VIDEO: Extra ambulances were summoned to Lambeau Field Sunday because heat was affecting large numbers of fans at the Green Bay Packers-Cincinnati Bengals game. Authorities requested three additional ambulances about 4:45 p.m. The exact number of heat-related calls was not available as the game's second half began, though the volume of police radio traffic regarding heat issues was clearly higher than in recent memory.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2017 1:48:46 AM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com

As Buster Snow watched flames jump from his burning SUV to the back of his and his neighbor's adjoining home, the 42-year-old Wilmington man wondered where the fire department was. He remembers seeing ambulance workers and police officers watching the fire that afternoon, but Engine No. 3, the Wilmington Fire Department pumper engine stationed less than five blocks from his home, was nowhere in sight.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilmington News Journal (Delaware Online)

State overseers of the city have asked a a Superior Court judge to reconsider his shutdown of a move to lay off 50 city firefighters, saying the city can’t afford their salaries. The state filed its motion last week, asking Judge Julio Mendez to reconsider his late August ruling preventing the layoffs.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Press of Atlantic City

Don Oliver was just 2 years old when he had his first encounter with firefighters, but it was a pairing that lasted a lifetime. It all started when Oliver’s mother had the toddler stand near the Christmas tree for a New Year’s Eve photograph in his hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota. Oliver said he decided to imitate his dad by flicking one of the bulbs on the tree while his mother changed the film.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Wilson Times

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman said Friday she was “shocked” at another round of allegations of sex in a city firehouse because the issue was “very clearly addressed” earlier this year. Months after claims of sexual misconduct, city officials are investigating allegations that a firefighter violated department policy in August by having sex at a fire station.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal

VIDEO - A northern Michigan fire department may soon get some worldwide recognition. The city of Manistee Fire Department is the oldest operating firehouse in the state of Michigan. Firefighters and city officials have now applied to the Guinness World They hope to get recognized as the ‘Oldest Continuously Manned Fire Station' in the world.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGTU-TV Up North Live

VIDEO: A fire at a Milwaukee apartment has killed two children and injured an adult. Deputy Milwaukee Fire Chief David Votsis says firefighters were called to a unit at the Woodlands apartments on Milwaukee's northwest side just after 5 a.m. Sunday. The Milwaukee County medical examiner's office says two children - a 2-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy - were found dead in the fire.
- PUB DATE: 9/24/2017 10:42:48 PM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC

VIDEO: The La Crosse Fire Department invited the public to one of La Crosse's fire stations for their annual fire prevention open house on September 23. In promotion of fire prevention week, the event aims to teach people about fire safety precautions, as well as provide an opportunity for people to tour the station and meet La Crosse fire-fighters.
- PUB DATE: 9/24/2017 10:30:00 AM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 LaCrosse

On September 18, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Facing a tight budget, the Poynette-Dekorra-Lowville EMS Department is looking for ways to replace aging defibrillators and purchase a second power load cot. At a Poynette-Dekorra-Lowville Fire Commission meeting Sept. 5, EMS Director Carie Myers asked commission members to prioritize replacing two defibrillators that will be outdated in 2022.
- PUB DATE: 9/22/2017 2:24:53 AM - SOURCE: Poynette Press

Former Canandaigua Fire Chief Mark Marentette has filed a complaint against the City of Canandaigua, saying his constitutional right to a fair hearing was violated. The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages that include compensation for the loss of reputation and back and future pay. Marentette, who was terminated from his position in April, is also seeking reinstatement as Fire Chief.
- PUB DATE: 9/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: RochesterFirst.com

A fired East Greenwich firefighter testified Wednesday that he learned of his termination during an emotional late-night call from his brother. James Perry said he was in bed when his brother, William Perry, called his cellphone around 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 19. “He said, ‘I got an email you were terminated tonight,’” James Perry said.
- PUB DATE: 9/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Providence Journal

San Bernardino County Fire’s union has put undisclosed sums of money into the campaign opposing the city’s proposed half-cent sales tax for public safety, the Daily Press has learned. The contribution by Professional Firefighters Union, Local 935 — confirmed recently by the organization’s president and by the taxpayer group leading the anti-effort — forges a potentially awkward dynamic moving forward since the union represents one of two reported agency benefactors of the November ballot measure.
- PUB DATE: 9/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Press

Eight decades after a New York City firefighter's death, his family says the Fire Department needs to finally acknowledge his sacrifice — and they're ready to take their case to court. Firefighter Thomas O'Brien responded to a two-alarm blaze on W. 26th St. in October 1935. He returned to Engine Company 3, and was found dead in his bed at the W.
- PUB DATE: 9/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Daily News

Several escaped a burning apartment home Thursday morning, just three months after Springfield firefighters installed smoke alarms in the structure.  The smoke alarms sounded, notifying residents in two first-floor apartment of a fire that engulfed the second floor apartment Thursday morning. During a safety canvass in June, firefighters installed a new smoke alarm and replaced a dead battery in another alarm in that building.
- PUB DATE: 9/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse.com

VIDEO: Authorities say a Madison man accused of blowing up his home to cover up killing his wife gave conflicting statements to police before admitting he shot her. Steven Pirus was charged Thursday with first-degree intentional homicide and arson in the death of his wife, Lee Anne Pirus. He was also charged with four counts of felony mistreatment of animals and one misdemeanor charge of mistreating an animal.
- PUB DATE: 9/21/2017 10:43:29 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

On September 21, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: He spent years in a group home and foster care, but Noah Patrick never gave up on a dream. "I really love to help people," Patrick said. Patrick, 19, is a cadet training to be a Milwaukee firefighter. He's on a path to success despite a very difficult childhood. "The house was never clean. There was no food to eat.
- PUB DATE: 9/21/2017 3:11:53 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

VIDEO: A 10-year-old Milwaukee boy who died trying to save his little cousin from a house fire intentionally set by his stepfather will be posthumously honored by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, the organization announced this week. Kevin Little is one of 18 people who will be honored for extraordinary heroism.
- PUB DATE: 9/21/2017 3:11:46 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

On September 19, 8 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.