On August 18, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On August 17, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

PHOTO: A house fire near Governor Nelson State Park is under investigation. Firefighters were called at 7:20 a.m. to 5919 Oncken Road in the town of Westport on a report of a house fire. Firefighters told News 3 that the house is abandoned and nobody was in the building. The fire was contained to the house and did not spread to other buildings on the property.
- PUB DATE: 8/22/2016 6:35:29 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

VIDEO: Fire crews responded to an active fire around 9pm Sunday night at the closed Ten-O-One restaurant, located on Main street in Green Bay. According to the Green Bay fire department, the business had been closed for about a month, and the building had been vacant. The fire broke out in one of the apartments on the second floor, and when Green Bay firefighters arrived, they found a young person who had some smoke injuries.
- PUB DATE: 8/22/2016 5:23:01 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

The City of Sun Prairie has contracted with a consulting firm to study funding allocation for the Sun Prairie Fire Department, thanks to action taken Aug. 16 by the city council’s Committee of the Whole. A portion of the costs for the $5,132, two-month study will be paid for by the towns of Bristol and Sun Prairie that receive fire service from SPFD.
- PUB DATE: 8/22/2016 3:13:28 AM - SOURCE: Sun Prairie Star

On August 21, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: The 2-year-old injured in an apartment fire in Lake Holcombe passed away Saturday night. The Chippewa County Sheriff's Department identified the boy as Anthony N. Harp, son of Sean N. Harp and Amber J. Liebe. Liebe told officials Anthony died at the hospital in Minnesota. Harp, Liebe and their 3-year-old son were able to escape the fire, but the parents were not able to get Anthony out of the building.
- PUB DATE: 8/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18

The fire union is objecting to a new emergency plan by the city that includes replacing a fire vehicle with a paramedic unit at one of the city’s 10 fire houses. Union President Frank Ricci said the department’s current deployment plan is working well and he believes changing it could affect response times to fires and emergency and other medical calls.
- PUB DATE: 8/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register

Last summer, the Stouts Creek fire burned for more than a month, scorching more than 26,000 acres. Now the men blamed for starting it are expected to reimburse the government the estimated $37 million it cost to put it out. The wildfire sparked July 30, 2015, forced evacuations and destroyed timber, said Kyle Reed, a fire prevention specialist at the Douglas County Fire Association.
- PUB DATE: 8/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Oregonlive.com

A former finalist in the search for a new fire chief in Twin Falls has been named as a defendant in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed against a local fire district. Former training Capt. Brent Blamires of Kimberly filed suit in July against Rock Creek Rural Fire District and Chief Jason Keller for violating Idaho’s Whistleblower Act and for wrongful termination.
- PUB DATE: 8/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Magicvalley.com

Cumberland Fire Chief Donnie Dunn knows the local heroin problem isn't going away. “It's a problem and it's going to be here," the chief said. “I don't see any solutions. It's unfortunate." Overdoses involving heroin have become routine calls for the Cumberland Fire Department. “The calls could be anywhere.
- PUB DATE: 8/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cumberland Times-News

After fighting a wildfire in Eastern Washington, Williams Jones of Battle Ground realized that his black Lab, Hunter, had run away from the dog sitter, was picked up by an animal shelter and adopted by another family. Although the family was reluctant to return the dog to Jones last week, they had a change of heart over the weekend, according to the Humane Society for Southwest Washington.
- PUB DATE: 8/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Columbian.com

VIDEO: Fire fighters responded to the Embers apartment complex early Sunday morning at 4:18 to a blaze on South Business Drive in Sheboygan, a fire that killed one adult, no further details have been released. It took fire fighters around thirty minutes to get the fire under control, although they battled spot fires well into Sunday morning.
- PUB DATE: 8/21/2016 9:47:03 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

On August 19, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On August 17, 4 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: Sheboygan fire firefighters are on the scene of an early morning fire. Crews were dispatched to the area of 8th and Oakland around 1:20 Friday morning for a report of multiple buildings on fire. A shed in the alleyway could be seen fully engulfed in flames, and firefighters were on scene for about 2 hours knocking the fire down, and then breaking through the roof to put out some hot spots inside the building.
- PUB DATE: 8/19/2016 5:52:21 AM - SOURCE: WBFM-FM B93.7

A 2-year-old child was airlifted to a Twin Cities hospital after suffering injuries in a fire Thursday morning in the town of Lake Holcombe. The child, whose identity has not been released, was pulled from a burning apartment by Cornell firefighters. No condition report is available. According to the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office, a fire in a second-story apartment at 27475 262nd Ave.
- PUB DATE: 8/19/2016 2:12:51 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

On August 18, 0 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A firefighter who drowned in Lake Norman while trying to retrieve the body of a lost swimmer died from a gas embolism after running out of air and surfacing too rapidly, according to a report released Thursday by the Iredell County medical examiner. Bradley Long, 28, of the Sherrills Ford-Terrell Fire and Rescue fire department, died on June 6 after gas bubbles likely blocked an artery during a hurried, emergency ascent, according to the report.
- PUB DATE: 8/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Charlotte Observer

FirstNet Chairwoman Sue Swenson, Vice Chairman Jeff Johnson and board member Teri Tekai have been reappointed to serve additional three-year terms on the board of FirstNet, according to an announcement today from U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. Like Swenson, Johnson and Takei, FirstNet board member Barry Boniface’s current term will expire, but Boniface “decided not to see reappointment to the FirstNet board due to the demands of his business,” according to a U.
- PUB DATE: 8/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Urgent Communications