Nick Reeder's life was just coming into focus last week--four years ago, he found Amanda Sawyer. "We met on an online profile, yeah and we had a blind date and were inseparable after that date. It was love at first sight definitely," said Nick Reeder. Nick says she did it all--mother, worker, wife and she loved that he was a firefighter, even decorating their home with fire memorabilia.
- PUB DATE: 4/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles

Just as fire departments are getting used to working with millennials, another generation is coming along. This generation is significantly different from their predecessors and will require some adaptations in leadership and management for them to contribute to their fullest. The newest generation, born after 1995, is just now entering the workforce.
- PUB DATE: 4/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

The Auburn fire chief has chastised the Oxford town manager for allegedly prohibiting the use of any town emails or social media to distribute a retirement party flyer for the Oxford fire chief. A retirement party for Oxford Fire Chief Sheri R. Bemis is scheduled for 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday at the Auburn Elks Lodge, 754 Southbridge St.
- PUB DATE: 4/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette

On April 14, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: Neighbors in Kronenwetter are being credited with possibly saving a life after they helped shovel out a person having a medical emergency Sunday afternoon. First responders arrived and found the home was snowed-in. Neighbors grabbed their shovels to help out. Wimmer was one of the neighbors that helped clear a path.
- PUB DATE: 4/16/2018 3:03:23 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

VIDEO: A fire that broke out inside a Marathon County home Monday is under investigation. Crews were called to the home on N. 25 Street around 1 p.m. The Town of Wausau Fire Chief Kevin Yolitz said the fire was contained to a bedroom. According to Yolitz, two people were inside the home when the fire sparked and were able to get out safely.
- PUB DATE: 4/16/2018 2:17:43 PM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9-Wausau

Richard Linenberg and Kurt Prise know all about adrenaline rush. It’s what sustained them when they suddenly got out of bed in the middle of the night to fight fires. The two long-time Oakdale Area Fire Department firefighters are ready to leave the adrenaline rush to the next generation. After a combined 64 years of service, they officially retired Tuesday and were honored by their fellow firefighters with a plaque and pizza party.
- PUB DATE: 4/16/2018 7:46:45 AM - SOURCE: Tomah Journal

On April 15, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On April 13, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On April 11, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Property owners in the village could see a reduction in their property insurance premiums thanks to the efforts of the local fire company. Rochester Fire Company officials received word at the beginning of the year that the company’s Insurance Services Office rating had improved by two points. ISO was formed in 1971 as an advisory and rating organization for the property/casualty insurance industry to provide statistical services to develop programs and to assist insurance companies in meeting state regulatory requirements.
- PUB DATE: 4/16/2018 4:46:02 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

Ed Hutchinson became Greensburg's fire chief when Harry Truman was president and retired 53 years later, and through those decades he was a community leader whose impact stretched far beyond the city's fire halls. “He was not only a fire chief, but a great community servant. I am stunned today,” Greensburg Mayor Robert Bell said Sunday of Hutchinson's death Sunday morning at age 96 at Excela Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg.
- PUB DATE: 4/16/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

The controversial program that pays veteran Los Angeles police officers and firefighters nearly double for the last five years of their careers received a flood of new enrollees in February, records show. The rush to join the Deferred Retirement Option Plan, or DROP program, coincided with a Times investigation in February that found the program, which was created in 2002 to keep veteran officers and firefighters on the job, allows participants to file workers' compensation claims and then take extended injury leaves at nearly twice their usual pay.
- PUB DATE: 4/16/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Times

The FDNY’s “zero tolerance” for drug abuse has gone up in smoke. Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro has quietly abandoned the department’s once-trumpeted policy calling for the firing of anyone caught using illegal or prohibited substances, The Post has learned. In the last month, 26 firefighters who had tested positive on urine tests since 2016 were returned to full duty, insiders revealed.
- PUB DATE: 4/16/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

Two Arlington firefighters and a Arlington Water Utilities crew member were injured while responding to a gas leak that occurred Sunday afternoon in central Arlington. All three were transported to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. The extent of their injuries is not known. According to Arlington Fire Department spokesman Mike Joiner, Arlington Water Utilities crews were repairing a water line leak at the intersection of Ditto Avenue and Dugan Street.
- PUB DATE: 4/16/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Worth Star-Teleram

Whenever a fire breaks out in a home within the northern portion of this village, the affected residents can be assured a rescue crew is on the way. Being that the north end of Meyers Lake falls within Plain Township has led to concern among township officials because nearly 200 village property owners are not paying a fire-protection property tax.
- PUB DATE: 4/16/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Canton Repository

VIDEO: Four people were working inside a Denmark barn when the building partially collapsed Sunday evening. "We were in the barn working, trying to get done with our barn chores, and we could hear loud cracks, and within minutes of the cracks the roof was coming down," said Keith Brunner, owner of Cedar Red Dairy.
- PUB DATE: 4/15/2018 8:30:41 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

Two people were injured and five were displaced after a fire on the southwest side of Madison early Saturday morning. Firefighters responded to the Waterleaf Apartments on 6739 Schroeder Road following reports of a possible fire in one of the units, according to a release by the Madison Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2018 11:52:30 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

VIDEO: Verona firefighters got a chance to show off their new facility Saturday. The fire department gave guided tours of the new, 42-thousand square foot, $10.7 million building. It's a big upgrade from the old building which was built for a volunteer department. It's now a combination department for Verona fire and Fitchburg EMS.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2018 10:20:59 PM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC

On April 14, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.