PHOTOS: Six people are displaced after a home caught fire near 37th and Scott Tuesday, March 30.
It happened around 3 p.m.
Battalion Chief Brian Gardener with the Milwaukee Fire Department said they received reports of people trapped after a fire on the front porch. However, after a rapid search of the residence, everyone involved was accounted for and self-evacuated. - PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 7:08:24 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee
PHOTOS: No injuries have been reported after a fire engulfed a Chippewa Falls residence.
Crews were on scene of a fire just north of Eau Claire, on Debbie Street in Chippewa Falls.
The Chippewa Fire District says they received a call at 2:07 p.m. stating that a homeowner was sleeping and woke up to smoke in her house. - PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV NBC 13 Eau Claire
VIDEO: There are no injuries following a fire this morning at a Winona assisted living facility.
Crews were called to Brookdale Senior Living around 7:30 Tuesday morning.
When they arrived, the fire which started on the back patio, started spreading into the building’s attic.
Winona MTU buses and Winona Health provided temporary shelter for the residents. - PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 6:25:42 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse
VIDEO: Fire danger remains very high for most of the region. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources built a new tool so can stay up to date with fire conditions in your community.
Burn bans sweep across the La Crosse area as high winds and dry air scorch the landscape. A season of wildfires — most started by people in Wisconsin. - PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 3:55:28 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse
VIDEO/PHOTOS: A 48-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested, suspected of starting a grass fire Tuesday morning, March 30 under the 27th Street Viaduct in the Menomonee Valley.
Police say he intentionally lit some of the prairie grass along the Hank Aaron State Trail before flames burned through parts of Three Bridges Park. - PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 1:34:06 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee
The City of Peshtigo began selling commemorative coins to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Great Peshtigo Fire.
The new coin is now on sale.
Collectors can buy them for 15-dollars apiece, and come in a black, velvet pouch.
Peshtigo mayor, Cathi Malke, tells FOX 11 the idea of coins commemorating what’s known as “America’s Deadliest Forest Fire” isn’t unique. - PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 7:46:32 AM - SOURCE: WNFL Radio Green Bay
VIDEO: A citizen and two police officers required medical treatment after house fire on Green Bay’s east side.
Six people were displaced from the home. Investigators say the home is considered a “total loss.”
At about midnight, Green Bay Metro Firefighters were called to a home in the 2700 block of East Shore Drive. - PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 3:29:10 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay
Superior firefighters got some real-world, high-risk training Monday to help rescue one of their own if they were to ever go down during a fire.
Fake smoke was pumped into a 5,000-square-foot storage facility behind the new fire station on Tower Avenue.
The drill included a two-person team searching through zero visibility for a fellow firefighter in distress with a depleting air pack. - PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KQDS-TV Fox 21 Duluth
There are only two Hmong firefighters in Wisconsin. One of them lives right here in La Crosse.
“Everybody wants to live the American dream,” Batallion Chief Bee Xiong said. “I think that’s what my family and I are doing right now.”
Xiong built 19 years and counting with the La Crosse Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 3/29/2021 5:14:43 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse
The Suamico Fire Department cut the ribbon on its new fire station on Sunday.
The ceremony was private, for firefighters, families, and village staff.
The new building replaces the old building right down Riverside Drive, which is about 60 years old.
The new station has several upgrades, such as a decontamination hallway for firefighters to use to clean themselves after responding to fires. - PUB DATE: 3/29/2021 1:57:49 AM - SOURCE: WNFL SPORTS RADIO
Six people are displaced after their home caught fire Sunday due to improperly discarded smoking materials, according to the Madison Fire Department.
Around 2:30 p.m., Madison firefighters responded to the 1100 block of Starlight Drive for a structure fire. A resident of the home reported visible smoke and flames on an outside wall of the home. - PUB DATE: 3/28/2021 10:06:56 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison
Ten residents of a Racine apartment building have been displaced by a Saturday morning fire. The Red Cross is providing assistance to those in need.
The Racine Fire Department was called to the fire, near 8th and College, around 9 a.m. A total of 25 firefighters responded to the two-story, six-unit building. - PUB DATE: 3/27/2021 2:55:58 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee
The Fire Department quickly extinguished a fire in a three-apartment residence Friday, March 26, 2021.
Dispatched at 6:55 p.m. to the 700 block of West Third Street, firefighters arrived in approximately two minutes and had the second-floor fire under control five minutes later, according to a new release. - PUB DATE: 3/27/2021 9:44:31 AM - SOURCE: RiverTowns
VIDEO: A new, expanded EMS coordination team at Marshfield Clinic Medical Center in Marshfield is working to make all of the people involved in responding to medical emergencies better.
The center always had an EMS coordinator, but when she retired and Marshfield Clinic looked to fill the position, the emergency department medical director, Dr. - PUB DATE: 3/26/2021 5:41:37 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau
The City of Sun Prairie’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Department, Police Department, and Fire Department are the recipients of a Homeland Security Exercise grant for $8,500.
In partnership with Dane County Emergency Management and awarded through Wisconsin Emergency Management, the grant allows the city’s public safety teams to continue to build upon their emergency preparedness efforts. - PUB DATE: 3/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sun Prairie Star
One man was injured and a pet cat was killed after a fire broke out at a Baraboo home Thursday afternoon.
Firefighters with the Baraboo Fire Department responded to 420 West Maple Street around 3:15 p.m. for an active structure fire.
Authorities said in a Facebook post that crews found fire and heavy smoke coming from the rear of the house when they arrived. - PUB DATE: 3/25/2021 11:09:25 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison
The project to demolish the 80-year-old Fire Station No. 4 on Gillette Street has been a waiting game.
“We’ve been talking about replacing the old Station 4,” La Crosse Fire Department chief Ken Gilliam said.
Those plans have been in the works since 2018. “I’m adjusting strategy now to try and get something done in 2021,” Gilliam said. - PUB DATE: 3/25/2021 5:36:53 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse
Millions in funding to build a new fire station on the north side could be transferred to another station project in La Crosse.
After seeing an open-records request from someone on city council about Station 4, Fire Chief Ken Gilliam sent a video message to the council Wednesday seeking to make some changes. - PUB DATE: 3/25/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WIZM News Talk 1410 AM
As we inch closer to the summer, many people will be going on vacations, even staying at summer homes and cabins. But what happens if there’s an emergency?
One community in Door County is hoping others follow its lead by creating a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT).
“We have a lot of visitors,” said De Pere Fire Chief Alan Matzke. - PUB DATE: 3/24/2021 3:02:17 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is reminding residents that fire danger remains high across the state.
On Saturday, there were 36 fires burning over 100 acres. Five structures were burned and several more were threatened.
Fire danger is expected to remain high to very high across the state. - PUB DATE: 3/24/2021 1:02:35 PM - SOURCE: Peshtigo Times
