La Crosse firefighter Jake Lincoln holds up his son Wrigley, 3, so he can wash the new Engine 4 at the La Crosse Fire Department’s Fire Station No. 4 during its wetdown ceremony. The engine is dedicated to La Crosse firefighter Donald Asselin, whose death at in 1997 at the age of 46 of renal cell carcinoma, a rare form of cancer that tends to strike firefighters, ultimately helped spur the development of state and national standards to help shield firefighters' from exposure to harmful chemicals produced by fires. - PUB DATE: 7/22/2018 6:47:36 AM - SOURCE: Lacrosse Tribune
The contractor that cut into a 4-inch pipe carrying natural gas underneath downtown Sun Prairie on July 10 just before an explosion leveled a city block and killed a firefighter was not registered to do business in Wisconsin, according to state records. The Journal Sentinel confirmed Thursday that Michigan-based VC Tech, Inc. - PUB DATE: 7/20/2018 7:57:04 AM - SOURCE: Journal Sentinel
VIDEO: It’s a first for “The Hop.” Emergency responders will conduct a mass casualty drill Friday morning on the streetcar tracks in Milwaukee.
Officials tell CBS 58 the scenario for the drill is a suspicious package detonating with multiple people on the streetcar. There will be live actors playing the victims. - PUB DATE: 7/20/2018 6:50:30 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee
Firefighters were called to Marth Wood Supply near Marathon Thursday evening. According to dispatch reports, there was a fire in a dryer. It was called in around 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The business is located north of Marathon on State Highway 107. It makes wood shavings and animal bedding, among other things. - PUB DATE: 7/19/2018 6:05:51 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau
Clare Wolf felt like Superwoman. After trying out her hearing aid devices, the Rubicon firefighter could, for the first time, hear the air flowing through vents, water dripping down the drain and birds softly chirping in the morning. Wolf is a finalist for the Oticon Focus on People Awards, one of three people competing for votes in the adult category. - PUB DATE: 7/19/2018 5:37:29 PM - SOURCE: wisc news
VIDEO: First responders in Appleton have a new tool to use when dealing with children during a crisis. As Kris Schuller reports it's called a Reach Bag - designed to comfort those kids that emergency responders often care for. Outside the Appleton Police Department, first responders accept a special gift. - PUB DATE: 7/19/2018 4:51:48 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay
VIDEO: The search for a new fire chief in the Holmen Area Fire Department is over. Holmen Area Fire Department Fire Board members approved the hiring of Buck Manley as assistant chief/chief. The board originally interviewed Manley for the assistant fire chief position; however, during the hiring process, they determined that he exceeded not only those expectations, but the expectations set for fire chief. - PUB DATE: 7/19/2018 3:27:40 PM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 LaCrosse
It's been called the Forgotten Fire.
On the night of Oct. 8, 1871, a devastating forest fire ripped through Peshtigo and the surrounding area, killing 1,500 people and destroying a swath of land 10 miles wide and 40 miles long. It was the deadliest forest fire in American history. But that same night, a fire in Chicago grabbed headlines and attention, overshadowing the deadlier Wisconsin blaze. - PUB DATE: 7/19/2018 6:20:04 AM - SOURCE: Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter
Fire officials say a woman is seriously hurt after she was trampled by a bull at a dairy farm in the town of Clyman. Clyman Fire Chief Eric Howlett says family members found the owner of the farm, Tena Borchardt, 57, with severe injuries. Investigators aren't sure when the incident happened, because no one witnessed it. - PUB DATE: 7/18/2018 9:16:59 PM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC
VIDEO: Twisted metal and side-curtain air bags gave a pretty good sense of how bad a crash was Wednesday afternoon, but the Town of Pelican's deputy fire chief already knew he needed to work quickly. "Time is of the essence," Norm Peterson said. Peterson's department got the 911 page of a two-car crash on Highway 8 and River Bend Road, about two miles east of Rhinelander, around 12:30 p. - PUB DATE: 7/18/2018 5:22:58 PM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander-Wausau
It was an explosion that rocked downtown Sun Prairie and called for dozens of firefighters from multiple departments, including Sun Prairie's bravest. One week later, after help from other departments to help fill shifts during a time of mourning, Sun Prairie's fire department is back on its own.
"Well, it was chaotic," said Lieutenant Aaron Huebner as he looked back on the day he'll never forget. - PUB DATE: 7/18/2018 1:24:33 PM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 LaCrosse
Being one of the first people on the scene of a traumatic event can take a toll on even the most well-trained emergency responder. High-stress, emotionally-charged scenes such as the recent natural gas explosion in Sun Prairie that took the life of Sun Prairie Fire Department Capt. Cory Barr, and the death of paramedic and firefighter Rick Garner Jr. - PUB DATE: 7/18/2018 4:56:15 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Public Radio
The City of Racine must identify a new location for a fire station it wants to move after discovering that buildings are prohibited from the site originally selected. The city planned to relocate its Fire Station No. 6, now at 2101 16th St., which was built in 1975 and constructed to residential standards. - PUB DATE: 7/18/2018 4:40:13 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times
"We were doing construction work and we hit a gas main," a caller told Dane County Dispatch on July 10 before an explosion that killed one firefighter and destroyed part of a downtown city block. That caller, whose name was redacted by Dane County Communications before release, made what police have said is the first call to report a problem before the explosion in Sun Prairie. - PUB DATE: 7/18/2018 3:30:39 AM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison
A fire in an east side apartment that started due to frayed electrical wires may have been caused by raccoons, the Madison Fire Department reported. The fire department was dispatched Monday evening to the 1100 block of East Mifflin Street, where arriving firefighters found light smoke coming from the apartment. - PUB DATE: 7/17/2018 9:08:05 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com
An investigation into the explosion in Sun Prairie that killed one firefighter and displaced dozens of people is continuing and close to determining if there was any criminal negligence, Sun Prairie Police Department Lt. Kevin Konopacki said Monday. “We’re getting very close to making that decision,” Konopacki said. - PUB DATE: 7/17/2018 7:28:16 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com
A 27-year veteran of the Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department has been named the new fire chief. Scott Young was appointed interim fire chief after former Fire Chief Dave Kerkman's retirement in September 2017. On Monday evening, the Wisconsin Rapids Police and Fire Commission made the interim appointment permanent when it named Young as the new fire chief, according to a news release from the commission. - PUB DATE: 7/17/2018 6:34:18 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune
When Jeremy Hansen was a student at Fox Valley Technical College in the early 1990s, he had big ambitions, including dreaming of one day becoming a fire chief. The dream became a reality on Monday when he was sworn in as the new chief of the Appleton Fire Department. Hansen is the 12th fire chief in the department's history. - PUB DATE: 7/17/2018 1:48:36 AM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com
A man was hospitalized with burns and a firefighter suffered cuts to his hand in a Monday morning fire in Milwaukee's Hillside neighborhood, a fire official said. The fire at the Plymouth Apartments, at 820 W. Galena Ave., was on the first and second floors of the building but contained to two units. - PUB DATE: 7/16/2018 8:48:46 AM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee
Two passengers died in a car accident while traveling westbound on CTH SS in the Town of Sherman on Sunday. Sheboygan County Joint Dispatch Center received a 911 call around 6:20 p.m. when a car with three occupants failed to stop at a stop sign at CTH I and CTH SS. A truck driving southbound on CTH I struck the vehicle, killing the two passengers. - PUB DATE: 7/16/2018 6:17:40 AM - SOURCE: Today's TMJ4
