A Chippewa County dispatcher has won an award for telecommunicator of the year. Wade Davis was given the award by Wisconsin Public Safety Communications. Davis was honored at the Chippewa County Board meeting on Tuesday, and the board gave him a standing ovation. Chippewa County Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk said Davis is a hard worker and liked by everyone in the department.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Leader-Telegram

VIDEO: The bodies found last week in a burned home west of Neenah have been identified as 36-year-old Jeremy Wallenfang, of Neenah, and 27-year-old Ashley Mielke, of Appleton. The cause of death has yet to be determined because both bodies were "significantly degraded" by the fire, the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Post Cresent

The city of Pensacola has motioned to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former city fire chief. In late 2016, Joseph Glover filed a federal lawsuit against the city and the mayor alleging he was investigated, suspended and fired in retaliation for filing a discrimination complaint. In a filing last week, attorneys for the city called for a summary judgement in their favor.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pensacola News Journal

The Colorado Springs City Council will vote whether to place a collective bargaining issue on the ballot next year for the city's firefighters, council President Richard Skorman promised Tuesday. Scores of firefighters stood shoulder to shoulder in council chambers Tuesday, clad in navy blue shirts.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Colorado Springs Gazette

Fire icon Chief Alan Brunacini, otherwise known as Chief Bruno, made an impact on the fire service in more ways than one. And while he may be gone, he is most definitely never forgotten – especially by two former International Association of Fire Chiefs Fire Chief of the Year award winners. Chiefs Bruce Varner and Thomas Kuntz learned from Chief Bruno, along with many other mentors during their fire service career, that educating the community, putting the customer first and having empathy are some of the many keys to success as a fire chief.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

CHI's Nebraska Heart Hospital is celebrating two milestones, and they have to do with a Nebraska firefighter. He came to them with a failing heart, and now doctors said not only is his heart fixed for now, but it could heal itself so he wouldn't need a transplant. The staff at NHH said it could work on future heart patients, too.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOLN-TV CBS 10/KGIN-TV CBS 11 Lincoln-Grand Island

Authorities have revealed the cause of a fire on a Harlem movie set that killed a firefighter in March. Fire Marshals determined that heat from a boiler ventilation pipe ignited nearby combustible materials and caused the fire in the basement of a building on St. Nicholas Avenue. Firefighter Michael Davidson was trapped and killed.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV 7online.com

VIDEO: A woman who survived a weekend motorcycle crash that killed her boyfriend, is questioning first responders' actions. Crash passenger Ayana Johnson suffered a broken leg after flying off her boyfriend Edgar Ramirez's crashed motorcycle Saturday afternoon at 11th Street and Madison Street on Milwaukee's south side.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2018 5:31:35 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

The Beaver Dam Common Council on Monday approved a conceptual design for a new 82-unit apartment complex that has drawn concerns from the fire chief over its lack of sprinkler systems and access points, allowing the project to move forward. The new complex would be near Spring Street, north of the Spring Lake apartment complex near Kohl’s and between two older subdivisions.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2018 10:29:10 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com-Wisconsin State Journal-Capital Times

The Madison Fire Department is investigating an apartment fire in the 200 block of North Street where two people were rescued from roof areas, officials said. The Madison Police Department said around midnight Tuesday, officers and firefighters responded to a fire at an eight-unit residential building operated by the nonprofit organization Porchlight.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2018 6:43:59 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Pay inequities among firefighters and sheriff’s deputies have left some leaders earning less than the people they supervise or less than others in comparable positions. While pay disparity has been a problem for all city employees, it’s more pronounced in public safety, where dozens hold the same rank and expect to earn the same amount as their peers, said Vice Mayor Jim Wood, who was a police officer in the 1980s.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot/HamptonRoads.com

Trailblazing FDNY Lt. Adrienne Walsh is making history — again. Walsh, 51, on Monday became the first woman to serve in a position of rank in one of five of the department's elite rescue companies. Serving as a lieutenant in Rescue Company 1, which covers Manhattan, Walsh is joining one of five highly technical emergency response units that race to large fires or other high-risk situations where specialized training, skills and equipment are required.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

A bright red firetruck, a firefighter in full gear, and a fireman’s pole are visible through the picture windows of the brick building, along with lockers full of equipment and a waiting stretcher. Instead of a fire-company name or logo, however, the lettering on the building in Rockville, Md., announces that this is not a real, live firehouse – but a recruitment center.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Philly.com

St. Joseph County Undersheriff Mark Lillywhite said 66-year-old Patricia Frye was killed instantly around 7:30 p.m. Saturday when her motorcycle was rear-ended by the driver of a minivan while stopped at the intersection of Broadway and U.S.131 in Three Rivers. Her husband, 55-year-old Mike Frye, chief of Fabius & Park Townships Fire Department, was also struck and airlifted to Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo and is currently listed in critical condition.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WWMT-TV Kalamazoo 3

The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation’s (NFFF) Everyone Goes Home® program is conducting a needs assessment to build effective suicide prevention and awareness programs. The NFFF has partnered with Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas, a leading suicidologist with experience in developing innovative programs for first responders.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Fallen Firefighters Foundation

VIDEO: The Town of Greenville announced today their request to help in financing the construction and equipping of a new fire and safety building. The current building they use right now was build in 1968 and it is not meeting the needs of the service people that work there. One big issue is safety concerns.
- PUB DATE: 5/7/2018 8:10:40 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

On May 5, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

People in south Superior are concerned about whether it’s safe to plant vegetables or work with soil after a series of explosions and fires at the Husky Energy oil refinery. University of Wisconsin-Extension officials are looking to calm people’s fears by seeking out soil tests. Some have questioned whether people may be at risk due to last week’s fires, including Steven Sternberg, an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
- PUB DATE: 5/7/2018 1:03:29 PM - SOURCE: Rice Lake Chronotype

A love of baseball led 19-year-old Dan Ferrise to join the Okauchee Fire Department. A love of firefighting kept him there for more than three decades. Ferrise is retiring May 19 as president of the department. He joined the department in 1982 so he could play ball on the department ream with his father, Frank, who had joined OFD in the late 1970s.
- PUB DATE: 5/7/2018 10:23:19 AM - SOURCE: Livinglakecountry

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