A duplex was damaged and is uninhabitable following a fire on the city’s south side. The Appleton Fire Department says it happened on Sunday around 11:23 p.m. in the 100 block of East McKinley Street when they were dispatched for a report of smoke coming from the duplex. Heavy smoke and fire was found when they arrived on scene.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2019 3:32:04 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

More than 100 people gathered in western Colorado to honor 14 firefighters killed 25 years ago on Storm King Mountain. Family members, friends of the victims and survivors of the fire hiked up the Storm King Memorial Trail Saturday and reflected on the lessons and losses of the July 6, 1994, disaster, The Glenwood Springs Post Independent reported.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Portland Oregonian, Hillsboro Argus, Oregon Live.com

VIDEO: A video production team led by Aaron Monson grilled out for the Kansas City, Kansas, Fire Department on the Fourth of July to show their support for firefighters. “What we're doing today is just giving back,” Monson said Thursday at the department’s headquarters. “They are modern-day superheroes, and we wanted to show they needed to be taken care of as well and treated with respect.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSHB-TV NBC 41 Kansas City

Some people call 911 a dozen times or more per month describing emotional upheaval, sometimes reporting visions, voices and even suicidal thoughts. Police and paramedics who must respond say they are left to triage an escalating mental health crisis that can really only be eased with long-term counseling, medication, case management and meaningful intervention.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Star Tribune

Some firefighters in Evansdale are breaking from tradition when it comes to an essential piece of protection. Two members of Evansdale Fire Rescue are trying out jet-style fire helmets that eschew the iconic wide brim for a streamlined design more akin to a motorcycle helmet. “You get a lot of slack about it.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier

A summer camp for children with neurodevelopmental disorders features everyday superheroes who make a difference. Those heroes include firefighters, who gave children a firsthand look at their equipment and also provided safety tips at the camp, run at the University of California, Davis, MIND Institute, a research center.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCRA-TV NBC 3 Sacramento

Four people were displaced from a home Sunday morning after their garage caught on fire. Around 3:15 a.m., fire and rescue squads were dispatched to a home on Paul Court in Combined Locks. Officials say there were four adults and a dog in the residence during the fire. They all evacuated immediately along with surrounding residents in the area.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2019 4:01:29 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

An 86-year-old man died and his 62-year-old daughter was injured in a Cedarburg house fire about 9:30 a.m. Friday, according to a joint news release from the Cedarburg police and fire departments. When fire, EMS and police arrived at the home on Hillcrest Avenue near Lincoln Boulevard they saw through a window the man on the floor of a front room that was "heavily filled with smoke.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2019 5:29:58 AM - SOURCE: North Shore Now

A program at the Door County Historical Museum brings a fireman and expert on firefighting history to its replica Pioneer Fire Company station to discuss the vintage fire engines there and how they operated. David Siegel of the Green Bay Metro Fire Department visits the museum Saturday, July 13 to explain the ideas behind the museum's three fully restored fire engines: the original hand-pumper used in Sturgeon Bay, an experimental chemical engine and the earliest motorized apparatus, an Oldsmobile engine built in 1920.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2019 1:35:15 PM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

On Friday, July 5, fire officials from the City of Waukesha released details related to two fireworks-related incidents that occurred on the Fourth of July. Three fireworks contractors were injured during the first incident, and a residential garage started on fire during the second incident. Around 9:55 p.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2019 11:47:04 AM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

On July 2, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Authorities are crediting a man's quick actions with saving his neighbor's home from catching fire. The Kaukauna Fire Department responded to a report of smoke and flames coming from a garage near the 1300 block of Sullivan Avenue around 1 p.m. Thursday. The fire had been extinguished by a neighbor and only light smoke was visible when crews arrived, according the fire department.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2019 1:41:51 AM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com

Firefighters had to dodge exploding fireworks Thursday morning when a storage facility caught fire in South Carolina It happened around 6 a.m. in Fort Mill, South Carolina, just off Interstate 77. Investigators said the fire actually started in containers outside Davey Jones Fireworks Store. The fire never got to the store, but it did ignite all of the fireworks in the container.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVD-TV ABC 11 Durham

A new Iowa law will set aside part of the state's lottery revenues to help the families of firefighters and law enforcement officers keep insurance after their deaths. The Des Moines Register reports the law that took effect earlier this week will allow the Iowa Lottery to provide $100,000 to a new Public Safety Survivor Benefits Fund.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIMT-TV CBS 3 Mason City

With much fanfare and no less hand-wringing, state regulators approved plans that for the first time set out how California’s electric utilities intend to prevent their equipment from sparking wildfires. But the plans provide scant details, and little evidence to support the companies’ claims that indiscriminately clear-cutting millions of trees and replacing hundreds of thousands of wooden utility poles with steel ones will actually reduce the risk of wildfires.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Mercury News - Metered Site

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri is facing a volunteer shortage. More than 600 kids are waiting for a mentor — and about 80 percent are African American boys. The local branch of the nonprofit is launching a program in the hopes of filling the volunteer gap and building trust within communities of color.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Public Radio

The federal government wants the owner of a tourist train in Durango to pay $25 million for causing a wildfire that scorched 53,000 acres of Forest Service land last summer. A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office says burning cinders from the exhaust stack of a coal-fired steam train operated by the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Co.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Colorado Sun

Neighbors and first responders rescued a man just before he entered a culvert beneath a roadway after he was swept into flash floods July 3 in Reedsburg. As water in the area quickly rose following a heavy rainstorm, Third Street resident Jessica Perea said she went out to check on her neighbors. She heard screams for help and saw another person trying to rescue a man she said is her neighbor.
- PUB DATE: 7/4/2019 8:35:05 AM - SOURCE: Reedsburg Times-Press

Six people were taken to the hospital after a floor collapsed in Mukwonago Wednesday morning. It happened around 8:30 a.m. at Kay's Academy of Dance in Mukwonago. According to Fire Chief Jeff Stien with the Mukwonago Fire Department, crews were laying concrete on the second floor of what will be a two-story building, and due to "some sort of failure" the floor partially collapsed.
- PUB DATE: 7/4/2019 7:03:40 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

The family of fallen firefighter Mitch Lundgaard has issued a letter thanking the public for their support in the wake of Mitch's death. Mitch Lundgaard was an Appleton firefighter who died back in May after authorities say a man named Ruben Houston exchanged gunfire with police. Mitch and other emergency crews were on the scene to treat Houston for an apparent overdose before Houston pulled out a gun and started firing.
- PUB DATE: 7/3/2019 12:39:34 PM - SOURCE: NBC 26 Green Bay