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

On May 21, 8 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On May 20, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The Marshall Area EMS has done an about-face on a potential merger with the Cambridge EMS and Deer-Grove EMS. At a meeting May 18 of a three-way committee that has been eyeing a merger, Marshall Area EMS Director Scott Allain and Marshall EMS Commission member Dave Lenius reported that Marshall was stepping away from the process.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2017 1:59:38 AM - SOURCE: Waterloo / Marshall Courier

The need for a larger fire station was fairly obvious when Wheatland Volunteer Fire Department members met this week with town officials. There was barely room in the back of the station to set up a folding table for the meeting. "The building itself is structurally sound, but no longer fits our needs," Fire Chief Lou Denko said.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2017 1:42:22 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News

An inmate firefighter died due to injuries sustained while working on a fire line Wednesday, according to the California Department or Corrections Rehabilitation(CDCR). According to the CDCR, the inmate, 26-year-old Matthew Beck, died after a 120-foot-tall tree fell on him while he was working on a fire line in Humboldt County.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: krctv.com

The 2014 fatal crash of an air tanker fighting a forest fire in Yosemite National Park came just after the pilot was warned to avoid a tree to the right but then struck trees to the left, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report. Soon after the plane went down investigators came to believe its left wing probably struck a tree.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Mercury News

Chelsea firefighters wore body armor at an active shooter incident this week in what the department’s chief believes may have been the first time Massachusetts firefighters used the gear, which is typically worn by police SWAT teams. But it almost never happened. According to an e-mail provided by Fire Chief Leonard A.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Globe

A West Pierce firefighter is accused of stealing various prescription drugs from ambulances and replacing it with saline to support his addiction. The 42-year-old paramedic was arrested Thursday and booked into Pierce County Jail on suspicion of unlawful possession of a controlled substance. He is expected to appear in court Friday.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The News Tribune

The Alexandria Fire Department (AFD) announced the launch of a Mobile Integrated Health/Community Paramedic (MIH/CP) program. MIH/CP is a unique and evolving model of community-based health care, focusing on improving the lives of patients, lowering healthcare costs and using EMS providers as resources to solve healthcare problems within the community.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1.com

One person was hospitalized for an athsma attack after a gas leak Thursday, May 25, at Hudson High School. Students and staff were evacuated to neighboring St. Patrick's Catholic Church as part of safety protocols, according to a district email to parents. Hudson firefighters were on the scene, where the gas was turned off and the building was ventilated.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2017 7:56:45 PM - SOURCE: Rivertowns

VIDEO: The La Crosse Fire Department received a donation of a fuel tank car from BNSF Railway Thursday to use in training exercises to prepare for emergencies like a derailment. The fire department has worked with BNSF Railway for years, traveling to their facilities and conducting exercises. Now, they can do it right on Isle la Plume and in turn, reach out to other community fire departments to help them train for rail emergencies.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2017 4:46:47 PM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 LaCrosse

PHOTO: Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue Chief Peter O'Leary slid his head into a heavy, camouflage SWAT vest with the word "Police" emblazoned across the front. An officer handed him a long, black rifle. "I'm hungry for the hunt, here!" O'Leary joked once he was fully dressed. O'Leary made officers chuckle Thursday as he dressed in SWAT gear — the result of losing a friendly challenge between Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue and the Fond du Lac Police Department.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2017 12:56:58 PM - SOURCE: Fond du Lac Reporter

More than 100 firefighters from across Wisconsin driving almost 50 emergency vehicles gathered at Immanuel Lutheran Church this month to pay their final respects to one of their own. Richfield Fire Chief Brian Albright, who lived in Vesper, collapsed while on vacation in Florida on May 4. He was taken to a hospital, where he later died, according to the Richfield Fire Department website.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2017 7:45:37 AM - SOURCE: Marshfield News-Herald

A homeless man found inside a garbage truck early Wednesday morning in Green Bay has died. According to Green Bay Police Lt. David Paral, the incident was called in by the truck driver around 3:11 a.m. Wednesday. The Green Bay police and fire departments were dispatched to the corner of South Jefferson and Stuart streets.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2017 3:40:47 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

La Crosse's Fire Department will soon be under new leadership. The Fire Commission board this morning approved Ken Gilliam as the city's new Fire Chief. Gilliam comes from Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he was the department's Deputy Chief of Training. He also taught as the Director of Fire and Rescue Training at the Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV News 8

The Texas House sent Houston's pension reform package to the governor's desk Wednesday, marking what Mayor Sylvester Turner hopes is the beginning of the end of a 16-year fiscal crisis, and giving him a landmark achievement in his second year in office. Turner, who has made passing the reforms the centerpiece of his tenure, alternated between grins and gravitas Wednesday night.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse.com

Inman Fire Chief Chris Cothran said Tuesday the city council should begin thinking about funding a 24/7 fire department. At Monday’s budget work session, Cothran proposed $243,000 in new funding to pay for roughly 10 firefighters to cover two 12-hour shifts, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. He said the number of volunteer firefighters has dropped in recent years, jeopardizing quick response times to a fire.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: goupstate.com

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday took a page out of former Mayor Richard M. Daley’s playbook, creating a $3 million program to help up to 100 police officers, firefighters and paramedics purchase homes in “targeted” Chicago neighborhoods. Daley did the same thing in the early 1990’s with only mixed results.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times

First responders in Miami County have access to more of the overdose-reversing antidote naloxone than ever before after officials received 50 dosages last week from the state’s emergency stash of the drug. The Indiana State Department of Health last year set up emergency caches of naloxone kits at five sites around the state in the event first responders ran out of the drug and were unable to obtain it through normal means, according to ISDH Director of Public Affairs Jennifer O'Malley.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kokomo Tribune