The city on Wednesday announced that Jeremy Hansen, the director of the public safety training center at Fox Valley Technical College, has been selected as the incoming fire chief. Chief Len Vander Wyst retired in March after nine years with the Appleton Fire Department. Before he joined the Appleton Fire Department, Vander Wyst served as the chief of Neenah-Menasha Fire Rescue.
- PUB DATE: 6/21/2018 7:06:29 AM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com

The body of a 13-year-old boy, missing since late Sunday, was found in Silver Lake on Wednesday afternoon after three days of search efforts. Portage police identified Shayn Wolffarth of Portage as the boy who was last seen on a flotation device on the lake late Sunday afternoon, before falling into the water and disappearing below.
- PUB DATE: 6/21/2018 6:26:19 AM - SOURCE: Madison

No injuries were reported in a fire that damaged a condo-style apartment building Wednesday evening, according to the Janesville Fire Department. In a release, the department said crews responded around 6:20 p.m. to the 1400 block of Canyon Drive for a report of a fire in a garage attached to an apartment building.
- PUB DATE: 6/21/2018 4:44:16 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

A barn fire in the Town of Sun Prairie June 20 resulted in $15,000 in damage to the barn and contents, according to Sun Prairie Fire Chief Chris Garrison. The chief said at 6:21 p.m. the Sun Prairie Fire Department responded to a report of a large barn on fire in the 4900 block of Town Hall Drive in the Town of Sun Prairie.
- PUB DATE: 6/21/2018 2:01:31 AM - SOURCE: Sun Prairie Star

The Milwaukee Fire Department saved a trapped person during a house fire early Thursday morning. According to the department, crews were called to the home near 70th and Euclid around 3:34 a.m. When they got to the scene, they learned a person was trapped in a first floor bedroom. The person was removed from the room with minor injuries and did not need to be taken to a hospital.
- PUB DATE: 6/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58

An arbitrator agreed a veteran Toledo firefighter was erroneously demoted from captain to a line firefighter after the administration said the captain used “poor judgment” at a fatal fire scene. The arbitrator, Mark Glazer, ruled this week that Capt. Kim Hood be reinstated as captain with seniority.
- PUB DATE: 6/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Toledo Blade

On July 1, Rhoda Mae Kerr will pin five brass bugles on the collar of her Fort Lauderdale Fire and Rescue uniform—the number symbolizes her rank, and five is the highest. On that day Kerr will also make history as the department’s first female fire chief in its 106-year history. Kerr comes from a lineage of firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 6/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Lauderdale Daily

Utica Mayor Robert Palmieri’s office released another statement Wednesday in response to reports on the conduct of former temporary fire Chief John Kelly, who resigned from his position last week amid allegations of professional misconduct. Kelly — appointed interim chief last July in place of Russell Brooks, who remains on administrative leave — stepped down to become a deputy chief after an investigation into text messages sent between Kelly and 23-year-old Carmen Ambrose, the son of Deputy Chief Mark Ambrose, that make references to watching pornography and other lewd acts that occurred on fire department property.
- PUB DATE: 6/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Utica Observer-Dispatch

A fiery uproar in the town of Morris could have left residents without a volunteer Fire Department. A statement from the department was released Tuesday announcing that its members had voted to “cease providing fire, rescue, and EMS services,” as of June 30. The statement noted that the decision was not made lightly, but came after the department felt it could not come to a “reasonable working relationship with the town administrators.
- PUB DATE: 6/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Connecticut Post

Buffalo Grove officials announced Wednesday they are challenging a decision to award a full line-of-duty death pension to the widow of a 51-year-old Buffalo Grove firefighter, arguing not enough evidence exists that his fatal colon cancer was related to his work. The full pension award for Kevin Hauber’s wife, Kim Hauber, and their four children represented an “unprecedented” claim and marked the first award of its kind in Illinois after the Buffalo Grove Fire Department Pension Board determined earlier this year that Kevin Hauber’s cancer was caused in the line of duty, village officials said in a statement.
- PUB DATE: 6/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune

VIDEO: A groundbreaking ceremony was held Wednesday evening at the New Glarus Fire Department to recognize the start of construction of an extension to its station. New Glarus Fire Chief, David Anderson, opened the ceremony by sharing a story of the five-year journey the department took to get to the point of breaking ground, as well as a few words of thanks to those who supported the project.
- PUB DATE: 6/20/2018 8:32:22 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

On June 19, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: The Cudahy Fire Department responded to a home twice for fires within the last two days. The department was most recently called to the unoccupied home near S. Swift Ave. and E. Underwood Ave. around 2 a.m. on Wednesday. Authorities say an investigation is now underway because it is unusual for hot spots to pop up days after an initial fire.
- PUB DATE: 6/20/2018 6:27:41 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

The City of Buffalo will pay a total of $1.2 million to a dozen white Buffalo firefighters who claimed they were passed over for promotion because of their race. The $1.2 million settlement was approved Tuesday by the Buffalo Common Council and brings to a close a 2007 lawsuit that accused the city of illegally allowing two promotional lists to expire because minority firefighters had performed poorly on civil service exams.
- PUB DATE: 6/20/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Buffalo News

Cambridge Mayor Marc McGovern toured three of the city’s eight firehouses June 6, calling the conditions at Monday’s City Council meeting “extremely disturbing.” Firefighters were sleeping on mattresses with holes. Floors were being held together by duct tape. Some stations didn’t have carbon monoxide detectors or Wi-Fi, McGovern said.
- PUB DATE: 6/20/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wicked Local Cambridge

A Lehigh Acres firefighter went into cardiac arrest, and fellow firefighters resuscitated him inside Station 105 to save his life. Rick Pride, 47, was on the treadmill inside the firehouse workout room when the nearly 13-year firefighting veteran wound up unresponsive on the floor in the firehouse. "Our firefighters reacted very quickly that day, immediately going into emergency mode and starting to help him," Chief Robert DiLallo said of his team at Station 105 of the Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District.
- PUB DATE: 6/20/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WZVN-TV ABC 7 Naples/Ft. Myers

The Chicago Fire Department said Tuesday it was “not acceptable” for paramedics to leave a teen unattended after he was shot in the head and severely wounded as they treated others hit by gunfire at a party on the Near West Side this week. “It is not the policy of the Fire Department to leave people on the street, even if they are mortally wounded,” said department spokesman Larry Langford.
- PUB DATE: 6/20/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune

Brownsville’s former fire chief, Carlos Elizondo, has appealed a ruling denying his claim that the Cameron County District Attorney’s Office has charged him twice for the same alleged crime to a higher court in Corpus Christi. Authorities arrested Elizondo last October and accuse the former city official of stealing $8,000 from the Brownsville Firefighters Association Political Action Committee through unauthorized ATM withdrawals, according to a police report filed by the association’s president.
- PUB DATE: 6/20/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Brownsville Herald

VIDEO: On Tuesday night, the City of Madison honored a firefighter who died in the line of duty. Richard Garner, Jr., 29, collapsed on April 1 within 24 hours of his final shift. Madison's City Council approved a resolution to rename Fire Engine No.10 in his honor. Fire Chief Steven Davis says Garner was special to him since Garner was part of the first class he hired as chief.
- PUB DATE: 6/19/2018 10:15:52 PM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC

VIDEO: The Woodruff Fire Department took a step towards getting a new kind of fire truck to its station. For years, the department has considered investing in a ladder truck to better serve the community. Recently the town board has given the department to go-ahead to start looking. A demonstration was held Tuesday night so that the department could see the difference between a 75 ft.
- PUB DATE: 6/19/2018 9:02:49 PM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander-Wausau