VIDEO: No one was hurt after an overnight house fire in Brown County. It broke out around 1 a.m. Tuesday at a home in Langes Corners, which is near Denmark. It started out as a garage fire, but quickly spread to the home on Steves Cheese Road. "We have extensive damage to the first floor of the home and we have smoke and water damage extensively, second floor has a lot of smoke damage.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2018 3:37:31 AM - SOURCE: WLUK TV Fox 11

Firefighters are suing the town in federal court alleging that East Greenwich is shorting them on overtime by violating the Fair Labor Standards Act. The suit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court against the town and Finance Director Linda Dykeman. It asks the court to award back pay and legal fees and to declare that the town “willfully and intentionally violated” its obligations to firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Providence Journal

A pregnant Indian River County firefighter, who has been pleading for months for light duty, has finally been given a light duty assignment. Nicole Morris, now 33-weeks pregnant, started asking Fire Chief John King to help her better protect her unborn baby just months into her pregnancy. She originally was not asking for light duty, but the ability to max out the number of shifts she could exchange with other firefighters, wanting to work for them early on in her pregnancy, so they could work for her, in exchange, after she gives birth.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFLX-TV FOX 29 West Palm Beach

Perhaps no other family had such a long run with the Watertown Fire Department as the Lachenauers. Over a 76-year span, the department was served by the family — first by Chief George W. Lachenauer, then later by his two sons, David M. and Ted. That long reign came to an end a few short weeks ago. Battalion Chief David Lachenauer remained on the roster until March 6, when he officially retired.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times

This week, AT&T has met another monumental contractual milestone by launching and delivering the FirstNet core to the First Responder Network Authority. The input and feedback we received from public safety has come to life with this core. It is the first-ever nationwide LTE enhanced packet core infrastructure built specifically for our nation’s first responder community.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: First Responder Network Authority

A former Indian County assistant fire chief was arrested Monday morning and charged with stealing thousands of dollars from the county. Sheriff Deryl Loar said Brian Burkeen, 55, of Fellsmere, used a county credit card to purchase hundreds of tires, valued at at least $300,000. He would then sell the tires and pocket the cash according to the investigation.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPTV-TV NBC 5 West Palm Beach

On March 25, 11 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 24, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The Onalaska Town Board was in full agreement regarding a proposed agreement between the Holmen Area and La Crosse fire departments for equipment servicing. At its March 13 meeting, the board voted to recommend the Holmen Area Fire District Board Association partner with the LCFD to do mechanical work on HAFD’s vehicles and other equipment.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2018 1:04:57 PM - SOURCE: Onalaska Holmen Courier Life

Semitrailerss that caught fire outside an east Madison bakery early Monday caused thousands of dollars in damage to the building, fire officials said. The Madison Fire Department said crews responded to a semi fire at about 2:15 a.m. outside the Bimbo Bakeries in the 3400 block of East Washington Avenue.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2018 11:41:46 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

Nobody was injured Sunday afternoon in a fire that damaged the exterior of a home on Madison's Far West Side. The fire was reported at about 4:15 p.m. in the 2300 block of Mica Road, the Madison Fire Department said. Responding units could see smoke a block or two away from the single-family residence.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2018 8:20:52 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com-Wisconsin State Journal-Capital Times

On March 25, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 22, 8 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 20, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Two Kanawha County firefighters are dead and two remain hospitalized after an accident Saturday evening on the West Virginia Turnpike. A Pratt Volunteer Fire Department truck was responding to a triple fatality car crash when their truck crashed en route. Deputy Chief Rod Johnson spoke with the media Sunday afternoon to provide an update.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSAZ-TV NBC 3

Support your police and give a "secure retirement for all city employees," say signs on Kirkwood lawns urging a "yes" vote to change the city's retirement system. Support your firefighters and vote "no," say competing signs describing the proposal as unnecessary, permanent and coming at a higher cost.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Four Virginia Beach firefighters who were denied promotions last year are suing the city. They claim results of an annual captain’s exam were tainted when a battalion chief gave confidential test information to two firefighters. The lawsuit was filed last week in Circuit Court on behalf of longtime firefighters David Scherrer, Richard Irving, Alexander Wazlak and Mark Bayly, who were among 36 firefighters taking the exam last year.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot/HamptonRoads.com

Actor Ed Norton took to social media on Saturday to praise the FDNY’s bravery and his film crew’s quick thinking in the wake of a film set inferno that killed a firefighter in Harlem earlier this week. “I have never witnessed firsthand that kind of bravery,” Norton wrote in an Instagram post about the fire.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNBC-TV NBC New York

City firefighters from the Whitney Avenue firehouse were out fighting a fire on Nicoll Street Friday evening when the call came in that there was a fire at 350 Whitney Ave. — their firehouse. Many of the firefighters, who were just finishing on Nicoll Street, which was reported at 5:47 pm., rushed back and, accompanied by colleagues from other firehouses, fought the fire in their own firehouse, Fire Chief John A.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register

20 as Olympia fire chief — Larry Dibble, 65, will call it a career at the end of the month. He is the longest serving fire chief in the city’s history. The next fire chief will be current deputy fire chief Greg Wright. But Wright is set to retire, too, so he expects to serve 18 months in that role before a new chief is appointed by the Olympia city manager.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Olympian