Maria Walker is modest when talking about her promotion Friday to deputy chief of the Albany Fire Department — the first woman to take the post. "I understand the importance of it — it's not lost on me. It's an honor, it truly is," Walker said, adding she knew this question would be asked. "But for me, it's work.
- PUB DATE: 8/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Timesuninon.com

The Central Coventry Fire District has asked the Rhode Island State Police to criminally investigate an apparent break-in to a file cabinet and theft of confidential personnel records. The district also wants the state police to investigate a possible unauthorized accessing of privileged computerized financial information.
- PUB DATE: 8/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Providence Journal

Two years after the handling of the fire that destroyed Delaney’s Restaurant and Tap Room raised concerns about fire operations, New Haven’s Fire Department runs its scenes much more effectively, according to Acting Fire Chief Matthew Marcarelli. “We’ve had a lot of improvements over the last few years,” Marcarelli said.
- PUB DATE: 8/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register

The nonprofit Firefighters Support Services' is halting operations amid accusations of withholding funds intended to help firefighters and victims of fire. Attorney General Bill Schuette's office says the group and its professional fundraiser, Associated Community Services of Southfield, raised funds through misleading phone calls, and more than 90 percent of donations went elsewhere.
- PUB DATE: 8/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mlive.com

You may have seen Lebanon firefighters training on it, testing out all the bells and whistles on their new $867,000 ladder truck. It's hard to miss, especially since it's been parked outside of the fire station and not inside. It doesn't fit inside either firehouse. Taxpayers had concerns and came to WLWT for answers.
- PUB DATE: 8/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wlwt.com

PHOTO: Park officials are looking at ways to prevent injuries at a state natural area near Baraboo after a fall there Thursday marked the third injury in a week. A rope rescue crew was called to Pewit’s Nest State Natural Area around 1 p.m. after a 20-year-old female from Appleton injured herself on the rocks inside the water-filled gorge.
- PUB DATE: 8/25/2016 6:42:48 PM - SOURCE: wisc news

VIDEO: The Heavy Urban Rescue Team (HURT) is a special team from the Milwaukee Fire Department. Members from HURT carried out a training session at WE Energies Thursday (Aug. 25). They are the part of the team that helped find three missing teenagers who were rescued in an old mine out in Dodge County last month.
- PUB DATE: 8/25/2016 6:35:17 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Investigators say there were no adults inside a Milwaukee home when a two-year-old boy died after getting stuck in a first floor window. Firefighters were called to the home around 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, after a window closed on the toddler while he was apparently trying to crawl through the opening. Only a group of teenagers was inside the home with the boy at the time of the incident.
- PUB DATE: 8/25/2016 9:19:04 AM - SOURCE: WDEZ-FM 101.9

By next year, firefighters in Waukesha plan to have equal response times when called out to emergencies. The city council signed off on a land deal to build a new station, which would then mean all areas of the city would be accessible in a 6 minute or less drive time. The new station is set to be built along State Highway 59, just east of County Highway X.
- PUB DATE: 8/25/2016 6:44:45 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

Kids playing with matches is the suspected cause of a Wednesday afternoon garage fire at 1214 Illinois St., fire officials said. Racine Fire Department Lt. Scott Sorce said the blaze to the detached garage was reported at 4:07 p.m. Wednesday. Matches are being considered as the cause, Sorce said. Children home at the time noticed smoke coming from the garage, then safely waited for fire crews to arrive, Sorce said.
- PUB DATE: 8/25/2016 2:26:07 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

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

VIDEO: Crews have a fire at 121-year-old building in downtown Oconto Falls under control this morning. Firefighters responded to the Caldwell House on Main St. late Wednesday night. Overnight, flames could be seen shooting through the roof of the building. Firefighters say the blaze started in the attic and spread quickly while crews worked to evacuate the second floor apartments.
- PUB DATE: 8/25/2016 12:05:07 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

For Patrick Hardison, the Mississippi volunteer firefighter who underwent the world’s most extensive face transplant one year ago, the highlights of the past year have been things most people take for granted: People no longer stare. Children don’t run away. He can drive again. When he went to Disney World with his family, he was able to swim in the pool.
- PUB DATE: 8/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Washington Post

When the ambulance arrived at the scene, glass was broken out in front of the building. People were waving for help. Two people had been shot. In the past, Paramedic Lisa Matthews would have waited for police to arrive and make sure the scene was secure. But not this time. Following their new training, Matthews and her CoxHealth Emergency Medical Services crew rushed into Prairie Mountain Screening in Lockwood early in the morning on Aug.
- PUB DATE: 8/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Springfield News-Leader

There was nothing to indicate fire was coming from anywhere but the attic when two fire chiefs entered a burning home's kitchen to begin an internal attack. Nothing, that is, until one of them fell through the floor.Blue Lake Township Fire Chief Jim Petrie said all indications were that the fire was in the attic of the home in Holton Township that caught fire before 1 p.
- PUB DATE: 8/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mlive.com

A female Providence firefighter who was a material witness in a sexual harassment case involving another city firefighter has filed her own lawsuit against the city. Danielle Masse, a rescue lieutenant who was hired in 2001, claims she was demoted from the rank of captain and suspended for 10 days less than one month before she took the stand to testify on behalf of Lori Franchina, a former firefighter who was awarded $806,000 by a federal jury in a gender discrimination and sexual harassment trial earlier this year.
- PUB DATE: 8/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI.com

It’s a call nobody wants to make. When someone picks up the phone and dials 911, it’s probably because they or someone they know is hurt. Dispatchers at the Phoenix Fire Dispatch Center are standing by. “We are very busy," said Phoenix Fire Department Capt. Reda Bigler. "It’s constantly moving in this place,” The dispatch center handles more than a million calls a year.
- PUB DATE: 8/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: 12news.com

VIDEO: A Green Bay man faces arson charges in connection to the fire at the Ten-O-One Club on Main Street in green bay Sunday night. 18-year-old Jesus Castilloveitia-Quinton is charged with three felonies, including arson and child abuse. Capt. Kevin Warych of the Green Bay Police Department says the suspect was in the former Ten O One Club building with some children, when the fire started.
- PUB DATE: 8/24/2016 6:42:14 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

VIDEO: Two people were treated for smoke inhalation after a house fire. It happened around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday on the 300 block of 4th Street. When crews arrived, they found fire showing through a window on the side of the home. Most of the fire was contained in a bedroom, but the outside of the home by the window was also slightly damaged.
- PUB DATE: 8/24/2016 6:20:51 AM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay

The person who died in Sunday's fire at Embers Apartments in Sheboygan has been identified as 62-year-old Deborah Marsh. Firefighters discovered the body while fighting the fire in one of the apartments, according to the Sheboygan Fire Department. An autopsy showed the victim died of smoke and soot inhalation.
- PUB DATE: 8/24/2016 4:06:11 AM - SOURCE: Sheboygan Press