Murrieta Fire Department engineer Mike Macalinao and captains Sean DeGrave and Todd Bradstreet are certified swiftwater rescue technicians who each have trained for the risky missions for more than 10 years. They all have performed water rescues. But none, they said, matched the situation they encountered Sunday, Jan.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Bernardino County Sun

One person was killed during a crash involving a fire truck and a van on I-90 in Rocky River, which also ultimately resulted in the hit-skip death of a Cleveland police officer. The fire truck was on scene assisting in a single-vehicle accident when a white van crashed into the back of the truck. The driver of the van, 29-year-old Artem Vytiegov of San Francisco, was pronounced dead on scene.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland CBS 19

Federal workers scrambled on Tuesday to interpret how President Donald Trump’s hiring freeze of civilian employees might affect seasonal firefighters and other part-time employees. Trump’s order, issued Monday, stated “no vacant positions existing at noon on January 22, 2017, may be filled and no new positions may be created, except in limited circumstances.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Billings Gazette

Portsmouth will give police officers, firefighters and other emergency workers $1,000 apiece to keep working in the city. The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to give the one-time stipend next month to those employees, as well as paramedics and dispatchers. The proposal, submitted to the council by human resources director Elizabeth Gooden, says Portsmouth will spend about $860,000 on the incentive without adding to its operating budget.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot/HamptonRoads.com

On January 23, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A Reedsburg family is homeless after a fire broke out on Jan. 23. The house, located on Enterprise Drive near South Dewey Avenue, was destroyed despite firefighters working for hours to knock down the flames. No one was home at the time and no injuries were reported. Jordan Sullivan, who grew up in the house during her teen years, told the Times-Press she received notice of the incident around 9:30 a.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2017 4:14:13 AM - SOURCE: Reedsburg Times-Press

A De Pere family is forced from their home Tuesday morning after an overnight house fire. Just before 2 .m., De Pere Fire Rescue was called to a home on Vista Circle when the homeowner found a fire in their basement. The homeowner put out part of the fire with his own fire extinguisher before fire crews arrived.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2017 3:37:46 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

On January 23, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Three Hattiesburg firefighters huddled in Hattiesburg Fire Department Station 2's fire truck early Saturday morning, just minutes after they were warned of an approaching tornado. "We looked out the door and realized what was going on," firefighter Cody Keys said. "We got into the back of the (fire) truck, laid down and held on, let the storm pass.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hattiesburg American

A New Castle County grand jury has indicted Beatriz Fana-Ruiz, the 27-year-old woman accused of setting a fire that led to the deaths of three Wilmington firefighters in the Canby Park neighborhood last September. In the 19-count indictment, Fana-Ruiz is charged with first-degree arson as well as six counts of murder.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilmington News Journal (Delaware Online)

Sonoma County, with more than 40 firefighting agencies and chronically underfunded fire service, may consolidate some districts while it seeks new ways to help other districts share resources. Changes include a new North Coast fire district while proposals include a single fire chief overseeing two south county districts; another chief-sharing plan involving Glen Ellen and Sonoma Valley; consolidation of north county fire agencies and ongoing discussions for change amongst agencies along the Russian River Valley and Sonoma coast.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Press Democrat

A man pled guilty after he fatally shot a Prince George's County firefighter, and wounded a volunteer firefighter and his own brother, according to fire officials. In April 2016, Darrell Lumpkin shot the three men. John "Skillet" Ulmschneider, 37, and volunteer firefighter Kevin Swain, 19, walked into his home in Temple Hills, Maryland in response to a medical welfare check.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJLA-TV ABC 7 Washington

Dubai’s cops and paramedics may have been grabbing all the attention with their rather swish motors in recent years, but now it’s the turn of the city’s firefighters to try out the cool stuff. Not a place to do things by halves, Dubai has equipped some of its firefighters with water-powered jetpacks to help tackle blazes quickly and effectively from pretty much any angle they like.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Digital Trends

Officials on Monday night, January 23rd were on the scene of a large barn fire in the Town of Raymond in Racine County. It happened on S. 51st Street near County Highway K around 8:45 p.m. Racine County Sheriff’s officials said the barn was fully engulfed. Multiple departments responded to fight the fire.
- PUB DATE: 1/23/2017 8:19:06 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

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

On January 20, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

PHOTO: Firefighters stayed at the scene of a construction site fire Monday afternoon to make sure newly sprayed foam insulation didn’t reignite after they extinguished the first round of flames, according to a release. Crews were sent to 431 W. Mifflin St. around 3:30 p.m., the side of the Mifflander Apartments, to investigate reported “off-gassing” resulting from foam installation sprayed into the ceiling, according to the release.
- PUB DATE: 1/23/2017 4:58:24 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

One person was treated for hypothermia Sunday afternoon after falling through a Sauk County lake's ice, officials said. The Delton Fire Department said it responded to a report of four people who had fallen through the ice on MIrror Lake at 12: 15 p.m. while ice fishing. When crews arrived, all four people had pulled themselves from the water and the three adults were lying on the ice crawling toward shore.
- PUB DATE: 1/23/2017 4:35:45 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison

On January 22, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Two area men drowned late Sunday after their vehicle overturned in the Beaver Dam Creek. An Ashwaubenon man, 21, and a Green Bay man, 24, died despite efforts of sheriff's deputies and firefighters wading in waist-deep ice water to free them. The crash happened about 9 p.m. in the 2000 block of Memorial Drive.
- PUB DATE: 1/23/2017 7:35:50 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette