PHOTO - Two firefighters were injured and a Sunrise Fire truck was totaled when the truck crashed on slick roads Friday morning. The crash occurred on State Road MM, and Sunrise Fire Chief Dennis Reilly said the two firefighters sustained only minor injuries, with the most serious being a fracture. Both firefighters are at the hospital.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: LakeExpo.com

former Lodi fire captain is facing felony charges after allegedly embezzling over $200,000 from the Lodi Professional Firefighters Union he was once the treasurer of, according to court records. San Joaquin County Court records show Oscar Picazo is facing charges of grand theft, theft of more than $100,000 and take, damage of destroying property over $200,000.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXTV-TV ABC 10 Sacramento

The Long Hill Volunteer Fire Department's Santa Fire Truck is a holiday tradition in two. The truck decorated with thousands of holiday lights makes its rounds around town bringing good will -- and gifts -- to Trumbull children. Now there's a new view of the fire truck. It surfaced recently on YouTube.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

VIDEO: Fire crews are on the scene of a fire in the southern part of Door County. It’s on Rocky Road, at the intersection with County Line Road, between Dykesville and Brussels. Firefighters were first called around 10:00 Sunday night. Red Cross volunteers on the scene say the fire started in a house and spread to three attached apartments.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2016 11:06:57 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

VIDEO: A Fall Creek man was stuck inside a silo for nearly 5 hours Sunday after part of the structure collapsed while he was inside. Crews were called to 1907 N 130th Street in Fall Creek Sunday evening. Officials say a man and his wife were stuck inside their silo. Firefighters say the man went into the silo around 4 P.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2016 10:58:41 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

On December 18, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The Pulaski Tri-County Fire Department was called out for an early morning fire that killed dozens of animals. Fire chief James Styczynski tells Local Five the fire was called in around 5:30 Sunday morning at a farmette in the Town of Chase. The fire was in a pole shed containing equipment and animals.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2016 11:21:43 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

On December 17, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 16, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On December 14, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Firefighters on Friday morning, December 16th responded to the scene of a house fire near 18th and Wright in Milwaukee. Fire officials say the blaze appears to have started in the basement of a vacant home. No injuries were sustained as a result of the fire. No additional details have been released — including the cause of the fire or the amount of damage sustained.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2016 8:32:55 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

On December 15, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Two Kansas City firefighters were taken to the hospital and treated at the scene after being trapped while battling a house fire. It happened while firefighters were responding to a house fire in the 700 block of Agnes Avenue. Officials say fire crews were at the tail-end of fighting the fire when a partial roof collapse happened, leaving three firefighters trapped inside the home with burning debris on them.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCTV.com

Because of yet another mix-up with bioterror pathogens, a federal terrorism response training center in Alabama says it mistakenly exposed more than 9,600 firefighters, paramedics and other students to a deadly toxin over the past five years. The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Center for Domestic Preparedness blames an outside laboratory for a series of shipping errors since 2011 that resulted in the first-responder training center using in its classes a potentially lethal form of ricin powder.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today

As Oakland firefighters pulled up to the burning Ghost Ship warehouse the night of Dec. 2, they weren’t exactly sure what they were dealing with — whether anyone was trapped or what they would encounter inside — but they didn’t assume it was a vacant building. Public safety officials in Oakland have long been aware that people live and party in warehouses — some firefighters say they can tell whether one is inhabited just by looking at its exterior.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle

Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake today announced that a Charleston Grand Jury has returned a two-count indictment charging St. Paul’s Fire District Chief Doc McNeil Matthews, 47, of Hollywood; Assistant Chief Charles Riddle, 44, of Goose Creek; and Mary Jo Thomas-Delaney, 67, of Summerville, with fraud and embezzlement from a federally funded organization.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCBD-TV Charleston 2

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) released the latest edition of its “U.S. Firefighter Injuries” report, which highlights data on injuries sustained by firefighters on duty in 2015. The statistics were collected from fire departments responding to NFPA’s annual U.S. Fire Experience survey.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Fire Protection Association

During Melanie Nipper's campaign for her seat on the Walton County Commission, she called on a lot of agencies. One of those was the North Walton Fire District. She was appalled by the conditions she found at the fire stations and resolved that if elected she would try to help. Nipper made good on that resolve at Tuesday night's County Commission meeting when she proposed a feasibility study to investigate the transfer of North Walton Fire and EMS to the sheriff.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ft. Walton Beach: Northwest Florida News

In these freezing temperatures many people use their fireplaces to keep warm. However, if people don't clean their fireplaces, it could start a fire. On Thursday, firefighters weren't just battling fires, they were also battling frigid temperatures. "He had wood burning in two chimneys with metal flues and it just got too hot, probably burnt some creosote on the inside and then started up the outside of the chimney,” said Ledgeview Fire Chief, Tom Guns.
- PUB DATE: 12/15/2016 7:37:16 PM - SOURCE: WLUK TV Fox 11

With more than 88,000 acres of managed forestland in Wood County, logging accidents are always possible. When it comes to logging, it isn't "if" there will be an accident, it's "when," said Dana Hinkley, who owns Logger Rescue Training in Berlin, New Hampshire. Hinkley oversaw training Wednesday of more than 25 men, some loggers and some firefighters, who gathered at the Pittsville Fire Department to learn what to do when a logging accident happens.
- PUB DATE: 12/15/2016 6:38:01 PM - SOURCE: Marshfield News-Herald