On August 15, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: A driver reported seeing smoke at a house on Old Highway 51 in Mosinee around 5:30 P.M. Wednesday afternoon. Part of that highway was then closed off for several hours as numerous fire departments responded. Officials said the fire was mostly contained to the attic, but the house sustained heavy damage.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2018 10:10:06 PM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9-Wausau

VIDEO: Janesville and Milton already share borders, but sometimes, the two Rock County cities share a little bit more with one another. As is the trend with more and more cities in Wisconsin, the two have begun sharing fire services when necessary. “There’s situations where Janesville gets overwhelmed with calls or we have a large fire and we need them for their assistance," said joint Fire Chief Randall Banker.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2018 9:54:13 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison

PHOTO: Six firefighters were injured Tuesday while battling a fire in Waukesha. The Waukesha Fire Department was dispatched to the 300 block of East Main Street for a report of smoke in the area. While in route, crews were told that the fire was coming from the Spring City Wine House. First crews on scene reported a possible working fire in the wall of the business with light smoke coming from the wall.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2018 5:05:29 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58

The town will get a new $6.5 million fire station to replace its existing 50-year-old station. Voters on Tuesday approved a referendum for the new station by a vote of 1,895 to 1,385 (58 percent to 42 percent). "We're very pleased with the outcome," Town Administrator Joel Gregozeski told USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2018 3:30:17 AM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com

Amid a relentless onslaught of horrific wildfires, state lawmakers found it easy Tuesday to pinpoint the most important response: Reduce the fuel feeding the conflagrations that have scorched more than 750,000 acres this year. But making that happen, on a meaningful scale, is fraught with problems, they found.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Press Democrat

Alexander Ponton thought it was a bomb. Debris smashed into Ponton’s car as he drove east on West 4th Avenue near Santa Fe Drive. The 24-year-old Thornton man got out and heard screams for help coming from a six-unit residence complex. It had exploded. Ponton jumped into action, assisting a man and woman out of the rubble who had cuts and scrapes on them.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Denver Post

First Response ambulance response times failed to meet Decatur City Code requirements, but the EMS committee on Tuesday did not recommended City Council action or make a finding that the ambulance service had good cause for its failure. Decatur Fire Chief Tony Grande said he’s frustrated at First Response’s failure to meet the requirements of the city code, but noted that some of the failure could have been the result of overly conservative classification of calls as emergencies by Morgan County 911 and by delays at Decatur Morgan Hospital in preparing patients for non-emergency transport from the hospital.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Decatur Daily

A driver had to be pulled from his vehicle early Wednesday after he crashed it into a fire truck, according to an official with the Houston Fire Department. The crash happened about 3 a.m. in northeast Houston, near Little York and Maple Leaf. The black Chevrolet Impala drove up under the truck, he said.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle

First responders in Foxborough, Massachusetts, will soon be first in the state to carry a new device that has the potential to save lives. Firefighters filled a classroom Tuesday to train on new ultrasound technology. Unlike most ultrasounds in doctor’s offices, the new device is not bulky and the probe can be plugged into a phone or tablet.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NECN

Leaders of the St. Joseph County 911 center near here know thousands of dispatches have been delayed this year because of computer problems that are being fixed. But they still don’t know how long delays lasted, or if they might have affected responses to emergencies such as fires and heart attacks. Officials say that to investigate those delays, data needs to be provided by Tyler Technologies, the Plano, Texas-based software company whose New World computer-aided dispatch system has been riddled with problems since the center started using it in June 2017.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: South Bend Tribune

The New Richmond Fire Department and Ambulance Service responded to a shed fire at around 1 p.m. Thursday, June 14. Firefighters were on the scene of the blaze for about two hours, according to Fire Chief Jim VanderWyst. VanderWyst said the shed was struck by a lightning bolt and it hit a propane line, which ignited the building.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2018 7:16:40 PM - SOURCE: Rivertowns

Onalaska Fire Department begins a new era as Chief Billy Hayes takes over for Don Dominick who retired at the end of June. While only his second day on the job, Hayes says the professionalism of the Onalaska firefighters hasn't changed from his visit in 2007. "I taught a class for Onalaska Fire and Rescue and I made a lot of friends here," Hayes explained.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2018 5:50:37 PM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 LaCrosse

The City of Fitchburg could be considering a change in its joint medical service with Verona now that a $30,000 study has been brought back to its Common Council. Since 1977, Fitch-Rona EMS has been a combined district of the cities of Fitchburg and Verona and the Town of Verona. Each municipality has three voting members, and the commission has some autonomy, but budgetary and other major decisions need the approval of each municipality.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2018 8:42:12 AM - SOURCE: Fitchburg Star

VIDEO: Investigators continued working Monday to determine how Friday evening's devastating fire at the Brin Building started. "It’s a challenge," Neenah-Menasha Fire Rescue Assistant Chief Vernon Green told USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin on Monday. "Whenever you have a fire that size that causes that amount of damage, it creates another challenge beyond what a small kitchen fire or something like that would be.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2018 2:51:42 AM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com

VIDEO: Eighteen people aren't in their homes Monday night after a fire burned through a condominium on the west side of Madison. The fire began at Greystone Condominiums on Cricket Lane off Old Sauk Road around 10:30 in the morning. A landscaper working across the street saw the fire first ignite. "I seen some black smoke smothering out of the rooftops of the vents and through the shingles," said the landscaper, Mitchell Engebretson.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2018 12:40:14 AM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC

A firefighter from Utah died Monday battling the largest wildfire in recorded California history, marking the latest fatality in a fire season that has taken a grim toll on first responders. The firefighter, who was not named, was injured while working on an active portion of the Ranch fire within the massive Mendocino Complex.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Times

Rescue crews freed three Miramar firefighters late Monday after they became trapped when a live power line fell on their fire engine, authorities said. Jose A. Gregorisch, a spokesman for the Miramar Fire-Rescue Department, said the fire engine struck a low-hanging power line in the 9000 block of Miramar Parkway as the engine left the station on a call.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPLG-TV ABC Local10.com - Miami & Fort Lauderdale

A veteran firefighter with the Orange Rural Fire Department died at the main station in downtown Hillsborough on Monday after helping to rescue a person trapped in a trench. Hillsborough Mayor Tom Stevens identified the firefighter as Assistant Chief Jeff Holden, who had been with the department since 2001.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Herald Sun

A 15-year-old boy drove off in a firetruck from the Strinestown Community Fire Co. station over the weekend after walking out of a juvenile facility in Springettsbury Township and stealing a county-owned vehicle he drove to the station, officials said. It happened in the early-morning hours of Sunday, Aug.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: York Dispatch