On February 1, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

They're the first on the scene when tragedy strikes. Help, arriving in the form of a fire truck, sometimes built by Pierce Manufacturing. Pierce Manufacturing's fire trucks can be found across the nation and around the world. "When you build something here at Pierce you're building something unique, you're building a life-saving apparatus that's given out into a community," said production supervisor Chad Miller.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2017 5:39:39 AM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

On February 2, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Fans flooding into Houston for Super Bowl LI could land in hotels and motels that have not been fully inspected, a local critic of the Houston Fire Marshal's office said Thursday. Randall Kallinen, a civil rights attorney who has represented fire inspectors, said the department scaled back inspections about a year ago in favor of self-inspection forms that could be filled out by the facilities.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle

The Kleberg County Volunteer Fire Department's Fire Chief was flown to a San Antonio burn center Wednesday afternoon. According to the Department, Patrick Guzman, who is also a bus driver with Ricardo ISD, was doing maintenance on a school bus in the bus yard when the radiator ruptured. We're told Guzman suffered second degree burns on his arms and chest.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KZTV-TV CBS Action 10 News

Sacramento firefighters worked more than a quarter-million overtime hours in 2015, with some firefighters working thousands of extra hours, according to a new city audit released Thursday. The Sacramento Fire Department spent more than $13 million on overtime pay in 2015, in addition to more than $44 million in regular pay, based on the report by City Auditor Jorge Oseguera.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sacramento Bee

VIDEO - "Rare circumstances and operational errors" caused an explosion during a training exercise in October that injured two of the town's firefighters, investigators have concluded. While the report does not explicitly fault any state or local fire personnel for the explosion, it does indicate operators of a fire simulator did not use the equipment properly and did not follow one safety protocol.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MassLive.com

Last fall, close to 50 members of the fire service and major fire service organizations gathered at the Johnson Foundation Inc. at Wingspread complex in Racine, WI, to evaluate the fire service and examine both long and short term challenges. Wingspread VI was the 50th anniversary of the Wingspread Conference, which began in 1966 at the same location with 11 members on the committee.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

A Trempealeau man will serve two years on probation for trying to set fire to a village church last summer. John Humm, 19, pleaded guilty Monday in Trempealeau County Circuit Court to arson, criminal damage to property and resisting officers. Police found Humm pouring gasoline through a broken window at St.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2017 6:38:03 PM - SOURCE: Madison

A city's pick for its first full-time fire chief has passed on the job. In a statement Thursday afternoon, Altoona City Administrator Mike Golat said that Chad Peterson turned down the offer "after serious consideration." The statement said that Peterson said he made the decision because of family obligations.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2017 5:31:10 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

VIDEO: A house near Bangor is considered a total loss following a fire Thursday afternoon. The Bangor-Burns Fire Department was called to Portland Street in the Village of Rockland at about 2:30 p.m. When firefighters arrived on the scene, the back of the home was completely engulfed in flames. According to Fire Chief Robert Rueckheim, both people who live in the house were at work at the time of the fire and are now receiving assistance from the Red Cross.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2017 5:19:09 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

Officials with the Milwaukee Fire Department found a woman unconscious in the living room of a home near 25th and Melvina. It happened on Thursday evening, February 2nd. Fire officials said the woman had no pulse, but paramedics worked on her at the scene. She was breathing and had a pulse when she was taken to the hospital.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2017 4:39:04 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

In an effort to step up recruitment for volunteer fire fighters, three Southern Door High School juniors began training this week for a possible opportunity in the field. Austin Vandertie, Nathan Lenius, and Jared Baudhuin have added trainings and meetings at the Brussels-Union-Gardner Fire Department and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College to their slate as students.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2017 3:38:53 AM - SOURCE: Door County Daily News

A metal storage building caught fire Wednesday night in the town of Washington, causing damage to the property owned by Management Select. According to a Township Fire Department news release: Township Fire units were dispatch at about 8:35 p.m. to 7621 Prill Road, just east of Eau Claire. An Eau Claire County sheriff’s deputy was the first to arrive on scene and reported smoke coming from the building.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2017 2:21:26 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

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

The city’s firefighters union withdrew a lawsuit against the state Wednesday after the state delayed implementing changes to the union’s contract. But the union’s attorney said the suit may be refiled as early as Thursday if the state doesn’t drop demands to cut 100 firefighters and make other changes.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Press of Atlantic City

A southern Indiana fire chief arrested for battery is not going to face criminal charges and now he wants his arrest records erased. Eyewitness News first broke the story about Cannelton Fire Chief Christopher Herzog in late December. Herzog was charged with felony battery after he allegedly pushed a police officer while fighting a fire.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVW-TV Fox 7 Evansville

Five more FDNY engine companies are getting their “fifth man,” officials said Wednesday. As part of a contract agreement between City Hall and the Uniformed Firefighters Association, the department on Wednesday ensured that five more engine companies — one in each borough — will be getting a fifth man to work on fire engines when responding to fires.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

Dighton’s Board of Selectmen moved Wednesday to terminate the town’s fire chief as he faces criminal charges. Fire Chief Antone Roderick, Jr. was suspended by the board in November amid accusations he used public funds to buy personal items, specifically clothes for his girlfriend. Chairman Dean Cronin said it’s alleged Roderick used his own and other firefighters’ clothing allowances to buy almost $239 worth of women’s clothing.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Providence 12

Fire departments in nearly every pocket of Iowa have members who were awarded nationally recognized certifications by the state fire academy despite failing their tests, according to documents released Wednesday. The Fire Service Training Bureau has sent letters to 560 departments, a majority of those in the state, to notify them that "one or more firefighters on your department may have been" erroneously granted certificates in recent years and will be expected to undergo retesting.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Des Moines Register