Fire crews were called to a wildfire at the Navarino State Wildlife Area Sunday. According to the Bonduel Fire Chief, at least 19 acres were burned. Nobody was hurt and the cause of the blaze is unknown. The DNR is leading an investigation.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2017 3:28:28 AM - SOURCE: WLUK TV Fox 11

A family of three safely escaped a house fire this morning in Madison. It happened in the 800 block of Northland Drive after a person inside a home saw smoke coming from the basement. Firefighters saw smoke when they arrived on scene and began flowing water into the basement window, then put out the fire.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2017 3:07:52 AM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

Emergency radio recordings show that helicopter pilots with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and the Orange County Fire Authority bickered, and that sheriff pilots ignored a direct order to “stand down,” during a pair of rescues in Laguna Beach and Orange on Saturday, April 29, revealing an escalating battle between the two agencies over helicopter-related emergencies and who responds to them.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register

For the first time in the FDNY’s 150-year history, more women and black, Latino and Asian applicants have filed for the upcoming firefighter exam than white men. The latest numbers mark a significant change for the department — which has been the city’s least diverse agency for decades, despite also being one of its largest with 10,000 members.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

Diana Matty joined West Palm Beach Fire Rescue fresh out of high school, in October 1994. She was 18. Work hard and someday you’ll be chief, they told her. “I took that to heart. I’ve been a hard worker all of my career,” Matty said. They made good on their promise Tuesday at 5 p.m. — on an interim basis, anyway — when City Administrator Jeff Green called to tell Asst.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Palm Beach Post

Two years before 36 partygoers died in the Ghost Ship warehouse inferno, Oakland firefighters toured the cluttered firetrap, even dancing in the same second-story performance space where the victims would huddle in their final moments, according to witnesses and documents. The visits started Sept. 26, 2014, a Friday, when firefighters extinguished a couch fire outside the warehouse artists’ collective on 31st Avenue before touring the eclectic interior, people who saw them inside the building said.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times

PHOTO/VIDEO - Five people were injured when a Hudson-Bergen Light Rail train crashed into a fire truck and derailed in Jersey City on Friday evening, fire officials said. Four firefighters and the train's operator suffered minor injuries in the collision near Washington Boulevard and Sixth Street, officials said.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC New York

Officials with the Milwaukee Fire Department are investigating two separate fires that happened Sunday, May 7th. The first happened around 10:30 a.m. at a home near Humboldt and Concordia. This was a porch fire that extended to the home’s attic. Everyone in the home was able to get out safely. Three adults were being assisted by the American Red Cross after this fire, which was brought under control within about 20 minutes.
- PUB DATE: 5/7/2017 12:52:53 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

VIDEO: The Black River Falls Fire Department says no one is injured following a structure fire in the Township of Irving Saturday afternoon. According to the department, it received a call around 2:30 p.m. for a fire on Nichols Road. Upon arrival, crews found a garage fully engulfed in flames. A nearby home also sustained fire and heat damage.
- PUB DATE: 5/7/2017 9:28:50 AM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 LaCrosse

VIDEO: It's a call Milwaukee Firefighters are seeing more than ever before: A car engulfed in flames, abandoned on a quiet road or in a parking lot. Their first concern is putting out the flames. Their second, figuring out how the fire started. "What we're trying to do is determine whether or not the car fires that we do see in the city of Milwaukee are accidental, or whether they're arson," says Captain Schuyler Belott.
- PUB DATE: 5/7/2017 3:39:50 AM - SOURCE: Telemundo Milwaukee,WI

The Merrill Fire Department is hoping to begin a pilot program that would provide recently released emergency room patients with in-home care. The program is called Community Care Paramedics. “There's a void here in this rural area that we serve.” Merrill Fire Chief Dave Savone said. “What it does is shift the role from this emergency paramedic to a kind of preventative proactive type of thing.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 4:53:11 AM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9-Wausau

Since the beginning of the year, the Holmen Area Fire Department has been experiencing greater demand for services. HAFD Assistant Chief Bill Bulawa told the Holmen Area Fire District Association Board at its April 20 meeting, the department has responded to 99 calls since the board’s March meeting. “We’re running,” said Bulawa.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 2:17:22 AM - SOURCE: Onalaska Holmen Courier Life

47-year-old Leon Butts — a high-ranking Milwaukee firefighter facing several domestic abuse charges after he allegedly beat and strangled his live-in girlfriend, appeared in court Friday, May 5th for a preliminary hearing and a bail/bond hearing. During the hearings, Butts plead not guilty and the court found probable cause and bound Butts over for trial.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

Fire Chief John A. Pond said Thursday that six firefighters deserve commendations for work that included rescuing seven people from a burning building on Jan. 1 while others have been ordered to undergo ladder truck retraining. Two men and a woman died and 49 tenants were displaced in a blaze at 106 North East St.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Republican

Crews who battle wildfires will have to wait at least another year before getting better fire shelters than those that failed to save 19 firefighters trapped by flames in Arizona four years ago, officials told The Associated Press on Thursday. The deaths pushed the U.S. Forest Service to speed up work to get an upgraded shelter in place this year, but the effort has been delayed a year after prototypes could not outperform the shelter developed in 2002.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News

"Good Morning America" anchors Michael Strahan and Jesse Palmer marked International Firefighters' Day today by shadowing Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) firefighters as they fought a simulated fire at the FDNY training facility on Randall's Island in New York. The facility, nicknamed "The Rock," features a mock restaurant that can be lit on fire.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News

The interim Sioux Falls fire chief sent a department-wide email Tuesday night ordering firefighters to bar former Chief Jim Sideras from any fire stations or the fire headquarters building. The warning from Interim Chief Brad Goodroad came hours after news broke that authorities had served a search warrant at Sideras' Sioux Falls home on Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Argus Leader

Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert’s opponents are again criticizing her record on public safety, drawing a rebuke Wednesday from the city’s police and fire chiefs. The commercial in question, paid for by Firefighters for Better Government, says Stothert’s policies are “stretching Omaha’s police too thin.” It also criticizes Stothert for police patrols near her home.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Omaha World-Herald

California’s firefighting agency plans to discipline two employees blamed for forcing the state to redo a battalion chief examination for nearly 500 employees, the department’s director said Thursday. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection notified 488 applicants that they will have to retake the promotion exam this summer because the initial test “had significant irregularities.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOVR-TV CBS Sacramento

VIDEO: A Milwaukee alderman says an alarming number of arson cases in the city are going unsolved -- pointing to an understaffed police force. This isn't the first time Alderman Bob Donovan has spoken out about police staffing. The sad reality is there are consequences," Donovan said. "The cuts to the strength level to the department.
- PUB DATE: 5/4/2017 5:59:41 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6