You’re driving your engine to the scene of reported structure fire as part of a multi-company response. You’re navigating traffic on a heavily traveled thoroughfare and you’re fast approaching a controlled intersection. What should you be prepared to do? Stop! That’s the first lesson I always imparted to firefighters when I was teaching them how to drive fire apparatus.
- PUB DATE: 2/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

VIDEO: Firefighters with the Kilbourn Fire Department performed a nighttime rescue on the icy waters of the Wisconsin River, saving a dog named Milo. The black dog was spotted by people several miles upriver floating on a piece of ice. The dog floated down the river for two hours before firefighters were able to rescue it.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2017 4:39:20 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

On February 15, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On February 14, 12 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Quick action by homeowners probably saved their home from fire Wednesday. “The homeowners did an excellent job in calling us immediately. It absolutely kept the fire from entering their home,” Kenosha Fire Department Battalion Chief Matt Haerter said. “Another few minutes, the fire would have spread to the attic, and we’d have a far different outcome.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2017 1:41:30 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News

On February 15, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A long time servant of Jefferson Davis County and the town of Bassfield died in the line of duty on Tuesday. Bassfield Volunteer Fire Chief Bill Matthews, a retired Marine, was found slumped over in his fire truck on the scene of a brush fire. Mayor Patricia Courtney said a firefighter was manning the hose and called to Matthews to move the truck and got no response.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Jackson Clarion-Ledger

Two Omaha firefighters sued the city Tuesday over Mayor Jean Stothert’s hiring of Fire Chief Dan Olsen, alleging she failed to follow the correct selection process. Battalion chiefs Robb Gottsch and Dan Stolinski, both finalists for the chief position, asked that a court declare Olsen’s promotion to be void.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Omaha World-Herald

A selectman called attention Tuesday night to the town's potentially flawed and confusing policies and procedures, which might come into play in deciding the fate of the town's fire chief, who has been on paid administrative leave for over a month. On Jan. 10, the selectmen alleged Fire Chief Peter Martell did not have the authority or the selectmen's approval to spend $33,814 of town money for a 2017 Ford Expedition.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette

A six-month study of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department found on-the-job bullying, harassment and other problems, issues that were raised after 31-year-old firefighter-paramedic Nicole Mittendorff took her own life last year. No one knows if cyberbullying played a role in Mittendorff’s death, but she had faced online harassment and bullying, possibly by colleagues.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOP-AM 1500 Washington

It was a crime that thundered across Kansas City, took the lives of six firefighters, and 28 years later, still resonates as a shattering, life-changing moment for countless people. And on Wednesday, many of those people packed a Kansas City courtroom — and an overflow room with a monitor — for a hearing to determine if Bryan Sheppard, one of those convicted of that crime, will one day walk out of prison.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kansas City Star & KansasCity.com

VIDEO: The twin towers monument at Green Bay’s 9/11 memorial may need to wait for some much needed repairs. Wednesday the city Parks Committee decided to refer a proposal to allocate money to fix the monument to the Public Arts Commission. The committee wants to make sure someone from the police or fire department is at the meeting to give their thoughts.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2017 5:07:13 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

VIDEO: A Greenfield man is dead after a fire broke out inside his condominium unit Wednesday afternoon. Greenfield firefighters were called to the scene at the corner of 84th and Howard just before 2:00. While extinguishing the fire, they found the man not breathing inside an upstairs unit. "A victim was discovered and pulled out of the structure," says Lt.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2017 3:43:45 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

On February 14, 11 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On February 13, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On February 9, 13 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: A new CPR device is changing the way paramedics in Stevens Point save lives. Its called Lucas CPR, a machine that acts as a another set of hands doing chest compressions. It does 100-104 compressions per minute. The machine costs about $15,000. It was donated to the Stevens Point Fire Department recently.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2017 6:29:05 AM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire

On February 14, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

About $3,000 damage resulted from a fire Tuesday morning at a commercial building in the Uptown area. The fire, which was reported at about 9:15 a.m., originated on the second floor of the building at 1232 Washington Ave. on pallets holding folded cardboard, Racine Fire Department Lt. Mike Moss said.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2017 4:16:13 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue just announced a cutting-edge program to save lives. They’re the first fire department in the world to start taking home Automated External Defibrillators on their days off. TVF&R already has one of the highest survival rates in the country for patients who have cardiac arrest or heart attacks.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGW-TV Northwest News Channel 8