The town of Minocqua's fire department expansion committee approved Friday a recommendation to the Minocqua Town Board to accept the bid of just over $2.4 million from Boson Company in Marshfield to construct a new fire station. Minocqua town electors voted in October to build the fire station, which will be next to the Minocqua Area Chamber of Commerce on Minocqua's south side, for no more than $3.
- PUB DATE: 3/6/2017 11:14:31 PM - SOURCE: Lakeland Times Minocqua

On March 1, 12 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

South Area Fire District (SAFER) is re-certified by the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services. Chief Matt Savage said Monday the accreditation is the "gold standard" of pre-hospital EMS care and his 60-member department is the only one to achieve the accreditation in Wisconsin. "We have held this honor since 2010.
- PUB DATE: 3/6/2017 10:45:08 AM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9-Wausau

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

On March 3, 12 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A car crash Sunday morning at a west side intersection caused a natural gas leak, according to a release from the Madison Fire Department. Firefighters were called at 10:35 a.m. to the intersection of Watts Road and Struck Street on a report of a car crash and the odor of natural gas. There were no injuries in the single-vehicle crash, but the driver reported running over a small tree, a natural gas pressure monitoring station and a pressurized gas pipe and then into an Alliant Energy transformer box that services the surrounding commercial district.
- PUB DATE: 3/6/2017 8:14:38 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

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

Luke Anderson was excited after trying out a water rescue suit on the ice of Glen Loch, just north of Chippewa Falls. “This is wonderful,” he said of one of three wet suits purchased by the Town of Eagle Point Fire Department with a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “Awesome. You don’t even feel the cold water on you,” said Anderson, who is a volunteer for both the Eagle Point and Town of Tilden departments.
- PUB DATE: 3/6/2017 4:11:37 AM - SOURCE: Chippewa Herald

Three people were hurt during a house fire in Kaukauna Sunday. At about 5:21 p.m., the Kaukauna Fire Department was called to a home at 802 Crooks Avenue. The department says firefighters arrived to find heavy fire in the kitchen and smoke coming out of the front and rear doors and the eaves of the roof.
- PUB DATE: 3/6/2017 3:40:07 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

On March 5, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Three firefighters used a dangerous rescue technique — being lowered from the roof by rope — to save a man trapped in a burning Brooklyn building Sunday morning. “Those guys, they got me out of the building,” said Ubeaka McKinney, 39, of the daring save on the third floor of 241 Rockaway Ave. in Brownsville at 7:30 a.
- PUB DATE: 3/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

Despite ever-tightening budgets, hefty paydays are actually becoming the norm for a lot of Bay Area firefighters. But one East Bay fire department says paying out a lot of overtime is actually saving taxpayers money. In 2015, firefighters in San Ramon were making as much as $400,000 a year in total compensation.
- PUB DATE: 3/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS San Francisco

A veteran who fired gunshots at firefighters doing a welfare check on him at his residence said he thought someone was trying to break in. "The information I received he shot at the top of the door. Fortunately. Had he shot lower, into the door, he would have some firefighters easily," said Reginald Hocker, vice president of the union that represents Cincinnati's firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 3/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ToledoNewsNow

The father and child who escaped a fire that took the lives of five family members Saturday walked nearly a quarter-mile away to get help from the nearest neighbor, officials said Sunday. "They were able to get out one way, but the rest of the family was not able to get out," said Jennifer Mieth, spokeswoman for the State Fire Marshal's Office.
- PUB DATE: 3/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MassLive.com

VIDEO - Firefighters in Saginaw Township decided to bail out on training and crash a woman's aerobics class. A series of videos on the fire department's Facebook page shows firefighters in full gear dancing in unison with a group of women to Sister Sledge's "We are Family." An employee at Center Courts, who wished to remain anonymous, said, "the ladies loved it and the people walking on the track thought it hilarious.
- PUB DATE: 3/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mlive.com

VIDEO: A fire broke out at the Mayville Fire Department on Horicon Street late on Saturday, March 4th. Officials said shortly after 10:00 p.m., a passerby saw flames inside the building and called 911. The fire was confined to one apparatus. The station had heavy smoke. The fire station was ventilated and clean up was underway Sunday.
- PUB DATE: 3/5/2017 5:35:54 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

On March 4, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

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

On March 1, 11 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

They’ve been talking since 2015 about a three-way merger. Now the Deer-Grove, Cambridge and Marshall EMS services are taking a significant step toward that possibility. In coming weeks, they expect to jointly put out a request for proposal (RFP) seeking a consultant to study the idea. A consultant could be on board this spring.
- PUB DATE: 3/3/2017 2:12:02 AM - SOURCE: Cambridge News / Deerfield Independent