Firefighters at Engine Company 27 in Northeast D.C.'s Deanwood neighborhood are sounding the alarm about what they are calling dirty and deplorable conditions at their fire station. In the District, fire personnel work in 24-hour shifts and then have 72 hours off. During their work shift, these firefighters live, eat and sleep at the firehouse, and these conditions are nothing new to them and have been going on for years, they say.
- PUB DATE: 8/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: foxdc.com

On August 15, 8 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On August 14, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On August 12, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

An early morning fire Wednesday has destroyed the Danish Mill, a popular Washington Island bakery and restaurant. Firefighters and first responders are at the scene, 1934 Lobdell Point Road, according to Door County Dispatch Center. More information will be released later today. According to the Facebook page for the Danish Mill no one was at the bakery and everyone is safe.
- PUB DATE: 8/16/2017 6:41:23 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

A federal grant funding three full-time firefighter positions in the Beloit Fire Department will expire in April, and the department's ranks will grow smaller unless the city can provide the needed funding. The department is expected to exceed 6,000 emergency calls for service this year, with the need for trained staff greater than ever.
- PUB DATE: 8/16/2017 2:08:27 AM - SOURCE: Beloit Daily News

Fire crews shut down East Wisconsin Avenue Tuesday afternoon in response to a chemical leak at Appvion. It was necessary to shut down the road to access water hydrants needed to dilute sodium hydroxide that had leaked, said Appleton fire Battalion Chief Jeff Felauer. "It never was a danger to any citizens or the public," Felauer said.
- PUB DATE: 8/16/2017 2:07:45 AM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com

Property owners may see a break in insurance premiums because Augusta Fire Department has achieved an Insurance Services Office rating of 1-1X, the highest possible, Fire Chief Chris James announced Tuesday. “Augusta becomes one of only 18 communities across Georgia to achieve this top rating,” James said.
- PUB DATE: 8/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Augusta Chronicle

Firefighter union leaders on Monday accused Anne Arundel County of creating "dangerous situations" for firefighters and county residents because of staffing shortages in the fire department. In a press conference outside the Arundel Center in Annapolis, International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1563 president Joe Addivinola said firefighters arriving on the scene of blazes in Shady Side on Thursday and Deale on Saturday had to rely on help from bystanders to start fighting the fires before backup crews showed up.
- PUB DATE: 8/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Capital Gazette - Metered Site

This week marks 10 years since the devastating fire in Lower Manhattan that killed two of New York's Bravest. A decade ago, a fire sparked by a worker's cigarette turned the condemned former Deutsche Bank building into an inferno of toxic smoke and flames that killed two firefighters and injured more than 100.
- PUB DATE: 8/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wabc-tv

The two men who took down the boy who allegedly vandalized the Boston Holocaust memorial on Monday evening were an off-duty Boston firefighter and a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent, said the Boston Fire Department. According to the department’s spokesperson, Steve MacDonald, the pair was eating at the Union Oyster House when they heard the ordeal going on outside.
- PUB DATE: 8/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS Boston

A woman walking with her three young children in Central Park Tuesday morning was struck and pinned by a large tree. All four were taken to the hospital after the woman was freed around 10:10 a.m., the FDNY said. The family was treated at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center for non-life-threatening injuries, the NYPD said.
- PUB DATE: 8/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Newsday

Not every six-year-old gets a to ride in a fire truck on the occasion of her birthday, but not every six-year-old chooses the gifts Kelynn Gregerson chose for that special day. Gregerson asked everyone invited to her sixth birthday party Aug. 6 — her actual birthday was Aug. 3 — to bring a monetary donation for the Kilbourn Volunteer Fire Department, instead of a gift for her.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2017 7:03:03 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

VIDEO: Milwaukee is currently projecting a loss of 84 police officers and 75 firefighters under next years budget. But, they say they are actively working to reduce both of those numbers. Residents are invited to the city municipal building to go over the situation during a public budget hearing. Estimates show that the loss could reduce the fire department to meeting mandated response times 90% of the time.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2017 12:57:28 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Fitchburg firefighters said no one was hurt during a fire early Tuesday. Firefighters said a compressor for one of the machines used at a manufacturing plant for the Placon Corporation exploded Tuesday morning, causing a fire. The building's sprinklers were able to put the fire out before causing any real damage.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2017 8:54:53 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

On August 14, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: No one was injured Tuesday in an early-morning fire in the 200 block of Merritt Avenue. Oshkosh Fire Chief Tim Franz said authorities responded to a fire in a duplex at 1:51 a.m. About 80 percent of the roof and attic were burning upon their arrival. Five companies responded to the scene. The flames were as high as 20 feet, Franz said.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2017 8:19:34 AM - SOURCE: Oshkosh Northwestern

The city fire department Monday denied a petition to posthumously promote a Bronx EMT who was killed in the line of duty in March. An FDNY spokesperson said Yadira Arroyo was not on a civil service promotional list at the time she died, and no other "legal or administrative process" exists for her posthumous promotion.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY1.com

Firefighters responding to the Lufthansa hangar at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport on Monday morning walked into a wall of foam over their heads after a malfunction in the fire suppression system filled the building with foam and briefly trapped four people inside. "Apparently, they were working on the system when there was an error," Fire Chief Geoff Low said.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sun Journal

A DC firefighter who was allegedly assaulted while responding to a call has been accused of being intoxicated while on the job, according to officials. DC Fire and EMS officials said the firefighter was responding to a call Sunday afternoon for a 3-year-old girl who suffered an injury after falling from her bed in the 200 block of 37th Street, SE.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Foxdc.com