VIDEO: Minneapolis fire crews rescued a man in his 30s after his car went careening down a 200-yard embankment along the Mississippi River. Responders say the crash happened around 5:15 a.m. Tuesday. It wasn't until about 8:15 a.m. when two Minneapolis Public Works employees spotted the car near the water.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kare11.com

Some Allegany County legislators are seeking to have federal officials make it a federal capital offense to murder local police and first responders. The Allegany County Board of Legislators will consider a resolution today asking the area’s federal representatives in Congress to introduce and support a law setting a mandatory death penalty for anyone convicted of targeting and murdering state and local law enforcement or first responders.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Olean Times Herald

Three years ago, the Gardiner Ambulance Service was struggling to pay its bills. “We were facing a financial situation where we just weren’t taking in enough cash each year,” Scott Morelli, Gardiner city manager, said. The Gardiner Ambulance Service, staffed by the Gardiner Fire Department, provides emergency medical transportation services to Gardiner and its surrounding towns, and the towns pay to support the service.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: centralmaine.com

VIDEO: A stretch of Highway 57 in De Pere has reopened, after being closed due to an overturned cattle truck, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The northbound and southbound lanes were closed between Old Plank Road and Rockland Road until 5 p.m. Tuesday night. “When he left the roadway, he hit a small driveway, which forced the vehicle onto its side.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 9:11:09 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

The 59-year-old man found dead at an apartment fire Monday died from smoke inhalation, according to a preliminary finding by an autopsy, according to the county coroner. The cause of death won't be confirmed until the toxicology reports come back from an autopsy done Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wood County Coroner Dara Hammsaid.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 2:43:29 PM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune

On December 26, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 25, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 24, 14 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 23, 14 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 21, 8 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 26, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: A death investigation is underway in Milwaukee after police say a body was found in a vehicle near 54th and Capitol Drive on Christmas Day -- Sunday, December 25th. Police responded around 7:00 a.m. There was a vehicle fire at this scene. Milwaukee firefighters extinguished the fire and discovered the body.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

A man was found dead Monday evening in a Wisconsin Rapids apartment building following a fire. Tenants at the building at 520 Eighth Ave. called the Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department around 3 p.m. reporting they smelled smoke in the complex. When the fire department arrived, they weren't sure where the smell was coming from.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wausau Daily Herald

Two people plunged into the water on Lake Kegonsa Saturday morning when their ATV broke through "bad ice," an official said. Dane County dispatch said crews responded to a report at about 7:20 a.m. that someone had fallen through the ice on Lake Kegonsa at Fish Camp County Park near McFarland. The Madison Fire Department said crews from McFarland, Monona, Madison and Stoughton were dispatched to east of Colladay Point on the lake.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison

VIDEO: A nine-year old boy saved his parents from a Christmas morning fire. Zevin Jelic was trying to sleep on a couch on the first floor of his family's duplex when he noticed smoke coming from the basement. He immediately alerted his parents and they all got out of the home safely. Firefighters are calling him a true hero.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire

“I want to get in the ambulance. I can't feel my legs.” That was Adam Walton, a Janesville firefighter/paramedic after his third dip into the frigid waters of the trout pond at Rotary Botanical Gardens on Friday. Walton, a fishing guide in his spare time, had voluntarily jumped into winter waters once before, about three years ago.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gazette Extra - Metered site

The Honolulu Fire Department has received two separate citations in connection with a training incident that led to the death of a firefighter in June. HFD says it’s taking corrective action after the death of 63-year-old Clifford Riggsbee, who died from injuries sustained during a training exercise at an area called Suicides near Diamond Head.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: khon2.com

Six diesel ambulances with systemic exhaust problems have sickened Sacramento firefighters enough to send them to local emergency rooms as patients, the firefighters union and city said Friday. The city of Sacramento has removed those ambulances from the firefighting fleet and is planning to replace another eight units that may develop a similar problem.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sacramento Bee

If you want to understand how badly Democrats lost the white working class in the 2016 election, your local fire station is not a bad place to start. Nearly 85 percent of professional firefighters are white, and more than 95 percent are men, making them look a lot like the other blue-collar voters who surged to Donald Trump this year.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC News

An Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services ambulance was hijacked Sunday afternoon at approximately 4 p.m. with a medic crew and patient inside. According to an ATCEMS spokesperson, the medic crew was on scene for a different call at 500 E. 7th St., the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH) when an individual hijacked the ambulance while the medic team was tending to a patient.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kxan.com