The Holmen Area Fire Department Chief Buck Manley has been sharing his expertise with firefighters half a world away. Along with overseeing the training and development of Holmen’s fire and emergency medical service personnel, Manley is teaching hazardous materials response techniques to Chinese firefighters and industrial emergency response personnel.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2018 1:44:58 AM - SOURCE: Onalaska Holmen Courier Life

Draper Battalion Chief flown from scene in critical condition. According to a Draper city spokesperson, the Battalion Chief did not under go surgery and has no internal injuries do the the accident. A Fire Battalion Chief assisting on an accident scene on the side of I-15 was struck by a car. The Draper Firefighter and his team were on the side of south bound I-15 near 146th South when a driver lost control of his car and slid into the battalion chief pinning him between two cars.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC4.com

Who should lead the state department responsible for wildland fires? Someone who knows how to manage forests, or someone who knows how to put out the flames? The union that represents California state firefighters is leaning on Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom to appoint a fire chief to lead the state’s fire department.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sacramento Bee

Firefighters at the scene of house fire found themselves in the middle of a firefight with people in two vehicles on Thursday. The Flint Fire Department responded just after 1 p.m. on Dec. 27 to reports of a structure fire in the 1100 block of Welch Boulevard, according to Battalion Chief Mark Kovach.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Michigan Live

A firefighter is receiving support from his colleagues in Allen after his own home was destroyed by fire. Jeremy West is grateful no one was injured, but his house is a total loss. He says the timing of it all has put a lot of things into perspective. “As a fireman, you just get toned out. You put the fire out and you go home, right?” West said.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox4news.com

The Youngsville Fire Department’s announced Thursday it will stop responding to most calls outside outside city limits, and other departments serving unincorporated portions of Lafayette Parish could follow suit. With parish funding dwindling and unincorporated voters rejecting a property tax for fire protection this month, municipal fire chiefs say they are concerned their departments will not be reimbursed for calls outside their boundaries.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baton Advocate

Multiple crews were called to fight a structure fire in Outagamie County. Firefighters responded to reports of a burning shed around 6:30 Thursday morning. The fire took place off Wick Road in Black Creek. The fire department says firefighters saw the flames when they arrived on the scene and immediately called for additional help from surrounding communities.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2018 6:33:15 PM - SOURCE: NBC26

Firefighters were called to a fire about 11:30 a.m. Thursday at a home in the 300 block of West 10th Street. No one was home, and a passerby reported the fire, Kaukauna Fire Department Lt. Joe Resch told USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. The fire appears to have started in a first-floor closet, and the home is likely a total loss.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2018 1:05:03 PM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com

VIDEO: Firefighters on Thursday morning, Dec. 27 responded to the scene of a fire at Dejno's Trucking -- located on Green Bay Road near 60th Street in Somers. The call came in around 3:15 a.m. The fire has been extinguished -- but the cause of the fire is still under investigation. Green Bay Road will be closed between STH 158 (52nd Street) and County Truck Highway K (60th Street), until further notice.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2018 5:49:24 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

VIDEO: In the case of an emergency, seconds matter. For years, people living on Madison's southeast side had to wait between 10 to 15 minutes for emergency crews to respond. That response time will be cut drastically starting today, with the official opening of Fire Station 14. Fire officials call the opening of the new station a big deal for the department in many ways.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2018 3:17:21 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

No injuries were reported in connection with a fire in the Town of Sun Prairie that caused $200,000 worth of damage on Dec. 26.Sun Prairie Fire Chief Chris Garrison said at 12:08 p.m., department personnel responded to a reported structure fire in the 2000 block of Manley Drive in the Town of Sun Prairie.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2018 2:42:54 AM - SOURCE: Sun Prairie Star

Louis R. Harper Jr., the Baltimore City Fire Department’s first African-American captain, whose landmark 1971 lawsuit forced the city to end discriminatory practices in the hiring and promotion of firefighters and police, died Dec. 8 of symptoms related to dementia in hospice at FutureCare Cherrywood in Reisterstown.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

By the end of the year the city fire department will be down 16 men due to retirements, but the drop in the ranks isn’t yet cause for Mayor Tony George to sound the alarm. Instead, George has taken a wait-and-see approach for the outcome of next year’s binding arbitration on a new contract before making a decision on filling the spots.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilkes Barre Times Leader

Bobby was one of the founders of our fire department." Billy Ray Tanner grew up with Bobby Dunnaway and his sister. For more than 50 years, Dunnaway and Tanner had gotten to know each other pretty well. “A lot of times Bobby would come up in his truck or something and I’d have the door open, and he’d come up and get him something to drink," Tanner said.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLOX-TV ABC 13

The Marin County Fire Department has installed six new, high-definition cameras at several mountaintop locations in Marin. The cameras are linked to a growing network that spans five western states and a supercomputer in San Diego that may some day use artificial intelligence to spot fires quicker and predict their course.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Marin Independent Journal

For the first time under a new law, state utility regulators have been asked to consider imposing penalties on the drilling company involved in last summer’s fatal Sun Prairie natural gas explosion. A panel charged with policing utility notification laws last week sent the Public Service Commission a case based on a complaint filed by USIC Locating Services, the company that was hired to mark the locations of underground pipes prior to the explosion, which killed a firefighter and injured others.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse.com

VIDEO: A pair of holiday fires in Sparta strained families and emergency responders. The first, near the intersection of Montgomery and Black River streets, was reported in the early morning of Christmas Eve. A fire broke out in an apartment complex but was mostly contained within a single apartment.
- PUB DATE: 12/26/2018 8:33:53 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

The La Crosse Fire Department responded to more than 6,000 incidents in 2018. That number, however, is only a slight increase from 2017. This year was kind to the La Crosse Fire Department under first-year Chief Ken Gilliam. He said there's still a lot to catch up on, but that there are plenty things to be proud of.
- PUB DATE: 12/26/2018 5:16:08 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

A Christmas afternoon house fire ended in one death in the town of Rose, just west of Wild Rose. Waushara County dispatch received a call of a house fire at about noon on Tuesday at 17th Drive in Rose, which firefighters discovered to be fully engulfed in flames when they arrived. Extinguishing the fire required additional backup from other nearby fire departments, according to a news release.
- PUB DATE: 12/26/2018 2:04:31 AM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com

South Jersey fire company is mourning the loss of one of their own who was killed in a single-car crash while responding to a call in Hamilton Township, Atlantic County on Christmas morning. Police say 21-year-old Natalie Dempsey of Mays Landing was driving a black 2001 Honda Accord, when she lost control, and drove off the roadway, striking a guardrail.
- PUB DATE: 12/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPVI- TV ABC6