While the Mosinee Fire Department gets new boots, another one is filing them. The Stevens Point Fire Department kicked off its annual "Fill the Boot" campaign Wednesday. The fundraising effort raises money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, helping patients and families suffering from muscle-debilitating diseases.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2018 11:01:18 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

It was a pleasent surprise for firefighters in Mosinee on Wednesday afternoon. Wisconsin Public Service Foundation surprised the Mosinee Fire Department with a $2,000 grant that was used for new equipment for the firefighters. The firefighters thought they were going to a be given a training by WPS but instead were walked out to their firetrucks where brand new boots were on display.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2018 3:55:10 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

An afternoon of kids playing in the rain turned into a frantic scene Tuesday as more than 40 emergency responders from a half dozen agencies descended on a subdivision here where an 11-year-old boy went missing, apparently sucked into a culvert in a drainage ditch following torrential rains that flooded the streets and swelled the nearby retention pond.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2018 3:48:31 PM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune

On August 26, 12 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

To honor fallen firefighter Cory Barr and help the Sun Prairie community, Potosi Brewing and Wisconsin Distributors are partnering to release a new commemorative pilsner. A release says after the tragic events of July 10, when a gas leak caused a major explosion in downtown Sun Prairie, Wisconsin Distributors, which is located in Sun Prairie, wanted to do its part in helping lift everyone's spirits and bring the community together.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2018 8:31:24 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

An 11-year-old boy was rescued Tuesday afternoon being disappearing in a flooded drainage ditch in Calumet County's Village of Harrison. The sheriff's office says the boy was playing with friends in the drainage ditch at about 6 p.m. The severe storms had passed but it was still raining, and the road was under about 3 feet of water.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2018 8:03:37 AM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

On August 26, 11 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Tuesday afternoon's storms resulted in more damage in some areas still cleaning up from storms over the past week. The National Weather Service will be sending survey teams to assess the damages to confirm multiple sightings of tornadoes. Fond du Lac County Executive Allen Buechel declared a state of emergency, the county announced Tuesday night.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2018 6:44:43 AM - SOURCE: WBAY.com

Willow Street Fire Company Chief Michael Reese, who spent four decades as a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical technician, died this week unexpectedly. “Chief Reese’s life was dedicated to helping others,” fire company president Bob Kiesel wrote in a statement announcing Reese’s passing. Reese, 53, passed away suddenly at his home in Willow Street on Thursday after he responded to a vehicle accident earlier that morning, Kiesel wrote.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lancaster Online

Wichita residents could see a substantial shift in the way first responders handle thousands of medical calls to 911 each year. Early next year, the Wichita Fire Department will test sending emergency medical technicians on “what some have called band aids and aspirin” medical calls, Mayor Jeff Longwell said at a recent City Council meeting.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wichita Eagle & Kansas.com

The job of a firefighter isn’t what it used to be. Take Charlottesville, Va., for example, where in just the past 18 months the fire departments in the city and surrounding Albemarle County have searched the wreckage of a plane crash in a hard-to-reach wooded area, performed water rescues after spring floods, responded to the derailment of a passenger train carrying Republican members of Congress and, most memorably, provided medical assistance during white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, including one incident that left three people dead last summer.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Governing.com

According to a majority panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, a group of Pittsburgh firefighters did not prove that a different design for a fire truck siren they say permanently damaged their hearing would have been safer. On Aug. 20 in a 2-1 decision, Superior Court judges Mary Jane Bowes and Paula Francisco Ott upheld a granting of summary judgment to Federal Signal Corporation and dismissing the case brought by firefighters Ronald M.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pennsylvania Record

A longtime township fire chief in Pickaway County who was fired this month has sued to get his job back. Porter “Chip” Welch had been chief of the Scioto Township Fire Department in the northern part of the county since 2005. Township trustees met on Aug. 16 and fired him. Trustee Ralph Wolfe told The Dispatch that no one from the township could comment.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Columbus Dispatch

For the seventh year, the IAFC received a grant from the Motorola Solutions Foundation to fund another year of the Fire Service Executive Development Institute (FSEDI). FSEDI is a program developed by the IAFC to provide new and aspiring chiefs with the tools they need to have a successful and productive tenure.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs

Volunteer firefighters are hitting the streets in Eau Claire Tuesday to raise money to help children and adults living with muscular dystrophy, ALS and other related neuro-muscular diseases. The Eau Claire Fire Department says it's spreading awareness for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Full-time firefighter and retirees will be stationed outside of Gordy’s Market, Walmart, Shopko and the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport to collect funds.
- PUB DATE: 8/28/2018 5:06:35 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

The first ever ‘Battle of the Badges’ blood drive is taking place in Eau Claire as the American Red Cross says it's facing an emergency need for blood and platelet donors. The Red Cross is partnering with the Eau Claire Police and Fire Departments to help fill some of the need. Each person who donates will be given a special Battle of the Badges t-shirt.
- PUB DATE: 8/28/2018 5:06:34 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

The Delton Fire Department will host its annual Block Party at the Lake Delton Fire and EMS Complex, located at 45 Miller Drive, on Sept. 8 from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. The free family-friendly event is a fundraiser that goes towards the cost of the fire department’s special operations trailer, a necessary tool to help the fire department carry out its duties properly.
- PUB DATE: 8/28/2018 2:20:58 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

Thanks to Kenosha Firefighters C.A.R.E., warning signs in English and Spanish will be designed and given to the city of Kenosha for placement near the mouth of the Pike River. The Parks Commission initially was uncertain Monday whether its members needed to vote on paying for signs offered by two different makers for the purpose.
- PUB DATE: 8/28/2018 2:04:08 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News

Communications were snarled and police, fire and medical responders were overwhelmed by 911 calls, false reports and the number of victims during the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, according to a report released Monday by U.S. and local authorities. The report by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Clark County Fire Department and Las Vegas police provided an overview of first responders' actions on Oct.
- PUB DATE: 8/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Las Vegas Sun

Dallas firefighters complained Monday about a delay in police emergency response over the weekend that left firefighters to deal on their own with a knife wielding suspect. “It was one of those runs where you think it’s going to be the last run you ever make,” said Dallas Firefighters Union President Jim McDade.
- PUB DATE: 8/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Dallas - Fort Worth