As of Sunday, about 39,500 Wisconsinites had already received the coronavirus vaccine, but state emergency medical responders are concerned they've been left out. Firefighters and ambulances respond to virtually every medical emergency, and they want to make sure they're included as the Moderna vaccine rolls out this week. - PUB DATE: 12/28/2020 7:04:57 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee
This holiday season, the Merrill Fire Department is seeing calls they’d never seen before 2020. They have to be just as quick to respond to calls without letting COVID-19 slow them down.
Usually at this time of year, Merrill firefighters might be suiting up for calls for holiday fires or kitchen fires, but this year, they’re having to suit up in PPE for EMS calls to protect themselves from COVID-19. - PUB DATE: 12/28/2020 5:57:54 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau
No one was injured after a house fire occurred in Shawano County on Monday afternoon.
The Shawano Fire Department told Local 5 that at around 1:30 p.m., fire crews responded to a home located on the 100 block of S. Lafayette Street for reports of a residential fire.
Upon arrival, firefighters say they saw heavy smoke coming from the eaves and later determined the fire was located in the attic of the home. - PUB DATE: 12/28/2020 3:14:49 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV CBS 5 Green Bay
Four house cats were saved and no injuries were reported after a house fire took place in the City of Oconto on Saturday night.
According to the Oconto Fire and Rescue, just before 10:30 p.m., firefighters responded to a residence located on the 200 block Erie Avenue for a report of a house fire.
Upon arrival, crews found flames and smoke coming from an enclosed front porch and report having quickly performed a knockdown of the flames and contained the fire to the area of the porch. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2020 11:39:24 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV CBS 5 Green Bay
Multiple law enforcement agencies are investigating what police describe as a suspicious fire that took the lives of several victims Christmas morning.
According to a press release from the Omro Police Department, an officer on patrol saw flames and heavy smoke near a house in the 200 block of McKinley Avenue around 4:30 a. - PUB DATE: 12/26/2020 3:39:20 PM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay
One Madison resident is displaced after an apartment fire in downtown Madison.
MFD says they responded to Bassett Warehouse Apartments on North Bedford Street around 7:30 a.m Saturday. Residents of the 27-unit apartment complex reported smoke in the hallway.
Responding firefighters found heavy smoke and flames in an apartment on the first floor. - PUB DATE: 12/26/2020 1:50:01 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison
The Madison Fire Department helped put out an illegal backyard bonfire early Sunday morning that reached 10 feet in diameter with flames up to six-feet high.
According to a daily report, the Madison Fire Department responded to the bonfire around 12:15 a.m. on Lathrop Street that had a “notable glow” coming from the backyard. - PUB DATE: 12/24/2020 5:35:17 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison
The Beaver Dam Fire Department rescued a man who was stuck on Beaver Dam Lake Tuesday morning after falling through the ice and calling 911.
According to a press release from Beaver Dam Fire Department Capt. Lee Smith, the 911 call came in at 5:37 a.m., but the person on the line was not communicating with dispatchers and then the call was disconnected. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 5:58:07 PM - SOURCE: Chippewa Herald - Metered Site
With the holidays upon us Green Bay firefighters are again making sure hospitalized kids, still get to enjoy some Christmas magic. Kris Schuller has more on their annual trip to St. Vincent Children’s Hospital and the special guest they brought along.
Outside HSHS St. Vincent Children’s Hospital, a fire truck sits, filled with presents just for kids. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 4:24:54 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV CBS 5 Green Bay
Kenosha County Sheriff’s Deputy Colin Coultrip said he didn’t give much thought to the potential danger when he climbed into a canoe and began pushing the boat with his hands across a barely frozen pond toward a man who had fallen through the ice and was struggling in the water.
“I just went for it,” Coultrip said. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 7:21:31 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News
A fire destroyed a large playground set at a Fond du Lac Park on Monday, Dec. 21.
The Fond du Lac Fire Department was called to the park, located on Park Avenue, around 4:18 p.m.
The fire was put out by crews but not before officials say the equipment was destroyed.
“This is quite disturbing”, said Fire Chief Peter O’Leary. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 5:11:53 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee
State officials say they’re expecting thousands of doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine to arrive later this week.
Monday afternoon, Governor Tony Evers announced the state will receive an initial shipment of 16,000 doses, and in the coming weeks, will receive a total of 100,000 doses.
Moderna’s vaccine can be stored in normal freezers, allowing it to be directly shipped to vaccinating units. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay
The pandemic didn’t stop Pepin County residents from seeing Santa this holiday season.
The Durand City-Rural Fire Department hosted it’s annual “Ride Along with Santa”. Flanked by firefighters. Fire truck hosting the jolly old fellow cruised through the streets of Durand.
The firefighters handed out candy canes to people along the route. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2020 8:05:27 AM - SOURCE: WLAX-TV FOX 25 La Crosse
A report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum shows greater cooperation among fire departments in small communities could help address a shortage of first responders in the state.
The report looks at fire and emergency medical services in the La Crosse area. Commissioned by La Crosse County and the La Crosse Area Planning Committee, it looks at opportunities for the departments to share resources given the growing need for services in many of the communities. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Public Radio
Afire in Wonewoc that destroyed a home near downtown was allegedly the result of arson and set by a juvenile, police say. According to Wonewoc Police Chief Mike Stahlke, the Wonewoc Fire Department was called to a house fire at 206 S. East St. in Wonewoc at about 8:30 p.m. Dec. 16.
“First responders observed the house fully engulfed along with a separate smaller fire in a detached garage,” Stahlke said in a press release. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2020 7:58:18 AM - SOURCE: Lacrosse Tribune
There are no reports of injuries after a house fire in Oconto Thursday.
At about 2:32 p.m., Oconto Fire Rescue crews were called to 225 Michigan Ave.
Crews arrived to find smoke and flames coming from a two-story, wood frame home.
The occupants escaped the home without injury. Crews used a hose line to fight the fire from the outside. - PUB DATE: 12/18/2020 6:22:38 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay
An overloaded circuit on the second floor sparked an Uptown fire that damaged the Rockhead’s Comics & Games building.
The fire began around 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 16., at the structure at 2328 Roosevelt Rd.
To battle the fire, the Kenosha Fire Department called in an additional two units, Fire Chief Charles Leipzig said Thursday. - PUB DATE: 12/18/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Racine County Eye
Anew report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum lays out that more collaboration of fire and EMS services in the La Crosse area could cut costs while improving service quality.
Commissioned by La Crosse County a little over a year ago, the report examines what the best solution to a growing number of challenges area emergency service providers are facing might be. - PUB DATE: 12/17/2020 11:37:37 AM - SOURCE: Lacrosse Tribune
The building that was home to Rockheads Comics and Games was damaged by fire Wednesday afternoon.
A former fire station at 2328 Roosevelt Road in Uptown was home to the decades-old shop, which closed earlier this year. Neighbors said the building had been vacant and, according to property records, there were no apartments on the second floor. - PUB DATE: 12/17/2020 1:07:40 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News
Aplan delivered Wednesday to Gov. Tony Evers outlines dozens of actions to address hazardous “forever chemicals,” including testing of all municipal water systems, phasing out fluorinated firefighting foam and creating a strategy for communicating the risks.
Developed over the past year in response to an executive order, the PFAS Action Plan builds on work already begun by the DNR and other agencies to track, contain and clean up existing contamination and limit future exposures. - PUB DATE: 12/16/2020 3:27:49 PM - SOURCE: WISC News - Metered Site
