Life-saving efforts by a Hager City mother and emergency responders were too late to save a boy who drowned last week in a Pierce County swimming pool. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said 3-year-old Ryker B. Tipton died Friday, July 6, at St. Marys Hospital in Rochester after he was pulled from a pool the previous night by his mother, Ashlee Peterson.
- PUB DATE: 7/9/2018 6:58:50 AM - SOURCE: Rivertowns

On July 8, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Two fire departments in western Racine County are the first in the county to embrace a re-emerging firefighting technology — ultra high-pressure — into their operations. On March 12, the Rochester Fire Company took possession of an ultra-high-pressure pump and retrofitted its 2010 grass fire unit to carry it.
- PUB DATE: 7/9/2018 4:41:48 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

A Phoenix firefighter was found dead in his quarters Friday while on duty at the Arizona Army National Guard Base, the Phoenix Fire Department announced Sunday. Juston Doherty was 45, according to public records. Phoenix Fire Capt. Rob McDade described the technical-rescue technician, a 15-year veteran of the department, as "heroic" and committed.
- PUB DATE: 7/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com & KPNX-TV NBC 12 Phoenix

The Supreme Court of Wyoming has ruled that in a combination fire department, part-time and volunteer firefighters are entitled to vote on whether or not firefighters can form a union. The decision was handed down Friday, July 6, 2018. The case involved two IAFF locals, Campbell County Firefighters IAFF Local 5058 and Jackson Hole Professional Firefighters IAFF Local 5067, who sought to collectively bargain with their respective municipalities.
- PUB DATE: 7/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireLawBlog.com

It has been about 14 months since Russell Brooks last served as Utica’s fire chief. With Brooks on administrative leave, the Utica Fire Department has had three interim chiefs in that span. Retired Utica fire Capt. James Barefoot, the latest appointed to the role, officially started July 2. Through it all, Brooks continues to challenge the city’s decision to place him on paid, nondisciplinary, administrative leave due to concerns with Brooks’ health.
- PUB DATE: 7/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Utica Observer-Dispatch

Video footage that surfaced Thursday raised new questions about the San Francisco Fire Department’s response to the Asiana plane crash on July 6, 2013, particularly its handling of a subsequent incident in which a fire rig ran over a 16-year-old girl. “I mean, s— happens, you know?” San Francisco Battalion Chief Mark Johnson appears to say in footage from the camera attached to his helmet, according to a report published late Thursday by ABC7 investigative reporter Dan Noyes.
- PUB DATE: 7/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: SFGate.com

For years, firefighters at Seattle’s Station 31 have worried that the place where they barbecue steak and try to sleep between calls might be making them sick. Red flags were first raised in the early 2000s, after a string of firefighters were diagnosed with cancer. But a subsequent study found no link between the station and the illness.
- PUB DATE: 7/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seattle Times

No one was injured in a house fire on Highway W near Juneau on Sunday afternoon that was battled by multiple area fire departments. Juneau Fire Chief Curt Ninmann said his department was called at 5 p.m. for a report of a house fire at W6477 Highway W, in the town of Oak Grove. "Reports from Dodge County Dispatch were confirmed that there were flames showing and heavy smoke from the house," Ninmann said.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2018 8:07:55 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

Two people were killed Sunday afternoon when a motorcycle passed a stop sign and slammed, broadside, into a car in southern Brown County. Brown County sheriff's officials said the westbound motorcycle, operated by a 38-year-old Green Bay-area man, passed a stop sign at Dickinson and Park roads. It struck a southbound car driven by a 60-year-old man from Mount Pleasant, in southeastern Wisconsin.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2018 4:57:47 PM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

The Madison Fire Department said improperly discarded fireworks caused a fire that happened at a residence on the 500 block of West Washington Avenue Saturday morning. Firefighters received a fire call at the residence at 4:06 a.m. The fire started on the first floor of the building. Crews had extinguished the fire by 4:18 a.
- PUB DATE: 7/8/2018 3:16:48 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison

On July 6, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 3, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

New life-saving equipment is coming to the South Shore Fire Department. The Fire Department is planning to purchase 10 new defibrillators, including heart monitors and six AutoPulse units, which are automated CPR devices. South Shore Fire Chief Rob Stedman made presentations to the villages of Mount Pleasant and Sturtevant about the need for these devices.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2018 4:39:04 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

A Swatara Township fire company is suspended and no longer responding to calls after an investigation into reports that some members were being subjected to racial slurs, harassment and bullying. Director of Fire Services Mike Ibberson said the Lawnton Fire Company was taken out of service on May 31.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Penn Live

The FDNY is considering stationing one less firefighter at its busiest engine companies as part of a cost-savings measure to cover rising medical leave, officials said Thursday. As early as next week, the Fire Department might stop assigning a fifth firefighter to the 15 engine companies that had the extra help.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

At least 22 people were killed and 40 injured Thursday when explosions ripped through several fireworks factories in a Mexican town that has a long history of deadly blasts. The explosions occurred in Tultepec, a town in Mexico state known as the country’s pyrotechnic capital and the site of a blast that claimed 42 lives in 2016.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles TImes

A Lake Travis firefighter has returned to work more than six weeks after a severe firetruck crash on FM 620 left her injured. According to Lake Travis Fire Fighters, Lt. Rachel Zambrano returned to work Tuesday after a six-and-a-half-week recovery. Lt. Zambrano was riding in the fire engine on May 16 when she noticed its engineer was suffering a medical emergency.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KVUE.com

Finding people willing to work as emergency responders is getting to be a tough task. A lack of trained paramedics and emergency medical technicians stresses emergency networks in Aberdeen and surrounding rural areas, said Keith Sharisky with Aberdeen Fire & Rescue. That's why the department is striving to become a paramedic education center that provides new training programs.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse.com

VIDEO: An Oregon firefighter injured his wrist after responding to calls of a car fire Thursday night. The Oregon Fire Department responded to a call shortly after 9:00 p.m. about a car fire that spread to a residence. Dane County Communications upgraded it to a full structure fire after reports indicated that the garage started to catch fire.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2018 9:11:01 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison