VIDEO: Hundreds of Dane County homeowners are getting brand new smoke alarms for free. About 150 volunteers for the Red Cross and American Family Insurance are helping install and fix smoke detectors in people's homes. The goal is to install 700 alarms as part of a nationwide campaign to install 100,000 smoke alarms in just 16 days.
- PUB DATE: 5/6/2018 2:37:25 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison

Officials with the Milwaukee Fire Department are investigating a fire that happened at a vacant home early Sunday, May 6. It happened around 3:45 a.m. near 28th and Fond du Lac. Officials said firefighters were able to knock down the fire quickly. No one was hurt. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
- PUB DATE: 5/6/2018 2:17:53 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

Saturday night, Madison Fire Department said an aggressive fire was reported on the 1900 block of Northport Drive. MFD was called to the 20-unit apartment building around 7:18p.m. The fire department said firefighters entered through the front of an apartment where they found heavy smoke. The second story bedroom was fully engulfed in flames.
- PUB DATE: 5/6/2018 3:23:25 AM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison

When a Madison resident arrived home around 6:50 p.m. Friday, there was a fire in the garage, according to officials with the Madison Fire Department. The garage fire was starting to extend toward the house when firefighters arrived at 1401 Nevada Road. Officials were able to put out the fire quickly before it reached the home.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2018 6:08:44 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison

A young boy in Marathon County battling cancer had a dream come true Thursday when he became an honorary firefighter for the day. Lincoln Schrock is only 3 1/2 years old, but he already knows he wants to be a firefighter. "That's been a dream of his forever," said Kaitlyn Schrock, Lincoln's mom. "I hope one day he can experience it for real, being a firefighter.
- PUB DATE: 5/4/2018 6:33:08 AM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire

A house fire in rural Elk Mound left a family without a roof over their head on Wednesday. The Chippewa Fire District was dispatched to the home on 30th Street around 5:45 p.m. Fire officials said five people were in the home at the time, but luckily everyone was able to get out safely. "To get the fire under control took about 40 minutes, because the fire had gone up the back, outside of the house and into the attic.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2018 5:10:49 PM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire

Drones could be spotted "buzzing" around Janesville soon, according to a news release from the Fire Department. Fire Chief Randy Banker hopes that using unmanned aerial vehicles could help create actionable pre-planned responses to buildings across the city. Officials plan to collect aerial images of commercial structures that can be accessed by emergency responders at a moment's notice.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2018 4:51:52 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison

Resistance from some veteran firefighters is slowing efforts to overhaul Baraboo Fire Department operations, leaders say. On Monday, the Common Council’s public safety committee voted 3-0 to extend its contract with RW Management Group, a consultant helping the Fire Department implement operational changes.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2018 3:59:31 PM - SOURCE: Baraboo News Republic

The West Salem area may soon have a new fire truck, but it won’t come cheap. The West Salem Fire Protection District board has been discussing buying a pumper truck at a cost of $1,054,000, to replace the fire department’s current pumper truck that is more than 30 years old. The truck would come with attached with a 110-foot ladder.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2018 1:13:03 PM - SOURCE: Onalaska Holmen Courier Life

VIDEO: About 30 people are out of their apartments after a late night, 2-alarm fire on Milwaukee’s north side. The fire was reported in a 2nd floor apartment of a three story building at N 2nd and W Wright Streets. The Milwaukee Fire Department was called to the scene just after 10 PM. The fire was confined to one apartment, but according to MFD officials, three apartments are uninhabitable and the others apartments received smoke and water damage.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2018 9:35:01 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

PHOTO: Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire at an apartment building in Grafton Wednesday afternoon, May 2. It happened near 1st Avenue and Falls Road. Firefighters say two townhouse apartments in the 10-unit building were on fire. A plumber working on pipes in the wall accidentally started the fire.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2018 4:48:42 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

As a worst-case scenario played out in Superior on Thursday, it was met with a coordinated response. An explosion and fire at the Husky Energy refinery, followed by a second bigger fire, led to a state of emergency and the evacuation of much of the city. But no one died. Fewer than two dozen were injured.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2018 4:02:34 AM - SOURCE: Daily Telegram-Superior

The Herda family has been in the dairy farm business for 100 years, and now it's picking up the pieces after a devastating fire. The fire Tuesday destroyed two buildings, and four other structures were damaged on the property in Wheatland. "It's devastating. We have so many childhood memories being here," said Rachel Crane, who grew up on the property now owned by her brother.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2018 3:29:56 AM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

VIDEO: A Madison police officer and firefighter are recovering after being attacked by a woman who was having a medical emergency Tuesday morning. According to police, as officers transported a 44-year-old woman who was possibly having a seizure from North Third Street to the hospital, she became combative.
- PUB DATE: 5/2/2018 6:28:22 PM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC

An outside stairway used by people to smoke near a Downtown restaurant caught fire Tuesday, with firefighters quickly putting it out before closing the staircase. The fire was reported at about 3:35 p.m. outside Salvatore's Tomato Pies, 912 E. Johnson St. "A restaurant manager pointed firefighters to an exterior staircase, where two steps were smoldering," said Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Cynthia Schuster.
- PUB DATE: 5/2/2018 9:35:59 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com-Wisconsin State Journal-Capital Times

VIDEO: The remains of two people were found inside a burned home west of Neenah following a shooting and suspicious fire, the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday afternoon. "When we initially responded to the scene, it was reported that there were two people unaccounted for," Captain Lara Vendola-Messer said in a statement.
- PUB DATE: 5/1/2018 2:29:30 PM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

VIDEO: Residents are displaced after an apartment building fire in Seymour. The Outagamie Co. Sheriff's Office says firefighters were called to North Manor Apartments, 421 N. Main St., just before 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. Officials say the fire started in the attic of the 8-unit apartment building. However, they don't know how the fire started.
- PUB DATE: 5/1/2018 1:52:25 PM - SOURCE: WLUK TV Fox 11

Human remains have been found at the scene of a house fire in Winnebago County. Sheriff's deputies say they are looking for a "person of interest" in the case. Sheriff's officials say they were called to 3302 Breezewood Ln. in the Town of Clayton just before 7 a.m. Deputies found what they describe as a "very chaotic scene.
- PUB DATE: 5/1/2018 7:38:12 AM - SOURCE: FOX 11

VIDEO: Multiple fire departments battled a massive fire at an auto salvage yard in Sullivan on Tuesday morning. The fire broke out around 4:30 a.m. at Auto & Truck Salvage Parts on Highway 18 near Pioneer Road. News Chopper 12 over the scene and saw firefighters trucking water in. Crews had ladder trucks up to keep the blaze under control.
- PUB DATE: 5/1/2018 6:21:06 AM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

PHOTO: Multiple departments were called to a house fire Monday afternoon. The fire at N5505 State Road was reported about 3:50 p.m., according to Sgt. Alex Krueger of the Outagamie County Sheriff's Department. He did not have any reports of injuries as of 6 p.m. There was no further information available as of Monday evening.
- PUB DATE: 5/1/2018 2:47:48 AM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com