The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2016 shows a sharp difference in the number of women and men in law enforcement, fire and other related fields. Across the nation, about four percent of women are firefighters and about 14 percent in law enforcement are women. However, a program in Madison is working to even out those statistics.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2017 3:00:54 AM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

In an effort to increase local outreach in the Stateline Area to get job seekers interested in the fire service, the Beloit Fire Department is currently revamping its recruitment policies and youth outreach efforts. The department was asked by the Beloit Police and Fire Commission to review its policies for outreach in April.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2017 2:46:17 AM - SOURCE: Beloit Daily News

A firefighter has died while fighting a fire in the Lolo National Forest. According to a press release sent from Grayback Forestry, a 19-year-old and a Missoula resident was killed in the line while fighting a fire on the Seely Lake Ranger District. The Grayback Forestry employee was part of a 20-person attack crew.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KULR-TV NBC 8

In promotional brochures, a U.S. company boasted of the "stunning visual effect" its shimmering aluminum panels created in an NFL stadium, an Alaskan high school and a luxury hotel along Baltimore's Inner Harbor that "soars 33 stories into the air." Those same panels — Reynobond composite material with a polyethylene core — also were used in the Grenfell Tower apartment building in London.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAL-AM 1090 Baltimore

The village of Carpentersville is mourning the unexpected death Tuesday of Fire Battalion Chief Todd Middendorf. "He was basically one of the cornerstones of the department," Fire Chief John-Paul Schilling said. "He was well-loved within the entire region." Middendorf, 46, was a resident of Carpentersville and member of the local fire department for 23 years, starting as a part-timer in 1994 and moving to full time in 1997, Schilling said.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune

VIDEO - Miami-Dade firefighters were saved by one of their trucks during an emergency call on the Palmetto Expressway. Overnight, fire crews were called to assist in a hit and run accident in the southbound lanes of the highway between Okeechobee Road and NW 74th Street. Arriving crews used a fire engine to block off two lanes of traffic while they helped the injured driver.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS Miami

Firefighters sprayed Narcan up the nose of a 6-year-old boy this week, reviving the unconscious child from a suspected opioid poisoning — a traumatic event that, according to authorities, could be the youngest overdose victim ever in the Granite State’s biggest city. “The fact is that it’s a kid that could be our own kids’ age,” said Christopher Hickey, who oversees the Manchester Fire Department’s emergency medical services.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald

Sun Prairie city alders failed to vote on a compromise this week to take the first step in remodeling the Westside Community Service Building (WCSB) for 24/7 fire service on the west side. In two weeks, alders will decide when the project will be added to the Capital Improvement Plan and be placed into the city budget.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 3:25:14 AM - SOURCE: Sun Prairie Star

City firefighters kept busy Tuesday afternoon with a series of calls in close succession, including two structure fires. No injuries were reported in the fires, the first of which was reported at about 3:20 p.m. in the rear of 1218 N. Memorial Drive, and the second of which was reported at about 4:15 p.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 2:20:06 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

New details from fire officials paint the dangerous, and ultimately deadly, scenario at Marco Polo as changes are considered that could prevent a future disaster. Assistant chief Socrates Bratakos says the five-alarm fire that broke out on Friday, July 14, on the building’s 26th floor posed a major challenge for firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHON-TV FOX 2

It didn’t take long for some local firefighters to save a life, even though they had just finished their training. The three new hires made a life-saving rescue in their own fire station.Brock Trimmer, of Beloit, Sebastian Zlotkowski of Cleveland, and Ronnie Simone, of Warren, were all hired as Warren City firefighters earlier this year.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJW-TV MyFox Cleveland

An entire California town was evacuated on Tuesday evening due to a 25,000-acre wildfire that had already destroyed eight structures, officials said. California fire officials issued an evacuation order for the town of Mariposa, which has a population of about 2,000, on Tuesday as the wildfire threatened to burn some 1,500 homes and structures, according to fire officials.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News

A senior living complex where three people died and six were injured in a blaze this weekend did not have a fire alarm, according to the city’s Fire Department. Chesapeake Crossing Senior Community Apartments was not required to have such an alarm, said fire department spokesman Capt. Scott Saunders.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Virginian-Pilot

Some experienced volunteer firefighters have a tough time adjusting to technological advances that are being used on emergency vehicles, the chief of a rural department said Tuesday. Cumberland County’s Public Safety Task Force talked about computer software and how it is used by emergency workers at the task force’s meeting Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fayetteville Observer

VIDEO: Fire crews had to deal with the extreme heat while fighting a fire on La Crosse's south side Tuesday afternoon. The call for the fire at an apartment building on the corner of 8th and Division Streets came just a little after 4 p.m., with firefighters responding within 51 seconds. According to the La Crosse Fire Department, one person living in the building was taken to the hospital to be treated for burns.
- PUB DATE: 7/18/2017 8:32:36 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

A man authorities say vandalized and started a fire in a South Side Beltline office building in 2016 pleaded guilty to felony arson Tuesday. Dustin Palmer, 30, whose last listed address was in Reedsburg, pleaded guilty in Dane County Circuit Court to the arson of a South Side Madison office building on the evening of Oct.
- PUB DATE: 7/18/2017 7:37:28 PM - SOURCE: Madison

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

A Monday morning fire that rendered a long-time vacant Elk Mound home a total loss is considered suspicious, Chippewa Fire District officials said. Firefighters responded around 3:30 a.m. to the blaze at 2024 40th St., where they found the two-story structure engulfed in flames, according to a release from the fire district.
- PUB DATE: 7/18/2017 2:26:27 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

In a tradition as old as the service, firefighters from Lynden and around Whatcom County are standing vigil over the body of Lynden interim Fire Chief Robert Spinner, who died Friday of an apparent heart attack while on duty. It is the first line of duty death in the Lynden Fire Department’s 107-year history, according to a statement issued late Sunday, and the second on-duty firefighter death in Whatcom County – the other line of duty firefighter death was in March 1950, when Whatcom County Fire District 7’s Chief Clyde Eaton suffered fatal burns as a barrel of fuel exploded at a fire.
- PUB DATE: 7/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and the PulsePoint Foundation (PulsePoint) today announced a strategic partnership to reinforce the use of mobile phones and apps to connect nearby CPR-trained citizens and off-duty professional rescuers with people in cardiac arrest. The collaboration also endeavors to develop strategies for utilizing public safety data in new and innovative ways.
- PUB DATE: 7/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs