One person was taken to a local hospital Tuesday evening after a fire broke out near downtown Sheboygan. The cause of the fire, inside a home at 713 N. 4th St., is still under investigation, but officials late Tuesday night estimated damages at about $120,000. The incident was reported shortly before 5:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2017 7:10:33 AM - SOURCE: Sheboygan Press

The cause of a Tuesday night house fire at 11959 N. Old Highway 26 in the town of Milton, has been ruled “undetermined and accidental,” said Pete Mory, deputy chief of the Milton Fire Department. Firefighters were dispatched at 7:05 p.m. when they found two adult female tenants and a dog outside the single-family, two-story wood structure, he said.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2017 6:58:57 AM - SOURCE: Janesville Gazette

VIDEO: Fire crews are looking into a fire that tore through a home early Wednesday. Crews responded at about 1:30 a.m. to a home on State Park Road, according to the Village of Harrison Fire and Rescue. Everyone inside the home made it out safely. "I heard some loud bangs, came down, looked out my door and saw the garage engulfed in flames," said Rick Burdick, a resident of the burned home.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2017 6:36:45 AM - SOURCE: WLUK-TV FOX 11

The size of a new north side Eau Claire fire station will depend on bid prices for building the structure, city officials said Tuesday. The Eau Claire City Council approved a resolution authorizing moving forward with design plans and seeking bids for a new station along Malden Avenue, just north of Birch Street.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2017 4:52:43 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

Members of Montgomery County Fire/EMS are mourning the loss of a longtime firefighter who died following his shift. Firefighter/Paramedic James "Dewon" Wells, 52, worked an eight-hour shift on May 5. Twice before he left the station around 4 p.m. he told colleagues he wasn't feel well, including suffering numbness to the mouth.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

Authorities are on the scene of a sanitary tanker fire on Dauphin Street just west of I-65. News 5 cameras captured the dramatic moments as a firefighter narrowly escaped injury. The video shows the firefighter approaching the truck, as he walks towards it a tire suddenly explodes. The blast sends him reeling as a small amount of debris blasts towards him.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKRG-TV News 5 Mobile

The 23 fire engines set for their Boston debut this year will be equipped with foam that can be powerfully effective in helping quash certain blazes and are intended to decrease the risk of cancer for city firefighters, officials said Tuesday. Fire Commissioner Joseph E. Finn said that foam will be used only on dumpster and vehicle blazes, which are most hazardous to firefighters’ health.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Globe

In response to hazing scandals resulting in lawsuits, FDNY Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro recently announced that he would meet in person with every fire officer on the New York City Fire Department, over 900 of them. Groups of officers would attend meetings at the Randall’s Island training facility.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

A Fairfax County supervisor says she’s “fit to be tied” over comments condoning bullying allegedly made by fire department captain. WUSA9 broke the story of a letter written by a parent of a fire recruit, one year after the suicide of Fairfax County paramedic Nicole Mittendorff, who was bullied online by people who appeared to be firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV 9 DC

The Riverside Fire District has announced that Kelly Hanink will be its new Fire Chief. Hanink had been serving as the Assistant Fire Chief for the Eden Prairie Fire Department in Minnesota. Hanink will take command of about 30 volunteers within the department. She will also manage the over $700,000 budget the department has.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2017 12:42:03 PM - SOURCE: WIZD-FM Rock 94.7

Firefighters on Tuesday morning, May 9th responded to the scene of a building fire on Milwaukee’ south side. Crews were called out to the area of 8th and Orchard shortly before 6 a.m. No additional details have been released — including the cause of the fire or the amount of damage sustained.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2017 6:59:28 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

The Texas House easily passed Houston's pension reform bill Monday, but not without making several changes friendly to firefighters, setting the stage for a reconciliation showdown between the upper and lower chambers. The House accepted four amendments to the bill the Senate passed last week before voting 112-28 to preliminarily approve Houston's reform measures.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

A Chicago Fire Department chief suffered a massive heart attack and died Sunday afternoon. Chief Michael V. Murphy, 56, was taking part in an aquatic event at Mount Carmel High School on the South Side with his 16-year-old son when he suffered a massive heart attack, according to a statement from the Chicago Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago

Two volunteer firefighters are set to go on trial Monday for the 2015 assault of a career firefighter outside a burning home near Hyattsville, Maryland. Jeffrey Miller and Christopher Kelly — both members of West Lanham Hills Volunteer Company 28 — were indicted on a charge of fighting with a career firefighter unit over who should go inside a house that was ablaze Dec.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOP-AM 1500 Washington

Annoyed with how much sick time firefighters use, the City Council on Monday night informally agreed to reduce the amount of overtime in the proposed 2017-18 budget from $631,000 to $570,000. Mayor Joseph M. Butler Jr. recommended cutting the fire department’s overtime by $61,000 after a lengthy discussion about sick time.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times

After a week of silence and speculation, former Sioux Falls Fire Chief Jim Sideras was arrested Monday, charged with possessing child pornography. State police and county deputies removed CDs, hard drives and computers from the fire chief's home last Tuesday, hours before his employment with the city was abruptly terminated.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Argus Leader

VIDEO - A Facebook Live tour of a Memphis fire truck is now under investigation. Two men saw the truck, hopped in, and streamed the whole thing on Facebook. Memphis Fire said the fire engine was never stolen, not even moved from the spot where it was parked on Monday afternoon near Lamar Avenue and Prescott.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMC-TV Action News5 Memphis

A bomb threat was found written on the wall of a bathroom at North Shore Middle School on Monday, May 8. Authorities received a call around 1:44 p.m. of the threat at the school, located at 800 North Shore Drive. Scanner traffic appeared to say the threat mentioned a bomb was to go off at 2 p.m., but authorities did not comment on exactly what the threat stated.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2017 7:18:50 PM - SOURCE: Livinglakecountry

A Merrill man accused of arson of another family's home is expected to avoid a jury trial and take a plea deal in July. 23-year-old David Ostrowski is accused of starting a fire that destroyed the house and endangered seven people. Only one person was burned that night back in October of 2015. Ostrowski was charged with five felonies - arson, recklessly endangering safety, burglary, injury by negligent handling of a weapon and bail jumping - for the fire at the corner of First and Hope streets.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2017 5:04:37 PM - SOURCE: WSAU-AM 550

VIDEO: Eau Claire firefighters battled a blaze at a home on East Madison Street Monday afternoon. Tony Biasi, with the Eau Claire Fire Department, said the call came in a little after 2:30 p.m. with reports that people were trapped on the second floor of that complex: "Prior to the fire department's arrival – or just as the fire department was arriving – some neighbors got a ladder and some contractors down the street that used their Bobcat with a bucket to rescue people off that second floor balcony out front.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2017 3:56:36 PM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire