Flames ripped through a Stevens Point home Monday and smoke filled the surrounding neighborhood, but the scene was no cause for alarm. Instead, the event was a training tool for local firefighters.
The Stevens Point Fire Department had a rare opportunity to hold live-fire training at a city-owned home at 281 Washington Ave. - PUB DATE: 11/4/2019 4:45:01 PM - SOURCE: Stevens Point Journal
The Village of Bellevue is making a change to the way it handles emergency response. Come the first of the year Bellevue Fire and Rescue will be staffed 24 hours a day.
In the Village of Bellevue this fire station isn’t staffed around the clock. But come January 1, Chief Jack Mlnarik says that’s going to change. - PUB DATE: 11/4/2019 4:37:15 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay
A Madison man is recovering from a heart attack thanks to his quick-thinking loved ones and Madison's fire chief.
"I really don't think I can personally take any credit because it's training that I've received from the department over the years and experiences that led to that. Like I said, the gentleman's wife did a spectacular job," said Fire Chief Steven Davis. - PUB DATE: 11/4/2019 10:48:10 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison
Four fallen Green Bay Metro firefighters were honored Sunday. It was the first time they were recognized locally, after dying in the line of duty from occupational cancer.
“Time does not diminish the significance of the loss; in particular with these four being cancer. This is a lesson learned,” said Lieutenant David Siegel with the Green Bay Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 11/3/2019 6:48:15 PM - SOURCE: NBC 26 News Green Bay
The Union Grove-Yorkville Fire Department is mourning the loss of one of their firefighters.
The department sharing on Facebook that Brian Serdynski passed away Saturday morning. He had been a member of the department for five years and participated in various local events. The Racine Journal Times first reported Serdynski suffered a heart attack during an emergency call back on October 19. - PUB DATE: 11/3/2019 6:44:52 PM - SOURCE: WTMJ-AM 620 Milwaukee
A structure fire in Mauston on Saturday morning killed one person, according to a news release.
At roughly 5 a.m., fire officials responded to a structure fire on Prairie Street, according to the release. Officials said firefighters were able to contain the blaze. The release said one man was found dead inside the structure. - PUB DATE: 11/3/2019 2:56:59 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison
We all experience traumatic events at some point in our lives, whether it's the death of a loved one or something we've gone through personally. But how prepared are you to handle those situations?
Captain Tyler Greenwood of the Baraboo Fire Department gave a talk at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse Friday to help people recognize the changes in your life after a trauma. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2019 9:46:30 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse
A building in Sun Prairie will soon bear the name of the city's fallen hero. President Donald Trump signed a bill Thursday to name the post office in honor of fire Capt. Cory Barr.
"I'm kind of an ink dry kind of person so until Trump actually put his signature on it and you know I didn't wanna get my hopes up," says Abby Barr, Cory's widow. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2019 8:23:38 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau
Oak Creek has a new fire chief following the retirement of former Chief Tom Rosandich earlier this month.
Formerly an assistant fire chief, Michael Kressuk, Jr. has been appointed as the new chief for the Oak Creek Fire Department.
The city’s police and fire commission made the appointment at its Oct. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2019 2:54:30 AM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
President Donald Trump has signed a bill renaming the Sun Prairie post office after a firefighter killed in an explosion last year.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s office says Trump signed the bill Thursday renaming the post office after Cory Barr. He was killed in a natural gas explosion in downtown Sun Prairie in July 2018. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV ABC 27
Firefighters helped a man whose wheel broke off his van in a parking lot next to the fire department on Thursday.
A blog post from the Madison Fire Department said the crew was told that the man needed to move his vehicle into a parking spot to avoid getting a ticket. However, the man could not afford a tow truck. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2019 4:47:12 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison
While on the scene of one crash, Town of Peshtigo Fire Department says one of its vehicles became the victim of another crash Thursday morning.
The fire department says its water tender was being used for protection at a crash along U.S. Hwy 41 just before 7 a.m. A vehicle had rolled over near the Peshtigo River bridge. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2019 2:52:10 PM - SOURCE: NBC 26 Green Bay
A Germantown man remains hospitalized Thursday morning after being rescued by Germantown fire crews and police department officers after his home caught fire Wednesday night.
The Germantown fire and police departments responded to a house fire at W161 N11683 Church St. at about 8 p.m. Wednesday. When they arrived, they found the man lying on the front steps while flames were shooting out of the front door and front windows. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2019 8:28:39 AM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Metered SIte
A 14-year-old girl on Wednesday, Oct. 30 offered tasty treats to Milwaukee firefighters who saved her life 11 years ago. It was Sept. 28, 2008 -- and FOX6 News cameras were rolling near the intersection of Grant and Middlemass in Milwaukee as crews put out a huge duplex fire. One little girl remained inside the building until firefighters came to the rescue. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2019 4:49:09 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6
The Bellevue Fire Department will be staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week starting in 2020.
The Village Board of Trustees approved a three-year contract with Bellevue Firefighters from IAFF Local 141 to allow this staffing, changing it from the current staffing structure of Monday through Friday, 7 a. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2019 11:46:20 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay
Three people are without a home in Rock County after a massive fire Tuesday afternoon.
According to the Janesville Fire Department, crews responded to South Edgewater Drive in the Town of Rock just before 4 p.m. after flames were seen coming from a garage.
The fire spread to the main building of the house, and crews were able to knock down those flames in 20 minutes. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2019 5:38:16 AM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison
Firefighters with muscles, and puppies, in a calendar.
This is how Milwaukee Fire Department members are raising tens of thousands of dollars to help firefighters during times of need.
Two years ago Ignite the Spirit-Milwaukee launched as a nonprofit organization that supports firefighters when they can't be at work for family or personal health reasons. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2019 4:57:45 AM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Firefighters from seven central Wisconsin municipalities got the chance this week to practice rescuing people in a real-life agricultural setting and not just with a simulator.
The Pittsville Fire Department regularly uses a simulator to train firefighters on how to rescue someone caught in a grain bin. - PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 5:56:57 PM - SOURCE: Wisconsin State Farmer
A man is facing criminal charges, accused of taking a fire chief's all-terrain vehicle during a festival in Big Bend.
Surveillance images show the fire department's six-wheel ATV just outside the station in July during the Big Bend Rumble by the River. The chief was using it to deliver water and snacks to police and firefighters. - PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 3:38:16 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee
Kent Gilles has been responding to 911 calls in one fashion or another for more than three decades.
Wisconsin State Assembly recently awarded the lifelong Plum City resident with the 93rd Assembly District First Responder Award. The Wisconsin Assembly honors first responders from each district.
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