VIDEO: Several departments were called out to a four-alarm fire at an apartment building in Whitewater Wednesday night, November 9th. The call came in around 6:30 p.m. This fire occurred at an apartment building on Tratt Street in Whitewater -- University Garden Apartments. First arriving crews noted fire in one of the common hallways and initiated an offensive attack.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FOX 6 Now

Yonkers firefighters are suing the city to force it to build a new firehouse pledged when the Ridge Hill shopping center got its approvals. The union wants the state Supreme Court to forbid city officials from issuing any certificate of occupancy for the new Lowe's home improvement store under construction at Ridge Hill until the new firehouse is built or there is a firm timetable for building a firehouse under court supervision to ensure compliance.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Journal News (Lohud.com)

Wiscasset residents voted by nearly a 2-to-1 margin on Tuesday to allow volunteer firefighters to wash their personal vehicles at the fire station. Voters approved the practice 1,502-707, according to unofficial results. The referendum question was the only local ballot question for Wiscasset voters.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bangor Daily News

This fourth Fire Service Needs Assessment Survey was conducted by NFPA in 2015-2016 and follows three earlier surveys, which were completed in 2001, 2005 and 2010. This report shows that while some fire service needs have been declining, many have remained constant or increased. Fire service needs are extensive for departments of all sizes and in every area, including staffing, training, facilities, apparatus, personal protective equipment (PPE); and health and wellness.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Fire Protection Association

The state attorney general's office has determined that selectmen did not violate the Open Meeting Law in their selection of a fire chief last spring. However, the attorney general's office said that minutes from an open session May 16, when the board interviewed candidates for fire chief, lacked sufficient detail and that the minutes show the board wrongly kept secret how they determined the top candidate.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette

With more questions than answers surrounding a Trump presidency, these seven items are likely to be front of mind for fire and EMS providers. I have closely followed the presidential campaign over the past 18 months. Today as I review the results, read the analysis and scroll through the cries of despair and boasts of triumph on Facebook, I am reminded of the EMS adage, "Don't treat the monitor, treat the patient.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

On November 9, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: It's the final test before becoming a firefighter. Some of the Milwaukee Fire Department's latest recruits put their training to the test on Wednesday, November 9th -- all before graduation. "It feels more real than other training I've ever done before," said Phillip Tadysak, a firefighter recruit.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2016 8:37:11 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

On November 5, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

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

For firefighters, high quality training in a controlled but realistic environment can be the difference between life and death when they confront the real thing. It is something that any firefighting professional knows; a firefighter is only as good as the training they have undergone to prepare them for the real thing.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2016 2:13:49 AM - SOURCE: Ashland Daily Press

Brookston Fire Chief Michael Payne raced to the scene of a vehicle fire early Tuesday, helped extinguish the fire then collapsed from an apparent heart attack. "We were out on a fire run. A semi was on fire on an exit ramp," Brookston Assistant Fire Chief Karl Stokes said, noting that the department was dispatched to the scene at 11:58 p.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lafayette Journal and Courier

One of the city's two deputy fire chiefs has chosen to retire instead of heed what he believes are improper and unethical orders from Fire Director Qareeb Bashir, a fire union president said Tuesday. Deputy Chief Robert Tharp was promoted earlier this year at a City Hall ceremony and in just over six months as a department leader has made measurable improvements to the department, firefighters' union president Wayne Wolk said.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NJ.com

A Sedona fire captain badly burned in a fire station fire continues to make progress and has been moved to an acute care unit at burn center. According to a news release from the Sedona Fire Department, Fire Capt. Matt Fleece suffered burns when a bbq grill he had been using near the rear of the station apparently caught fire and exploded.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

A new study by the Fire Protection Research Foundation highlights positive opinions of home fire sprinklers by homeowners and most government officials in U.S. states required to fire sprinkler new homes. The new report, “Stakeholder Perceptions of Home Fire Sprinklers,” analyzes the opinions of three groups—government officials, homeowners, and water purveyors—following the passage of statewide requirements for home fire sprinklers.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Fire Protection Association

Firefighters and one other person trapped in a mountain fire in Church Hill Tuesday night were reported to be in a safe location. According to Church Hill dispatch, the call about the fire between Mountain View Road and Laurel Run Park Road came in around 7 p.m. Firefighters with Carters Valley and Goshen Valley fire departments were trapped in the fire and two officers were called to the scene.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WVLT Local 8 Now

On November 8, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A woman woke up because of her baby and discovered a fire broke out inside her Appleton townhouse Tuesday. Fire officials say it happened at 1201 Bartell Court around 10:30 a.m. The woman heard her 18-month-old daughter coughing and fidgeting when she spotted the fire. The mom then broke a window in the second floor bedroom and screamed for help.
- PUB DATE: 11/8/2016 2:33:32 PM - SOURCE: WIXX-FM 101

On November 7, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On November 6, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.