch with his wife, Sherri, when they got the tone-out.
- PUB DATE: 7/16/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Jefferson Public Radio

Around 12:30 p.m. Saturday, near Southeast Division and 11th Avenue, a 911 call came in about a 23-year-old woman in cardiac arrest. Katie Anders and her sister Rachel Kennedy were walking out of a restaurant on Division when they noticed the woman who needed help. Rachel is a registered nurse, so she sprang into action.
- PUB DATE: 7/16/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGW-TV NBC 8 Portland

VIDEO: Hundreds of Connecticut first responders rushed to New York City on 9/11 to help, and on Monday they urged Congress to make the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund permanent. West Haven sent about 30 firefighters to Ground Zero. Some of them are still suffering the health effects and are demanding to protect their benefits.
- PUB DATE: 7/16/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News 12 Connecticut

Menononee Falls community members and firefighters themselves showed up at a public hearing Monday night to express their concern over the staffing shortage in the village's fire department. "We're gambling and hoping that nothing happens," Menomonee Falls firefighter Kevin Myers said. Myers is also president of the local union.
- PUB DATE: 7/15/2019 9:54:56 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

Howard's Grove Fire Department responded to a large barn fire in Manitowoc County Monday. It happened at a privately-owned farm in the town of Meeme. Officials say no animals were injured in the fire. Investigators believe the fire started when some farm machinery ignited hay.
- PUB DATE: 7/15/2019 7:43:10 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

With the exception of some clothes and a few family photos, the Popenfus family lost everything in a fire at their Belleville, Dane Co. home this weekend. What they do have: their lives and their dog. “I rescued him, he rescued me,” says Amanda Popenfus, of her 3-year-old Lab, Mastiff and Cane Corso mix Waylan.
- PUB DATE: 7/15/2019 6:44:40 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

During last week's Common Council meeting, the La Crosse City Council approved for the La Crosse Fire Department to conduct a feasibility study on adding a new fire station. Currently the department has four stations throughout the city. "They were built to the time when the fire service was just different.
- PUB DATE: 7/15/2019 5:10:57 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

A fire has been reported at the Town of Maine's Fire Department building. That building is on County Highway WW, at the intersection of County Highway K. According to a Fire Chief with the Maine Fire Department, no one is injured and the cause of the fire is still under investigation. NewsChannel 7 crews at the scene say smoke can be seen rising from the top of the building.
- PUB DATE: 7/15/2019 4:44:11 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

Firefighters on Sunday night, July 14 responded to the scene of a shed fire on Kettle View Drive near Badger Road in the Town of Kewaskum. The call came in around 9 p.m. The shed, which had become fully engulfed, was extinguished by fire personnel. The shed, and its contents, were a total loss estimated at over $100,000.
- PUB DATE: 7/15/2019 4:58:52 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

Shane Del Grosso spent some 30 summers crossing smoke-shrouded mountains and forests to fight increasingly devastating wildfires in the U.S. West. Toward the end, his skills and experience propelled him to lead a federal multi-agency team that responded to large-scale national disasters. On some days he directed a thousand firefighters and helped coordinate aircraft attacks on massive blazes.
- PUB DATE: 7/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News

After West Windsor’s police contract expired at the end of last year and negotiations with the township stalled, the union turned to an arbitrator to break the impasse. The local union’s demands? Four percent annual pay hikes for sergeants and for patrolmen at the top of the scale and 2 percent annual wage increases for everyone else, in addition to the standard wage increases officers receive for additional years of service.
- PUB DATE: 7/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NJ.com

Fire Station 49 on Prentice Avenue in Madisonville was built in 1910, when firefighters traveled by horse and buggy. Except for modest updates over the years, such as turning the horse stalls into a kitchen, the building hasn’t changed much. It’s clean and meets city codes, officials say, but the tiny space isn’t comfortable for the firefighters who work 24-hour shifts here.
- PUB DATE: 7/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCPO-TV ABC 9 Cincinnati