A teen investigators say stole a fire department vehicle is behind bars. Kanawha County Sheriff's deputies say Aubrey Turley III, 18, of Uneeda, is charged with grand larceny. Turley was arraigned Thursday afternoon by a Kanawha County Magistrate. According to a criminal complaint, Turley stole a pickup truck from the Alum Creek Volunteer Fire Department Thursday morning.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wsaz.com

Ordinary citizens are being called on to help save lives in Sarasota County with the aid of a smartphone app that notifies users when a person nearby has gone into cardiac arrest. The PulsePoint app, which can be downloaded onto a smartphone, shows users within a quarter-mile how to locate and use public-access Automated External Defibrillators and how to perform hands-only CPR.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Herald-Tribune

On February 15, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: A 31-year-old Milwaukee woman has been charged in the death of a child in a fire that happened Saturday, February 10. Quintella Owens has been charged with three counts of child neglect in the death of 1-year-old Quamyiia Owens. According to the criminal complaint, fire crews responded to the fire around 9:45 p.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2018 6:32:35 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

The damage estimate for the Feb. 14 Mt. Olympus maintenance building fire is $1.2 million. “We come up with the loss estimation by first looking at the size of the building and what it would cost, conservatively, to reconstruct,” said Delton Fire Chief Darren Jorgenson. “Then, we take a look at what contents were lost in the fire.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2018 12:35:43 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

Sandalwood has a nice smell when burned, but using too much can bring firefighters to your door. That's what happened Wednesday evening when the Madison Fire Department was called out to the 600 block of West Doty Street because there was smoke in the hallway of an apartment building. A full structure fire response was sent to the building, as firefighters went up to the fourth floor, where the smoke was reported to be coming from.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2018 9:08:32 AM - SOURCE: Madison

No one was injured in a business fire in Fort Atkinson on Thursday morning. Fort Atkinson Fire Chief Daryl Rausch said crews were called to On-Cor Frozen Foods Redi-Serve plant on Industrial Dive. Rausah said the fire originated in a fryer and made its way through the exhaust ducts. It was quickly contained.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2018 7:39:19 AM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

On February 12, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: A man in Bellevue was awaken by his working smoke detector after his house caught on fire Wednesday night. At around 11 p.m., Bellevue Fire and Rescue units responded to 2978 Tordeur Lane after a structure fire was reported. Fire and smoke was showing from the south side of the house. Fire units were able to control the fire in 20 minutes.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2018 6:27:04 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

An American nightmare unfolded Wednesday afternoon at a South Florida high school after police say an expelled teenager returned to campus and opened fire with an assault rifle, killing 17 and wounding 15 more in the worst school shooting in Florida history. Just before dismissal at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, thousands of students puzzled at the sound of a fire alarm were launched into a panic when gunfire punctuated the din.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times

A Pascoag volunteer firefighter who died Wednesday after being rushed from the scene of a chimney fire is being remembered as a generous, spirited man who was dedicated to helping others. Lt. Richard Jenks collapsed outside a home on Hill Road, Deputy Chief Keith Carter said, after tripping and falling inside.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Providence 12

The evolution of the fire service in the 40-plus years since the formation of the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) has been remarkable, and the new leadership at the organization and at the top of its National Fire Academy recognizes how much change has occurred and how much is yet to come for our nation's emergency responders.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

Former firefighter Tanja Vidovic should be reinstated to Tampa Fire Rescue, a U.S. District Court judge ruled Wednesday, nearly two years after she filed a federal lawsuit against the city and was fired the next day. She won her discrimination and retaliation case against the city on Dec. 7, when a jury awarded her $245,000 in damages.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tampa Tribune and TBO.com (Tampa Bay Online)

Lawyers representing the city of Cleveland asked a federal judge Wednesday to disqualify the legal team representing a former fire official who claims in a lawsuit that he was improperly passed over for promotion. The lawyers accused the Chandra Law Firm of violating the Ohio Rules of Professional Conduct for lawyers by improperly obtaining evidence for former Battalion Chief Sean DeCrane's lawsuit.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland Plain Dealer & Cleveland.com

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

VIDEO: Eau Claire Floral had special workers helping them with their Valentine's Day deliveries Wednesday. Dressed in their gear, off-duty firefighters with the Eau Claire Fire Department delivered every flower arrangement imaginable to sweethearts around the Chippewa Valley. The fire fighters told News 18 they enjoy seeing the reactions of recipients when they get their bouquet, and that celebrating the day of love is extra unique because their flower delivery job lets them show love as a fire station, to the Eau Claire community.
- PUB DATE: 2/14/2018 4:48:42 PM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire

VIDEO: Lt. Bill Gretzinger of the Grand Chute Fire Department has been named firefighter of the year by the Wisconsin State Firefighters Association. Gretzinger, 55, will accept the award March 3 at the association's annual conference in Middleton. "I feel very honored and, most importantly, very humbled," Gretzinger told USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin.
- PUB DATE: 2/14/2018 1:06:28 PM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com

On February 13, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A fire destroyed a maintenance building at the Mt. Olympus Theme Park in Wisconsin Dells early Wednesday morning, with nobody hurt in the blaze. This was the second major fire at a theme park in Wisconsin Dells in three weeks. On Jan. 25, fire destroyed a dormitory under construction at Wilderness Resort, with that fire ruled to be arson.
- PUB DATE: 2/14/2018 7:44:46 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin State Journal

Following the outcry from a few neighbors, the Mount Pleasant Village Board voted Monday night 5-1 to press the pause button on rezoning a plot of land on Emmertsen Road for an emergency medical service station for two weeks to get some questions answered. Village Trustee John Hewitt was the only one to vote against putting the project on hold.
- PUB DATE: 2/14/2018 2:17:56 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times