Lodi and West Point municipalities examined the next steps for a Lodi Area Fire/Emergency Medical Services Department station at a joint meeting Aug. 21. All gathered to discuss proposed Fire and EMS 2018 budgets with the intent to pass them. They also discussed a Request for Proposal that solicits a firm to conduct a comprehensive review of long-term facility needs, as well as new site locations for a joint EMS and Fire station.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2017 1:41:50 AM - SOURCE: Lodi Enterprise

Milwaukee Fire Department is looking into what caused a house fire near 11th and Keefe Friday morning, September 1st. According to authorities, the fire happened around 1:00 a.m. The house suffered heavy damage on one side. Red Cross was at the scene but said the house looked vacant.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox6now.com

Firefighters had to swim to a fire hydrant while rescuing a family from a burning home. In a Washington Post video, a crew from the Houston Fire Department responded to a fully-involved house fire in a flooded neighborhood. The house was surrounded by three feet of water, according Senior Fire Captain Jay Dillon.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

There is new fallout from the fierce debate over Cleveland Browns players kneeling during the national anthem. Cleveland safety forces have backed out of a plan to hold a large flag on the field for the opening game. A dozen Browns players created a firestorm during a recent preseason game by not standing during the anthem.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJW-TV MyFox Cleveland

The Pismo Beach man who was killed Thursday morning in a collision on Highway 41 in Kings County was a Santa Maria-based U.S. Forest Service battalion chief. Gary Helming, 47, sustained fatal injuries in the collision, which occurred south of Highway 33, according to the Kings County Coroner’s Office and the California Highway Patrol.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Luis Obispo County Tribune

A frantic mother rang the doorbell of the Orlando Fire Department’s Station One about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. Her 26-day-old son was cradled in her arms, lifeless and blue after he’d stopped breathing moments before, OFD Lt. Tim Capps said. A firefighter took the baby from his mother, rushing him through the fire department’s largest station at 78 West Central Blvd.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orlando Sentinel

Firefighters had to swim to a fire hydrant while rescuing a family from a burning home. In a Washington Post video, a crew from the Houston Fire Department responded to a fully-involved house fire in a flooded neighborhood. The house was surrounded by three feet of water, according Senior Fire Captain Jay Dillon.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

Poor preparation by park crews and a massive failure of imagination allowed the November wildfire that began in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to grow, pick up speed and sweep through Gatlinburg and surrounding parts of Sevier County, leaving death and destruction in its wake, according to a federal review released Thursday.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Knoxville News Sentinel

Cuts in the Fire Department budget have resulted in layoffs for the town's 18 per-diem firefighters who will lose their jobs at the end of September. Town Manager Vic Hodgkins in an Aug. 30 letter to each per-diem firefighter, wrote that the layoffs were the result of voters' decision at the June 17 town meeting to cut the Fire Department budget by $145,629.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sun Journal

The Marshfield Area Pet Shelter has partnered with Marshfield Police Department and Marshfield Fire and Rescue Department to create a calendar to raise money and awareness. The calendar features 12 kittens posed with firefighter/paramedics and police officers at their departments. MAPS is working with local company Premier Printing to design and develop a calendar, which will be sold at MAPS’ Adoption Center in Marshfield Mall beginning in October.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2017 9:20:51 AM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

A power line lying across the roof of a burning garage, a faulty fire hydrant and a leaking propane cylinder inside the structure complicated Sheboygan firefighters’ efforts to control the Wednesday-evening blaze. Nobody was injured in the fire that caused an estimated $25,000 in damages to a detached garage on the 1800 block of North Seventh Street.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2017 8:35:41 AM - SOURCE: Sheboygan Press

Firefighters are asking the state's top law enforcement official to weigh in on a fire safety regulation the Walker administration says it can't enforce anymore. The Madison Fire Department has submitted a formal request to Attorney General Brad Schimel, asking him to support a regulation that required sprinklers in apartment buildings that have between three and 20 units.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2017 6:27:58 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Public Radio

Emergency responders in Chippewa and Eau Claire counties spent Wednesday searching for two people missing in separate incidents in the Chippewa River. By the end of the day, both searches came up empty. In Chippewa County, officials have been searching for 45-year-old Kyle Anderson, of Altoona, who is believed to have fallen out of a boat into the river near the Lake Wissota dam sometime after 3 p.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2017 2:14:30 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

Ten Harris County deputies were exposed to a 'non-toxic irritant' after a release of pressure from multiple small containers holding chemicals at the Arkema plant in Crosby. The incident was first reported by emergency officials as two explosions. Law enforcement later began referring to the situation as containers popping, spewing black smoke, and being on fire.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU-TV CBS 11 Houston

A Baltimore Fire captain was suspended and transferred from his post on Wednesday after giving a television interview about his engine being directed away from the scene of a house fire on Friday, a department spokesman said. Capt. John Parker, of Engine 31, which is housed in the 3100 block of Greenmount Avenue in Waverly, was transferred to Engine 6 in Oldtown, according to an internal Fire Department document obtained by The Baltimore Sun.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

A recent, but long overdue, external audit has discovered $6.2 million in a county bank account that the financially strapped East Contra Costa Fire District should have received as savings from staff reductions and fire station closures over the past three years. The revelation, coming after years of station closures, deep budget cuts and failed ballot measures to raise revenue, drew a strong response from state Assemblyman Jim Frazier, D-Oakley, who had been seeking to pass a bill in the Legislature to help the district stay afloat.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times

This is an immediate request for unused fire/rescue/EMS department or company t-shirts of any and all sizes to be distributed to Texas Firefighters (and their families) who have suffered property losses. The shirts will provide them with something new to wear after losing so much, and it also allows them to wear the logo of those departments, locals, associations and fire companies that were able to help.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FirefighterCloseCalls.com

There was never a doubt in Patti Valero's mind that she could overcome the loss of her leg and get back on the job. After all, the retiring Hillsborough County firefighter had grown accustomed to facing adversity throughout not only her career but her personal life as well. "I never cried," Valero said in a recent interview with Firehouse.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

On August 30, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On August 29, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.