Firefighters say cold weather caused gear to freeze up as they battled a fire at a Neenah-area business. Crews from Town of Vinland and Town of Neenah responded at about 11 p.m. to a fire at Geffers Construction, 7276 Commerce Plaza Dr. Photos posted on the Town Of Neenah Fire Department's Facebook page show smoke and structural damage.
- PUB DATE: 3/6/2019 9:03:21 AM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

A Milwaukee firefighter was hurt late Tuesday night while responding to a fire near 35th and Hadley. According to the department, crews were responding to a fire in a vacant house when a firefighter fell through a hole in the floor. The firefighter had minor injuries, was treated and is expected to return to work.
- PUB DATE: 3/6/2019 6:09:41 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

A 30-vehicle crash closed a section of Interstate 43 for hours Tuesday morning. Green Bay Police believe one crash triggered the pileup in the southbound lanes of I-43 on the Leo Frigo Bridge, formerly known as the Tower Drive Bridge, which crosses the Fox River. Video released by the state Department of Transportation shows a car spinning out over a patch of ice in the far right lane.
- PUB DATE: 3/5/2019 8:35:58 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

A massive fire destroyed the Oneida Village Inn in Three Lakes late Monday night. According to News Watch 12, Fire engines from multiple agencies arrived on the scene as Cassie Stedman watched the inn burn. "A lot of memories, a lot of good times, good friends, family," said Stedman, who has been coming to the Oneida Village Inn for years.
- PUB DATE: 3/5/2019 5:43:22 AM - SOURCE: NBC26

A captain in the Hales Corners Fire Department, who was involved in a January incident in which a village fire engine failed to respond to the scene of a car fire, remains on paid administrative leave after a two-hour closed session discussion by the village’s Police and Fire Commission. The commission held a special meeting March 1 to discuss the employment status of the captain, but it appears commissioners stopped short of firing him, at least for the time being.
- PUB DATE: 3/5/2019 2:40:17 AM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A bill aimed to help volunteer firefighters and EMS personnel was unveiled today. Rep. Treig Pronschinske from the 92nd State Assembly District announced the bill at the Town of Pleasant Valley fire station. He says the bill hopes to address the recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters and emergency service personnel in Wisconsin.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2019 5:54:56 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

A building in Waupaca County was evacuated because the roof was in danger of collapsing due to the weight of heavy snow. Assistant Fire Chief Brandon Leschke with the Weyauwega Fire Department said the roof in question was on an office building at the World Class Manufacturing campus. Leschke said workers noticed the ceiling tiles bowing and could hear creaking.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2019 2:57:46 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

A massive fire burned through all three floors of an apartment building on Milwaukee's lower East Side. Crews were called to North Farwell and Webster Place around 2:45 a.m. Monday. Fire officials say firefighters spent two hours inside the apartment building, battling flames burning through all of its three floors.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2019 4:57:36 AM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

A man and his two pets are safe after his residence caught on fire Sunday morning. The Two Rivers Fire Department were dispatched to a home on 17th Street in Two Rivers for a kitchen fire reported by the owner of the residence around 9:32 a.m. Firefighters say they arrived to the scene to find smoke and fire showing from the first floor of the structure.
- PUB DATE: 3/3/2019 2:05:30 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

Two people were treated at the scene of an apartment fire near 23rd and Layton Sunday morning, March 3. Fire officials said it was upgraded to a second alarm. It happened around 9:30 a.m. MFD Battalion Chief Todd VanRoo said firefighters with the first arriving engine unit found heavy smoke on the second floor after a call came in regarding smoke in the two-story brick apartment building.
- PUB DATE: 3/3/2019 12:38:33 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

The Merrill Fire Department is asking the community to help dig out fire hydrants after a resident took it upon himself to dig out 15. City officials say some fire hydrants are buried so far beneath the snow that firefighters had to use metal detectors to locate them. “This amount of snow is twice the amount that we are used to,” stated Battalion Chief, Tadd Wegener, with the Merrill Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 3/3/2019 11:10:47 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

Firefighters and police officers faced off on the ice Saturday for a good cause. The Oshkosh fire and police departments went head to head during their annual charity hockey event called Guns 'N' Hoses. The event held at the YMCA in Oshkosh helps raise money for a new local charity picked out by police and firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 3/2/2019 6:52:23 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay

Underneath the fluorescent lights of South Middle School’s pool, a firefighter, clad in more than 100 pounds of diving equipment, plunged into the water. A group of about 20 seventh-graders looked on — eyes wide and mouths agape — as the diver sunk lower and lower until he looked like nothing more than a black shape at the bottom of the pool, his presence only noticeable because of a trail of bubbles that billowed to the top.
- PUB DATE: 2/28/2019 8:22:41 PM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

A couple and their dog were able to escape a residence that caught fire Thursday morning in the town of Oakfield. Firefighters were called out at about 9:20 a.m. to a home at W7256 Hunter Lane for a report that the structure was on fire. The Fond du Lac Sheriff's Office said the fire was determined to be a result of electrical issues, and the residence sustained water and smoke damage.
- PUB DATE: 2/28/2019 2:24:03 PM - SOURCE: Fond du Lac Reporter

A Town of Sun Prairie family is facing extensive damage to their home after an early-morning fire Thursday. More than 10 fire and EMS departments fought the fire at 5332 Stark Road in the Town of Sun Prairie for more than three and a half hours early Thursday morning while overnight temperatures were in the single digits.
- PUB DATE: 2/28/2019 5:13:40 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

A storage building in Pleasant Prairie was damaged by fire Wednesday afternoon. Passers-by noticed smoke coming from the building in the 12700 block of Green Bay Road at about 1:35 p.m. Assistant Chief David Wilkinson of the Pleasant Prairie Fire Department said the department received multiple 911 calls.
- PUB DATE: 2/28/2019 2:44:35 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News

Before Onalaska firefighters fought a house fire Tuesday night, they had to fight to get to the fire hydrant. "We knew where it was because of our mapping system in our fire trucks. But it was buried under ice. It was one of the fire hydrants that didn't get cleared out yet," said Onalaska Fire Department Assistant Chief Troy Gudie.
- PUB DATE: 2/27/2019 9:15:33 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

The emergency radio dispatches from Sunday's 131-car pileup on I-41 start out with a dispatcher sending units to the scene of what was initially thought to be a series of crashes involving 10 or so vehicles on the interstate. But with 911 lines "ringing off the hook," as one dispatcher reported, emergency crews quickly realized they were dealing with a crash involving dozens of vehicles.
- PUB DATE: 2/27/2019 6:56:40 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune

Oconto firefighters battled a fire on Gale Street and Mineau around 7 o'clock last night. A two-story home was fully engulfed when crews arrived. Deputy Chief Josh Bostedt tells FOX 11 weather was a factor... "With the cold temperatures, it does impact the safety with the firefighters with ice conditions.
- PUB DATE: 2/27/2019 3:18:05 AM - SOURCE: WNFL SPORT REDIO

Crews are investigating multiple reports of people smelling natural gas on Madison's west side Tuesday, fire officials said. The Madison Fire Department said its crews, along with Madison Gas and Electric crews, are in the area of Old Sauk and High Point roads. The MFD crew was first dispatched to the intersection of North High Point Road and Wolf Street at 11:59 a.
- PUB DATE: 2/26/2019 10:06:37 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison