On January 7, 11 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The city of Appleton might buy four new fire trucks from a local company, over the next four years. In all, the Pierce Manufacturing trucks would cost more than $2.6 million. Ald. Kyle Lobner says they would get a better price with a package deal. The savings would add up to over $80,000.The safety and licensing committee unanimously agreed last night to let the fire department buy the trucks, without seeking bids.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 4:59:09 AM - SOURCE: WHBY-AM 1150 News Talk

Two passengers of a vehicle that broke through the ice on Rock Lake are OK after being rescued on Tuesday afternoon. The pair had been fishing on the lake since noon Tuesday and when they turned around to head back toward Bartel's Beach the vehicle broke through the ice about 50-100 yards offshore. The Lake Mills Fire Department got the call to help at 3:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 4:21:13 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times

A weight has been literally lifted at the Ashland Fire Department as the rows of dumbbells that used to sit on the floor of its new weight room now have a designated resting spot. A set of weight racks has been installed there. That comes courtesy of a few Ashland High School students and a grant awarded to the AFD through the Walmart Corporation.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 2:15:03 AM - SOURCE: Ashland Daily Press

At its last meeting in November, the Poynette-Dekorra-Lowville Fire Commission approved the sale of four vehicles, all of which have been recently sold. The money from the sales was distributed back to the three municipalities in the district, as directed in the district’s agreement. However, at the Jan.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 2:11:37 AM - SOURCE: Poynette Press

Six children were found dead after a fiery house collapse that injured four other family members who escaped from the home in Northeast Baltimore's Cedmont neighborhood Thursday morning, the city Fire Department said. The first of the children's bodies was recovered about 10:30 a.m., Baltimore Fire Department spokesman Chief Roman Clark said.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated a drunken driving conviction against a Sauk County man who argued his blood was illegally drawn. The court overturned a state appeals court ruling with a 5-2 opinion Friday. The appeals court had ruled that the blood draw was unconstitutional because the emergency medical technician acted under the direction of police, not a doctor.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2

A fire broke out at a fire station in Buena Park early Thursday morning. The blaze broke out at around 3:30 a.m. at the station on the 800 block of Western Avenue, according to Captain Larry Kurtz, spokesman of the Orange County Fire Authority. Five firefighters, including the batallion chief, were asleep at the station when they heard an explosion coming from the garage.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles

One child has died and five other children are presumed dead after a fiery house collapse that injured four others who escaped from the home in Northeast Baltimore's Cedmont neighborhood Thursday morning, the city Fire Department said. Heavy construction equipment arrived after sunrise to clear debris and aid crews in searching for the children, but Baltimore Fire Department spokesman Chief Roman Clark said the missing are presumed dead.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

Everybody in this fire station was sleeping one recent morning when the alarms started blaring. Six firefighters hopped out of their bunks and pulled their gear over their pajamas. The sun was still coming up when they reached a house where smoke was rising from the basement. Afterward, back in their pajamas, the young men gathered in the station’s control room.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Pew Charitable Trusts

VIDEO - A ladder truck malfunctioned as city firefighters responded to a “deep-seated” fire at a building housing a paper recycling company on 7th Street on Tuesday evening, authorities said. No one was injured in the blaze, Chief Patrick Trentacost said. Firefighters responded to a paper recycling factory on 7th Street at approximately 6:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: North Jersey.com (Bergen County Record & Herald News)

Mayor Lenny Curry, pushing for Jacksonville to become the first major city in America without pensions for its future employees, made a remarkable counteroffer to the city’s public-safety unions Wednesday that would restore more costly pension benefits to current employees, while creating 401(k)-style investment accounts for new employees with hefty 25 percent matching contributions from the city.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Florida Times-Union

Pittsburgh police records indicate that a city firefighter suffered a drug overdose while on duty in a Brookline fire station on New Year's Eve. A police officer was dispatched at 6:23 a.m. to Station 26 on Brookline Boulevard to investigate the report of an overdose, according to a police incident report.
- PUB DATE: 1/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

On January 11, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 10, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

One person was injured after a fire in Oshkosh Tuesday night. At 6:01 p.m., crews were dispatched to the 300 West 6th Avenue for a fire. Heavy smoke and flames were seen coming from the back of the home, but firefighters were able extinguish the fire quickly. All eight people in the home were able to make it out of the house, but a man was treated for a hand injury on scene.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 8:46:56 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

On January 10, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

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

Metro asked a court to dismiss legal claims against it for a deadly smoke incident at L'Enfant Plaza in 2015, arguing that it has immunity from the lawsuits -- and putting the blame on D.C. first-responders. In a filing in federal court Monday, Metro denied all liability, arguing it is a government-created agency that can't be sued and adding that the D.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Washington

A potential battle over firefighters, cancer and who is responsible for paying the treatment bills could be brewing in the Arizona Legislature. In Arizona, if a firefighter develops one of seven types of cancer, state law assumes the disease was caused by his or her job. That means the firefighter is eligible for workers’ compensation.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTAR News