A chimney fire causes significant damage to a Jackson County home, according to the Black River Falls Fire Department. It happened just after 12 p.m. Wednesday, October 17 on Beaver Lane in the Town of Adams. The Black River Falls Fire Department says a tree service spotted the fire while in the yard cutting down a tree.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2018 9:08:39 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

Green Bay firefighters responding to a fire in a wall at Green Bay Packaging on Wednesday afternoon. Green Bay Metro Fire Department units arrived and found Green Bay Packaging personnel trying to find and put out a fire in an exterior wall. A spark from maintenance work caught fire on the insulation in the wall.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2018 7:02:44 PM - SOURCE: NBC26

New Holstein firefighters Nick Kaat, Brian Burg, and Corey Bratz hold the pieces of the new Hurst jaws-of-life equipment purchased recently by the department. The NHFD held a gun raffle in July during its annual picnic to raise funds for the purchase of the equipment, and other donations helped as well.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2018 1:05:37 PM - SOURCE: Tri-County News: Chilton

More than 20 people are displaced following an apartment building fire in Waukesha early Wednesday morning, Oct. 17. More than eight people, many with mobility challenges, were rescued from the interior of the building. Two were transported to the hospital. Crews were called to the scene shortly after midnight.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2018 7:12:38 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

The Appleton Fire Department is investigating a fire at Lawrence University from Tuesday night. Fire crews responded to a report of heavy smoke and fire coming from the campus at around 6:30 p.m. The building that caught fire is a three-story Victorian home that was under remodeling. nobody was in the building at the time of the incident.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2018 5:27:22 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

The Chippewa Fire District board is working to hammer out a 2019 budget that will satisfy the five municipalities included in the fire district. The board voted 4-1 to adopt a proposed budget for the EMS service that calls for a 4 percent increase. Town of Lafayette Chairman David Staber said they should consider increasing a per capita rate throughout the district, saying it has been too low for too long.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2018 3:31:56 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

After a little more than two years on the job, Dallas Fire-Rescue Chief David Coatney appears to be headed for the exit. Coatney on Tuesday was named the sole finalist to become director of the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, also known as TEEX. State law requires the university and Coatney — who officials say energized the Dallas department and made major strides in promoting safety measures — wait 21 days before making the deal official.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Dallas Morning News

While Virginia firefighters are mourning the loss of one of their own in a fatal crash, the injuries of another are just now coming to light. Lt. Brad Clark died Thursday while responding to an emergency call as the remains of Tropical Storm Michael swept over Central Virginia. The 43-year-old firefighter was killed when a tractor-trailer struck the fire truck Clark and three colleagues were standing outside of on the shoulder of I-295.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTKR Channel 3 News

When Greg Malmquist became a firefighter in Lake Elmo more than three decades ago, many volunteer fire department rosters listed just a handful of surnames. Sons served alongside fathers and brothers and uncles, and most often stayed in the department for decades. “Times have changed,” said Malmquist, now the fire chief in Lake Elmo and the only full-time member of the department.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Army veteran and Lafayette firefighter Lt. Jason Oliver took off for Cancun last week to celebrate his anniversary with his wife Maigan. Just three days into their weeklong tropical vacation, however, Jason Oliver was confined to a Mexican hospital bed rather than a poolside cabana. Trained as paramedic firefighter, Oliver said he began to notice some troubling neurological symptoms Friday and was taken by ambulance to the local hospital for a checkup.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Times-Call

Whether the Julian Cuyamaca Fire Protection District will dissolve and be taken over by the county comes down to a couple dozen signatures. On Tuesday morning, 615 signatures of registered voters who live in the district were submitted during a rare “protest hearing” at a meeting of the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO).
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Diego Union-Tribune

Pittsburgh’s fire sprinkler bill is on hold again after more than a dozen residents complained Tuesday to City Council that costs and the inconvenience of retrofitting older buildings would be “astronomical.” “We can buy our own fire truck with a ladder that can reach as high as our top floor for what it would cost us to do this,” said Ted Goldberg, an owner in the Park Mansion co-op building in Oakland.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

VIDEO: Milwaukee firefighters responded to a fire at Cimco Recycling on the city's south side on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 16. The fire near Chase and Oklahoma was visible from multiple FOX6 News tower cameras in the city. "It was heavy, thick smoke. Really black -- and the wind was crazy too with it. That's what we were saying -- 'look at how fast the wind was blowing.
- PUB DATE: 10/16/2018 1:22:20 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

Fire in a field near the St. Croix-Pierce county line was extinguished Tuesday after a combine caught fire. United Fire Chief Gary Newton said fire crews responded to a minor fire Oct. 16 in a field on County Road Y in the town of Rush River. A small fire began near a bearing on the combine's corn head, which threw sparks that ignited some corn stalks, Newton said.
- PUB DATE: 10/16/2018 10:15:20 AM - SOURCE: Rivertowns

On October 13, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On October 11, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Fire on Monday, Oct. 15 caused between $50,000 and $75,000 in damage to a Chandler Lane home, according to Fire Chief Chris Garrison. At 12:17 p.m., the Sun Prairie Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire at a four unit multi-tenant building in the 900 Block of Chandler Lane. The first unit on the scene reported fire up the side of the building, but was unsure if it spread to the interior, according to Garrison.
- PUB DATE: 10/16/2018 1:41:25 AM - SOURCE: Sun Prairie Star

A fire on Green Bay's east side Monday night displaced four people and caused about $30,000 damage. The blaze at 1286 E. Mason St. was reported about 7:10 p.m. Firefighters found smoke coming from the building's eaves and roof, Drew Spielman, a Green Bay Metro Fire Department battalion chief, said in a news release.
- PUB DATE: 10/16/2018 12:21:20 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

The city of Atlanta has settled a lawsuit with a former fire chief over his firing for a book containing passages which some saw as anti-gay. The Atlanta City Council approved a settlement agreeing to pay fired Atlanta fire chief Kelvin Cochran $1.2 million. In 2013, Cochran wrote a book about his Christian faith titled "Who Told You That You Were Naked?" for a men's Bible study and gave it to around a dozen subordinates he said had either requested copies or shared his beliefs.
- PUB DATE: 10/16/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAGA-TV Atlanta MyFox 5 News

Most of the California state firefighters who were fired last year because they drank alcohol during a training academy will return to work in 2018, according to Cal Fire and their union. Cal Fire in April announced that 17 firefighters would be dismissed from state service because they violated a code of conduct during their seven-week academy by drinking alcohol after hours.
- PUB DATE: 10/16/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sacramento Bee