A drone and two search and rescue boats were deployed Tuesday along the Chippewa River in a search for a man missing since Saturday night, although police aren’t certain he entered the water. Brenden K. Felton, 25, was last seen Saturday evening in downtown Eau Claire, walking north on First Avenue from Lake Street, police Detective Lt.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2017 2:11:19 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

A retired Georgia fire chief was arrested for failing to remove his car while he rescued a woman from a crash, according to a traffic incident report from the Georgia State Patrol. Retired Griffin Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief Rick Rickerson parked his Toyota Tundra on the shoulder of a highway in Pike County on Oct.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSB AM-750 & FM-95.5

Orange County supervisors said Tuesday they plan to launch an independent investigation of the Fire Authority’s response to the Canyon 2 Fire, suggesting the initial reaction by first responders might have allowed the blaze to grow big enough to consume 9,200 acres and destroy 78 structures. “(The response) took something that very well may have been limited, to a total catastrophe,” said Supervisor Shawn Nelson.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register

The Peoria Department could be down a truck and 11 firefighters as a way to ease the city’s budget woes. Union leaders say that would compromise the safety of both residents within the River City and the 195 firefighters employed by the city. Instead of cutting, Ryan Brady, the head of the local union, wants the city to maintain the status quo: no additional money but no permanent cuts.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Peoria Journal Star

In a letter to the editor, the president of an Ohio-based PPE manufacturer is refuting claims that firefighter turnout gear may be hazardous for those donning it for protection. LION president Stephen Schwartz sent the letter to the editor of the Columbus Dispatch, which published an article entitled "Firefighters' gear may be hazardous" on Oct.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

A group of city firefighters will skip a ceremony for their colleagues this week, claiming that it’s hypocritical for the mayor to want to congratulate them after expressing such critical views of their union. In an email, Battalion Chief Tucker Wiley wrote that the 16 members of the D platoon have decided not to attend the fire department’s annual awards ceremony on Thursday because of the stance that Mayor Joseph M.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times

VIDEO: About 80 firefighters battled a two-alarm fire Tuesday night on Milwaukee's northwest side. Video from News Chopper 12 first showed a lot of smoke and then flames coming through the roof. Firefighters were called just before 6 p.m. to Appleton Avenue and 75th Street. They remained at the scene several hours to put out hot spots and make sure the fire didn't spread to the restaurants in the strip of businesses.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 8:54:40 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

On October 28, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Frank Fowlston was known to work as many as 100 hours a week. That may be why his son, Frank Fowlston Jr., remembers his father as one of the "hardest working men" in his life. Fowlston, 60, died Monday morning in a fire at his home on 108 County Route 21 in Plymouth, according to Fowlston Jr. Fowlston was the Chief of the Plymouth Volunteer Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin

The state's highest court won't let homeowners burned out by the Yarnell Hill fire sue the state for negligence. And that, according to an attorney for those affected, has bad implications for others who own property throughout the state. Without comment, the Arizona Supreme Court has spurned a request by the lawyers for those who lost buildings in the 2013 blaze that they should be able to make their case to a jury that the state, which was trying to contain the wildfire that started on public lands, also had a duty to protect their property.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Daily Sun

Thirty-four states in the U.S. have passed legislation recognizing that firefighters face an elevated risk for some types of cancers and offering varying levels of death benefits to surviving family, with a few even providing for disability payments to affected members who become too ill to continue working.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Smith Southwest Times Record

Washington, D.C., joined other area jurisdictions in using a potentially life-saving app that alerts people who know CPR to the location of people suffering heart attacks. People who have the PulsePoint app on their phones are alerted to 911 calls for cardiac arrest within a quarter mile of their location when they are in a city or county that uses the app.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Washington

On Saturday, the people coming up to Jeffersonville's firefighters at the Save the Fieldhouse Craft Bazaar weren't grimly bringing up the opioid crisis or devastating fires. Instead, they were smiling and laughing with the city employees. The cause of their joy, said fire Sgt. Justin Ames, was a lighthearted prank war between Jeffersonville's fire and police departments that started the Tuesday before and soon became a local sensation.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Jeffersonville Evening News & New Albany Tribune

VIDEO: Firefighters on Monday night, October 30th were called out to the scene of a fire at Charter Steel -- located near Port Washington and Glen Oak Road in Mequon. The call came in around 9:15 p.m. When crews arrived on scene, flames were shooting out of the roof. Authorities say the fire was so intense, crews had to fight it from the outside.
- PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 11:37:03 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

A fire in a laboratory hood system brought Madison firefighters and the hazardous materials team to a North Side company Sunday evening, with nobody injured in the blaze. The fire was reported at about 6:35 p.m. at Covance Laboratories, 3301 Kinsman Boulevard, the Madison Fire Department said. "It is believed a spark from within a work station ignited some flammable chemicals, causing a chain reaction that results in a fire large enough to trigger the lab's automatic fire sprinkler system," said MFD spokeswoman Cynthia Schuster.
- PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 8:20:48 PM - SOURCE: Madison

A woman and four children were very fortunate to escape carbon monoxide poisoning in the woman’s Rice Lake home over the weekend, according to Lt. Doug Ripplinger of the Rice Lake Fire Department. The Fire Department responded Sunday just after 9:30 a.m. to 1025 Linden Avenue for a carbon monoxide call after a Barron County sheriff’s dispatcher took a call from the homeowner, Cheryl Grove, reporting that one of the children, a 4-year-old boy, was feeling dizzy and vomiting.
- PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 3:31:00 PM - SOURCE: Rice Lake Chronotype

On October 28, 8 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On October 26, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: A man who thought his house was on fire drove to a fire station and pulled an alarm to get firefighters' attention. Wisconsin Rapids firefighters at Station 1, 1511 12th St. S, didn't know what was happening when the station's fire alarm went off at 2:54 a.m. Monday, Fire Capt. Bob Barteck said.
- PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 1:20:48 PM - SOURCE: Oshkosh Northwestern

Mark Pierce, who retired from the South Shore Fire Department in April, received Fire Inspector of the Year honors Thursday night from the Wisconsin State Fire Inspectors Association at the organization’s annual conference, held last week at the Radisson Conference Center near Green Bay. Pierce had a 37-year career with the South Shore Fire Department and its predecessor, the Mount Pleasant Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 7:14:37 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times