Mayor Andrew J. Ginther has approved adding 25 fire recruits to the Columbus Fire Division by December to fill positions as more firefighters retire than had been expected. The recruits are to keep staffing near its current level of about 1,580 firefighters, although the division will end the year with 10 more firefighters and paramedics than it had when the year began.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Columbus Dispatch

Monday, Wilmington Fire Chief Anthony Goode recounted the details of the events leading up to the deaths of two firefighters Saturday morning. 41-year-old Lieutenant Christopher Leach and 51-year-old Sr. Firefighter Jerry Fickes were killed responding to a house fire at 1927 Lakeview Road. Firefighters responded to the house fire in Canby Park Saturday, September 24th, 2016, after receiving a call at 2:54 a.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDEL 1150AM & WDEL.com

When a wildfire is rolling toward a house built with a cedar shake roof, surrounded by decorative juniper up to the windowsills, and the only access road is overgrown and narrow, firefighters will likely skip it. “People think that we’re going to save their house,” said Paul Tester, Southwest Washington’s fire training coordinator at the state Department of Natural Resources.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

Nampa Fire Dept. Chief Karl Malott is in serious condition after a crash on Interstate 84 near Sand Hollow Saturday afternoon. Idaho State Police say the Harley-Davidson motorcycle operated by Malott, 53, rear-ended a red sedan on the eastbound side of I-84. The impact threw Malott off of his motorcycle.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVB-TV

VIDEO: Flames were flying at the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds on Monday. It was all part of a training session over three years in the making. The Wisconsin Propane Education and Research Council teamed up with the Chippewa Falls Fire District, as well as some other local fire department, to hold a special training session.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 10:26:39 PM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire

Three fire departments were called to fight a fire at a catering business in Bellevue on Monday. They were dispatched at 2:45 p.m. Monday to Biebel’s, 1234 Bellevue Street, where firefighters found light smoke coming from a utility/wash room. Crews found the fire in a bin of towels. They removed the towels from the building and put out the flames in the parking lot.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 3:49:18 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

A mom was able to get her child unbuckled from the back seat of their car Sunday morning before it went up in flames on Northport Drive, according to a release. The woman was driving a 2008 Chrysler 300 with a man down Northport Drive just before noon when they heard some crackling coming from the trunk of the car, officials said.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 1:24:59 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

The proposed new fire and ambulance station in Brussels was a topic for discussion this week in Sturgeon Bay and the Town of Union. At Tuesday's meeting of the Door County Board, the 19 Supervisors present approved a resolution spelling out a “land lease and construction agreement for (a) south ambulance station” to be located on County C, near the intersection with Wisconsin 57.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 1:22:02 PM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

On September 25, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On September 24, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On September 23, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On September 21, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On September 23, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On September 22, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

Audio transmission captured from the Wilmington 911 dispatch system early Saturday morning tells the tragic details of how Wilmington firefighters rushed into a burning rowhome only to fall through the floor into a flame-filled basement less than a minute later. The feed, pulled from an online archive system and posted on YouTube, gives voice to more than 28 minutes of emergency response by Wilmington Fire Department members as they worked to free firefighters trapped in the basement of a Canby Park rowhome.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Delaware Online

Breaking her public silence on the harassment endured by a female firefighter at a station near San Francisco’s Chinatown, the city’s fire chief strongly denounced the deplorable behavior of the woman’s male colleagues Friday and left open the possibility of further disciplinary action. The harassment — which included urination in the female firefighter’s bed — occurred at Powell Street’s Station 2, according to a confidential document obtained by The Chronicle.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: SFGate.com

An inspector with the U.S. Department of Labor came to the Keys to investigate the Key Largo Volunteer Fire Department after receiving several calls from someone falsely claiming to be the chief. The Labor staffer showed up at the mile marker 99 fire station on Sept. 14 asking to see payroll information, Chief Don Bock said this week.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Keys Reporter

First responders in U.S. communities reeling from waves of heroin overdoses say some people tell them they should just say no to using so many resources on drug abusers. Authorities say people have expressed frustration about rescuing addicts who often immediately resume using the potentially deadly drug.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAVY-TV NBC 10 Portsmouth

Some leaders in Nebraska's third-largest city are borrowing an idea from a vastly more liberal state: Ban apartment renters from smoking cigarettes and e-cigarettes inside. The proposal, which would be one of the few such restrictions outside of California and is similar to federal rules for public housing across the U.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lincoln Journal Star

One dog perished in an apartment fire in Juneau on Sunday afternoon. Firefighters were dispatched at 4:30 p.m. to 214 N. Main Street for a fire in the upper apartment of a duplex. According to Juneau Fire Chief Curtis Ninmann the fire was contained to the apartment and only the room and contents of the apartment were destroyed.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2016 6:40:49 PM - SOURCE: wisc news