On December 29, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

A Whispering Pines firefighter has died after falling ill on the job on Christmas Day. Lt. Reid Key was assisting with efforts to extinguish a fire in Carthage when he began complaining of a headache. The 31-year-old was taken to FirstHealth Regional Moore Hospital for treatment, according to Chief Rich Lambdin of the Whispering Pines Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 12/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Pilot

The chief of a Southern Indiana fire department was arrested Tuesday and charged with a felony after officials said he shoved a police officer and yelled profanities at him at a fire scene. Christopher Herzog, 51, the chief of the Cannelton Fire Department, was taken into custody by Indiana State Police after an investigation was requested by the Cannelton Police Department, according to a news release.
- PUB DATE: 12/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Courier Journal

By incredible odds, off-duty Providence Fire Lt. Robert McCollough happened to be driving along Hawkins Street around noon Thursday when he saw smoke emanating from a two-story house at 342 Hawkins St. McCollough pulled over and parked the AAA tow truck he drives as a second job. "Two men were on the sidewalk, screaming to someone inside.
- PUB DATE: 12/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Providence Journal

The family of a woman who died after going without oxygen for 17 minutes filed a lawsuit against a call center and first responders. Laurelyn Wagner-Pitts, 60, went into cardiac arrest July 30; she died in August after her family decided to take her off a ventilator. Her husband, Randy Pitts, called 911 after Wagner-Pitts began to make “funny noises and had a look on her face,” reported the Joliet Patch.
- PUB DATE: 12/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: EMS1

A City of Miami firefighter thanked his colleagues at Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, Thursday, for saving his son’s life, just before Christmas. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to a house fire on Southwest 112th Avenue, last Friday, and found Anthony Villa lying on the ground unconscious. “He happened to be in cardiac arrest,” Miami Fire Rescue Chief Maurice Kemp said, “which, as you know, it doesn’t get any worse than that.
- PUB DATE: 12/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSVN.com

VIDEO: Newly obtained court documents reveal the body of a man found in a Rusk County fire was Jeffrey Putbrese, a confidential informant. According to court records, on December 7th, someone called 911 to report a fire at a former mink ranch on Zebro Road in Rusk County. Court documents show firefighters found a body in the debris of a burned building.
- PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 10:37:26 PM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC

Everyone makes his or her own path in life. Jelani Bunn and Melvin Casiano are no different. Both young men and their 14 classmates decided the path they were on wasn’t working. To build a brighter future for themselves, they elected to enroll at the Blackwell Job Corps Center in eastern Forest County.
- PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 6:45:44 PM - SOURCE: florence-forestnews

VIDEO: A West Bend Police Officer is being called a hero, after rescuing a father and son from a home engulfed in flames. The family members and the officer are all doing okay. Police say last night is an example of how an officer's split second decision can save someone's life. Police say Officer Lee Goodman responded to calls of a fire a shortly after 11 last night.
- PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 5:23:05 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Oconomowoc officials responded to a fire near 3rd and Main Street Thursday, December 29th. Authorities say this was a cooking fire and it was out before firefighters arrived at the scene. According to fire officials, 11 people have been displaced as a result of water damage from the sprinklers. Some will stay with family and others are being helped by the American Red Cross.
- PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 2:37:30 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

Six residents were displaced after a Wednesday fire in Stevens Point. A resident in the building called the county's dispatch system around 10:40 p.m. Wednesday night to examine a scene where a fire had been but was reportedly already out. When the department arrived at the triplex in the 800 block of Second Street, flames were coming out of the kitchen, said Capt.
- PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 9:43:00 AM - SOURCE: Stevens Point Journal

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