Last night's NBC News segment featured an in-depth look at firefighter occupational cancer. The segment featured an interview with a Boston firefighter who is battling blood cancer and Fire Commissioner Joseph Finn, who called cancer rates in the fire service an "epidemic." According to the segment, three active or just-retired firefighters are diagnosed with cancer each month.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

The end of a nearly yearlong dispute between Mayor Lloyd Winnecke's office and the police and fire departments was reached Monday with a six-figure settlement. City Council approved using $300,000 of income tax revenue to end the lawsuit between the unions and city over the changes to the 2017 health insurance plan the city offered employees.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Evansville Courier & Press

The motorist who first reported the Canyon Fire 2 said Monday, Oct. 23 that he described the Oct. 9 incident as a fire, not as smoke. The distinction matters because Orange County Fire Authority officials confirmed Monday that the dispatcher’s first response was to send a single fire engine with lights and sirens off, a deployment known as a low-priority “smoke check.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register

Cranston’s deputy fire chief is back on the job even as he faces criminal charges tied to an alleged fight with a lieutenant. Cranston spokesman Mark Schieldrop confirmed to Eyewitness News that Deputy Chief Paul Valletta has been taken off administrative leave, more than a month after the city placed him on paid leave following his arrest.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Providence 12

A man who allegedly placed a pipe bomb in the woods behind a fire station in Ramsey, Minn. on Monday afternoon is being held in the Anoka County jail, police said. Officers found the bomb behind the station on the 5600 block of NW. Alpine Drive after a witness called police to report a man placing the device in an area between Station No.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune

Wisconsin Dells police and firefighters recently added new equipment designed to help them “reach a child” during emergencies. Thanks to SSM Health and Madison-based non-profit REACH-A-Child, the city’s police and firefighters can offer a different kind of emergency response when they encounter children during such situations.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 7:59:26 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

In an emergency, training can make the difference between an effective response and utter chaos. Waupun’s emergency response personnel are preparing for the former with a mass casualty drill Wednesday evening. The location is not being disclosed in advance of the event. Waupun Fire Chief BJ DeMaa and Waupun Memorial Hospital director of outpatient services/ER Diane Posthuma met recently to discuss the drill and its implications for future emergency responses, either real or staged.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 6:38:25 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

VIDEO: Firefighters returned to the scene of a house fire near Lapham and Cesar Chavez in Milwaukee early Monday morning, more than 15 hours after they originally left the scene. The original two-alarm blaze spread to two apartment buildings Sunday afternoon and forced 17 people out of their residences.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 6:55:59 AM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

With shooting victims on the site of the Route 91 Harvest Festival and taking shelter in nearby hotels, police officers clustered around firefighters, protecting the paramedics as they worked to stabilize and move the wounded to safety. The agencies had practiced together for years on these rescue task forces, preparing for the possibility of a mass-casualty event like the Oct.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Las Vegas Sun

No one warned Mark Rine that while he was saving others, he was killing himself. The bad habits that would ensure the firefighter’s death sentence started with his very first fire in 2007. Rine was supposed to help set up the ladder, but he ignored his orders, grabbed the hose and charged into the burning two-story brick house.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gatehouse Projects - Columbus Dispatch

Internal reports that the Orange County Fire Authority bungled its initial response to the Canyon Fire 2 are prompting Orange County Supervisor Shawn Nelson to ask colleagues for an independent investigation of the fire that burned 9,200 acres and destroyed or damaged nearly 60 homes around Anaheim Hills.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register

VIDEO - New video shows the moment a crazed driver tried to steal a fire truck after plowing his box truck into several cars near Times Square Sunday. Video of the scuffle shows the truck driver, who can be seen wearing a green T-shirt, frantically climbing in the driver’s-side door of a fire engine on 10th Avenue and 43rd Street.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

Tim Butler, who has been St. Paul’s fire chief for a decade, announced Saturday he will step down from the department’s helm. Butler asked the mayor that he be allowed to continue working at the fire department by returning to a lesser role he used to have. Butler has faced controversy, particularly in recent weeks.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pioneer Press

An African-American firefighter with the Kansas City Fire Department has been awarded $356,694 in compensatory damages following a race discrimination suit against the city. Tarshish Jones, a firetruck driver, claimed the department uses discriminatory practices in determining who is promoted. When the suit was filed in 2015, Jones had been employed by the department for 17 years and had been eligible for captain for 12 of those years.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kansas City Star

A fire at a Spring Green used clothing store shut down state Highway 14 Saturday. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation reported that part of the highway was closed in both directions Saturday afternoon between highways 23 and 60. The fire was reported at Bargain Nook III at 11:06 a.m. The Spring Green Fire Department responded, along with firefighters from Lone Rock, Arena, Dodgeville and Richland Center.
- PUB DATE: 10/22/2017 7:47:55 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

The Madison Fire Department was called to a fire at a home in the 500 block of East Johnson Street just after four this afternoon. According to the Madison Fire Department, Passersby noticed a fire on the second floor balcony and called 911. Fire Engine 1 arrived in less than four minutes and found that a significant amount of flames were coming from the balcony.
- PUB DATE: 10/22/2017 1:32:19 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

On October 20, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

No one was injured during a Thursday fire at a Cornell manufacturing plant, Chief Dennis Klass of the Cornell Fire Department said. A fire was reported at Mule-Hide Manufacturing, 50 Bridge St., in Cornell at 9:29 a.m. Klass said the department arrived on scene and found the mill’s dryers on fire. The dryers are approximately 180-foot-long cylinders that dry paper being processed.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2017 4:24:09 AM - SOURCE: Chippewa Herald

A fire that broke out Thursday morning at a multiuse building on Eau Claire’s near west side devastated a local business and displaced a family of six. Firefighters arrived at 1619 Bellinger St. to find the building that houses Mai’s Food Catering and an apartment above it engulfed in black smoke and flames.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2017 2:46:05 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

Years after a fire burned 8,100 acres in Douglas and Bayfield counties, lawsuits continue between insurers as to who will cover the losses. The District III Court of Appeals ruled last week that a $2 million general liability policy Secura Mutual Insurance issued to a logging company at the center of the 2013 Germann Road fire would apply if the logger is found liable for the fire-related damages.
- PUB DATE: 10/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Duluth News Tribune