A longtime fire department volunteer and active community member will be remembered during a Line of Duty funeral service on Friday. David E. Carr, 62, a firefighter with the Brasher-Winthrop Fire Department, passed away Saturday morning after returning home from a massive fire at Curran Renewable Energy, 26 Trade Drive.
- PUB DATE: 11/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily News

The city will pay firefighters $5.9 million to settle multiple legal complaints regarding overtime and shift changes filed in recent years, according to the mayor’s office. The deal, which still needs to be approved by members of the Local 799 of International Association of Firefighters and judges in Rhode Island Superior and U.
- PUB DATE: 11/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Providence Journal

San Francisco Fire Department officials are investigating why worn tires kept a special strike team’s fire truck from rolling to fight the Wine Country blazes when an emergency call for help came in. Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said the engine captain at Station 9 on Jerrold Street in the Bayview cited the truck’s tread-poor tires as the reason for not joining four other San Francisco strike teams rushing to Santa Rosa to battle the deadly Tubbs Fire early Oct.
- PUB DATE: 11/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle

The White House released their official guide to first responder safety in cases of fentanyl exposure. The White House said in an announcement that the Fentanyl Safety Recommendations for First Responders “provides unified, scientific, evidence-based recommendations to first responders so they can protect themselves when the presence of fentanyl is suspected during the course of their daily activities such as responding to overdose calls and conducting traffic stops, arrests and searches.
- PUB DATE: 11/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

The fire chief and labor union president agree: Lincoln's 249-member firefighter force is stretched thin. Lincoln Fire and Rescue has added eight full-time firefighters since 1990. In the same period, the city's population has swelled by nearly 87,000 — equal to two Kearneys and a Papillion. Overtime for firefighters has surged, injuries have increased and response times have dragged as demand for their services continues to climb, said Ron Trouba, president of the Lincoln Firefighters Association.
- PUB DATE: 11/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lincoln Journal Star

Winners from four grade groups in the coloring contest held at the annual Pancake Breakfast in October were recently selected and given their prizes. There was a winner from each group. If the winner lived in Hudson, a fire truck and firefighters drove to their house and presented the prize. One winning family, not from Hudson, was asked to come to the station to receive their prize.
- PUB DATE: 11/6/2017 1:00:20 PM - SOURCE: Hudson Star-Observer

Five people were injured Friday in a single-vehicle crash on Madison's east side, officials said. The Madison Fire Department said crews responded to a report of a sports sedan that had crashed at about 5:30 p.m. in the 700 block of Meadowlark Drive. According to the report, a sports sedan was headed south on Meadowlark at a high rate of speed when the driver lost control while trying to round a curve at the bottom of a hill.
- PUB DATE: 11/6/2017 8:58:51 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

On November 5, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Two boys were rescued Sunday night after their boat sank in the Navarino Wildlife Area. At 5:15 p.m., the Shawano County Sheriff's Department was notified that two boys were knee deep in the water, according to the department. The boys were able to call 911 and used a flashlight to show their position in the water.
- PUB DATE: 11/6/2017 7:33:35 AM - SOURCE: Wausau Daily Herald

The gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history had in-laws who attended the church he targeted, the local sheriff said. "We know that his ex- in-laws or in-laws came to church here from time to time," Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt told CNN Monday. "They were not here yesterday. So we don't know why he actually showed up yesterday.
- PUB DATE: 11/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN

A beloved former fire chief and city councilman who spent his retirement dedicated to philanthropy died Saturday. Robert “Buddy” Bagley, 86, served 16 years as fire chief before he retired in 1986. He had been with the department for 35 years, according to his obituary, and was the city’s longest serving chief.
- PUB DATE: 11/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot/HamptonRoads.com

Lockland Firefighter Michael Allen said he could feel his heart beating in his chest when he heard a 10-month-old was trapped in an apartment fire. A mother had been cooking at her apartment on North Wayne Avenue Sunday when a fire started in the kitchen. She was able to get three of her children outside, but the smoke was too thick for her to get to her baby.
- PUB DATE: 11/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCPO-TV ABC 9 Cincinnati

VIDEO - A veteran firefighter is doing his part to help first responders come to terms with post-traumatic stress. In a video by Starbucks, 29-year veteran firefighter Mike Washington, with the Seattle Fire Department, said keeping stress in after difficult calls is like holding a “ticking time bomb.
- PUB DATE: 11/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

An appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of separate lawsuits by two Unified Fire Authority firefighters who alleged their constitutional rights were violated when a Cottonwood Heights police detective accessed a state database containing their prescription drug records. Assistant Fire Chief Marlon Jones and firefighter Ryan Pyle sued after Detective James Woods ran queries in 2013 on all 480 UFA employees after prescription drugs disappeared from some ambulances.
- PUB DATE: 11/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Salt Lake Tribune

Baraboo may pay a consultant $24,000 to implement a management plan for the Fire Department. On Thursday, the Baraboo Common Council’s Public Safety Committee voted 3-0 to recommend paying RW Management $4,000 per month for up to six months. The measure will go to the full Common Council. Earlier this year, the Waukesha firm analyzed the Fire Department and determined its needs to add daytime staff and move to a new facility.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2017 6:38:25 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

Madison firefighters responded to heavy flames at a residential fire on Wheeler road Sunday morning, officials sad. The home is in the 600 block of Wheeler Road. Firefighters said the owner was not home, which allowed the fire to spread. There was significant smoke and fire damage, officials said. One of the owner's dogs was rescued, but the second dog died.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2017 9:48:08 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

VIDEO: The Tomah Fire Department battled its third structure fire in the last two weeks on Friday, when it responded to a house fire on West Jackson Street around 2:00 in the afternoon. According to the department, upon arrival firefighters found heavy smoke coming from the home, but the heat of the fire caused them to back off and fight the fire from a defensive position.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2017 8:53:03 PM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 LaCrosse

The Wisconsin State Fire Inspector’s Association (WSFIA) recently named Sun Prairie Fire Chief Christopher Garrison as its 2017 Fire Chief of the Year. On Oct. 26, 2017 at the Annual Fire Prevention Professionals Conference in Green Bay, Garrison received the honor. The Fire Chief of the Year Award is a direct result of Garrison’s efforts to educate the public, and promote fire prevention at every opportunity.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2017 4:11:30 AM - SOURCE: Sun Prairie Star

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

VIDEO: Firefighters on Friday morning, November 3rd were called out to the scene of a fire on Milwaukee's south side. Crews responded to the area near 27th and Euclid around 1:30 a.m. The appears to have spread between two businesses. At this time, firefighters are surveying the damage at Nabil's Furniture store and at the former Home Town Market next door.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2017 5:09:51 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6