Hypothetical situation: A shooting incident with mass casualties and a shooter on the premises takes place in Sun Prairie. Would you as a public safety officer want to either wait to get the victims medical aid, or get them medical aid as quickly as possible? Thinking about the unthinkable, Sun Prairie’s emergency services have been participating in “warm zone” training at the former Fuzzy’s Liquor on A Street recently — conducting the third of four training sessions last Friday afternoon.
- PUB DATE: 10/28/2016 3:14:06 AM - SOURCE: Sun Prairie Star

Police Chief Art Howell and Fire Chief Steve Hansen presented 2017 budgets that just slightly differed from their respective 2016 budgets Wednesday night, although they include salary and overtime increases. Overall, the Police Department’s budget is projected to increase by just less than 3 percent, to roughly $28.
- PUB DATE: 10/28/2016 2:15:44 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

AUDIO: Gibraltar Fire Chief Jerrad Anderson has been a busy man since taking over for Caleb Whitney, who resigned from the post in February. In addition to running the volunteer department, the former department captain Anderson has been trying to grow his firefighter numbers and replace equipment on Chambers Island.
- PUB DATE: 10/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Door County Daily News

Firefighters Thursday rescued a delivery truck driver who fell into an excavation about two feet in diameter and 50 feet deep at a construction site in the Beverly Crest area of Los Angeles. The accident was reported about 8:40 a.m. in the 1600 block of San Ysidro Drive, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported.
- PUB DATE: 10/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTTV-TV MyFox 11 Los Angeles

Would you dial 911 for a cut finger, menstrual cramps, a cough or shampoo in your eyes? One South Florida municipality has had enough. The city of Hollywood is now charging people who call for an ambulance and are treated but not taken to a hospital. Hollywood residents will be charged $160, while non-residents will be charged $200.
- PUB DATE: 10/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPLG-TV ABC Local10.com - Miami & Fort Lauderdale

Ron Coleman can tell you the instant he became a believer in home fire sprinklers. It was the early 1970s, and Coleman was a battalion chief with the Costa Mesa, California, Fire Department. Responding to a call, he arrived at the scene of an already contained home fire and approached his weary-looking captain, Ray Gallagher, in the driveway.
- PUB DATE: 10/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NFPA Journal

The Contra Costa firefighters union Wednesday apologized for the weekend arrest of two off-duty firefighters following its charity ball that left two police officers injured. Around 5 a.m., just hours after the Second Annual Firefighters Ball at the Marriott Walnut Creek hotel had ended, Walnut Creek police responded to hotel security’s request to remove four drunk people, police said.
- PUB DATE: 10/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times

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