A change in dispatching systems is forcing Appleton firefighters and Neenah-Menasha Fire Rescue to tweak how they’re called to emergencies in each other’s communities. The departments have had an automatic aid deal in place for seven years sending the closest engine to a fire or medical call regardless of city borders.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2018 5:42:14 PM - SOURCE: WHBY-AM 1150 News Talk

A Green Bay man is thankful after police and fire crews came to the rescue of his pet. Wednesday afternoon, the man's macaw escaped from his home and flew to the top of a tree. The Green Bay Metro Fire Department brought in their ladder truck and allowed the bird owner to go up with one of the firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2018 5:32:03 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

A tragic turn to a family’s Fourth of July celebrations when a north side Milwaukee home catches fire. “I just heard them holler fire and we all came outside,” a neighbor who lives near Sheridan and 41st Street, where the fire started, said. Firefighters were called to the house around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2018 3:19:56 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

A fence was damaged Wednesday night after a garbage can full of discarded fireworks caught fire on Madison’s south side, officials said. Firefighters were sent just before 11 p.m. to the 400 block of Moorland Road for reports of a fire that damaged a garbage can and a nearby fence, according to a release.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2018 9:50:24 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

VIDEO: Unattended cooking was determined to be the cause of a house fire Wednesday in Fond du Lac. Just before 6 p.m., Fond du Lac Fire and Rescue responded to the 700 block of Ellis Street for reports of smoke in a house, with no current fire, as well as a kitchen stove left on, according to a press release from Fond du Lac Fire and Rescue.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2018 7:39:46 AM - SOURCE: Fond du Lac Reporter

On July 4, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 2, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: Around 12:00pm, La Crescent Police and Fire responded to reports of an Amtrak passenger train crashing into a pick-up truck on Shore Acres Road between La Crescent and La Crosse. Police and fire responded along with Gundersen Tri-State and CP Rail. Two were inside the truck at the time of the collision.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2018 6:39:06 AM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire

A couple and their four children were assisted by the American Red Cross Wednesday after a fire did extensive damage to their home, according to the Vesper fire chief. A caller reported a fire at 55 block of Grant Road, Hansen, at 9:38 p.m. Wednesday, Vesper Fire Chief Dennis Dederich said in a news release.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2018 6:26:15 AM - SOURCE: Marshfield News-Herald

A firefighter has been identified after he was killed and two others injured in a crash in eastern Rowan County Wednesday afternoon. The crash happened at 1:22 p.m. on Gold Knob Road. Highway Patrol says the firefighter was in a pick-up truck and responding to an accident call when he crashed into a Ford Mustang.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBTV-TV Channel 3

A series of clashes between the Baltimore Fire Department and bicycling advocates has sparked concern among City Council members who are frustrated about how a feud over emergency access to streets with bike lanes has helped stall several development projects. First, a Baltimore firefighter was charged with assaulting a city employee at a meeting about bike lanes in what a witness says was a “violent choking.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant Derick Almena and creative director Max Harris pleaded no contest Tuesday to 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter for the fire at the warehouse in December 2016 that killed 36 people. By pleading no contest, Almena, 48, and Harris, 28, avoided going to trial and potentially facing life in prison if they had been found guilty of all the charges stemming from the fire during a music party at the warehouse at 1309 31st Ave.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGO-TV ABC 7 San Francisco

The night a gunman fired into a crowd of 22,000 people at the country music festival in Las Vegas in 2017, nursing supervisor Antoinette Mullan at University Medical Center was focused on one thing: saving lives. She recalls dead bodies on gurneys across the triage floor, a trauma bay full of victims.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NPR

Future pregnant firefighters no longer have to worry about losing pay if the doctor advises against them going out on rescue calls. County commissioners Tuesday unanimously approved a light-duty option for pregnant firefighters. "It's long overdue," Commissioner Joe Flescher said. The policy, which has been ratified by the International Association of Firefighters Local 2201, removes pregnancy as a condition ineligible for light or restricted duty.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: TCPalm.com

VIDEO: A police officer and a 5-year-old girl were among three people hospitalized and several others treated on the scene after an Independence Day fire on the city's north side. Firefighters called to a home near North 41st Street and West Sheridan Avenue shortly after 7:30 p.m. were met with heat and heavy smoke, Battalion Erich Roden said.
- PUB DATE: 7/4/2018 9:53:06 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

Before moving forward with plans for a new fire station, a committee comprising Eau Claire Fire Department line personnel and management toured facilities in Wisconsin and Minnesota to pick out the best features of each. Battalion Chief Joe Kelly, the department’s lead on the project, is pleased with the end result.
- PUB DATE: 7/4/2018 9:44:24 PM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

VIDEO: A Kenosha man who saved his daughter from a rip current in Lake Michigan has died. Police say the 28-year-old never recovered after he started struggling during the rescue. It is the second drowning to happen at Pennoyer Park this summer. The other happened on Memorial Day. Rescue crews say it's because of the strong rip current created by the Pike River which took the man's daughter far out into Lake Michigan.
- PUB DATE: 7/3/2018 7:16:46 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Fire officials say employees evacuated the building before crews got to the scene. One person was transported to the hospital for an injury. There is no other information available on the fire or damage at this time. Fire crews were called to a fire near 33rd and Villard in Milwaukee Tuesday morning.
- PUB DATE: 7/3/2018 6:39:25 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Redding Fire Chief Gerry Gray. who was beloved in the community and known for his friendliness and almost daily tweets, has died, the funeral director for Hoyt-Cole Chapel of Flowers in Red Bluff said. Funeral director Jack Kirchert said his funeral home is handling the arrangements but did not have any additional information about the fire chief's sudden and unexpected death.
- PUB DATE: 7/3/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Redding Record Searchlight

Boise Fire Capt. Rob Christensen listened to the victim count rise on his way to the scene of Saturday’s mass stabbing. Initially, his crew got the call for a stabbing, then he heard there were four victims and by the time he got there, he realized the crew of 11 Boise firefighters would be spread thin treating the nine victims.
- PUB DATE: 7/3/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Nampa Idaho Press-Tribune