Reports stated first responders were hit by a vehicle at the scene of a crash. The incident happened in Hendersonville at New Shackle Island Road and Drakes Creek Road Saturday evening. According to an official with Sumner County EMS, emergency crews were on the scene of a wreck involving a car and a motorcycle.
- PUB DATE: 4/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NewsChannel5.com

On April 16, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: Firefighters risk their lives responding to calls, but what about the risks at their own fire station? "We're a little different than most other occupations, because not only do we work here, but we live here," said Fire Chief Gregg Cleveland with the La Crosse Fire Department. The stations La Crosse firefighters call a second home are all over 50 years old.
- PUB DATE: 4/16/2017 8:25:32 AM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 LaCrosse

It was only about a year ago when then-mayoral candidate Jeannie Hefty, a member of the all-volunteer Burlington Rescue Squad, made the need to improve the squad's relationship with the Burlington Fire Department a major focus of her campaign. Today, with Hefty as mayor and Fire Chief Al Babe, who formerly ran an all-volunteer unit in the Town of Raymond, running the Fire Department, the relationship between the two organizations has improved substantially.
- PUB DATE: 4/16/2017 2:13:56 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

On April 15, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: A fire did severe damage to an apartment building in Somerset Friday afternoon. The Somerset Fire Department was called to a fire at 308 Willow Street in Somerset just before 2 p.m. This is the site of an apartment building. The fire appeared to start in an upper corner apartment, where flames could still be seen inside the apartment.
- PUB DATE: 4/15/2017 10:24:44 AM - SOURCE: Rivertowns

On April 14, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

On April 8, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On April 7, 12 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

If the program garners enough student interest, Sun Prairie High School and Prairie Phoenix Academy will team up with the Sun Prairie Fire Department to offer students a chance to become licensed firefighters before high school graduation. Students would spend three mornings a week in Madison College’s Fire Academy course for college credit, said SPHS School to Career Manager Nancy Everson.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2017 3:11:29 AM - SOURCE: Sun Prairie Star

Emergency medical responders are being attacked in Baltimore more frequently than in the past and should be equipped with protective vests, Rick Hoffman, president of the local firefighters' and EMS workers union, said Wednesday. "Obviously everyone knows we are in a very dangerous city now, and the way our EMS system works, [city residents] dial 911 and we're there in normally minutes, which means we beat the police there a lot," Hoffman said.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

At least seven Columbus Division of Fire recruits used an online study aid that their classmate created that closely mirrored the questions on one of the division’s tests for emergency medical technicians. The Fire Division is concluding an investigation into whether recruits violated policy in using the website and app Quizlet to prepare for exams.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Columbus Dispatch

Firefighters from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport who responded to the I-85 fire last month recounted the experience during drills at the airport’s fire training center Thursday. Airport Rescue Fire Fighting striker units 7 and 8 responded to the March 30 fire that caused a section of the highway to collapse.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Atlanta Journal Constitution

The jail sentence handed down Wednesday to the township fire chief’s son is the latest black eye for a department riddled with controversy the past decade. With the township still reeling from a theft scandal that sent the former chief to prison, the current chief’s son, Richard Hart Jr., 19, is now behind bars for an arson that destroyed a home.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilkes-Barre Citizens' Voice

A volunteer firefighter who was shot four times while trying to help a man says he still relives the shooting that killed his partner a year later. "I remember a flash. I didn't hear it and then it was like slow-mo and then...you just kept hearing the bangs," Morningside Volunteer Firefighter Kevin Swain told News4.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Washington

A group of black Tacoma firefighters said they won’t allow department leadership to blame minority applicants and the city’s hiring policy for what happened with Ramsey Mueller, the son of a deputy chief and a probationary firefighter who died of a heroin overdose days after showing up late to work and nearly hitting another vehicle while driving a firetruck.
- PUB DATE: 4/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The News Tribune

Two people are in the hospital after a house fire on Madison's north side. Crews were called to the fire at 1401 Nevada Rd. around 10:30 p.m. Thursday. As of 12:45 a.m. Friday, Madison Fire said firefighters had the fire under control and were working to put out hot spots. There is no word on the extent of the injuries.
- PUB DATE: 4/13/2017 11:20:08 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

On April 13, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Town of Wilson fire chief called it quits Tuesday and was followed out the door by several firefighters. The now former fire chief's tenure with the department has been a point of contention since the fire department switched from a private corporation to a municipal fire department on Jan. 1 of this year.
- PUB DATE: 4/13/2017 5:06:34 AM - SOURCE: Sheboygan Press

On April 12, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.