Pittsburgh's firefighters now know they averted a disaster with their quick action to put out the fire on the Liberty Bridge on Friday. They knew the heat from the flames was intense, but going in, they didn't know the full threat that the severe fire damage to a metal beam under the Liberty Bridge was creating.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wtae.com

There aren’t many sounds in Southern California more frightening than a wildfire. And we’ve been hearing them way too often, in a fire season that doesn’t seem like a season at all any more, but a year-round event. There are so many that we have to give them names to distinguish them -- the Sand fire, the Chimney fire, the Fish fire.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Times

Romona Walters has always wanted to be a teacher. Kids in preschool, maybe. It's a career that fits her interest in public service, she says. But about a year ago, another possibility opened up. Now, the 20-year-old has a new goal as she continues her classes at Capital Community College: to become the first female fire chief in Hartford.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Courant Community

On September 6, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

Budget and general outlay request are starting to roll in and Beaver Dam’s fire and police department chiefs previewed their 2017 general outlays for the Police and Fire Commission meeting, Tuesday night. The budget and outlay requests are preliminary, at the moment, and most likely will change in the months ahead.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 7:18:41 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

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

On September 2, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Several people are displaced after a house fire in Fond du Lac. It happened just before 10 Monday night at 4th Street and Fond du Lac Avenue. When crews arrived on the scene they saw smoke and found flames in the laundry room. Firefighters were able to put out the fire, but not before it caused smoke and heat damage.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 6:07:11 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

The number of emergency calls fielded by the Janesville Fire Department continues to rise, while the department's staffing levels continue to flatline. Car accidents and medical emergencies have been going skyward for years. And so far in 2016, those trends have been coupled with spikes in residential fires, water rescues and hazardous materials incidents.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gazette Extra - Metered Site

Stan Simi still responds to fires when they get big enough, and despite being 89 years old, he sees no reason to stop any time in the immediate future. “The way it is now, it is pretty easy for me,” said Simi, who has been chief of the River Delta Fire Protection District since 2009. “I have people doing everything that needs to be done .
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Republic

A Chelsea firefighter who “exemplified the fire service to the nth degree” lost the fight of his life on Saturday to aggressive esophageal cancer, the city’s director of Emergency Management and 911 Communications said yesterday. Peter Franz Kannler, a father of two from Townsend whose heroic struggle with the disease was profiled by the Boston Herald in February, was 37 years old.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald

A hero FDNY firefighter dismissed after testing positive for cocaine has won his job back — after arguing that Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro gave a similar break to his predecessor’s son. Glen Merkitch, 47, who has won bravery awards for his rescues, failed a random test in 2011, violating the FDNY’s “zero tolerance” policy.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

A man was taken into custody Sunday evening after he assaulted a police officer and firefighter in west Wichita. Wichita Police Sgt. Nikki Woodrow reports a 25-year-old man drove erratically into the joint Wichita Police and Fire Department station in the 600 block of N. Elder about 6:45 p.m. Sunday night.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSN-TV News 3

A Lubbock firefighter has filed a lawsuit to reverse the ruling of a city commission that governs promotions among fire and police personnel that denied him advancement in the department. According to Charles Turner II’s lawsuit, which was filed Friday in the 237th District Court, the Lubbock Civil Service Commission violated its policy during a promotion application process in June.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

On September 5, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: Two Eau Claire Firefighters are gearing up for a new challenge that's 140 miles long, and have a special reason for taking part in the race. On Sunday thousands of athletes from all over the country will make their way to Madison, Wisconsin for the IRONMAN triathlon. Among them will be Pat Hamler and Jeff Patrow, firefighters with the Eau Claire Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2016 8:58:01 PM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC

VIDEO: Some local firefighters spent part of their Labor Day fighting a house fire in Onalaska. The fire broke out around 1:00 p.m. Sept., 5, at 2440 Thomas Court in Onalaska. Firefighters from La Crosse and the Town of Campbell assisted to put out the roof fire, that spread to the house's deck. They spent about an hour at the scene.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2016 4:46:49 PM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 LaCrosse

VIDEO: The Brown County Fire Task Force is investigating the fire that reduced an abandoned school house building in Brown County’s Town of Rockland to a pile of rubble. Crews were called to the old Lincoln School building at the intersection of Old Martin and Ryan Roads at about 2:30 Monday morning.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2016 4:07:10 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

On September 4, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On September 3, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.