On April 10, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On April 7, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A smoky kitchen fire in an apartment building in Beaver Dam left 15 people injured early Tuesday morning, with five people needing to be rescued, several hanging out of second-floor windows. The fire was reported at 12:10 a.m. at a 24-unit, two-story apartment building on Lake Crest Drive, the Beaver Dam Fire Department said.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 5:51:07 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com-Wisconsin State Journal-Capital Times

A group of city leaders led by Mayor Jeff Williams has banded together to oppose a voter proposition seeking to establish a civil service system for firefighters, warning that it could lead to reduced response times and cuts in city services. In recent days, pamphlets from a political action committee called Safety First Arlington PAC have landed in Arlington mailboxes, contending that adopting Proposition 2 would put the city’s firefighters “under labor union control” and add costs that could prompt cuts to the police force and street repairs.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Three off-duty Georgia firefighters were injured, one of them fatally, when the car in which they were traveling was struck by a suspected DUI driver Monday evening in Venice, authorities have confirmed. The three-vehicle crash took place about 10 p.m. at the intersection of Ocean Avenue and Washington Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles

VIDEO - A witty parody video by the New Gloucester Fire Rescue has gone viral. The video about recruitment called “I Got Hose,” inspired by the song “Area Codes” by Ludacris and Nate Dogg, was posted Friday on the fire department’s page on Facebook. The video has been viewed over 311,000 times and has almost 5,000 shares.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGME.com

The Layton Volunteer Fire Department, with more than a half-century of history in the tiny Long Key community around mile marker 68.5, will soon become history. “We’re just running out of people, especially younger people,” said Philip “Skip” Haring, Layton city administrator and lieutenant of the volunteer department that formed in the late 1950s.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FL Keys News

Cincinnati firefighers are making a plea to the city council to get new bulletproof vests. "It makes sense to me," Councilmember Christopher Smitherman said. "It's unfortunate that it's the new reality." Last October, the city made the first step, buying more than 180 bullet vests for firefighters in anticipation of the Ray Tensing trial.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCPO-TV ABC 9 Cincinnati

On April 10, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: The La Crosse police and fire departments are working together to investigate a string of suspicious fires that they say could be arson. Fox 25/48's Erin O’Brien has more on the fires and why investigators say they could be connected. Ten fires over the last six months in La Crosse have police and firefighters wondering if they're all connected.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2017 8:23:17 PM - SOURCE: WLAX & WEUX-TV Fox 25 & 48

Several residents of a far east side duplex are temporarily displaced after a fire spread through the building Monday afternoon, officials said. Madison Fire Department spokesperson Bernadette Galvez said firefighters were called to the duplex in the 3800 block of Sunbrook Road at 3:02 p.m. for a report of a fire in the back of the home.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2017 8:21:53 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

On April 9, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On April 8, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On April 7, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: Firefighters battled an electrical fire at Deluxe Plastics on Sunday night. The call came in around 10:00 p.m. for the Industrial Avenue business. When the fire department arrived on scene, they found smoky conditions inside the building. “With anything electrical related primarily to shut off power sources for safety purposes.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2017 6:18:42 AM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

VIDEO: Firefighters from the Mosinee Fire District are warning residents to burn with caution after a vehicle sparked a small grass fire in the Town of Knowlton. A vehicle traveling north on Highway 51 started on fire just after 5:00 p.m. Sunday night. The fire cause a small patch of grass on the side of the highway to burn.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2017 6:06:53 AM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

On April 8, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

Tragedy has struck Montgomery County's firefighting community this weekend. Fire and rescue officials confirmed that Burtonsville Volunteer Fire Fighter Charles Gentilcore passed away suddenly yesterday while on-duty at his fire house. CPR was performed on the 52 year old and he was rushed to Holy Cross Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHAG-TV NBC 25 Hagerstown

The one thing he’s not going to miss is his pager. For the past 42 years, whether it was a scanner or pager, it was either on or close by to Rochester Fire Chief Norm Sanborn Jr., unless he was on vacation. Whether it was in the middle of a cold winter night or a warm summer holiday, the unpredictable life of the firefighter was always just a tone away.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seacoast Online

Kinloch firefighters say they won’t show up for work until the district board is overhauled. Assistant Fire Chief Tim Rhodus said 19 volunteer firefighters went on strike Saturday because they say they have been disregarded by board leadership. “The entire district, all of its members, have just taken a leave of absence today as a strike against the administration and their blatant disregard, lack of respect and racial discrimination for the firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch