VIDEO: The Madison Fire Department opens its doors to prospective firefighters during their Recruitment Open House. On Wednesday, Ben Lardie and Trent Meicher stopped by Wake Up Wisconsin to talk about the event. Unemployment numbers among veterans in the United States are improving, and the Madison Fire Department continues to do its part to introduce current and past military service members to a career that is significant, challenging, and personally rewarding. - PUB DATE: 9/20/2017 7:06:15 AM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC
Waushara County officials say a home went up in flames before 9 o'clock Tuesday night. The Fire Department says it received a call regarding the house fire on North County Road A at 8:49 p.m. The West Bloomfield Fire Department along with the Poy Sippi Fire Department arrived to find the home fully engulfed. - PUB DATE: 9/20/2017 6:27:51 AM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison
VIDEO: A body was found Wednesday morning inside a home that caught fire the night before in the town of Bloomfield, according to Waushara County Sheriff Jeffery Nett.
The call came out at about 8:49 p.m. Tuesday to the home on North County Road A in Waushara County.
Fire units arrived on the scene to find the house totally engulfed in flames. - PUB DATE: 9/19/2017 10:58:01 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay
VIDEO: In head to toe fire gear, the recruits at Madison Area Technical College look like your typical firefighter in training. "Get down and crawl," said Lieutenant Lisa Becher, as she leads them around racks of more fire gear. New fire recruits learn how to put on the gear during a fire academy pilot program offered at Madison Area Technical College. - PUB DATE: 9/19/2017 5:53:24 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison
VIDEO: A local fire captain was honored at a technology council luncheon at UW-Stout, Tuesday. Jeff Dykes, owner and founder of Northern Star Fire, won the 2017 Governor's Business Plan contest with an eight-directional electronic compass. Firefighters place the compass inside their breathing apparatus to help find their way inside burning structures. - PUB DATE: 9/19/2017 4:04:46 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News
VIDEO: A man who police said killed his wife and blew up his home made his first court appearance on Tuesday afternoon in Dane County. The Dane County District Attorney's Office found probable cause to move forward with charging Steven Pirus, 59, of 1st degree homicide, arson, and reckless endangerment because of a Probable Cause Affidavit from investigators. - PUB DATE: 9/19/2017 2:22:15 PM - SOURCE: WMTV-TV NBC 15 Madison
A Watertown man was transported to the hospital after escaping a fire in his 410 S. Sixth St. apartment early Sunday morning. Watertown firefighters responded to the scene around 3 a.m. to rescue the man and extinguish the fire, but he was able to get out of the building by the time they arrived. "The guy that was trapped had broken a window to escape and our EMS that was there took him to the hospital for injuries and smoke inhalation," Watertown Interim Fire Chief Kraig Biefeld said. - PUB DATE: 9/19/2017 4:24:48 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times
Sheboygan's Common Council spent much of their meeting Monday night talking about whether or not to approve a $54,000 study of the city's Fire Department. The study is being done to determine how to better staff the department, as there is a push to add some new firefighters and additional management in the coming years. - PUB DATE: 9/19/2017 3:51:08 AM - SOURCE: WHBL-AM 1330
If you live near Waupun, you may have seen flames shooting into the sky Monday night. No need to worry, it was training done by the Waupun Fire Department. Seventeen fire departments and about 100 firefighters participated in the live propane fire training. The training consisted of five propane fire scenarios with a variety of propane tanks. - PUB DATE: 9/19/2017 3:29:31 AM - SOURCE: WIXX-FM 101
A Madison man shot and killed his wife weeks ago and blew up their Southwest Side house on Wednesday as an attempt to cover up the homicide, Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said Sunday. Lee Anne Pirus, 50, was identified by the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office as the body found amid the rubble of a house at 7806 Stratton Way. - PUB DATE: 9/18/2017 3:16:57 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com-Wisconsin State Journal-Capital Times
Firefighters extinguished what they determined to be an intentionally set fire early Sunday morning. The blaze caused $6,000 in damage to 1240 Superior St., a vacant home set to be razed by order of the city, according to a Racine Fire Department release. The fire was set to the rear of the house at about 5:45 a. - PUB DATE: 9/18/2017 2:25:06 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times
VIDEO: Madison Fire Chief Steven Davis says a body was found at the site of a home that exploded Wednesday afternoon in the southwest part of the city. Davis says the body was found around 9:00 a.m. Friday morning and his teams have suspended their investigative work while the medical examiner is at the site. - PUB DATE: 9/15/2017 9:46:18 AM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV 27 ABC
Fire destroyed a detached garage and spread to a house on Roger Court on Thursday afternoon. There were no injuries and everyone, including a dog, evacuated before firefighters arrived, said Assistant Fire Chief Chad Gerrits. Officials estimate that the fire did about $65,000 in damage to the buildings and about $30,000 in damage to their contents. - PUB DATE: 9/15/2017 7:58:23 AM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com
A Fond du Lac man was rescued Wednesday night from Lake Winnebago after falling in the water at the Lakeside Park Marina. A crew from Fond du Lac Fire and Rescue, along with city police, were called to G Dock about 8 p.m. for a report of a man who had fallen in the water in an area of the lake called the "Big Hole" in Lakeside Park. - PUB DATE: 9/15/2017 3:38:03 AM - SOURCE: Appleton Post-Gazette & Post Crescent.com
Thanks in large part to the efforts of Wisconsin Dells residents and Adams County master gardeners Dan and Laura Reger, Smokey the Bear has a new “firewise” garden to call his own at the oft-visited park in front of the local Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources office on River Road. The new garden was dedicated as a new “Firewise Education Site” during a brief ceremony there the afternoon of Sept. - PUB DATE: 9/14/2017 11:57:47 PM - SOURCE: wisc news
As investigators began the painstaking search for clues to explain what caused a house to explode on Madison’s Southwest Side Wednesday afternoon, officials were not ruling out that somebody was inside the house during the blast. The house that exploded at about 2 p.m. at 7806 Stratton Way, near where High Point Road intersects with Highway PD, was deemed a total loss by Madison Fire Chief Steven Davis. - PUB DATE: 9/14/2017 3:39:14 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com-Wisconsin State Journal-Capital Times
VIDEO: After traveling thousands of miles for several days, 35 Wisconsin firefighters were back home Wednesday evening. The firefighters are part of Wisconsin’s Urban Search and Rescue Task Force, or Task Force 1, a group that responds to rescue missions across the country. The team was originally activated Sunday afternoon for a 10-day mission to Jacksonville, Fla. - PUB DATE: 9/13/2017 11:03:33 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison
Firefighters who risk their lives to save others stand to get help from an innovative device that can guide them out of smoke-filled buildings. Jeff Dykes, owner and founder of Northern Star Fire, is an Eau Claire firefighter captain who won the 2017 Governor’s Business Plan Contest with a headgear compass to maintain or regain a firefighter’s orientation during a fire. - PUB DATE: 9/13/2017 4:14:15 AM - SOURCE: Dunn County News
VIDEO: Imagine waiting 15 minutes for first responders to get to you during an emergency. That’s a concern for residents on Madison’s southeast side and it’s an issue city leaders are hoping to tackle at a budget meeting Tuesday. A proposed fire station on Femrite Drive would decrease emergency response times to five minutes, helping the city meet the standard set by the National Fire Protection Association. - PUB DATE: 9/12/2017 10:59:32 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison
Nine people were displaced Tuesday morning after a fire broke out in a duplex on Madison’s far east side, officials said. Officials were called to 6615 Radford Drive around 10:45 a.m. for reports of an active structure fire, officials said. Officials said five adults and four children were displaced from two units. - PUB DATE: 9/12/2017 10:59:31 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison
