The city's fire commissioner blasted construction workers for taking 90 minutes to report a fire that destroyed a six-story building in Dorchester last month and said city officials are working on new safety standards for buildings under construction -- particularly those with highly flammable wood frames.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald

On the stormy evening of Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, multiple lightning strikes ignited the roof of the Mount Pleasant Place retirement complex in Monroe, Ohio. Monroe Fire Department’s first responding crew acted with courage and expertise to save the lives of senior citizens trapped on the top floor, directly under the burning roof.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs

Richmond firefighters and police officers anticipating that long-promised raises would appear in their paychecks this week were told Tuesday that they may have to wait until September. They will still receive the additional money as back pay, but union officials say they’re worried that some employees may have been counting on receiving the raises as planned.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Richmond Times-Dispatch

One person is dead and seven others injured -- three of whom are in critical condition -- after the Fire Ball ride at the Ohio State Fair broke apart in mid-air Wednesday night, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. The deceased is an 18-year-old male, according to fire department officials. The Grant Medical Center in Columbus has admitted three patients, hospital spokesperson Mark Hopkins told ABC News.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News

A fire in an attached garage at a home on the city's Far East Side caused an estimated $150,000 in damage, with nobody hurt in the blaze. The fire was reported at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 900 block of Inwood Way, the Madison Fire Department said. "Several people called 911 after they noticed their neighbor's garage was on fire," said spokeswoman Bernadette Galvez.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 10:34:57 PM - SOURCE: Madison

A man suffered burns in Rock County after an appliance exploded Wednesday morning, officials said. The Clinton Police Department said first responders were called at 9:10 a.m. to a home in the 400 block of Highland Park for a report of an injured man and possible fire. Officers found a person with burn injuries from an explosion caused by a water heater, police said.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 10:10:21 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

Increased wildfire activity in the northwest and Canadian province of British Columbia has prompted a request to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources fire control program to assist in suppression and protection efforts. Three Type 6 fire engines (four-wheel drive truck carrying 270 plus gallons of water) staffed with three operators per unit, are headed to Lame Deer, Montana near the Cheyenne Indian Reservation and will be assisting in initial attack operations while local resources continue to be exhausted with steady fire activity.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 9:05:38 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin State Farmer

A fire that started in a garage caused $150,000 in damage to an east side home Tuesday afternoon. Firefighters were called to the home in the 900 block of Inwood Way around 5:15 p.m. Tuesday. According to the fire department, several people called 911 after they noticed their neighbor’s garage was on fire.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 5:01:35 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

The Holmen Area Fire District Association Board took immediate action last week to replace a non-functioning generator after the fire station lost power during the storms. Assistant Chief Bill Bulawa told the board during its regular July 20 meeting that the fire station was one of the buildings on a section of the power grid that lost power during the severe weather that hit the Coulee Region July 19 and 20.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 2:13:56 AM - SOURCE: Onalaska Holmen Courier Life

Each day, police and firefighters set out to keep their communities safe, and the response during a recent fire displayed the courage and unselfishness of the city's first responders. Several were honored during a recent City Council meeting for their heroic actions to save the lives of numerous people during a large apartment fire at the Lake in the Woods complex.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nwi.com

The IAFC Board of Directors has issued a call to action for fire service leaders to urge governors in their states to opt into FirstNet. “We urge IAFC members and state fire chiefs associations to make their voices heard and participate in the process to recommend to governors that they should allow FirstNet to build out the radio access network (RAN) in the state and to not opt-out and build out their own RANs,” the board said in a statement adopted July 24 in Charlotte, N.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs

A teenager came into the firehouse at 6500 Michigan Avenue on Monday night looking for a soda, and walked out with a paramedic’s purse and keys to a firefighter’s pickup. The burglary happened around 7:30 p.m. during a shift change as emergency medical crews were talking outside the station in the Carondelet neighborhood.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Concord Fire Chief Mark Cotreau will become the next fire chief in Rye, New Hampshire. Selectmen in the seacoast community approved a three-year contract July 24 paying Cotreau $83,200 annually, according to Rye Town Administrator Michael Magnant. His first day on the job is Sept. 11. “The two words we kept hearing were ‘integrity’ and ‘honesty,’” Magnant said of responses from people the town interviewed during a background check on Cotreau.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wickedlocal.com

The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and Pierce Manufacturing Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK) company, today announced the 2017 winners of the annual “IAFC Fire Chief of the Year” awards at Fire-Rescue International (FRI) in Charlotte, N.C. Career Fire Chief Marvin Riggins of the Macon-Bibb County Fire Department in Macon, Georgia and Volunteer Fire Chief Brian Wade of the North Lenoir Fire & Rescue Department in Kinston, N.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs

On July 25, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: After decades away, a piece of history returned to central Wisconsin Tuesday morning. Ellis Construction donated a 1936 fire truck to the Wausau Fire Department. "It was a little bitter sweet, but for us to be able to give it back to the city that it served for so many years is uniquely special for Ellis," said Andrew Halverson, executive vice president of Ellis Construction.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2017 4:43:46 PM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9-Wausau

A financial analysis shows the North Shore Fire Department would need a 2.5 percent increase from its seven North Shore communities to maintain staffing levels, service response time and operations at its five fire stations. FD staff has dropped 20 percent since 2004, but in that same time period, the emergency call volume has increased 150 percent.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2017 1:05:02 PM - SOURCE: North Shore Now

On July 24, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Considering how much waterfront Milwaukee has – between the lake, the rivers and the canals – it makes perfect sense that there's a history of fireboats here. According to the Wisconsin Historical Society, "The first fireboat was launched in 1889 and by the early 1900s four stations were in operation, two of which were positioned near the numerous highly-combustible structures lining the Menomonee and lower Milwaukee Rivers – the coal docks, hay and feed sheds, grain elevators and warehouses.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2017 7:48:03 AM - SOURCE: OnMilwaukee.com

Family, police, firefighters and others continued searching along the Rock River on Monday for Dakota R. Giese, the 21-year-old Janesville man who reportedly fell into the river Saturday. Police said Monday morning they were treating the incident as a missing-person case and asked for the public's help.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2017 7:09:40 AM - SOURCE: Janesville Gazette