...AREAS OF DENSE FOG EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TONIGHT... Areas of dense fog, with visibilities of one half of a mile or less, is expected across northeast Wisconsin overnight. Motorists traveling across the region overnight can expect rapidly changing and poor visibilities at times. Remember to turn Special Weather Statement 2023-12-16T23:58:00-06:00 2023-12-17T03:00:00-06:00 Actual Alert Met Expected Minor Observed Brown; Calumet; Door; Florence; Forest; Kewaunee; Langlade; Lincoln; Manitowoc; Marathon; Menominee; Northern Marinette County; Northern Oconto County; Oneida; Outagamie; Portage; Shawano; Southern Marinette County; Southern Oconto County; Vilas; Waupaca; Waushara; Winnebago; Wood FIPS6 055009 055015 055029 055037 055041 055061 055067 055069 055071 055073 055075 055078 055083 055085 055087 055097 055115 055125 055135 055137 055139 055141 UGC WIZ005 WIZ010 WIZ011 WIZ012 WIZ013 WIZ018 WIZ019 WIZ020 WIZ021 WIZ022 WIZ030 WIZ031 WIZ035 WIZ036 WIZ037 WIZ038 WIZ039 WIZ040 WIZ045 WIZ048 WIZ049 WIZ050 WIZ073 WIZ074 VTEC

...AREAS OF DENSE FOG EXPECTED ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN TONIGHT... Areas of dense fog, with visibilities of one half of a mile or less, is expected across central and north-central Wisconsin overnight. Motorists traveling across the region overnight can expect Special Weather Statement 2023-12-16T20:40:00-06:00 2023-12-17T02:00:00-06:00 Actual Alert Met Expected Minor Observed Florence; Forest; Langlade; Lincoln; Marathon; Menominee; Oneida; Portage; Shawano; Vilas; Waupaca; Waushara; Wood FIPS6 055037 055041 055067 055069 055073 055078 055085 055097 055115 055125 055135 055137 055141 UGC WIZ005 WIZ010 WIZ011 WIZ012 WIZ018 WIZ019 WIZ020 WIZ030 WIZ031 WIZ035 WIZ036 WIZ037 WIZ045 VTEC

VIDEO: Two Appleton families are left without a home after a duplex fire Thursday. Earlier while I was at the scene, I talked to one of the families. They didn't want to talk about what happened on camera, but here’s what they told me. They said if it wasn’t for a neighbor running over to tell them about the fire things could’ve been worse.
- PUB DATE: 12/15/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

PHOTOS: A plane making a forced landing on Interstate 26 in North Carolina Thursday night caught fire and snarled traffic for hours. Several News 13 viewers have called the newsroom, reporting a crash. And video showed the aircraft on fire. Asheville fire officials confirmed the forced landing. According to the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office, multiple people were taken to the hospital.
- PUB DATE: 12/15/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLOS-TV ABC/MyNetwork TV 13 Asheville

PHOTOS: The Evanston Fire Department today unveiled a new fire engine with a distinctive Northwestern University-inspired purple and white color scheme. The university agreed two years ago to provide $800,000 to fund the purchase of the new engine. And Fire Chief Paul Polep says he started work shortly after that — meeting with firefighters at Fire Station #3 on Central Street where the new engine is housed — to come up with the new design concept for the engine — the latest of several fire and ambulance vehicles donated to the city by the university.
- PUB DATE: 12/15/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Evanston Now

Marking a significant milestone, a fire department in West Haven welcomed its first female firefighter, who was officially sworn in Tuesday at Minor Park Station. Samantha Trayer, a 32-year-old resident of Milford, experienced a groundbreaking moment as she was sworn in by Iris Diaz, chairwoman of Allingtown's Board of Fire Commissioners.
- PUB DATE: 12/15/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WVIT-TV NBC 30 New Britain

Janesville Fire Chief James Ponkauskas will retire this spring after 30 years with the agency, the city of Janesville announced Thursday. Ponkauskas began his career in the fire service in 1988 as a firefighter and EMT for the Orfordville Fire Protection District. He then served there as fire chief of 13 years, half of his time with the department.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2023 11:39:00 PM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV ABC 27 Madison

PHOTOS: Baileys Harbor firefighters celebrated homecoming recently – for the first fire truck the department ever had. For decades, Florian II and Blue Ox owners Joe and Jerry Kwaterski displayed a retired Baileys Harbor fire truck outside their supper club all summer for guests and visitors to see.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2023 12:26:19 PM - SOURCE: Door County Pulse

PHOTO: The greatest tragedy to befall the Fort Atkinson Fire Department occurred 100 years ago on Dec. 17, 1923. While responding to a call for help the City’s new 1923 American LaFrance fire truck and personnel were involved in a crash killing three firefighters and injuring three more. The City of Fort Atkinson Fire Department will honor the fallen firefighters at the Highway 12 crash site Thursday, Dec.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times

VIDEO: Last week, Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill that would expand the Safe Haven Law, allowing parents to anonymously and safely surrender their newborns to hospitals, fire stations, police stations. The update came months after southern Wisconsin was shaken by the news of an abandoned newborn child found dead in a cornfield just outside of Whitewater.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS/MyNetworkTV 3 Madison

An Aurora construction site erupted into flames just after midnight Thursday. Crews continued to put out hotspots hours later. The building is a planned multi-family complex off the intersection of S. Aurora Parkway and S. Addison Court. No one had moved in just yet, according to Aurora Fire Rescue.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMGH-TV ABC 7 Denver

VIDEO: Adults have surrendered children at fire stations in Fort Worth multiple times since September, prompting the fire department to update procedures and prepare stations for the possibility of more drop offs. The surrenders have happened at least three times, involving a total of seven children, at stations on the south side of the city.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVT-TV CBS 11 Fort Worth

The greatest tragedy to befall the Fort Atkinson Fire Department occurred 100 years ago on Dec. 17, 1923. While responding to a call for help the City’s new 1923 American LaFrance fire truck and personnel were involved in a crash killing three firefighters and injuring three more. The City of Fort Atkinson Fire Department will honor the fallen firefighters at the Highway 12 crash site Thursday, Dec.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times

An initiative led by Indiana University is pushing the boundaries of technology to save first responders’ lives and expedite emergency response. A collaboration between the IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering and University Information Technology Services, the Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab is facilitating private investment and entrepreneurship activity in technology that provides first responders’ precise locations inside structures during a crisis and while locating survivors.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News at Indiana University

Residents of a Madison duplex were left without a home for a night after carbon monoxide levels in their basement reached almost fatal levels. The Madison Fire Department says people living on the 600 block of North St. on the city’s near east side called in describing symptoms typical with carbon monoxide exposure.
- PUB DATE: 12/13/2023 3:19:00 PM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC/CW 15 Madison

VIDEO/PHOTOS: Clothes are an important essential that all people need. That’s why Arbor Vitae and Minocqua firefighters are gathering winter clothes for their coat drive. The drive helps supply winter clothes to surrounding schools and the Lakeland food pantry. Operation Santa has been donating clothes for 19 years in the Lakeland area.
- PUB DATE: 12/13/2023 2:45:00 AM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander

VIDEOS/PHOTOS: The Boom Bay Volunteer Fire Department is showing off its newest set of wheels. No matter if it's on land, ice or in water, the Boom Bay Volunteer Fire Department's new SHERP vehicle is up for the task. The amphibious vehicle will help Boom Bay with life-threatening events like ice rescues on the Wolf River, Lake Poygan and Lake Winneconne.
- PUB DATE: 12/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLUK-TV FOX 11 Green Bay

PHOTOS: A raging 5-alarm fire raced through a row of Bronx businesses early Wednesday morning, leaving at least one person injured. The blaze broke out at Bunny’s Deli Cold Cut City at West 231st Street and Broadway in the Kingsbridge section just before 3:30 am, the FDNY said. Two dozen videos uploaded to Citizen App showed huge flames and plumes of thick black smoke shooting into the air, and a crowd of firefighters battling the inferno both from the street level and from tower ladders.
- PUB DATE: 12/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

VIDEO/PHOTOS: Saturday’s tornado left scattered supplies and a destroyed station for the Gibson County Fire Department in Rutherford. Though grateful for no casualties, John Baker, the Battalion Chief for the Gibson County Fire Department, calls the destruction unnerving. Damaged equipment is being gathered for inventory and assessed for usability.
- PUB DATE: 12/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBBJ-TV ABC/CBS 7 Jackson

PHOTO: Current and former Mount Pleasant Fire Department members, along with car enthusiasts of all ages were partying like its 1941 at the Dec. 9 Charleston Cars & Coffee gathering at Mount Pleasant Towne Centre, as they collectively admired and marveled at the sight of an 82 year-old fire engine red service truck.
- PUB DATE: 12/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Moultrie News - Metered Site