The Mt. Olive Volunteer Fire Department confirms their fire chief Tracy O. Sanders, 44, has passed away following a wreck near Mudd Street and Highway 77 near Ohatchee Friday afternoon. Sanders was in a truck when she trying to turn left off of Highway 77 and her vehicle was struck from behind by a tractor trailer.
- PUB DATE: 1/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMC-TV Action News5

An unimaginable tragedy struck in a small community of a few dozen homes on Long Key Road in the Florida Keys Monday morning, when three workers from a private contractor tasked with fixing a roadway climbed into a hole in the ground and, ultimately, to their deaths. By the time a Key Largo firefighter climbed into the same hole near Lake Surprise in a desperate attempt to save the men, they were dead.
- PUB DATE: 1/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Miami Herald

The Sept. 24 fire in a Canby Park rowhome will go down in Wilmington as one of the most traumatic events in city history. The tragedy ultimately took the lives of three firefighters and injured four more, leaving the department and community reeling. In the days that followed, city officials realized they had another "very serious" problem, said Mayor Mike Purzycki.
- PUB DATE: 1/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today

Dogs have long been used to sniff out drugs and bugs and even bombs! But can these furry friends also identify the smell of cancer? A special program in San Antonio has been designed to help protect some of our most vulnerable heroes, firefighters. "Everything a firefighter does is a calculated risk," San Antonio firefighter Joe Arrington said.
- PUB DATE: 1/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CW39 Houston

A woman’s lawsuit over alleged sexual harassment and discrimination in the Farmington Fire Department is headed to a jury trial in U.S. District Court. Judge David Nuffer recently denied Farmington city’s motion for summary judgment against Sarah Mojazza, who sued the city in February 2014, saying a fellow firefighter sexually harassed her and that she was fired after she complained about it.
- PUB DATE: 1/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ogden Standard-Examiner/StandardNET

VIDEO - Oklahoma City firefighters were called Sunday morning after a homeowner reported hearing some sort of "snorting" noise coming from his swimming pool. Emergency responders arrived and discovered a hole in the swimming pool's liner and a cow trapped in the water. Oklahoma City Fire Department Battalion Chief Benny Fulkerson says firefighters used their pumps to remove about 5 feet of water from the pool so the cow wouldn't experience hypothermia.
- PUB DATE: 1/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOTV-TV CBS 6 Tulsa

On January 16, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: Gregg Cleveland has fought more than fires throughout his more than 30 year career, fighting to leave every department better, than he found it. His career began in 1979 with the Menasha Fire Department after being discharged from the Marine Corps because of an injury. "I was really upset after that happened and one day my dad told me I should join the local department and I thought that sounded intriguing," Cleveland said.
- PUB DATE: 1/16/2017 4:38:44 PM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 LaCrosse

As a 16-year-old boy made news recently for being alive and well after his heart stopped at a basketball game at West Allis Central High School, retiring Fire Chief Steve Bane was thinking how his life had come full circle. Years ago as a firefighter, he and fellow firefighter Bruce Stonewood relentlessly worked to put defibrillators, one of which saved the boy's life, into every school and city building.
- PUB DATE: 1/16/2017 1:02:14 PM - SOURCE: Greenfield West Allis NOW

On January 15, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 14, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 13, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

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

On January 11, 15 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 8, 12 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 12, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 11, 13 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 10, 15 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 6, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: A woman is in the hospital Friday morning after a fire broke out at her home in Suamico. The fire broke out around 12:45 a.m. Friday morning on the 13,000 block of Velp Ave. When firefighters arrived on scene flames were visible but they found everyone had made it out of the home. Crews were able to put the fire out within about half hour.
- PUB DATE: 1/13/2017 4:44:17 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay