VIDEO: The Chippewa County Sheriff's Office said a woman and a 17-year-old girl weren't hurt after their canoe capsized in Lake Wissota Sunday afternoon. In a press release, Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk said pair was canoeing in Lake Wissota near the shores of Lake Wissota State Park. He said their boat capsized due to strong winds and wave activity on the lake.
- PUB DATE: 6/26/2017 4:14:37 AM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire

VIDEO: One person is dead after crashing into a Rib Mountain pond. A South Area Fire and Emergency Response District official confirmed one man is dead after his car submerged into a retention pond in Rib Mountain. It happened at 7:13 p.m. Sunday night near the intersection of Phlox Lane and Lilac Avenue.
- PUB DATE: 6/26/2017 2:42:56 AM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

A basement fire early Sunday morning on the south side displaced a family from its home and caused an estimated $50,000 in damage, the Racine Fire Department has reported. The department said the fire was reported at 4125 Olive St. at 12:52 a.m. when the family returned from a trip to discover their house burning.
- PUB DATE: 6/26/2017 2:29:00 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

A Nara Visa volunteer firefighter died on Thursday after suffering burns trying to extinguish a fire that was more than seven miles long and three miles wide. John Cammack, 74, of Nara Visa, was severely burned after falling from a fire engine during a "burn over" Wednesday night, said Nara Visa Fire Chief Gary Girard.
- PUB DATE: 6/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Eastern New Mexico News

St. Louis firefighters had to rescue one of their own after he fell through a roof into flames in an attic Sunday morning. The fire captain sustained first and second-degree burns on his face and hands. He was recovering at a hospital Sunday, according to Capt. Garon Mosby, spokesman for the St. Louis Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 6/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A group of Arizona House lawmakers is launching an effort aimed at cutting the soaring costs to communities of police and fire pensions, with its leader warning that cities could end up declaring bankruptcy if legislators fail to act. The new committee announced by House Speaker J.D. Mesnard comes just over a year after 70 percent of voters approved changes to the state's public safety pension plan designed to return it to solvency in 20 years.
- PUB DATE: 6/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: U.S. News & Report

The city’s search for a full-time fire chief took a step backward this week. Because of a clerical error, the Civil Service Commission will conduct a second set of interviews with seven candidates for the position instead of moving forward with the three finalists selected earlier this month. According to the city attorney’s office, Columbus Human Resources Director Mike Oglevie sent a memo containing 13 of the 17 interview questions to six of the seven candidates prior to the June 6 interviews with the Civil Service Commission, leaving one candidate off the list of recipients.
- PUB DATE: 6/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Columbus Telegram

The city, county and a local fire district recently sued several major pharmaceutical companies and a medical distribution firm, charging them with damaging the local economy by promoting the use of opioid painkillers they knew to be dangerous and extremely addictive. The 52-page complaint was filed in Superior Court late last month by two private law firms on behalf of Stockton, San Joaquin County and the Montezuma Fire Protection District, which serves unincorporated portions of southeast Stockton.
- PUB DATE: 6/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Recordnet.com

VIDEO: Community members were invited to help celebrate the opening of a new fire station today. The Chippewa Falls Fire Department held an open house at the station located on Chippewa Crossing Boulevard. The event started with a dedication ceremony and included guided tours around the fire station.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2017 8:47:07 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

Six La Crosse families were displaced when a South Side apartment building caught fire early Thursday. The fire at 1113 Fourth St. S. was reported at 3:30 a.m., according to the La Crosse Fire Department. Firefighters arrived to find smoke coming from the first floor of the two-story building and extinguished the fire in the basement room where it started.
- PUB DATE: 6/23/2017 2:08:07 AM - SOURCE: Lacrosse Tribune

Tuesday night the majority of the Wills Point volunteer department walked off in solidarity with Chief Ed Leipply. Leipply's family says he is touched by the loyalty, but adds the decision to walk off was up to each of the volunteers. Hee never commanded or asked them to do so. Dylan Hatten says he's always wanted to serve his community.
- PUB DATE: 6/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU-TV CBS 11 Houston

Jeff Gillespie can't pinpoint exactly when blood stopped flowing to his brain. The veteran Poudre Fire Authority firefighter doesn't know exactly how long he stopped breathing, either. It's impossible to say precisely how long his world went black that November afternoon when he was essentially hanged during a training accident.
- PUB DATE: 6/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Coloradoan

Kevin Bell, the first Hartford firefighter killed in the line of duty in four decades, had alcohol and a primary substance found in marijuana in his system when he died fighting a fast-spreading house fire, a state toxicology report reviewed by The Courant reveals. But the seven-member panel convened by the city to investigate the death and problems within the fire department never received the toxicology results, according to Hartford Fire Marshal Roger Martin, who was chairman of the board of inquiry.
- PUB DATE: 6/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hartford Courant

A 4 percent raise is in store for the city’s emergency medical technicians and paramedics, the largest increase in its 45-year history, officials said Wednesday. Mayor Mike Duggan unveiled the three-year collective bargaining agreement amendment alongside Fire Commissioner Eric Jones and fire union officials outside St.
- PUB DATE: 6/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit News

After several delays to try and attract more FDNY candidates, the filing for the city’s upcoming firefighter exam has finally closed — with historic gains in the number of African-Americans, Asians, Latinos and women who applied. The FDNY had planned to close filing on April 25 for the highly competitive firefighter entrance exam that will be given in the fall.
- PUB DATE: 6/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

A 30-year-old Ellsworth man died Thursday, June 22 as a result of injuries he sustained in a head-on collision Wednesday, June 21. A news release from the Wisconsin State Patrol said Jason Hart succumbed to his injuries Thursday morning. Wisconsin State Patrol troopers responded to the scene of the crash at about 4:35 p.
- PUB DATE: 6/22/2017 6:26:43 PM - SOURCE: Rivertowns

A daring rescue near Miller Park Thursday, June 22nd. Neighbors save the lives of several people, including children, trapped in a house fire near 29th and Mount Vernon Avenue. The Milwaukee Fire Department responding to the scene shortly before 5:00 p.m. Neighbors ran to the home, where they saw the family trapped by flames and smoke on the third floor of the home — including an infant.
- PUB DATE: 6/22/2017 5:29:48 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

A fire near an electrical panel caused about $40,000 in damage to a Janesville home Wednesday night, officials said. The Janesville Fire Department was sent just after 11:30 p.m. to 103 Union St. for a report of smoke alarms sounding in the residence, according to a release. Firefighters found smoke coming from the eaves of the single-family two-story wood frame house, officials said.
- PUB DATE: 6/22/2017 2:51:51 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

A 24-year-old Greenfield man died after an explosion and fire in a maintenance shed at an apartment complex on Thursday morning, June 22nd. Firefighters were dispatched to the scene at the Willowick Apartments just before 10:00 a.m. When they arrived on the scene, they found the maintenance shed fully engulfed in flames — and a male victim lying outside the shed with extensive burns.
- PUB DATE: 6/22/2017 11:33:04 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

On June 17, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.