On April 14, 11 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: The Onalaska Fire Department has a new tool to fight fires. Three years ago, the City of Onalaska saw a need. "The truck that this replaced was a 1992 Peterbilt," said Jim Netwal, firefighter at Onalaska Fire Department. "So, that was a good truck, but old and breaking down." Taxpayers and city officials decided to make a new fire engine a priority.
- PUB DATE: 4/18/2018 7:38:50 PM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 LaCrosse

VIDEO: Twenty-five cows died in a barn fire in Marathon County, according to authorities. Firefighters were called to the barn on Eau Pleine Road Wednesday afternoon. Flames could be seen shooting from the roof of the barn. Officials said the blaze may have been sparked by a heater. Crews had to tear down two silos on the property for safety reasons.
- PUB DATE: 4/18/2018 6:59:29 PM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9

Fire officials Wednesday were investigating the cause of fire in the garage of a residence. Crews from the City of Burlington Fire Department, Town of Burlington Fire Department, Burlington Rescue Squad and the City of Burlington Police Department were dispatched at approximately 8:05 a.m. to a report of a structure fire at 373 W.
- PUB DATE: 4/18/2018 6:54:33 PM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

PHOTO: The Amherst Fire District says a pet dog is dead after rescuing it from icy water Wednesday. Lieutenant Tom Iverson tells NewsChannel 7 firefighters responded to a boat landing in Amhrest around 7:30 a.m. According to a post on the department's Facebook page, despite the rescue, the pet did not survive.
- PUB DATE: 4/18/2018 3:31:09 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

Firefighters on Wednesday morning, April 18 responded to the scene of a house fire near 63rd Street and 60th Avenue in Kensoha. The call in around 4:15 a.m. When crews arrived on scene, they encountered heavy smoke coming from a two-story structure. The fire was brought under control and eventually extinguished by multiple departments.
- PUB DATE: 4/18/2018 5:47:19 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

On April 14, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

When Jessica Mootz started having contractions last Tuesday, she quickly realized she didn't have time to wait for her partner Andy Campbell to get home so she called 911. Onalaska firefighter/emts Tony Hilton and Scott weeks rushed to the scene. Mootz was in the bathroom at her home in Onalaska trying to reassure her eight-year-old daughter Adelaide that everything was OK.
- PUB DATE: 4/18/2018 1:44:26 AM - SOURCE: Coulee News

For about 10 minutes, Emergency Services District 1 firefighters Jessilyn Davis and Lt. Brannon Stengel found themselves surrounded by a brush fire April 11 in western Travis County. The winds, which had shifted toward them, and 20 percent humidity that day only made matters worse. They tried to stay positive, but Stengel said in the backs of their minds, they thought they had come face-to-face with the blaze that would take their lives.
- PUB DATE: 4/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman

A judge has sentenced the former fire chief of the Coventry Fire District to three years of probation and ordered him to repay nearly $200,000 for fraudulently receiving retirement benefits. Paul Labbadia, 52, of North Providence, pleaded no contest in January to three counts that he filed false documents to obtain a public pension.
- PUB DATE: 4/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Providence 12

Firefighters are breathing a sigh of relief after a nearly year-long struggle. The Mattoon Fire Department will have to hire a handful of new firefighters. It's after a judge ruled that the city violated their contract last year. The fire department is supposed to have more than 30 firefighters, but right now they're at 24.
- PUB DATE: 4/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCIA & WCFN-TV CBS 3 Champaign

People turn to firefighters for help during all kinds of emergencies, but this one might actually be a first. Wayne Township firefighters woke up in the middle of the night to a woman frantically pushing their doorbell. "As many times as the doorbell on the firehouse was pushed, the firefighters were quite certain that something bad was going on outside," said Wayne Township Fire Capt.
- PUB DATE: 4/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTHR-TV NBC 13 Indianapolis

A firefighter from Texas is being lauded for his heroic efforts after he helped pull a fellow passenger back inside a plane when she was sucked outside during an emergency landing Tuesday in Philadelphia. According to the Daily Mirror, Celina firefighter Andrew Needum was nearby when debris from the engine explosion on Southwest Airlines flight 1380 ripped a hole in the window where 43-year-old Jennifer Riordan was sitting.
- PUB DATE: 4/18/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

The morning of April 12 went pretty much according to plan for John Brennan, owner of John Joseph Coffee in Sauk City. That is until two members of the Sauk City Fire Department came into the coffee roaster’s door at 112 Van Buren St., in full protective gear with axes in hand. Rewind to 45 minutes earlier: Brennan and a friend were in Brennan’s back room roasting a week’s supply of product.
- PUB DATE: 4/17/2018 3:37:29 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

A 24-year-old Nekoosa man considers himself lucky to be alive after a chunk of ice went through the windshield of his car Monday and hit him in the face. Derek C. Baker said he was driving home to Nekoosa Monday after the worst of the snowstorm had passed from La Crosse, where he had been visiting his girlfriend.
- PUB DATE: 4/17/2018 1:04:54 PM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com

VIDEO: It has been two weeks since the La Crosse Fire Department assumed fire and first responder coverage of the Town of Medary. The Onalaska Fire Department previously provided the coverage for the Town of Medary for more than two decades. "Geographically, it poses problems for either department," said Chief Ken Gilliam with the La Crosse Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 4/17/2018 6:42:04 AM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 LaCrosse

VIDEO: Oconto police and firefighters helped an elderly woman who was trapped in her home due to heavy snow. The woman had reportedly been stuck inside her home since Saturday and didn't have any friends or family in the area to help her. On Sunday afternoon, Oconto PD and Fire responded by shoveling her front porch and steps, creating a walking path to the road.
- PUB DATE: 4/17/2018 5:54:23 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

A Pulaski man was sentenced to nine months in jail for starting a fire four years ago that destroyed a shed and ATV at his former girlfriend’s residence in the town of Stiles. Casey Messenger, 29, is serving the time as a condition of four years probation granted by Judge Michael T. Judge. ‘It’s time for (the victim) to get some relief from what she has lost,” Judge said, referring to the long delay between the incident and the filing of charges.
- PUB DATE: 4/17/2018 5:04:53 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

The Oshkosh Police and Fire Commission is holding a meet and greet tomorrow so the community can learn about the candidates for Fire Chief. There are four finalists being considered for the position. Michael Callahan, John Christian, and Dan Zaccard are all from Illinois. Michael Stanley is from Colorado.
- PUB DATE: 4/17/2018 2:35:03 AM - SOURCE: WHBY-AM 1150 News Talk

The memories of the blast five years ago that robbed Kirk Wines of his friends and first responder colleagues remain vivid as ever, but he keeps them filed neatly away. The amiable owner of West’s Old Corner Drug Store stays busy filling prescriptions, chatting with customers and minding his emergency pager as a captain of the West Volunteer Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 4/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Waco Tribune-Herald