On February 5, 11 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Baraboo man charged with arson allegedly told police he lit a woman’s car on fire because he doesn’t like her. An officer was called to a Walnut Street address the night of Jan. 27 for report of someone lighting papers on fire in a vehicle. According to a criminal complaint, the officer saw a smoking vehicle with visible flames on the driver’s side of the interior.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2018 1:46:11 AM - SOURCE: Lacrosse Tribune

San Francisco has reached a $250,000 tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging a firefighter was wrongly blamed for the death of a teenage passenger in the Asiana Airlines crash. The lawsuit claimed firefighter Elyse Duckett became a “sacrificial lamb” for the San Francisco Fire Department after 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan died as first responders scrambled to rescue passengers and douse flames July 6, 2013.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Examiner

A Louisville man who served eight years for arson claims investigators manipulated him into making a false confession by providing him beer during the interrogation and threatening his girlfriend with prosecution. U.B. Thomas III was convicted of setting four apartment house fires in 2011, but a judge tossed out the conviction in March.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Louisville Courier-Journal

The proposed acquisition of a quint truck faced stiff opposition from firefighters, while Mayor Bob O’Dekirk said the city needs to do something about “obscene” amounts of overtime spent in the department. Firefighters at a City Council workshop meeting Monday said putting a quint, a dual-purpose truck, in downtown Station 1 would threaten public safety in the older section of the city.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Herald-News

Mary Marchone never imagined giving nearly 50 years to the fire service when she was hired as an office assistant for Montgomery County, MD, Fire Rescue in 1969. But over the course of nearly 50 years, that office assistant educated herself on fire safety and prevention and eventually became one of the most well regarded training specialists in the country.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

There’s no white cross on the side of GA 109 symbolizing a lost life. That’s what matters to Rick Rickerson. It all happened so quickly. A vehicle flips over and over on a desolate stretch of a Pike County highway. A woman is trapped. She’s not breathing. Rickerson witnesses the horrific accident and his instincts automatically kick in.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV 9 DC

VIDEO: One family is left without a home after a large fire north of Holmen Monday night. The call came in just after 7 p.m. for a house on fire on Moe Coulee Road off of County Highway V. Departments from Holmen, Onalaska and the Town of Farmington responded. Holmen Area fire officials say by the time they got to the scene, the home was engulfed in flames and was already a total loss, so they decided not to send firefighters inside the building.
- PUB DATE: 2/5/2018 8:34:29 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

The Merton Community Fire Department is interested in adding dorms to the firehouse at N67 W28343 Sussex Road, so more firefighters are available on call and reduce response times in emergencies. "Right now all of our volunteers are coming from nearby," said John Paral, interim chief of the Merton Community Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 2/5/2018 8:22:43 PM - SOURCE: Livinglakecountry

VIDEO: The family of a Lake Delton firefighter hit by a car while responding to a fatal crash is asking that drivers slow down and pay attention to emergency crews on the roads. Lake Delton firefighter Joe Sabol, 39, was in stable condition Monday after fighting a brain bleed in critical care all weekend.
- PUB DATE: 2/5/2018 4:36:42 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

PHOTO: Fire crews are trying to figure out how a fire started at a Pleasant Prairie home. It started Monday morning at a house on 94th Street and 43rd Avenue. Fire crews say the fire started in the basement before spreading to other parts of the home. No one was hurt.
- PUB DATE: 2/5/2018 1:47:24 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

On February 2, 17 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: Faced with a firefighter shortage, city officials are meeting Monday in Beloit to discuss potentially hiring eight new probationary firefighters and multiple fire officers and motor pump operators. A wave of retirements and the near-expiration of a federal grant have stretched the Beloit Fire Department thin, which has made some feel uneasy.
- PUB DATE: 2/5/2018 9:07:00 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

On February 4, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On February 2, 16 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On February 1, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

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

On February 2, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

On February 1, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A man was injured and a garage and truck were destroyed in a Sunday afternoon fire, according to Wind Lake Volunteer Fire Company Chief Rob Robins. The fire began just after 4 p.m., when an arc flash from a compressor ignited cleaner and gas in a detached garage at the corner of South Denoon Road and Hart Drive in Wind Lake, Robins said.
- PUB DATE: 2/5/2018 2:19:31 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times