On August 5, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

On August 3, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On August 6, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On August 4, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Sun Prairie alders have committed to remodeling the Westside Community Service Building (WCSB) to accommodate a west side fire station and other public safety department needs, as part of the city’s 2018-22 Capital Improvement Plan. The Sun Prairie City Council’s Committee of the Whole voted Aug. 1 to put a $1.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2017 3:11:30 AM - SOURCE: Sun Prairie Star

Oklahoma City's former fire chief has been sworn in as United States Fire Administrator. Keith Bryant was sworn in August 4 in the special ceremony at the Oklahoma City National Memorial by Federal Judge Timothy DeGiusti. Bryant will be responsible for leading fire and EMS services on the national level under the Trump administration.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOKH-TV FOX25

Twelve people, including one firefighter, were injured Sunday morning after a flammable liquid leaked from a shipping container in the Port of Long Beach, officials said. The spill of the unidentified chemical from the 6,000-gallon container was reported shortly before 9:30 a.m., a spokesperson for the Long Beach Fire Department said.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: abclocal.go

A city firefighter who resigned after hanging up on a 911 caller attempting to save a wounded friend has filed a lawsuit alleging he was terminated days into a new job with the Bernalillo County Fire Department when a commissioner expressed concern over his hiring. Matthew Sanchez was a 10-year veteran of the Albuquerque Fire Department when he fielded a call June 26, 2015, from a frantic teenage girl attempting to render aid to Jaydon Chavez-Silver.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Albuquerque Journal

For 3 1/2 hours on July 18, when somebody called 911 in Cincinnati, they couldn't reach a dispatcher. Police, firefighters and paramedics don't know how many people needed help but didn't get it. It was the worst failure in years for the city's 911 emergency system. But it wasn't the only one. Since the middle of 2016, the system that residents count on to get help quickly for life and death emergencies has suffered a series of blackouts and breakdowns.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cincinnati Enquirer & Cincinnati.com

Firefighters are always looking out for each other, even if they haven’t answered an alarm in more than three decades. A 90-year-old retired FDNY firefighter who had been missing for 36 hours was safely returned home early Saturday after a keen-eyed smoke eater — 63-years his junior — saw him wandering down a Bronx street.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

Firefighters and national chemical safety groups are praising Maine's new law banning flame retardants in furniture. Maine lawmakers this week overrode Republican Gov. Paul LePage's veto of a law that supporters said would reduce firefighters' exposure to carcinogens. Starting in 2019, a person can't sell upholstered furniture whose materials contain more than one percent of a flame-retardant chemical.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MainePublic.org

A fire damaged a building early Sunday on Winnebago County GG. Winnebago County Sheriff's Lt. Jeff Meyer said police responded to reports of a man screaming and flagging down motorists just before 1 a.m. near Green Valley Road and County GG. When they arrived, authorities found a home on fire in the 2500 block of County Road GG, Meyer said.
- PUB DATE: 8/6/2017 9:41:27 AM - SOURCE: Oshkosh Northwestern

Hundreds showed up to fire station five today in Madison for the team's fourth annual Firefighter Fun Day. Organizers say it's a chance for first responders to meet and interact with the people they serve everyday. The firehouse had lots of things for people and their families to do. The station gave tours, showed off their fire trucks and let people get a look inside their ambulances.
- PUB DATE: 8/6/2017 6:20:17 AM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC

A possible blown transformer sparked a fire on Milwaukee’s northwest side early Friday, August 4th. Milwaukee firefighters were called to the garage fire near 89th and Thurston. Nobody was hurt. Milwaukee police and firefighters are investigating this incident.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 3:43:58 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

The rising misuse of opioids in Rock County has been labeled an epidemic by local health officials, and multiple groups have supported ways to combat the problem through state and federal legislative changes. Rock County officials are looking for ways to provide greater treatment access and an increase in overall funding to combat opioid abuse.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 3:19:15 AM - SOURCE: Beloit Daily News

Flight for Life was called Thursday to a crash involving two semitrailers and two smaller vehicles near the intersection of highways 31 and KR. Authorities responded just after 11:30 a.m. to the crash, which occurred at the railroad tracks west of the intersection of highways 31 and KR, in the 6500 block of Highway KR (also known as County Line Road and 1st Street).
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 2:24:03 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

The Rhinelander Fire Department made a total of 1,568 ambulance calls for service in 2016, resulting in bills totaling $582,761.26 sent out to either the persons treated, their insurance carriers or Medicaid and Medicare, the city's public safety committee learned Tuesday. Rhinelander fire chief Terry Williams also presented the committee with the breakdown by payor for those runs, as well as some other interesting statistics regarding medical runs his department made last year.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 1:57:27 AM - SOURCE: Northwoods River News

Houston firefighters are accusing Mayor Sylvester Turner of standing between them and a voter-approved pay raise by failing to ensure a petition they submitted last month is certified in time to appear on the November ballot. Turner rejected any suggestion that he has involved himself in the City Secretary's effort to verify their petition, and his office on Thursday said an offer by the fire union to cover any staffing costs needed to count their signatures is being examined as a possible attempt to improperly influence a public official.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle

The turf war is back on between the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and the Orange County Fire Authority over whose helicopters should respond to rescue calls. A proposed agreement in which both agencies would share rescue calls was pulled from next week’s Board of Supervisors agenda because of opposition from fire officials and city council members in Santa Ana, Tustin and Yorba Linda.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register

PHOTO - Sometimes, when a tree falls in the woods, someone is there to see it. In the case of a Richmond volunteer firefighter, he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Fortunately, the 45-year-old Richmond resident, a 13-year veteran of the department, escaped serious injury after a large branch suddenly broke off of a tree along the north side of Division Road at about 7:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Voice