VIDEO - An Albany Firefighter earned the department's highest honor after saving a fellow worker's life. Tawanna Maples was honored as the Albany Firefighter of the Year at Tuesday night's city commission meeting. In June, she quickly administered the Heimlich maneuver when another firefighter began chocking at a firehouse.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOC-TV CBS 11 Savannah

Two Contra Costa firefighters and their companions were arrested early Sunday morning in a hotel room after a drunken attack that injured two Walnut Creek police officers, police said Tuesday. The melee happened around 5 a.m., just hours after the Second Annual Firefighters Ball at the Marriott Walnut Creek hotel had ended.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times

Switzerland is easing an alcohol ban for volunteer firefighters and other emergency workers using heavy vehicles, saying it had led to staffing shortages when crises demanded quick action, especially in smaller towns lacking professional personnel. Starting on Jan. 1, slightly tipsy volunteer firefighters and off-duty members of so-called professional "blue light" organizations responding to urgent situations will be no longer face punishment - provided their blood-alcohol level does not exceed 0.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Reuters.com

New disciplinary actions issued at the Austin Fire Department last week have brought the total of fire personnel who were suspended over traffic incidents this month to 16, a number the union president described as part of an “over-punishing environment” at the department. Each suspension has been for only a matter of hours.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman

On October 25, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Grab your costume and a non-perishable food item — the Thiensville Fire Department will be hosting its 3rd annual “Truck or Treat So Others Can Eat” event on Sunday, October 30th. The annual event will take place at the Thiensville Fire Department during Sunday’s trick or treating in the village from 3:00 – 6:00 p.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2016 7:29:54 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

VIDEO: A firefighter who has served the Fond du Lac community for the past nine years is preparing to serve his country in a third deployment overseas. But, before Lt. Shawn Kneeland leaves, his department wanted to give him a proper sendoff. Fond du Lac Fire Department Lieutenant Shawn Kneeland knew this day was coming.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2016 4:35:52 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

On October 24, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On October 22, 8 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

The Real McCoy's tavern was destroyed in an early Tuesday morning fire. “It is a total loss,” Whitewater Fire Chief Don Gregoire said. Damage is estimated at $400,000 damage, he said. When Walworth County sheriff's deputies arrived at the tavern, W8632 County A, they found flames shooting out of the windows of the 2,000-square-foot establishment, he said.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2016 5:11:29 AM - SOURCE: Janesville Gazette - Metered Site

Alderpersons in Beaver Dam’s Administrative Committee felt confident moving forward with the 2017 preliminary budget after Monday night, which include a drug detective position, full time paramedic and an off-leash dog area. The proposed net tax levy is a 1.5 percent increase amounting to a more than $147,000 bump over this year.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2016 1:43:51 AM - SOURCE: Beaver Dam Daily Citizen

VIDEO - Riding in a ladder truck bucket 67 feet in the air, Newberry Township volunteer firefighter Cody Zinn kept repeating the same thing. "Holy crap," said the 21-year-old as smoke from the home below reached high above his head. Zinn, who has cerebral palsy, was surprised with the ride in the ladder truck by Don Young, the assistant chief of the department.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today

A black Boston Fire Department inspector filed a lawsuit against the Boston Red Sox on Friday, six months after a black co-worker sued the team over an incident in which both men allege they were denied entry to Fenway Park to perform a safety inspection because of their race. Rhoan Dalmar, a city fire marshal, filed the civil complaint in Suffolk Superior Court.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Globe

A trail that will lead visitors to the site where 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots died fighting the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire is now nearly complete. Arizona State Parks officials reported this week that the Yarnell park that will honor the fallen Hotshots is expected to be finished and open to the public by late November.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Courier

An investigative team with the Nebraska State Fire Marshal's Office says a living room fireplace is what started a fire that killed all six members of the Speer family on October 20th. Mike and Michelle Speer, with their four children all died in the blaze. A family member said firefighters found each of their bodies in beds.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KETV-TV ABC 7 Omaha

A heartbroken dad whose son was killed in a fiery head-on collision on Interstate 495 in Middleboro said "I love them all" as he spoke of his boy and three college buddies who died in a midnight crash police said was caused by a wrong-way driver. State police said the Sable was struck head-on by a 31-year-old woman behind the wheel of a 2011 Infiniti G37 headed southbound on northbound I-495 just after midnight yesterday.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

On October 24, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

PHOTO: One dog died in a house fire while paramedics and first responders revived two others during a late-morning fire on Quincy Street Monday, Oct. 24. A passerby reported the fire at 639 E. Quincy St. near Ridgeway Drive before 10 a.m. The house is also home to Kuether Services, a lawn care and snow removal business run by Kelly and Kim Kuether.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2016 4:50:11 PM - SOURCE: Waupaca Now

VIDEO: The Merrill Fire Department sees the need for more, younger EMTs to get into the business. Like other area departments, it wants to ensure its staff will stay strong for years into the future. People like Dylan Schielke can help make that happen. Schielke is a Northcentral Technical College EMT student.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2016 4:45:08 PM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander-Wausau

Firefighters battled a house fire in the Town of Sheboygan on Monday afternoon. Firefighters responding to the structure fire at approximately 11 a.m. on Monday saw smoke billowing from the home. All residents of the home, which is located on County Road Y, were accounted for and were not in the home at the time of the fire, according to the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Office.
- PUB DATE: 10/24/2016 12:45:49 PM - SOURCE: Sheboygan Press