The Tomah Fire Department is planning to construct a new facility.
Tim Adler, Tomah Fire Department chief, said the plan is to share a facility with the Tomah Area Ambulance Service to create a single emergency service complex.
The architectural firm Keller from Appleton is drafting a building design to get some rough numbers for the cost, and it should be brought before the city council in August, Adler said. - PUB DATE: 7/30/2019 3:18:09 AM - SOURCE: Tomah Journal
On Monday evening, multiple fire crews responded to reports of a house fire in the City of Schofield.
The single-family home is located on the corner of Robert Street and Spring Street, near Mayoral Park. No people or pets were in the building at the time of the fire.
"The windows of the home were open when we arrived," said Deputy Chief Rob Bowen with the Riverside Fire District. - PUB DATE: 7/29/2019 5:55:31 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau
Menomonee Falls Director of Protective Services Anna Ruzinski on July 29 resigned from her position overseeing the village's fire department, officials announced in a news release.
Village Manager Mark Fitzgerald said that there is no hiring timeline set in place to replace Ruzinski, who oversaw both the fire and police departments and will continue to serve as police chief. - PUB DATE: 7/29/2019 4:37:52 PM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Emergency responders tackled an early morning rescue in Cudahy on Monday, July 29 -- just hours before two fire departments were training for the exact same thing. "We are a lakeside community, and with that community -- the lakeside has hazards," said Robert Schmidt, battalion chief for the Cudahy Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 7/29/2019 3:39:17 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6
A Hayward man says Wisconsin Rapids Fire Chief Scott Young is a hero after the chief saved his life July 18.
Bruce Claflin said the incident happened just before a weekend golfing event he had been planning with family and friends. He had been doing yard work to prepare for visitors to his Hayward home and putting in time in the golfing magazine he owns. - PUB DATE: 7/29/2019 5:46:48 AM - SOURCE: Wausau Daily Herald
A neighbor helped a woman escape a burning home in Racine County this weekend.
The fire started at a home on Blackhawk Drive in Caledonia Saturday afternoon.
Nicholas Patrenets, who lives behind the home, was in his kitchen when he saw the smoke.
"We happened to glance up and we saw all we smoke and we assumed it was a grill or something cooking. - PUB DATE: 7/29/2019 3:44:57 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee
Flying Apache attack helicopters in Iraq and Afghanistan prepared Tim Cherwin for his current job.
The foe might be different but sometimes it's just as dangerous battling forest fires in a twin-engine turboprop plane.
War zones and forest fires in the western United States — which Cherwin has fought from the air for the past five years — offer similar challenges: mountainous terrain, low altitude flying, extreme heat, rapidly changing weather conditions and endangered lives. - PUB DATE: 7/29/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
A Kenosha family is displaced following a fire on Friday evening.
The fire was reported around 8:15 p.m in a home near 33rd Avenue and 55th Street.
According to the Kenosha Fire Department, the four people home at the time of the fire were able to escape the blaze unharmed.
Firefighters were on scene for roughly two hours. - PUB DATE: 7/27/2019 3:34:41 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee
Firefighters on Friday morning, July 26 responded to the scene of a fire at a condominium complex in West Bend. It happened around 1:20 a.m. near River Drive and School Place. The six unit condominium building did not have a fire sprinkler system or a fire alarm system.
No additional details have been released — including the cause of the fire or the amount of damage sustained. - PUB DATE: 7/26/2019 6:52:41 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6
City officials said Thursday new information shows the firefighting foam used to put out fires at utility substations in Madison did contain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, clarifying an earlier statement made by Madison fire officials.
Firefighters used foam to put out the fires at substations for American Transmission Co. - PUB DATE: 7/25/2019 3:39:32 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison
Fond du Lac Firefighters will once again be asking for the public’s help to “Fill the Boot” and raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The Fill the Boot campaign begins next Thursday, August 1st at the corner of Division Street and Park Avenue from 10 am until 5 pm. Thanks to a generous match from the owner of Magic Car Wash Express, the community’s donations will be matched up to $10,000. - PUB DATE: 7/25/2019 11:15:22 AM - SOURCE: KFIZ-AM 1450
A suspected drunken driver plunged into the Fox River in downtown Waukesha earlier this month.
Witnesses said the driver, 19-year-old Viktoria Droegkamp, drove around a bend and clipped a tree before she careened into the river. "(The) car was going zig-zag," said Leslie Silvernail, who pulled the driver to safety. - PUB DATE: 7/24/2019 8:54:55 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee
"There's not much new here, as you can see," explained Captain Jim HIllcoat of the La Crosse Fire Department.
Nearly 80 years old, Fire Station Four has a lot of history to it, and a lot of wear and tear.
"You see the windows on the apparatus bay? What happens when you have windows like that? What happens to your utility bills?" questioned Hillcoat. - PUB DATE: 7/24/2019 4:48:10 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse
The Eau Claire Fire Department responded to an appliance fire and explosion that hurt one person.
It happened just before 5 p.m. at the Gyro King in the 300 block of Water Street.
Crews say nothing was showing from the structure, but they could smell natural gas.
Businesses on both sides were evacuated and Water Street was closed off for about two hours
There was no fire and crews turned off the gas and ventilated the building. - PUB DATE: 7/23/2019 5:53:24 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News
Communication systems usually are the first thing to break down in an emergency situation, Portage Fire Inspector Craig Ratz said.
In a push to improve communication among local firefighters when responding to calls, Ratz said he ordered several new noise-reducing headsets that block out some noise of sirens and make it easier for teams to plan ahead and chat back and forth between engines. - PUB DATE: 7/23/2019 5:34:03 PM - SOURCE: Portage Daily Register
Running the master streamer on a Rhinelander firetruck gave Nick Heise a sense of control over an exciting situation this morning. The junior firefighter got the chance to do something he s never done before: go into a burning building and put out the fire.
"You can call us crazy, but we actually like to do it," Heise said. - PUB DATE: 7/23/2019 4:59:07 PM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander-Wausau
The mortgage on fallen Appleton firefighter Mitchell Lundgaard’s home was paid in full, The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation announced Tuesday, July 23.
Lundgaard was killed in a shooting on May 15 at the transit center in downtown Appleton.
Lundgaard left behind a wife and three sons.
According to a news release, the mortgage was paid after Rush Limbaugh announced a $2 million donation, a portion of sales proceeds from his Stand Up For Betsy Ross T-shirts. - PUB DATE: 7/23/2019 4:40:21 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6
With hot summer temperatures here to stay, the Sun Prairie Fire Department is finding ways to help the community stay cool.
"We try to get out as much as we can between calls," said firefighter Bryan Davis.
Sometimes the firefighters just hand out water, but this summer, they are trying something different. - PUB DATE: 7/23/2019 3:46:15 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison
The foam firefighters used to put out the fires Friday at substations for utility companies is not believed to have contained a group of chemicals compounds commonly known as PFAS.
Assistant Chief of Support Services Michael Popovich said firefighters used a foam called FireAid 2000 and consulted the manufacturer, which said the foam is not linked to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. - PUB DATE: 7/23/2019 1:41:45 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison
Firefighters on Tuesday morning, July 23 responded to the scene of a house fire near 4th and Plainfield in Milwaukee. The call came in around 3:30 a.m.
Officials say the fire started in the basement. All of the occupants were out of the home when crews arrived on scene. No injuries have been reported. - PUB DATE: 7/23/2019 4:36:32 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6
