Beginning Monday,July 3, the North Fond du Lac Fire Department will be providing ambulance transportation for patients being released from either a hospital to a nursing home or to another hospital for additional specialty care services. “While the department has received an increasing number of requests to provide non-emergency transports in Fond du Lac County, we have unfortunately had to turn down those requests in the past,” said Eric Butler, assistant fire chief.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2017 11:40:46 AM - SOURCE: Fond du Lac Reporter

VIDEO: The 37-year-old Sheboygan man arrested in an arson case involving racist graffiti was allegedly obsessed with the woman whose car was targeted in the attack last week, a man who knew him told police. Chee Moua Lee is facing multiple felony and misdemeanor charges after his arrest this week in connection with the June 21 vehicle fire.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2017 6:49:07 AM - SOURCE: Wausau Daily Herald

One Sun Prairie alder wants to delay expanding 24/7 fire service at a west side station because of high costs and few fires on that side of the city. While daytime firefighters will be staffed at the Westside Community Service Building (WCSB) starting in July, District 4 Alder and City Council President Al Guyant wants to delay a proposal calling for nighttime firefighters at that location by 2022.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2017 3:12:47 AM - SOURCE: Sun Prairie Star

Area emergency responders trained for a catastrophic motor-vehicle accident last weekend. The mock disaster, hosted by the Kickapoo Valley Rescue Squad, simulated a three-vehicle crash with multiple injuries. The three vehicles were placed at the corner of North Washington and York Street near the playground and softball diamond.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2017 2:57:40 AM - SOURCE: Vernon Broadcaster

VIDEO: An emergency official says one person was injured when a tornado touched down in western Wisconsin, damaging 25 to 30 homes and farm buildings. Gary Brown, emergency manager for Pierce County, says the person was in a barn when the storm hit and part of the building collapsed. The person was taken to a local hospital but no condition was available.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FOX 6 Now

The Houston Firefighters Union is suing the City of Houston as their dispute over a new contract drags on. Hundreds of frustrated firefighters also rallied outside City Hall on Wednesday. The lawsuit accuses the city of breaking a state law that directs cities to pay firefighters on par with what they’d make at a similar private sector job.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU-TV CBS 11 Houston

VIDEO - Four people, including two firefighters, were injured Wednesday morning in a violent crash involving an LAFD ambulance and a civilian vehicle in Pacoima, officials said. The collision occurred shortly before 11 a.m. in the 12000 block of Osborne Street, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: abclocal.go

With more than a hundred firefighters from across the state watching, Syracuse's fire chief Wednesday rejected a state union's decision to censure him. Firefighters from Buffalo, New York City, Syracuse and beyond lined up to watch Syracuse Fire Chief Paul Linnertz speak Wednesday morning during a news conference outside the South State Street fire station.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Syracuse Post-Standard & Syracuse.com

Reducing the amount of paid time off for Muskegon firefighters and cutting back retiree benefits will be the city's top priorities at the bargaining table now that nearly $700,000 in cuts have been approved. High overtime costs, prompted by the level of vacation and sick time, and skyrocketing pension and retiree health costs are the primary problems facing the department's budget, according to City Manager Frank Peterson.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MLive

Two months before 36 people died in the Ghost Ship fire, an Oakland Fire Department employee entered the warehouse and observed exposed electrical wiring, recommending tenants fix the hazard, according to an amended lawsuit filed Wednesday by attorneys representing victim families. The 179-page amended lawsuit adds the city of Oakland, Alameda County and state of California to a growing list of defendents, and alleges the agencies failed in their duties to shut down the crowded fire trap and its illegal parties.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times

On June 28, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On June 27, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On June 22, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On June 26, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On June 25, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The state’s public-safety unions have scored a potential win in their end-of-session push for a law that will make it easier for police officers and firefighters to get disability pensions that pay them two-thirds pay, tax-free for life. The Rhode Island House of Representatives on a 53-to-8 vote approved legislation to equate an “illness sustained while in the performance of duty” with an on-the-job injury so more firefighters can qualify for benefits they have, in some past cases, been denied.
- PUB DATE: 6/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Providence Journal

The City of Charleston, SC, approved plans to replace the current Fire Station 11 and build adjacent to the Charleston 9 memorial site. Residents wanted the station to be the neighborhood’s “shining light and a beacon of the community.” As the West Ashley area of Charleston grows, the city determined that the current Station 11 needed to be relocated to improve service delivery and found that the property adjacent to the memorial site—about a mile from the existing station, would help fill a service gap.
- PUB DATE: 6/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

The city’s fire chief announced Tuesday that he is closing one fire house and reducing staffing at another beginning this Saturday over concerns about fiscal year 2018 funding in the municipal budget. Fire Chief Dan Goonan said he is closing Station 9 at 575 Calef Road in Ward 9, effective Saturday, July 1.
- PUB DATE: 6/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Union Leader

A Providence firefighter has been fired for saying an African-American woman should “stop eating fried chicken” when he responded to a medical call earlier this year. Andre Ferro, a firefighter who has previously faced disciplinary action for violating the department’s sexual harassment policy, was terminated for making racially-insensitive comments by the city’s Fire Department Trial Board Tuesday, according to Public Safety Commissioner Steven Pare.
- PUB DATE: 6/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Providence 12

Former Assistant Fire Chief Jonathan Swarey says he resigned after what he called a heated meeting Monday morning between Whiteville city and fire officials. The decision prompted more than a dozen volunteer firefighters to follow in his footsteps. “I finally got to the point [Monday] and this weekend that, you know, I’m here to fight fires, here to do EMS work,” Swarey said.
- PUB DATE: 6/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBBJ-TV ABC 7