On January 22, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 21, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 20, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 17, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Last summer, Alex Hagen struggled to pull his socks up and Rudi Betancourt strained to walk even a few steps. Hagen, a Caledonia firefighter, battled Ewing’s sarcoma, a type of bone cancer, while South Shore firefighter Betancourt was ravaged by Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer that affects the lymph nodes.
- PUB DATE: 1/23/2017 2:16:05 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

In a shift from the practice of two other state agencies, Wisconsin emergency management officials have released new information on climate change and its implications for the state. In a report that it posted online last week, the state Division of Emergency Management devoted extensive attention to climate change and how a warming planet could spur natural disasters such as floods, drought and forest fires.
- PUB DATE: 1/23/2017 1:49:17 AM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com

On January 22, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

An Intermountain Life Flight paramedic was killed and a nurse seriously injured in a head-on automobile crash Sunday morning near Strawberry Reservoir. The victim was identified as Tyson L. Mason, 29, of Plain City, a firefighter/paramedic for the Salt Lake City Fire Department who also worked part time for Life Flight.
- PUB DATE: 1/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Salt Lake Tribune

Years of contentious meetings between Oakland Fire Chief Teresa Deloach Reed and an Oakland hills’ fire prevention committee boiled over Thursday night when the chief, in a 10-minute rant, threatened to sue a homeowner and claimed the organization was biased against her and used her as a scapegoat for problems in the hills.
- PUB DATE: 1/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times

They were naked, he was afraid. A black FDNY rookie expecting a warm welcome at his new firehouse was instead sexually hazed and humiliated by a band of naked firefighters, according to a shocking federal discrimination lawsuit. It was the beginning of a series of horrific incidents meant to make the rookie’s life so miserable he would quit, the suit alleges.
- PUB DATE: 1/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

Benny Fulkerson seizes every opportunity to spread the gospel of fire safety. The city council recognized Fulkerson, a third-generation firefighter, as the 2016 South Oklahoma City Kiwanis Club Firefighter of the Year earlier this month at city hall. As spokesman for a department that values prevention, where "the best fire is the one that never happens," he is expanding the department's social media following with action videos, cautionary tales, and even poetry.
- PUB DATE: 1/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Oklahoman

Six Chicago Police officers have been suspended for giving the third-highest ranking member of the Chicago Fire Department favored treatment after the fire deputy crashed his city-owned SUV near Lake Shore Drive in Lincoln Park. Police Supt. Eddie Johnson suspended all six officers for “improper processing and reporting procedures” in connection with the April 20, 2016 crash involving former Deputy Fire Commissioner John McNicholas.
- PUB DATE: 1/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times

VIDEO: Brown County sheriff's officials said crews responded to a fire on the 1500 block of Pinecrest Road just after midnight, Sunday. The Brown County Sheriff's Office and nine fire departments responded, including dozens of firefighters. The fire chief said multiple units responded because fire crews did not have access to a water source.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2017 1:53:24 AM - SOURCE: WLUK TV Fox 11

On January 21, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: A three-alarm fire broke out in a furniture store shortly after 9 p.m. Friday evening. Telephone reports began to come in saying that the furniture store inside the strip mall near 14th and Center was on fire. Upon arrival, The Milwaukee Fire Department saw heavy smoke an attempted to make an interior attack.
- PUB DATE: 1/21/2017 8:36:23 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

On January 20, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 19, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 15, 14 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 19, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Following in her father’s footsteps, Capt. Zina Opper has been a firefighter/EMT in Lake Geneva since 1995, and she’s served fulltime with the Fox Lake, Illinois, Fire Department for 16 years. Opper was the featured firefighter by Fire Chief John Peters in the department’s recent monthly report to the Lake Geneva Police and Fire Commission.
- PUB DATE: 1/20/2017 2:39:56 AM - SOURCE: Lake Geneva News