First responders raced to Racine's lakefront for the third time in as many days to rescue two more swimmers in trouble Monday, June 21.
This followed the drowning deaths of two other children, a 10-year-old and 17-year-old.
Emergency crews responded to an area of North Beach near the Racine Yacht Club pier. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee
As the role of emergency management in this pandemic moves from response to recovery, Wisconsin Emergency Management (WEM) is transferring functions to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) for long-term administration, including the distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE). Through the pandemic, the state allocated approximately 1. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs
A man died Saturday after he fell into the Wisconsin River while fishing, Richland County authorities said.
Officials said they got a call shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday reporting a potential drowning in the river near the Gotham Boat Landing. Witnesses told dispatchers they saw the man fall into river before the current pulled him under. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV FOX 47 Madison
A southern Brown County community is rallying around one of its volunteer firefighters.
A few months ago, 27-year old Dillon Steinfeldt had surgery to remove a brain tumor and he is now undergoing radiation, with chemotherapy on the horizon.
It was last fall when Dillon, who works for Wiese Farms in Greenleaf and serves on the community’s fire department, started to realize something wasn’t right. - PUB DATE: 6/21/2021 5:39:58 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay
Firefighters responded to a house fire in Middleton early Monday morning.
Dane County Sheriff Deputies said the call came in at 3:39 a.m. in the 3800 block of Bay Laurel Lane. When crews first arrived, they found flames in the garage that were spreading to the rest of the home. Firefighters said the house is a loss, but all of the family and pets made it out safely. - PUB DATE: 6/21/2021 6:27:57 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison
Madison resident Jonathan Woods has just minor burns on his arm to show after his grill caught fire earlier this week.
Woods suspects a faulty regulator was the reason for the fire, which shot from beneath the grill into his face before overtaking the grill itself.
“I came out, opened the grill up, looked underneath, opened the tank up, listened very carefully just to make sure there was no leak or anything,” Woods said Saturday. - PUB DATE: 6/19/2021 10:18:00 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison
Don't let the green leaves on the trees fool you. Wisconsin is still facing drier-than-normal conditions, making wildfires more of a risk, and there are steps people can take to avoid inadvertently sparking one.
Some areas of the state have seen rainfalls seven inches below average this year, said Marc Sass, a forester with the Department of Natural Resources. - PUB DATE: 6/19/2021 10:23:03 AM - SOURCE: Herald Times Reporter
A fire truck that performs in much the same way as its diesel-powered counterparts but boasts zero net carbon emissions is currently being piloted by the Madison Fire Department.
Although the Pierce Volterra zero-emissions pumper won't be ready for a full rollout until about 2023, the Madison Fire Department is partnering with the truck's maker, Pierce Manufacturing, a subsidiary of the Oshkosh Corp. - PUB DATE: 6/18/2021 3:51:17 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Public Radio
The Milton Town Board during a special meeting Thursday night received a draft petition from the town attorney and board chairman in which the town of Milton asks the Edgerton Fire Protection District Board to allow the town to join the district.
The draft could be modified to change the name of the town in the document so the others currently covered by the Milton Joint Fire Commission—Lima, Johnstown and Harmony—could use it, too. - PUB DATE: 6/18/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gazette Extra - Metered Site
Fond du Lac firefighters are investigating the cause of a fire at a smoke shop Thursday morning.
At 7:39 a.m., Fond du Lac Fire Rescue responded to Big Jay’s Smoke Shop at 111 S. Main Street.
Crews found smoke inside the three-story mixed use building. Fire was located on the first floor inside the smoke shop. - PUB DATE: 6/18/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay
A Platteville man is sharing his experiences with fire as a way of teaching fire safety during holiday weekends and summer months.
Scott Travis was only 9-years-old when he had his first experience with fire. Attending the UW-Platteville homecoming parade, a friend of Travis threw a firecracker on one of the nearby floats. - PUB DATE: 6/17/2021 6:33:24 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison
The Green Bay Metro Fire Department is congratulating one of its captains as he prepares to retire Thursday.
Captain Jon “JFred” Fredrickson has served the community in the City of Green Bay and the Village of Allouez and Bellevue for the last 35 years, beginning his career on March 26th, 1986 as an EMT Paramedic. - PUB DATE: 6/17/2021 6:22:19 AM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay
A woman is accused of killing her grandmother by suffocation and setting her house in Fort Atkinson on fire days later.
Elizabeth Durkee told investigators the 72-year-old woman was in ill health, spent most of her time in bed and wanted to die, so on June 7 she covered her grandmother's nose and mouth with duct tape and she eventually stopped moving, according to a criminal complaint filed in Jefferson County. - PUB DATE: 6/17/2021 4:45:59 AM - SOURCE: Greater Milwaukee Today
The Egg Harbor Fire Department was kept busy with a pair of blazes still under investigation on Wednesday.
A little after 11 a.m., firefighters headed to a trailer fire on West Carlsville Road where they found it fully engulfed. Egg Harbor Fire Chief Andy Staats said it appears it started in a back bedroom but no cause has been determined. - PUB DATE: 6/16/2021 4:59:50 PM - SOURCE: Door County Daily News
Two families were displaced from their westside apartments Tuesday night after a fire broke out in one of the units.
Madison fire officials said they responded to the 7900 block of Tree Lane around 10:15 p.m. for a water flow alarm. When crews arrived at the apartment complex, they found the fire alarm ringing and residents evacuating the 45-unit building. - PUB DATE: 6/16/2021 1:32:35 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison
Eight people were displaced by a fire at a three-family home in Green Bay Tuesday night.
There are no reports of injuries.
At about 8:48 p.m., Green Bay Metro firefighters were called to 909 Day Street on the city’s east side. They arrived to find heavy smoke, heat and fire on the second floor of the home. - PUB DATE: 6/16/2021 5:16:28 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay
A large fire south of the Wisconsin border is still burning more than a day later. On Monday, Illinois fire officials called in reinforcements to fight the chemical fire at a plant in Rockton, Illinois.
Multiple departments from Walworth County, including the City of Delavan Fire Department, answered. - PUB DATE: 6/15/2021 5:54:41 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources warns that the risk of fire is high due to dry conditions. Firefighters worked to put out a grass fire in Kenosha Tuesday, June 15.
"We haven’t had any rain in the past four weeks," said Guy Santelli, Kenosha Fire Department. The Kenosha Fire Department is gearing up for what could be a busy couple of weeks. - PUB DATE: 6/15/2021 5:16:59 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee
A 36-year-old Fort Atkinson woman has been arrested and charged in connection to a deadly June 11 fire.
Elizabeth Durkee is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, strangulation and suffocation, arson of a building and mutilating a corpse. The suspicious death and residential fire investigation also involved a statewide Amber Alert late Friday night, June 10 that resolved with the safe recovery of the child, shortly after the alert was issued. - PUB DATE: 6/15/2021 4:49:17 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee
Training police officers in emergency medical services and creating a separate countywide paramedic department were among the ideas to come out of an open house that Thiensville village officials hosted last month on the Ozaukee County fire and EMS study.
About 20 people attended the event, a number that caused concern among members of the Thiensville Committee of the Whole last week. - PUB DATE: 6/15/2021 5:40:18 AM - SOURCE: Greater Milwaukee Today
