VIDEO: The Detroit Firefighters Association is calling for action after a terrifying fire. Four firefighters found themselves trapped inside a burning building. The fire started on January 31, just before midnight at a vacant grocery store at Van Dyke and Gratiot. 7 Action News has obtained the dispatch recording.
- PUB DATE: 2/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXYZ Detroit

VIDEO: A gas explosion in a San Francisco neighborhood shot flames into the air Wednesday and burned five buildings, sending panicked residents and workers fleeing into the streets. Utility crews put out the fire about three hours after private construction workers cut a natural gas line, igniting the towering flames, San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said.
- PUB DATE: 2/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox6Now.com

VIDEO: The Hillsborough County Firefighters Union is calling for one new fire station per year until there are enough to keep up with the growth in the county. Travis Horn, with the union, spoke before county commissioners on Wednesday saying that only one new fire station in the past decade is not enough to meet increase demands.
- PUB DATE: 2/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABCActionNews.com

VIDEO: A man who was seriously injured by two off-duty Los Angeles firefighters who beat and choked him on Halloween night in 2015 has been awarded more than $7 million. After being falsely accused of giving children drug-laced candy, Samuel Chang was held down and choked. Cellphone video captured the firefighters and other party-goers harassing Chang and telling him he came to the wrong place to give out his candy.
- PUB DATE: 2/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBSLA

Gov. Larry Hogan stepped up his calls to the General Assembly to measures that would reduce the tax burden on public safety officials’ retirement benefits at a press conference at the Eastport Volunteer Fire Company Wednesday. Surrounded by firefighters from across the state, the governor announced the introduction of two pieces of legislation that he said were a necessary way to protect firefighters in the state.
- PUB DATE: 2/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CapitalGazette.com

Police are assessing the damage of an early Wednesday morning crash into a cake shop on Milwaukee's south side. Firefighters say just after 1:30 a.m. a driver lost control of their vehicle and crashed into Gloria's Cake Shop & Cafe on 26th and National Avenue causing significant damage. The vehicle appears to have been going too fast for icy road conditions, police say.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2019 6:49:45 AM - SOURCE: Today's TMJ4

Police are assessing the damage of an early Wednesday morning crash into a cake shop on Milwaukee's south side. Firefighters say just after 1:30 a.m. a driver lost control of their vehicle and crashed into Gloria's Cake Shop & Cafe on 26th and National Avenue causing significant damage. The vehicle appears to have been going too fast for icy road conditions, police say.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2019 6:49:45 AM - SOURCE: Today's TMJ4

According to the fire department, a man on a motorized wheelchair was hit by a vehicle at about 12:30 p.m. near Northwest 23rd Street and Meridian Avenue. The man was taken to a hospital, and firefighters figured out a way to bring his wheelchair to the nearby nursing home, so it will be there when he returns.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOCO-TV ABC 5 Oklahoma City

VIDEO: A Middletown firefighter and a retired Spring Valley police officer were among the dozens arrested as part of a sweep of allegedly drug dealing bikers in Orange County Tuesday. Authorities say more than 20 people were taken into custody when search warrants were executed at 15 locations in connection with two separate drug rings, with the same man -- fire Lieutenant Paul Young -- at the center of both.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC 7 News

VIDEO: On Friday, Platteville Fire Chief Ryan Simmons got a phone call he wasn't expecting. "It felt like a shock to us," Simmons said. Volunteer firefighter Tim Ebert died by suicide last week. "He was a student at UW-Platteville. So, between being a student working part time and being a volunteer on the Fire Department, he was a pretty busy guy," Simmons said.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox 47 News

A federal arbitrator says Hillsborough County was justified in firing a Fire Rescue medic who belonged to the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, noting the negative attention his membership brought the county. Clinton Neal Walker, 35, of Bradenton, was fired a year ago after an internal investigation concluded he had “unwavering loyalty” to the Outlaws, long considered the state’s dominant motorcycle gang.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times

With last year’s pay raises in effect, City Council members now want to know what it would take to make Montgomery’s public safety officers the highest paid in the state. For years, retention troubles have plagued the Montgomery Police Department and Montgomery Fire/Rescue. Despite high marks from outside groups on their performance, police lost around 60 officers last year, while firefighters had about 30 leave.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Montgomery Advertiser

According to the fire department, a man on a motorized wheelchair was hit by a vehicle at about 12:30 p.m. near Northwest 23rd Street and Meridian Avenue. The man was taken to a hospital, and firefighters figured out a way to bring his wheelchair to the nearby nursing home, so it will be there when he returns.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOCO-TV ABC 5 Oklahoma City

VIDEO: A Middletown firefighter and a retired Spring Valley police officer were among the dozens arrested as part of a sweep of allegedly drug dealing bikers in Orange County Tuesday. Authorities say more than 20 people were taken into custody when search warrants were executed at 15 locations in connection with two separate drug rings, with the same man -- fire Lieutenant Paul Young -- at the center of both.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC 7 News

VIDEO: On Friday, Platteville Fire Chief Ryan Simmons got a phone call he wasn't expecting. "It felt like a shock to us," Simmons said. Volunteer firefighter Tim Ebert died by suicide last week. "He was a student at UW-Platteville. So, between being a student working part time and being a volunteer on the Fire Department, he was a pretty busy guy," Simmons said.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox 47 News

A federal arbitrator says Hillsborough County was justified in firing a Fire Rescue medic who belonged to the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, noting the negative attention his membership brought the county. Clinton Neal Walker, 35, of Bradenton, was fired a year ago after an internal investigation concluded he had “unwavering loyalty” to the Outlaws, long considered the state’s dominant motorcycle gang.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times

With last year’s pay raises in effect, City Council members now want to know what it would take to make Montgomery’s public safety officers the highest paid in the state. For years, retention troubles have plagued the Montgomery Police Department and Montgomery Fire/Rescue. Despite high marks from outside groups on their performance, police lost around 60 officers last year, while firefighters had about 30 leave.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Montgomery Advertiser

On February 5, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: Watching a boy who's become a good friend deliver a thank you speech left Rhinelander Fire Chief Terry Williams struggling to find his own words on Tuesday afternoon. "It's pretty tough," Williams said, pausing to compose himself. "It means a lot." Isaac King stood in the fire house that's become like a second home to him with a message and a gift: 20 particle barrier hoods -- one for each firefighter -- which go under a helmet and protect firefighters from cancer-causing materials while on the job.
- PUB DATE: 2/5/2019 5:31:46 PM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander-Wausau

VIDEO: Watching a boy who's become a good friend deliver a thank you speech left Rhinelander Fire Chief Terry Williams struggling to find his own words on Tuesday afternoon. "It's pretty tough," Williams said, pausing to compose himself. "It means a lot." Isaac King stood in the fire house that's become like a second home to him with a message and a gift: 20 particle barrier hoods -- one for each firefighter -- which go under a helmet and protect firefighters from cancer-causing materials while on the job.
- PUB DATE: 2/5/2019 5:31:46 PM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander-Wausau