Last summer, two Falmouth police officers were shot while responding to an incident on Ashley Drive. The suspect was also shot several times by police. All three were treated at the same time on the front lawn of the home by emergency medical staff from the fire department. Officers Ryan Moore and Donald DiMiranda and suspect Malik Koval all survived, but the tense scenario underlined the need for firefighters to have some protection when providing treatment under potentially dangerous conditions.
- PUB DATE: 5/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cape Cod Times

A man charged with setting a home he was renting on fire pleads not guilty by mental disease or defect. 62-year-old Brian Gillespie of rural Pepin County entered the plea during a preliminary hearing Monday. According to a criminal complaint, crews responded to a house fire in September in the Town of Frankfort.
- PUB DATE: 5/6/2019 8:10:59 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

On May 4, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Officials confirm a firefighter died while fighting a fire early Sunday morning in Christopher. Seventeen fire departments and six police departments assisted in battling the two-story structure fire. The Christopher Police Department said a call came in around 3:30 a.m. reporting a fire at 118 West Market Street.
- PUB DATE: 5/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSIL-TV 3

A veteran paramedic who overcame a hardscrabble Bronx childhood to log an incredible 28 years with the FDNY will have stars in her eyes and four more on her collar Tuesday as the history-making new Chief of EMS. Lillian Bonsignore, a single mom barely out of her teens when she started as an emergency medical technician in 1991, becomes the first woman to hold the rank in the department’s 154-year history.
- PUB DATE: 5/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

VIDEO: 19 elected officials and leaders from Wichita and surrounding cities suited up in protective gear to see what it is like to be a firefighter for a day. In small groups, participants took turns battling a structure fire under the controlled supervision of firefighters. "We had fire going over the top of our heads," said David Dennis, Sedgwick County Commissioner of District 3.
- PUB DATE: 5/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSNW 3 Wichita

Since 1885, New Jersey firefighters and their families have benefitted from a special fund designed to support them in times of tragedy and financial hardship. It helps pay for the burials of fallen firefighters, provides financial assistance for first responders hit with medical bills, and even provides in-home health care for those who are aging and suffering from physical ailments.
- PUB DATE: 5/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NJ.com

A longtime member of the Tulsa Fire Department received a historic confirmation to the State Fire Marshal Commission. Gov. Kevin Stitt recently appointed Training Chief Julie Lynn as the first woman to serve on the commission. She will replace Stan May, who resigned as commissioner after being elected to the state House of Representatives in January.
- PUB DATE: 5/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tulsa World

A new proposal at the state Capitol aims to incentivize people to become volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services workers in Wisconsin as many departments around the country struggle to find volunteers. "Right now, we have a huge problem with trying to get volunteers to participate in their local fire departments.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2019 10:05:41 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison

Investigators are working to determine what caused a fatal structure fire that killed one person at an apartment building in Sun Prairie Sunday evening. Dane County Communications told News 3 Now that a call came in around 9:15 p.m. Sunday for a fire inside a building on the 100 block of South Bird Street with victims reportedly trapped.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2019 7:59:30 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV

A spokesman for the American Red Cross said more than 40 people were displaced by a two-alarm fire that engulfed an apartment building near 46th and Hampton Sunday, May 5. Desiree Flores only had to go a few feet, but it felt like miles as she screamed for help, trying to escape the smoke at her apartment building.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2019 7:46:40 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

Almost 100 firefighters trained Saturday, May 4, to make sure they’re at their best during some of the worst moments of people’s lives. Fire protection equipment supplier “5 Alarm Fire & Safety” put on the event in Delafield, bringing firefighters from multiple states to learn the newest techniques and tools in extricating people from crash scenes using what’s known as the “Jaws of Life.
- PUB DATE: 5/4/2019 5:54:10 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

Milwaukee Fire Department's community paramedics were granted a new task Friday, May 3. Their job: help Milwaukee's drug addicts beat addiction. "We can't get people to get clean if they die," said Captain Michael Wright, Milwaukee Fire Department. A team of firefighters put together a task force known as the Milwaukee Overdose Response Initiative (MORI).
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2019 3:38:58 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

One man was taken to an area hospital for smoke inhalation following a house fire at 208 E. Cherry St. in Fox Lake on Thursday night. Fox Lake Fire Chief Aaron Paul said in an email that the Fox Lake Fire Department was paged to the house fire at 8:48 p.m. Upon arrival flames were coming out of two downstairs windows.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2019 7:40:13 AM - SOURCE: WISC News

Nine rural fire departments battled a blaze that leveled a barn on the Oconto-Shawano county line Wednesday afternoon. No one was injured in the barn fire at Kuhn Farms, W13605 Deering Road in the town of Underhill, although about three head of cattle, a sow and piglets perished in the fire, Underhill Fire Chief Mark Winkler said Thursday.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2019 3:12:02 AM - SOURCE: Shawano Leader

Firefighters in Miami Beach are concerned that nepotism played a role in selecting this year’s recruit class, creating an unfair hiring process and possible safety risks, according to three current firefighters who spoke on the condition of anonymity. More than 500 people applied for coveted positions with the Miami Beach Fire Department last fall and 124 made it past the written exam and physical agility test to the interview round.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Miami Herald

A public service announcement that spotlights the shortage of volunteer firefighters in Connecticut is up for an Emmy award. Shot by professional cinematographer and Hebron volunteer firefighter Matthew Troy, “See You Out There” features 85 volunteers from 16 departments across the state. The regional Emmy awards are to be presented on June 15 in Boston.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hartford Courant

VIDEO: A strong wind gust thrust a bounce house-type inflatable into the air Wednesday, injuring five Washington state high school students, officials said. The inflatable went airborne at about 2:30 p.m. during an Associated student body event at Zillah High School, outside of Yakima, according to a statement from the school.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC News

Eight firefighters and a police officer were injured at a solar energy storage facility in the aptly named town of Surprise, Arizona last month when they answered a call to inspect an energy storage system (ESS) fire. The situation quickly took a turn for the worse when an explosion blew the container’s doors off.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1.com

Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. plans to set up a $105 million fund to help survivors of recent California wildfires likely started by the utility's equipment, according to a court filing Wednesday. PG&E's "wildfire assistance program" would provide relief for people who lost property during huge blazes in 2017 and 2018, said the filing in U.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Bay Area