Earlier this month managers at Columbus Sentry Market presented a check to Columbus Firemen’s Service Corp in the amount of $2,349.18 for the April Round-Up for a Cause program at Sentry. The Columbus Firemen’s Service Corp is a nonprofit organization that exists to provide various services to the Columbus Fire Department through a variety of fundraising activities.
- PUB DATE: 5/19/2017 7:13:50 AM - SOURCE: wisc news

Firefighters on Friday morning, May 19th responded to the scene of a vacant house fire on Milwaukee’s north side. The call came in around 2:30 a.m. It happened near 26th and Port Sunlight Way. According to officials, when crews arrived on scene there was fire going up the side of the building — and getting inside the home.
- PUB DATE: 5/19/2017 6:22:28 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

One firefighter is dead after a massive 4-alarm fire at a Northwest Side shopping center Thursday night, the San Antonio Fire Department said. Fire crews responded to the blaze in the 6700 block of Ingram Road about 9:12 p.m. Due to the time of day and there being a gym in the shopping center, crews performed a search and rescue to make sure no one was inside.
- PUB DATE: 5/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSAT-TV ABC 12 San Antonio

Oklahoma City Fire Chief G. Keith Bryant was named U.S. Fire Administrator Thursday. Bryant, who was named chief in 2005, was appointed to the the Department of Homeland Security by President Donald J. Trump. He will replace Dr. Denis Onieal, who has been acting U.S. Fire Administrator. Bryant started with the fire service as a U.
- PUB DATE: 5/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

Breaking from tradition can be difficult in many situations, even if it is for the sake of improvement. But a new tool that has been extensively researched and recently employed by the Loveland Fire Rescue Authority is reducing the danger local firefighters face and improving their results with battling flames.
- PUB DATE: 5/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Longmont Times-Call

A Dallas fire truck was involved in a crash Thursday morning while responding to a call for help, officials say. Dallas Fire-Rescue officials said the fire truck was responding to a call about a structure fire at about 11 a.m. when the driver slowed down due to a red light. As the fire truck driver began to move through the intersection of Jim Miller Road and R.
- PUB DATE: 5/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Dallas - Fort Worth

The city’s management of its vacant properties and communication between departments is under scrutiny after a fire battalion chief complained that little to nothing was done to secure an empty library building after a fire there in April and a second, larger blaze weeks later where a firefighter broke his ankle.
- PUB DATE: 5/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times

This isn’t your parents’ emergency medical service. This year’s National EMS Week comes amid intensifying discussions here in eastern Dane County about merging the Deer-Grove, Cambridge and Marshall EMS services. Talk of that was set to continue Thursday night, as a committee exploring the merger was expected to set a date for a community forum.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2017 4:16:49 PM - SOURCE: Cambridge News / Deerfield Independent

A recent audit of the Holmen Area Fire Department found that rebate funds distributed from the state to the three municipalities that support the department – Holland, Holmen and the town of Onalaska – haven’t been correctly paid to the HAFD. As a result, all three municipalities last week considered how to cover budget shortfalls.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2017 4:16:18 PM - SOURCE: Onalaska Holmen Courier Life

An audit of the Holmen Area Fire Department books has turned into a “fiasco” for the three municipalities that make up the fire district, according to one Holmen Village Board member. A discussion over reallocating special funds for the Holmen Area Fire Department became heated at the May 11 Holmen Village Board meeting.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2017 4:02:16 PM - SOURCE: Onalaska Holmen Courier Life

Fire damaged a basement in a single-family home Wednesday night. Neenah-Menasha Fire Rescue was called to the 100 block of Courtney Court about 10:25 p.m. Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire, which was confined to the basement. "There was some fire damage but more heavy smoke damage," said Assistant Chief Mike Sipin.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2017 6:44:05 AM - SOURCE: Oshkosh Northwestern

Ron Blomberg narrowly avoided the devastation Tuesday that claimed the life of his neighbor at Prairie Lake Estates mobile home park. Blomberg, 27, left his trailer home about 10 minutes before a tornado ripped through the grounds, destroying two-thirds of the park’s homes, at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2017 2:11:34 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

The Portage Fire Department is kicking off the summer fundraising drive with firetruck rides Saturday morning. “We’re giving rides to kids … and adults,” said Portage Fire Inspector Craig Ratz. “You’re never too old for a firetruck ride.” The department will be bringing engines 3, 6, and 8, along with squad 2 to the parking lot of Walmart where it will be offering official Portage Fire Department T-shirts and rides on one of the trucks for $15.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2017 1:44:03 AM - SOURCE: Portage Daily Register

The second time an Oakland fire crew rushed to a city-owned historic building to put out a blaze, Battalion Chief James Bowron nearly lost it. He and his fire crew had been at the site two weeks earlier, on April 8, to put out a fire on the first floor of the vacant building that squatters apparently had started.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle

VIDEO - An alert Cleveland EMS crew discovered three garbage trucks on fire just after 2:30 a.m. Thursday. The fire was burning at Republic Services on Jones Road just north of the intersection of Broadway and Harvard Avenues when the EMS crew saw flame and smoke from Broadway Avenue. The three trucks were spewing thick black smoke and a few explosions were seen and heard in the area.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEWS-TV IBS 5 Cleveland

During a brief 10 minute meeting on May 16, the Mesquite City Council cast a split vote to terminate Fire Chief Kash Christopher “without cause.” Three councilmen, David Ballweg, George Rapson and Brian Wursten, voted in favor of the action. Councilman Rich Green voted no and Councilman Geno Withelder voted to abstain from the proposal.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mesquite Local News

Mandy Gould has spent nearly 13 years as a volunteer firefighter in Caledon, Ont. – a sprawling municipality northwest of Toronto – following her father into a vocation that she aspired to since high school. For the past 11 years, Ms. Gould has also been a full-time firefighter in nearby Brampton, a suburban city of more than half a million.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Globe and Mail

For most, a mid-life crisis consists of buying a sports car, or burying yourself in some expensive new hobby. For Jeffrey Williams, his involved a change of career into the fire service. And moving into the fire service presents some unique challenges for him, seeing as he was born with only one hand.
- PUB DATE: 5/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona City Independent

VIDEO: Authorities say the victim who died Tuesday when a tornado destroyed a mobile home park in northwestern Wisconsin was a 46-year-old man. At least 25 other people were injured when a storm leveled the Prairie Lake Estate Mobile Park on State Highway 53 between Chetek and Cameron. The National Weather Service reported a touchdown in the area just after 5:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 5/17/2017 6:51:33 AM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com

A fire Tuesday afternoon sent two people to the hospital. Firefighters were called to 834 Goldenview Court at about 2 p.m. May 16 for a report of a fire with two people trapped inside, according to Western Lakes Fire District Chief Brad Bowen. Upon arrival, crews noticed heavy black smoke coming from the rear of the home, according to a news release from the Western Lakes Fire District.
- PUB DATE: 5/17/2017 1:49:26 AM - SOURCE: Lake Country News