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

Mayor Michael Becker says that his city has complied with an FBI subpoena asking for information on Margate city employees and prescription plans and that he is concerned about the possible disruption that may result from a wide-ranging grand jury investigation. In nearby Ventnor, meanwhile, Mayor Beth Holtzman said Monday her city is also cooperating, though she declined to say whether there had been any subpoena issued.
- PUB DATE: 7/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Philly.com

President Donald Trump jumped behind the wheel of an aerial ladder that was parked on the front lawn of the White House Monday morning during an event showing products made in America. "Where's the fire," Trump said gripping the wheel of the aerial made by Pierce MFG. "Where's the fire? We'll put it out fast," he quipped.
- PUB DATE: 7/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

"Houstonians deserve a strong fire department." A Houston firefighters group delivered a strong message Monday in front of city hall as they continue to fight for equal pay among firefighters. The Houston Professional Firefighters Association turned in a petition with more than 32,000 validated signatures to ask the City of Houston to put the equal pay ballot initiative on the November 2017 ballot.
- PUB DATE: 7/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTRK-TV ABC 13 Houston

Firefighters are at the scene of an explosion at a grain elevator in Brodhead. The Brodhead Fire Department said the explosion happened at 11:15 a.m. at Farm-City Elevator on County Road T. Crews are still on the scene and the cause is not known. Crews arrived on scene and asked for a ladder truck from the Monroe Fire Department, officials said.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2017 10:54:15 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison

On July 17, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A U-Haul user wasn't having a very good moving day on Saturday, getting the truck stuck in the doorway of an underground garage and tearing off a sprinkler head in the process. The incident happened at about 10:50 a.m. at an apartment building in the 700 block of Glenway Street, the Madison Fire Department said.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2017 7:39:30 PM - SOURCE: Madison

VIDEO: Milwaukee firefighters called in extra help to fight a blaze on the city’s south side Monday afternoon. The MFD responded to a house fire that spread to the home next door near the corner of Lincoln Avenue and 18th Street. Authorities have not yet determined what caused the fire, however, neighbors called the house where the fire started a “problem house” involved with drugs and prostitution.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2017 7:02:49 PM - SOURCE: Today's TMJ4