Knights Valley resident Bud Pochini runs his welding business, owns a Christmas tree farm and helps coach high school softball. And for the past 25 years, he has been a mainstay of the Knights Valley Fire Co. volunteers. Fallen trees, neighbors’ medical emergencies, car crashes. Some of the calls are so grim the assistant fire chief wonders why he sticks with it.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Petaluma Argus Courier

Crews battled a house fire in northern Manitowoc County Monday afternoon. The blaze hit a home on Highway K, between Kellnersville and I-43. Kellnersville's fire chief says the house was vacant and is typically used for storage. Officials do not believe the fire was suspicious. No word has been given on the extent of the damage.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2017 8:05:57 PM - SOURCE: WNFL SPORT REDIO

VIDEO: Cudahy Police now say a fire at a former tannery is a case of arson and suspects are under arrest. The fire broke out around 5 p.m. Sunday night in a vacant building near Packard and Edgerton. Detectives say they've arrested juveniles they believe to have started the fire. The evidence collected will be passed along to the District Attorney's Office for charges.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2017 5:14:05 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

On March 23, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 24, 11 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 24, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 22, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The city of Charleston has a plan in the works to create a new Department of Public Safety to oversee the police and fire departments, and Police Chief Greg Mullen could be promoted to lead it. The concept was announced in a written release Friday. Next week, Tecklenburg plans to ask the City Council's Public Safety Committee to study the feasibility of such a department.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Post and Courier

The treasurer of the Akron firefighters union has been charged with felony theft and is in jail in North Carolina, arrested as he fled Akron after the charges were filed on Thursday. Joe Ruhlin, 40, treasurer of Local 330, is accused of stealing perhaps as much as $100,000 from the union. The exact figure has not been determined because the union and investigators have just begun combing the books.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Akron Beacon Journal

The city has agreed to a $250,000 settlement in a lawsuit by a volunteer firefighter accusing Lynden and its assistant fire chief of discrimination and creating a hostile work environment. Damon Winters, a volunteer firefighter, filed the lawsuit against the city and Assistant Chief Robert Spinner in U.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

A fire on Sunday morning destroyed a three-story building that was home to a diner and apartments in Butler. Emergency dispatchers said the fire was reported shortly after 9 a.m. at a building on Center Avenue that houses Hutch's diner and two floors of apartments. One firefighter was reported caught in a flashover by the rapidly spreading flames and exited through a window and onto the roof of a neighboring building, where other firefighters helped him to safety.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTAE-TV ABC 4 Pittsburgh

Firefighters at Fort Bragg’s Fire Station No. 7 have been complaining for years that their building is deplorable — even sickening. The roof leaks. Exhaust from the engine trucks wafts into sleeping quarters. Carpets are soaked with water when it rains. Holes in walls are covered by steel sheets. The problems have been documented by building inspectors, federal occupational safety regulators and Fort Bragg leaders since at least 2014, yet the building continues to fall into disrepair.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fayetteville Observer

On March 26, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Cudahy Police report that arrests have been made in connection with a fire in a vacant tannery. No details about the arrests are available, but a news release is expected to be issued later today. Firefighters in Cudahy arrived to smoke pouring out of a vacant building at E Edgerton Avenue and S Packard Avenue around 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2017 9:47:46 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

PHOTO - Milwaukee Police is investigating an accident on 8th and Hadley. Fire crews got called out reports of a car that flipped on a seemingly quiet neighborhood street. When crews arrived, they found one man inside the car. “I was scared, I was hoping no one was hurt in the vehicle. That was the first thing," said Calvin Moore, a witness.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2017 1:50:52 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue, the Fond du Lac County Public Health Department and Agnesian HealthCare are once again joining forces to launch a new program with help from the Agnesian HealthCare Foundation. The one-year pilot, being called Innovative Mobile Services Program, was implemented March 21 and engages Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue paramedics with people in the community who have requested to be in the program or have been referred by a doctor, pharmacist or other person in the medical field.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2017 9:48:11 AM - SOURCE: Fond du Lac Reporter

On March 25, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 24, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On March 23, 8 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Firefighters on Friday morning, March 24th responded to the scene of a house fire on Watertown Road near Pewaukee Road in the City Pewaukee. The call came in around 4:30 a.m. The fire was first reported by the homeowner to the Waukesha County Communications Center. When crews arrived on scene, additional assistance was requested from the Village of Sussex, Town of Delafield, and City of Waukesha Fire Departments.
- PUB DATE: 3/24/2017 5:21:30 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6