City officials have withdrawn a lawsuit against a firefighter accused of working a side job while receiving disability payments. Fire Lt. Peter Joyce was accused by city officials of receiving more than $43,000 in disability pay from taxpayers while working, which is not allowed under the city's contract with firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 11/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Journal News (Lohud.com)

On November 26, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

When Christine Poje’s children woke her up the morning of Nov. 8 to see the sunrise, she thought the red sky might portend rain. Red sky in the morning, sailor’s warning. “We could use a storm,” Poje thought, as she got up to cover the firewood with a tarp. California had only officially come out of a three-year drought last year.
- PUB DATE: 11/26/2018 3:36:39 PM - SOURCE: Lacrosse Tribune

On November 25, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On November 23, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Firefighters say unattended cooking caused a fire in Oshkosh that sent two people to the hospital over the weekend. The fire has been ruled an accident. The Oshkosh Fire Dept. says firefighters were called to 145 High Ave. around 1 a.m. Saturday. One person was rescued from an upstairs rear window of the two-story building which housed a business and six apartments.
- PUB DATE: 11/26/2018 10:15:37 AM - SOURCE: WLUK TV Fox 11

The Oshkosh Fire Department is pointing to unattended cooking as the cause behind a building fire along High Avenue early Saturday morning. Fire officials ruled the cause as accidental and did not release further details. Two people were injured during the fire – and they remain in a Milwaukee hospital.
- PUB DATE: 11/26/2018 9:38:07 AM - SOURCE: KFIZ

Community blowback prompted the Wood County sheriff to reinstate a volunteer emergency response unit less than a week after he demobilized the service. Sheriff Thomas Reichert, who is retiring at the end of the year, said in a news release Monday that the "emotional response" from Wood County residents caused him to reinstate the Sheriff's Rescue so that people can have their voice heard with the County Board and the incoming sheriff, Shawn Becker.
- PUB DATE: 11/26/2018 9:36:27 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune

On November 21, 12 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Area residents who wish to dispose of something by burning it — such as the many leaves covering their yards — can use a new online tool from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources before they light the fire. The interactive tool “Can I burn?” asks users what they would be burning, where the materials come from and what their intent is.
- PUB DATE: 11/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

In an “historic” move that could trigger a transformation in how small suburban municipalities deliver emergency services, Calumet Park has outsourced its fire department to a private contractor in an effort to cut costs, village attorney Burt Odelson said. The board voted unanimously Nov. 8 to approve a separation agreement with its firefighters union and to enter into a five-year contract with Kurtz Ambulance Service to provide fire suppression and ambulance services to the village, he said.
- PUB DATE: 11/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune

Family members of the deceased man Bellingham Fire Department employees practiced performing endotracheal intubations on in late July have filed three separate claims for damages seeking more than $15.5 million from the city of Bellingham, according to records from the Bellingham City Attorney’s office.
- PUB DATE: 11/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

Gavin McMenama was having a bad day at his job just before Christmas when he checked his mail and discovered a thick package from the Lexington Fire Department. This wasn’t the type of package he was accustomed to seeing. After receiving rejection paperwork 13 times from the fire department, he was all too familiar with that sort of letter.
- PUB DATE: 11/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky.com)

Firefighters from the Los Angeles city fire department had just returned to their station after responding to the mass shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif. when they saw smoke filling the sky. Roughly 12 hours after responding to one horrific incident, they were on their way to another.
- PUB DATE: 11/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: OPB.org

The city could more wisely spend the $1.1 billion it costs to provide emergency medical services, a budget watchdog group says, in part by reducing the role fire engines play in responding to 911 calls — and then considering whether it really needs all of its engine companies. In a new report, the Citizens Budget Commission recommends ultimately reducing the number of engine companies, which for years has been a political nonstarter.
- PUB DATE: 11/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

The occupants of a house on the city’s north side escaped unharmed when fire did extensive damage to their home early Sunday afternoon. The Milwaukee Fire Department was called to a house fire at N 11th and W Locust Streets around 1 PM this afternoon. According to officials, the fire was discovered in a first floor bedroom and it extended to the second floor and attic of the wood frame building.
- PUB DATE: 11/25/2018 1:51:23 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

On November 22, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

On November 21, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On November 21, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

An early-morning fire Wednesday left a rural Washburn family homeless headed into the Thanksgiving holiday. The fire was reported at about 2 a.m. at the home of Kirby Krueger on Friendly Valley Road about eight miles north of the city, Washburn Fire Chief Mike Pedersen said. “By the time we got there almost half the house was engulfed already,” he said.
- PUB DATE: 11/21/2018 8:37:44 AM - SOURCE: Ashland Daily Press