It's been nearly two months since Anchorage firefighter, Ben Schultz, was critically injured after falling off a ladder at AFD and Monday his family witnessed a long awaited moment. According to his father, Jeff Schultz, Ben spoke a few words Monday which are the first words he has spoken since his fall on June 5.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTUU-TV NBC 2 Anchorage

A Stop & Shop in Dobbs Ferry is under fire after being accused of not giving out water to firefighters battling a blaze across the street from the store. The firefighters were allegedly told they had to pay right away and couldn't come back after the fire was out to settle the tab. In a published letter by a former fire chief, he said the firefighters asked for several cases of water for which the store could later bill them.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News 12 Westchester

VIDEO - A near-tragedy avoided thanks to the quick actions of the Florence Fire Department on Sunday. A video shows a man and his dog trapped in an SUV as rushing water filled a creek bed. The man tells 11 News he was adjusting flow valves for irrigation ditches when the water hit. "I looked down and I had 6 inches of water on my feet, and I looked up and all I seen was logs and water coming at me," explained David Rooks.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KKTV-TV CBS 11 Colorado Springs

VIDEO: Rhinelander firefighters filled plenty of boots with cash and change in July. Tuesday, Newswatch 12 learned those firefighters brought in one of their highest totals ever. The fire department presented the Muscular Dystrophy Association with a check for $14,856. Firefighters spent several days working a busy Rhinelander intersection collecting money for the annual MDA campaign during Hodag Country Fest.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 10:21:10 PM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander-Wausau

On August 1, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Fire has caused an unknown amount of damage at an Oshkosh business. Investigators say the blaze at Bedding Specialists was caused by a torch that an asphalt company was using to clear weeds in the parking lot. The fire started at 12:23 pm Tuesday and was under control within ten minutes. Upon arrival, firefighters reported heavy smoke coming from the building's south side.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 7:11:12 PM - SOURCE: WNFL SPORT REDIO

One person was hurt in a laboratory at the UW-Madison Animal Science building Monday afternoon after a bottle of chemicals broke on the floor. The incident happened at about 1:40 p.m. on the 10th floor of the building on campus at 1675 Observatory Drive, the Madison Fire Department said. The victim reported eye irritation after a bottle containing chloroform and methanol was dropped on the floor.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 6:26:38 PM - SOURCE: Madison

Beaver Dam Police and Fire Commission unanimously approved purchase of a new rescue boat for the Beaver Dam Fire Department Tuesday night. Fire Chief Alan Mannel is recommending a 24-foot aluminum boat made by Kann Manufacturing with a low bid of $61,000. Mannel said in an email that the boat will have a semi-v bottom, trailer and a Mercury outboard motor.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 6:22:14 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

Investigators have concluded that the explosion and fire that killed a 24-year-old Greenfield man at an apartment complex was caused by a buildup of gasoline fumes near a running lawnmower. Andrew J. Knutson died in the explosion and fire in a maintenance shed at the Willowick Apartments, 7020 W. Southridge Drive, shortly before 10 a.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 7:10:39 AM - SOURCE: Greenfield West Allis NOW

A 24-year-old found at an area hospital with severe burns is believed to be behind an explosion and fire two weeks ago that destroyed a a Honda Ridgeline and a garage on the city's north side. According to a search warrant, a neighbor saw a man running from the fire at North 29th and West Center streets on July 17 while tearing off his two burning shirts.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 6:46:54 AM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9-Wausau

A compass that would direct firefighters through unfamiliar and treacherous burning buildings started as a seed of an idea thought up by veteran firefighter Jeff Dykes. In three years, the Eau Claire fire captain’s idea turned into his own business, Northern Star Fire, which gained international interest and propelled Dykes to the national stage, where today he is one of 100 small-business owners who will participate in a roundtable with President Donald Trump at the White House.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 2:14:28 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

A retired New Jersey firefighter will receive full honors as a line-of-duty death after succumbing to injuries he sustained 24 years earlier. Former Perth Amboy firefighter Richard W. Leonard, 70, died Sunday from complications of toxic smoke he inhaled while battling a fire on April 19, 1993. Leonard was operating a pumper on State Street in Perth Amboy during efforts to contain a blaze at a plastics recycling facility and spent hours taking in the smoke and fumes without any breathing equipment.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

Lack of training, command presence and a failure to appreciate an extremely hazardous situation severely sickened and almost killed a firefighter trying to save three utility workers who were overcome by toxic fumes in a drainage hole 15 feet beneath a Key Largo street in January. Those workers died, and Key Largo Volunteer Fire Department firefighter Leonardo Moreno almost became the fourth fatality as he, too, was immediately hit with a deadly mixture of high levels of hydrogen sulfide and carbon monoxide as he entered the manhole on Long Key Road in the Lake Surprise Estates subdivision the morning of Jan.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FlKeysnews.com

A compass that would direct firefighters through unfamiliar and treacherous burning buildings started as a seed of an idea thought up by veteran firefighter Jeff Dykes. In three years, the Eau Claire fire captain’s idea turned into his own business, Northern Star Fire, which gained international interest and propelled Dykes to the national stage, where today he is one of 100 small-business owners who will participate in a roundtable with President Donald Trump at the White House.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

The chief of the Hopkins Airport fire department was a no-show Monday at a pre-disciplinary hearing that could have led to his firing. For now, Chief Roosevelt Davis remains in charge of the department while an investigation into his conduct and bogus overtime payments to firefighters continues. The findings of overtime abuse were uncovered in an internal audit and it was Davis who signed off on the payments.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKYC-TV NBC 3 Cleveland

Firefighters in Bethesda, Maryland, are in court after an argument over one firefighter's Confederate flag license plate. A Montgomery County firefighter with 10 years service says he spoke out against racism after seeing a fellow firefighter had the flag affixed to the front of his pickup truck. Fellow firefighters say in court documents requesting protective orders that the firefighter, Idris Debruhl, threatened them.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Washington

Frank Doolittle leans against the rack of helmets, coats, coveralls and boots along the wall in the Summitville firehouse. The simple building sits along a flat stretch of Route 209 about eight miles south of Ellenville. Doolittle’s bald pate is offset by a bristly, brown beard that juts from his chin.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Middletown Times Herald-Record

VIDEO: A lightning strike may have started a fire that destroyed a garage Monday afternoon in the town of Hull. The fire was reported shortly before 4 p.m. near North Reserve Drive, a few miles north of Stevens Point. The garage was engulfed in flames and the roof had already collapsed by the time firefighters arrived on the scene, according to Hull Fire Chief Mark Kluck.
- PUB DATE: 7/31/2017 4:58:02 PM - SOURCE: Stevens Point Journal

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

On July 30, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.