Dany Cotton is used to receiving bad news in the small hours. As commissioner of the London fire brigade, she is one of three senior officers on the brigade’s rota who will answer a call alerting them to a major incident. Last Tuesday night it was Cotton’s turn on rota. She was six months into her job running the country’s largest fire service and had almost three decades as a firefighter under her belt.
- PUB DATE: 6/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Guardian

Two firefighters assigned to the city’s fire department heavy rescue truck are sent out several times a day on all kinds of calls, from helping out senior citizens injured in falls to victims suffering from heart attacks or are involved in a serious motor vehicle crashes. But the rescue truck soon won’t be going out on quite so many calls.
- PUB DATE: 6/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times

VIDEO: Cottage Grove firefighters are getting some help from the community this weekend. The volunteer fire department spent all weekend at Fireman's Park for the Cottage Grove Fireman's Festival's 86th year. All the money raised at the four-day festival goes to the fire department. Fire officials use the money to pay for recruiting new volunteer firefighters and buying new equipment to help the community.
- PUB DATE: 6/18/2017 4:49:59 PM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC

VIDEO: Milwaukee police said Sunday, June 18th a woman caught on camera setting fire to a home near 12th and Wright on Friday is now in custody. The case against the 39-year-old woman will be presented to the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office in the coming days. The family of the woman on Saturday urged her to turn herself in.
- PUB DATE: 6/18/2017 3:30:48 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

A Sunday morning fishing trip turned into a tense emergency rescue after a boat overturned in Port Washington. Fire crews responded to the city department’s first water rescue of the year, and it came with some challenges. Scores of dive crew members with Port Washington Fire and the Ozaukee County Sheriff’s Department worked to bring the boaters back to safety.
- PUB DATE: 6/18/2017 1:48:00 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

On June 16, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: Employees were cleared out of a Midwest Manufacturing building early Friday morning after a fire started inside. Township Fire responded to the scene at the Menard's complex on the 46-hundred block of Menard Drive in Eau Claire just before 2 a.m. Firefighters told us a dumpster was on fire inside the warehouse and a conveyor belt was smoking.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2017 7:42:57 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

VIDEO: After the massive high-rise fire in London that left 17 people dead and dozens in critical condition, the Eau Claire Fire Department is taking notice. News 18 spoke with the Eau Claire Fire Department on Thursday to find out what their protocol is and how they prepare for emergency situations.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2017 7:22:39 AM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire

VIDEO: Flight for Life was called out to the area near Erin Hills Golf Course after a blimp went down in an open field in the Town of Erin Thursday, June 15th, Washington County sheriff's officials said. Sheriff's officials said a deputy at a security post reported seeing the "lighter than air" aircraft on fire, rapidly descending around 11:15 a.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FOX 6 Now

In the 10 years since Charleston lost nine firefighters in the June 18, 2007, Sofa Super Store fire, the department has seen significant changes from the ground up and members say they are proud of the progress. Following the tragic fire, investigations conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and an independent review panel led by Gordon Routley—who wrote the Routley Report, laid the framework for changes that the department needed to consider.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

The branch of the Houston Fire Department responsible for ensuring building safety keeps inadequate records, does not examine buildings on a regular schedule and inflated its inspection numbers, all while blowing past its overtime budget, according to an audit released by the city controller's office Thursday.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle

The government’s building safety experts warned last year that the drive for greater energy efficiency meant more and more buildings are being wrapped in materials that could go up in flames. In a report compiled before the Grenfell Tower disaster on Wednesday, the Building Research Establishment, which works for the Department of Communities and Local Government on fire investigations, said attempts to innovate with insulation were leading to an “increase in the volume of potentially combustible materials being applied” to buildings.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Guardian

Barrow Neurological Institute unveiled a mobile treatment vehicle Wednesday stocked with emergency-room and communications equipment that will be used to provide faster intervention for stroke victims in the Phoenix area. Officials with Barrow, which is partnering with the Phoenix Fire Department in the effort, said their goal is to reduce deaths and long-term disabilities from strokes through quicker intervention.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com & KPNX-TV NBC 12 Phoenix

How do you improve the relationship between police, firefighters and the public? The city of Columbus is trying something new. People from the community are helping make the next hires in the police and fire department. The city has hired nine community evaluators; a diverse group from across the city.
- PUB DATE: 6/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCMH-TV NBC 4 Columbus

On June 15, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

Four Fond du Lac firefighters were sworn into different roles with the department Thursday morning. Nate Philipsky completed his 1 year probation to become a full fledged firefighter. Brian Vahsholtz was promoted to lieutenant. Lieutenant Jim Wamser is now a captain and Captain Jim Knowles becomes an assistant chief.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2017 7:02:57 PM - SOURCE: KFIZ

When the Ashippun Fire Department was created in 1917, the only equipment it had was an Obenchains Boyers chemical six-man hand pump with 150 feet of hose, some buckets and ladders. In the first half of the 20th century, it took the whole community to fight fires in Ashippun, said Fire Chief Deonne Eske.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2017 1:15:35 PM - SOURCE: Lake Country News

Kenosha aldermen are working to make open burning legal in city limits, despite strong opposition from the fire chief. An ordinance sponsored by Ald. Dan Prozanski would allow open burning under certain conditions. Prozanski, who represents District 14, said his constituents want the freedom to use outdoor fire pits and fireplaces on their property.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2017 6:29:29 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News

Two people tubing Wednesday afternoon on the Chippewa River were rescued by Eau Claire firefighters. The Fire Department was called at 12:25 p.m. on a report of two people in distress on flotation devices. Firefighters located the two people about 30 feet off the riverbank near UW-Eau Claire. Fire crews used throw ropes to bring the people to shore.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2017 2:18:04 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

Comstock Township Fire Chief Edward Switalski was hit and killed by a passing vehicle while responding to an “unknown accident” on eastbound I-94, Kalamazoo County authorities say. Oshtemo Township Fire Department Chief Mark Barnes said it all started with the Comstock Township Department of Fire & Rescue looking for two crashes on eastbound I-94 near mile marker 81 around 10:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOOD-TV NBC 8 Grand Rapids