VIDEO: The Attleboro Firefighter's Union and Mayor Paul Heroux are at odds over when to make several big purchases for the city's fire department. During an Attleboro City Council meeting last week, Heroux asked the council for $22,500 to buy a new gear extractor (washing machine and dryer) for the city's fire department.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Fox Providence 12

On a frigid early December morning, Travis Akins stood at the front of a conference room in the county’s Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courthouse and took a deep breath, preparing to tell a group of parents something they might not be ready to hear. “We’re not going to baby your sons,” said Akins, a Chesterfield native and founder of Growth Through Opportunity, a 16-week program that provides young adults who have a variety of physical and/or intellectual disabilities with hands-on learning experiences, skill- and confidence-building and socialization through training alongside local first responders.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chesterfield Observer

The city of Grand Blanc will start its own fire department later this year. Beginning July 25, the city will provide services to its residents, a departure from a decades-long partnership with Grand Blanc Township. “Our primary concern when making this decision is the City’s safety and protection with care and respect,” reads a statement issued Wednesday, April 10 after the council’s vote to approve the move.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MLive.com

High winds in Grafton knocked down part of a homeowner's tree onto power lines Thursday morning, causing sparks and flames to fly out. It happened in the 1100 block of Sunset Court in Grafton, just before 5 a.m. Thursday. Advertisement Jack O'Neal lives next door and caught the electrical fire on camera.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2019 10:44:00 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

VIDEO: The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) released new video on Thursday, April 11, showing a large fire at the White Oaks apartment complex in Bayside. The blaze happened early Saturday, March 30. The video shows flames in the distance, above the treeline. North Shore Fire Department Chief Robert Whitaker says if the timestamp on this video matches the time of their first emergency call, the fire was already rolling over the rooftop before they dispatched emergency responders.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2019 8:50:28 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

Madison Mayor-elect Satya Rhodes-Conway, who is set to be sworn in Tuesday, is responding to questions about some of her plans, including for the Judge Doyle Square project and funding for the police and fire departments. Rhodes-Conway previously told News 3 Now that if she were elected as mayor, she would likely cut ties with Beitler Real Estate, the vendor in the troubled Judge Doyle Square project downtown Madison.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2019 4:43:33 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

On April 8, 13 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The fire department on Madeline Island in northern Wisconsin is getting a new tanker truck, courtesy of the Port Washington Fire Department. It’s a much-needed donation approved last week by the Port Washington Common Council. The Madeline Island department suffered a “catastrophic loss” when an explosion and subsequent fire in early March destroyed the fire station and all the equipment stored there, Port Washington Fire Chief Mark Mitchell said.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2019 3:56:30 AM - SOURCE: Ozaukee Press

The Port Washington Fire Station Task Force on Tuesday narrowed its preferred sites for a new firehouse to two locations along Highway 33 west of Highway LL. Task Force Chairman Jim Biever said the group’s first choice would be on the north side of the intersection of the highways near the site of the proposed Casey’s convenience store and gas station.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2019 3:19:24 AM - SOURCE: Ozaukee Press

VIDEO / PHOTOS: Search-and-rescue teams are sifting through the rubble after an explosion Wednesday morning in downtown Durham left one person dead and 17 people injured, officials said. Durham firefighters responded to a 911 call about an odor of gas in the 100 block of N. Duke St. at about 9:38 a.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The News & Observer

VIDEO: “He tried everything in his power to kill me. He stabbed me, he cut me, he bit me and, thankfully, he was unsuccessful,” the victim, a paramedic, told a judge Tuesday. His testimony was powerful; the emotions real. Jeremiah Ray pleaded guilty Tuesday to stabbing the paramedic. The incident happened Feb.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KATU-TV ABC 2 Portland

Chief Samuel Pena told the city’s Public Safety Committee & Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday that he’s planning to lay off a total of 237 firefighters to implement Proposition B, which requires pay parity with police. But Pena also said the goal could be accomplished without any job losses by phasing in the firefighter raises.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPRC-TV NBC 2 Houston

Arkansas legislators passed Crump’s Law on Monday, granting municipal firefighters across the state an extra six months of paid sick leave when they are being treated for cancer contracted on the job. Members of El Dorado Professional Firefighters Local 1704, a labor organization representing 90 percent of the paid firefighters in El Dorado, lobbied at the state Capitol in February for the bill’s passage.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: El Dorado News-Times

Santa Rosa is on track to settle a 2-year-old lawsuit over firefighters’ overtime pay after the City Council approved a deal Tuesday to boost pay for 118 unionized firefighters. The council unanimously approved without discussion Tuesday a deal to increase salaries, expand pension contributions and provide one-time lump-sum payments of at least $5,000 to firefighters while reducing the city’s maximum health insurance contributions to those employees.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Press Democrat

Two trailers are considered complete losses following a fire in Brothertown today. According to the Calumet Fire Chief, officials were dispatched to the trailer park around 2:40 this afternoon. Upon arrival, one trailer was completely engulfed in flames, which spread to two other units. As a result, six people have been displaced from their homes.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2019 8:32:55 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

Construction of the town's new 22,000-square-foot fire station will begin early next week and last eight months. Bids for the project totaled $6.2 million. The budget approved by voters in an August 2018 referendum was $6.5 million. Town Administrator Joel Gregozeski said officials had been concerned with the bidding environment because of a large amount of work in the construction industry.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2019 1:03:39 PM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com

On April 8, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A controlled burn by a property owner in the village of Summit jumped into a corn field and resulted in about 40 burnt acres. According to Western Lakes Fire District Chief Brad Bowen, the incident took place in the afternoon of April 6 on Highway 67 between Genesee Lake Road and Summit Moors Drive.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2019 5:51:47 AM - SOURCE: Journal Sentinel

No one was injured after a fire broke out at a duplex in Ashwaubenon early Wednesday morning. Just after 1 a.m., fire crews were called to a two story duplex located in the 1700 block of Cormier Road for a fire in the back of the residence, a press release from the Ashwaubenon Department of Public Safety said.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2019 4:53:45 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

A decorated city firefighter and Marine who was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan was dedicated to being the best man he could be, his heartbroken father said Tuesday. Firefighter Christopher Slutman, a father of three and a U.S. Marine reservist assigned to Ladder 27 in the Bronx, was killed Monday during a roadside bombing near the Bagram Air Base, north of the Afghan capital.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News