The Red Cross is assisting 3 families following an apartment fire in South Milwaukee overnight. According to the South Milwaukee Fire Department, ten people were displaced by the 11:30 PM fire. The fire started in a kitchen in one of the units in the multi-family home at 13th and Manistique Avenues. The fire then extended into the attic of the building.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2016 4:01:00 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

El Paso Fire Chief Samuel Peña has been tapped as Houston's new fire chief, replacing Interim Fire Chief Rodney West, sources said Thursday. Peña, 45, has led El Paso's fire department for three years. If approved by City Council, he would come to Houston in the midst of a contentious fire pension negotiation and as firefighters continue to voice concern about aging facilities and calls for new equipment.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle

Phoenix Fire Department crews were on the scene of a large debris fire at a metal recycling plant near 35th Avenue and Broadway Road Thursday afternoon. Capt. Rob McDade said this was a defensive fire. McDade said crews were able to set up ladder trucks on two sides of the fire to get water on it. The scrapyard crane operators moved large pieces of metal so firefighters could reach the core of the fire.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS 5 AZ KPHO

It was standing room only Monday night as Slatington Borough residents and fire department supporters spilled into the borough council’s meeting room’s hallway. Over three quarters of the Slatington Volunteer Fire Department showed up to the council meeting to request former chief Keith Weaver be reinstatedafter being removed last month.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Times News

A good deed goes wrong after an off-duty firefighter was held at gunpoint and had his car stolen while helping car crash victims. "I was kind of awestruck that someone would actually pull a gun or a weapon on our person," said Mark Lawson, Merced Co. Fire Division Chief. The Merced County Sheriff's Department said the collision occurred a little after 8 a.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFSN-TV ABC 30 Frenso/Visalia

When a couple got married last week, they had the most unexpected wedding crashers: firefighters. Newlyweds Allison Russoniello and Kevin Duffy were celebrating their wedding last Friday when they were told the building had to be evacuated due to a strange burning smell. It was later discovered the smell was from a faulty refrigerator compressor.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

Delayed response times are one of the biggest concerns for fire departments, home to not only fire engines but also ambulances. They're so crucial, at times, it could mean the difference between life and death. So you can imagine the alarm when it took crews three times longer than average to arrive at a call on Madison's southeast side.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 9:42:37 PM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC

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

Aside from putting in hours at the Howard Fire Department, Kelly Krause, Sam Hackl and Carrie Rentmeester have something in common: All were told at one point in their lives that their gender meant they probably would not make it as firefighters. “I was told by a few I was too tiny,” Krause, the department’s newest female recruit, said.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 7:02:26 PM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

On November 16, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On November 14, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A 20-by-40-foot unoccupied shed was destroyed by fire Wednesday in rural Clinton. “It was a total loss,” said Clinton Fire Chief John F. Rindfleisch. Owner Jared Nortier reported the fire at 8719 E. Highway 67, at 5:21 p.m. Wednesday. When firefighters were dispatched from the village, less then 4 miles away from the fire, they could see a glow from the sky, Rindfleisch said.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 4:47:33 AM - SOURCE: Janesville Gazette

The N.C. Department of Labor has cited the Pineville Volunteer Fire Department after investigating the April 30 death of firefighter Richard Sheltra. Sheltra, who was 20 years old and the department’s Rookie of the Year at the time, died fighting a blaze at the Edwin Watts Golf Store off Pineville-Matthews Road.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Charlotte Observer

The FOX 8 I-Team is asking new questions about a story that has Northeast Ohio talking. Brook Park leaders are investigating some of the town’s firefighters for handing out candy while on duty Halloween night. The I-Team was rolling Wednesday afternoon as Brook Park fire officials came out of a meeting with the mayor considering punishment.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJW-TV MyFox Cleveland

PHOTOS - Dozens of first responders in Georgia helped fulfill an Atlanta firefighter's dying wish as they escorted him from the hospital to his home in Forsyth County, where he will receive hospice care. Frank Martinez, 45, has battled Stage 4 cancer for several years and doesn't have much longer to live, his co-worker, Cortez R.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAGA-TV Atlanta MyFox 5 News

When a fire in a nearby mobile home awakened them, several residents of the Broadview Park neighborhood off Peters Road anxiously called 911, urging dispatchers to get help there quick. They knew that 12-year-old Ana Hernandez Marrero and her 51-year-old father, Armando Hernandez Valdez, were inside the small trailer as the flames grew.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPLG-TV ABC Local10.com - Miami & Fort Lauderdale

When a fire truck leaves a Houston fire station, every firefighter on that apparatus is being paid a salary by Houston taxpayers. However, at any given time, there may be a firefighter on a truck who is making hundreds of dollars in cash, on top of his salary. "The way it is, you're getting paid, on top of getting paid," says a veteran Houston firefighter.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTRK-TV ABC 13 Houston

On Tuesday, Liberty Mutual Insurance celebrated one of America’s firefighters for his commitment to the community by honoring Merrill Fire Department Firefighter Paramedic Jon Leiskau with the Liberty Mutual Firemark Award for Community Service. The award was presented by Liberty Mutual Representative, Julie Sternal, to FF/PM Leiskau for his continued commitment to the City of Merrill and the Merrill Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 11/16/2016 11:47:28 PM - SOURCE: Merrill Foto News

On November 16, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: A 24-year-old Cudady man is charged with starting a fire inside a Waukesha County snack factory. His reason? He saw a spider. According to a criminal complaint, Kevin Butler noticed the spider on a sack of almonds while working at A.L. Schutzman Company in October. The complaint says he "proceeded to light the spider on fire, which is something he has done since childhood.
- PUB DATE: 11/16/2016 8:32:15 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee