On December 28, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 27, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Firefighters from several communities battled a fire Wednesday afternoon in the Town of Randall in southwest Kenosha County near Wilmot. Kenosha County deputies arriving at the scene home in the 11800 block of Fox River Road found an active fire. They were able to determine that the house was unoccupied and that neighbors had rescued a dog from inside the residence.
- PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 2:12:19 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

On December 28, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

An FDNY EMS ambulance struck and killed an elderly man walking in the passing lane of the Cross Island Parkway in Queens Tuesday night, police and fire sources said. The pedestrian, an 89-year-old man, was walking on the southbound side of the parkway near 109th Ave in Queens Village at about 8:20 p.
- PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

Denver Fire Capt. Steven Holtz stretched across a treatment table at the Rocky Mountain Fire Academy as a physical therapist wrapped a thick red rubber band around his arm and began pulling Holtz’s arm over his head and back down. The physical therapist, Casey Stoneberger, worked to extend Holtz’s range of motion as he recovers from surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff and biceps tendon.
- PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Denver Post

The pending murder trial and investigations after the death of Hamilton firefighter Patrick Wolterman one year ago today have taken their toll on the Hamilton Fire Department. “We still see guys having troubles,” Tony Harris, president of Hamilton IAFF Local 20, told the Journal-News last week after a court hearing for the man accused in Wolterman’s death.
- PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Journal-News

Once upon a shift, there was a newly promoted captain. Hearing the tones for a bicycle accident, he moved to the rig, confident in himself and his crew. On arrival, the scene moved like ballet — firefighters on the victim dislodging legs and arms from twisted tubing with medics patching an apparent wound to the head.
- PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

A teenager is recovering after being pinned under a 1,500-pound boulder in her grandma’s backyard. Brianne Griffith, 15, was playing on a formation of boulders in the backyard of the home on Vineyard Way in White, Georgia, when one broke loose. “It’s a natural rock formation that’s been there for no telling how long,” Bartow County EMS spokesman Brad Cothran said.
- PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wsbtv.com

Finding a few good men and women to join the ranks is not a new challenge for the Grafton Volunteer Fire Department. But as he and his staff continue to grapple with ways to attract members, Fire Chief William Rice would like the search to spark a more serious discussion about staffing needs. Recruiting firefighters and emergency medical technicians “has been a huge problem for a long time,” Rice said.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 1:03:34 PM - SOURCE: Ozaukee Press

On December 27, 8 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 27, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The Brown County Sheriff’s Office has a message for drivers after a close call almost crushed a deputy and tow truck driver last week. The accident happened around 10:30 p.m. Friday night as that band of snow was wrapping up in northeast Wisconsin. A Brown County Deputy and tow truck driver were responding to a vehicle in the ditch on I-41, just north of County S in the Town of Lawrence.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 7:44:30 AM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9-Wausau

On December 27, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 25, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 23, 11 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The four families who lost their homes because of an apartment-building fire in Southern Door County on Dec. 18 were on hand for an event where a teenage girl was hailed as a hero. The fire in a building — converted to living quarters from a tavern/dance hall/bowling alley on Rocky Road in the Town of Union — was discovered as one family sat down for a later supper.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 2:47:51 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

Two groups of ice fishermen, 10 individuals in all, have been given the greatest day-after Christmas presents it is possible to receive — their lives. The anglers, in two groups of five each, were stranded on ice floes that pulled away from the west shore of Chequamegon Bay and began drifting in the direction of Long Island.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 1:41:44 AM - SOURCE: Rice Lake Chronotype

A Henrico firefighter has been suspended without pay from work over comments he allegedly made on Facebook. NBC12 is choosing not to identify the firefighter because he has not been charged with a crime. In part, the comments posted read that a woman was "trying to find her black baby daddy...so she can get an EBT card and a check.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC12.com

A town firefighter who was also the freshman boys basketball coach at St. Joseph High School in Trumbull died suddenly at home on Monday, as firefighters and medics worked to save him. Jason “Jay’’ Carrafiello, 38, “was an outstanding firefighter and was held in high regard by all of the officers and firefighters,’’ town Fire Chief Robert McGrath said.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CTPOST.com