A firefighter and his wife decided to reveal the gender of their baby in the most firefighter-esque way possible — by using a fire hose. Firefighter Jimmy Cologgi, with the Brighton (N.Y.) Fire Department, and his wife Laura found out their baby’s gender with friends, family and fellow firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 10/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

On October 27, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: Milwaukee Police are investigating two car fires as suspected arson. Officers were called to the 3700 block of S. Cherokee Way around 1:10 a.m. for a report of a fire. The preliminary investigation reveals that an unknown suspect used an accelerant to ignite two vehicles, which spread to a third vehicle.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2016 4:36:21 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

The Manitowoc Noon Rotary Club has named its 2016 Firefighter and Citizen of the Year winners. Firefighter and paramedic Tyler Kiel and Kassondra Woolford won the titles at the club’s celebration banquet earlier this month at Manitowoc’s Holiday Inn. Kiel was hired by the Manitowoc Fire Department in 2010 and took an immediate interest in the “Fill the Boot Campaign,” which asks firefighters to gather on local streets and collect donations in their boots.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2016 3:38:29 PM - SOURCE: Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter

A Milwaukee County judge sentenced Michael Morgan to 71 years in prison on Thursday, October 27th. Morgan was convicted of setting a fire that killed two children at a Milwaukee home in October 2015. The arson fire happened at near 36th and Silver Spring Drive around 2:00 a.m. Six children had to be rescued from the burning home — four of them by their grandmother.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2016 8:49:18 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

On October 26, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On October 24, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Firefighters returned to the scene of a barn fire south of Edgerton just before midnight Wednesday after the building re-ignited, officials said. Multiple fire department crews had responded at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday to 4649 W. Stone Farm Road and extinguished the flames. The fire re-ignited at 11:57 p.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2016 4:36:29 AM - SOURCE: Janesville Gazette

Fredonia Fire Chief Brian Schommer has spent much of his tenure lobbying for better facilities for his department. Although plans are moving on a major expansion project that should ease cramped conditions at the fire station next year, it turns out Schommer will not be around to enjoy the fruits of his lobbying efforts.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2016 1:56:10 AM - SOURCE: Ozaukee Press

A study of the Port Washington fire station will be done next year, something Port Fire Chief Mark Mitchell has been seeking for the last several years. But what shape that study will take has yet to be determined. City Administrator Mark Grams said on Tuesday that the Finance and License Committee placed $15,000 in the contingency fund for a study of the fire station, but whether that will be an analysis of expansion of the current firehouse or planning for a second fire station has yet to be determined.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2016 1:53:03 AM - SOURCE: Ozaukee Press

A labor of love that qualifies as hazardous duty. Three firefighters were hurt Tuesday, including a volunteer fire chief, related to a fire and explosion in LaGrange County. A 50-foot silo full of sawdust was the source of the trouble. It turned into a dangerous situation for firefighters and at least one worker in harm's way.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC 21alive.com

A new procedure went into effect last week that’s designed to make sure the fire department has adequate supervision during fires and other serious incidents. Fire Chief Dale C. Herman said that battalion chiefs now have the ability to “elevate” firefighters to the role of captains on an as-needed basis.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times

VIDEO - For the first time, we’re seeing video of the daring and emotional rescue of two children from a house fire in Mount Hope. The fire was so intense the children suffered critical burns and their older brother perished. Video captured by a GoPro on one firefighter’s helmet shows just what fire crews were up against that early Monday morning last November.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNSD-TV NBC San Diego

Public safety providers in central Ohio had the chance to experience the future of broadband for managing emergency incidents. Using a dedicated public safety 700 MHz LTE broadband network — FirstNet — constructed exclusively for this event, public safety personnel from fire, law enforcement, EMS, public safety telecommunications and other agencies came together to learn what a dedicated high-speed data will mean for public safety agencies in the United States.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

Firefighters performed a dramatic rescue dozens of feet above the ground, pulling a man from the window of a burning building in New York City's Upper East Side. The New York Fire Department responded to the six-alarm blaze the started around 3:30 a.m. on Thursday, reports WABC, a local affiliate. The fire quickly ripped through all five floors of an apartment building and burst through the roof, killing one person and leaving another in critical condition.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV 7online.com

VIDEO: “Just how effective would Personal Flotation Devices (PFD) be if a Firefighter were to fall through the ice while in full gear?” “Once in the water, how long would it take the rather heavy turnout gear Firefighters wear during fire fighting operations, to become saturated with water to the point of causing the fire fighter to begin sinking below the surface of the water?” Those were the two questions members of the Merrill Fire Department sought to answer on Tuesday afternoon, during an exercise at Riverside Athletic Club.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2016 11:11:11 PM - SOURCE: Merrill Foto News

VIDEO: No one was injured after a Fond du Lac business caught fire Wednesday morning. Crews responded to the fire at The Other Place on Main Street around 7:30 a.m. Firefighters on scene says that there was no one inside the business at the time of the fire. Most of the fire was contained to the rear of the building.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2016 7:35:37 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

On October 24, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A fire destroyed a former auto repair shop early Wednesday morning near downtown Stevens Point. The fire was reported shortly after 1:45 a.m. at the former site of Jerry’s Auto Service near the intersection of Second Street and Centerpoint Drive, according to Stevens Point Fire Capt. Jodi Baganz. The building was already engulfed in smoke and flames when the first firefighters arrived at the scene, Baganz said.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2016 6:37:44 AM - SOURCE: Stevens Point Journal

Mayor Patrick Madden was looking to cut the proposed 28.2 percent property tax increase as the City Council reviewed the proposed 2017 budgets for the fire and police departments Tuesday night. The two departments account for nearly half of the city's tentative $72.3 million budget, drawing the council's attention particularly on overtime costs.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Times Union