On December 18, 16 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: At least six homeowners in northern Chippewa County were forced out of their home after a home exploded near New Auburn. Shortly after 9:00 Monday night crews responded to a home near Long Lake. The New Auburn Fire Department said it was a brand new home, still under construction and a few months until being ready to live in.
- PUB DATE: 12/20/2016 12:42:56 AM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire

Leonard Carmichael Jr., who grew up in North Trenton dreaming of being a Trenton firefighter, has retired as deputy chief, the department's highest uniformed rank. Carmichael served over 25 years and held every position in the department, having served as acting fire director for 10 months in 2010 - and briefly in 2014.
- PUB DATE: 12/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Trenton Times

Dundee Volunteer firefighter Ruben E. Mast, 43, of Dundee, died after a traffic crash while reportedly responding to a call out at about 4:59 p.m. Monday. Mast was transported by Smith Ambulance to Union Hospital in Dover, where he later succumbed to his injuries, according to officers with the New Philadelphia Post of the Ohio Highway Patrol.
- PUB DATE: 12/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Philadelphia Times-Reporter

An 11-month-old girl is out of the hospital and expected to be alright after being rescued by a group of Richmond firefighters Saturday afternoon. “We're talking literally seconds here from tragedy to triumph,” said Capt. William M. Martin with the Richmond Fire Department. Engine Company 11 was the first on the scene at Fairfield Court Saturday afternoon.
- PUB DATE: 12/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVR-TV CBS 6

State troopers were investigating two separate crashes on Interstate 85 in Concord overnight, and one of them involved a fire truck. Concord firefighters were called to a wreck on I-85 northbound, between Bruton Smith Boulevard and Poplar Tent Road, around 1 a.m. While emergency crews were still on the scene, about 45 minutes later, a BMW sideswiped a Concord fire engine that was blocking the three left lanes of the interstate, according to troopers.
- PUB DATE: 12/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSOC-TV ABC 9 Charlotte

A federal training facility in Anniston has temporarily suspended all chemical and biological operations, according to a statement given to students who trained there. The announcement comes as officials investigate a mistake that led to first-responders training with a lethal rather than a non-lethal version of the toxic compound ricin.
- PUB DATE: 12/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Anniston Star

On December 19, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: The death toll rose to 12 Monday after a tractor trailer barreled into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, Germany. The White House says the crash appears to be a terrorist attack. NBC26 spoke with Fond du Lac Fire Chief Peter O'Leary who is vacationing in Germany. He says he spent the day at Frankfurt's Christmas market and planned to return to do more shopping, but after hearing the news of what happened, he's decided against it.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2016 8:59:37 PM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

Fond du Lac County will begin searching for a new director of communications and emergency management in the new year now that James McNabb has retired. Bobbie Hickens has been appointed as interim director until an appointment can be made with approval from the Fond du Lac County Board of Supervisors, said County Executive Allen Buechel.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2016 6:56:27 PM - SOURCE: Fond du Lac Reporter

VIDEO: Lt. David Siegel, a Green Bay Metro Firefighter, recently wrote a book about the history of the department. "Forces of Change" examines the landmark and seminal events that led to the creation and development of the early Green Bay Fire Department. This exhaustively researched book chronicles the time from establishment of organized firefighting in 1836, to creation of a stable fire department, through the merger of the cross-river sister-city fire departments of Green Bay and Fort Howard in 1895.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2016 5:40:59 PM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

On December 18, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 17, 12 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 15, 12 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 18, 8 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

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

Three people suffered minor injuries in a house fire in Mount Pleasant early on Monday, December 19th. Firefighters were dispatched to the home on Lawndale around 2:15 a.m. — and arrived to find the house fully engulfed. Everyone inside the home managed to get out of the building. South Shore Fire Department provided emergency medical care to the three occupants.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2016 5:19:31 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

Officials in the town of Darien staked out their positions on the future of the joint EMS department it shares with the village of Darien during a town board meeting Tuesday night. The two municipalities share fire and EMS services, but town board member Jim Terpstra said the way things are split is unfair to the town.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gazette Extra

Retired Elizabeth fire chief Lou Kelly died early Friday after he fell ill while responding to a fire in Clark last week and was rushed to a hospital. The Elizabeth Firefighters FMBA Local 9 announced Kelly's death on its Facebook page on Friday morning. Kelly, 70, was serving as a Union County Mutual Aid Coordinator while at the Dec.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NJ.com

PHOTO - After firefighters completed a controlled burn training session and left the area, the facility went up in flames. Smoke and flames engulfed the Crawford Venango Fire School at the corner of Ridge Road and Center Street in Cambridge Springs. The building caught fire around 3 p.m. This is a facility where firefighters hold training sessions with live fires mimicking realistic situations.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJET/WFXP YourErie.com