VIDEO: When it comes to emergencies, seconds matter and if there are any hurdles in communicating, it can mean life or death. At Milwaukee Fire Station 26, near 26th and Scott, oftentimes firefighters aren’t saying, "How are you feeling?" but rather "¿cómo te sientes?" “I would say I speak Spanish almost every shift,” Firefighter Shirley DeJesús-Ortiz said.
- PUB DATE: 10/6/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTMJ-TV NBC 4 Milwaukee

VIDEO: A trio of firefighters and two instructors huddled around a table with a facility arm on it. They were learning how to administer an IV as part of ongoing instruction into pharmacology. Engineer Derrick Green is one of the firefighters and students. “We were going over some skills with IV administration.
- PUB DATE: 10/6/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spectrum News 1 - Metered Site

Firefighters from across the state will come to the Wisconsin State Firefighters and EMS Memorial Saturday to pay tribute to five firefighters who died in the line of duty last year. The 19th annual Final Alarm and Roll Call Ceremony will take place at 3:33 p.m. Saturday at the memorial in Ben Hansen Park, 2031 Second Ave.
- PUB DATE: 10/5/2023 7:12:00 AM - SOURCE: Sheboygan Press - Metered Site

National Fire Prevention Week is observed in the United States and Canada during the week (from Sunday to Saturday) in which Oct. 9 falls. In the United States, the first Presidential proclamation of Fire Prevention Week was made in 1925 by President Calvin Coolidge. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) continues to be the international sponsor of the week.
- PUB DATE: 10/5/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: McFarland Thistle

VIDEO: Everyone inside a Reedsburg home, along with their ‘numerous pets’, escaped as a fire burned through the multi-story structure late Tuesday night, the city’s fire department reported. In video captured from the scene, firefighters could be seen attacking the fire from above and below. As crews on the ground aimed upwards toward the second and third floors of the home, another firefighter, who was in a cherry picker, rained down water on the burning roof.
- PUB DATE: 10/4/2023 2:29:00 PM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC/CW 15 Madison

VIDEO: The night sky turned orange around a barn north of Ixonia on Sunday night as flames consumed the structure and firefighters battled to keep them contained, video from the scene showed. “I looked out and I didn’t see anything but I came out of the house and I saw this whole end of the barn on fire and by the time we got moving, it was too late,” said Bill Couch, the property owner.
- PUB DATE: 10/3/2023 5:54:00 PM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC/CW 15 Madison

PHOTO: The West Bend Fire Department tested Mequon-based Fire Suppression Solutions’ EV fire blanket and portable fire suppression tool last week to see how well they help prevent the spread of a car and electric vehicle fire. And while it may technically be called an EV — electric vehicle — blanket, it can be used on any internal combustion engine vehicle.
- PUB DATE: 10/3/2023 1:30:00 PM - SOURCE: Greater Milwaukee Today

VIDEO: Firefighters had to clean up a fuel spill on Madison's north side Monday after a driver backed their car into a fuel pump and drove off. Another customer went to use the fuel pump after the first driver left and reportedly found a leak coming from the base of the pump; a delivery driver used the emergency stop and was able to cut off the leak before firefighters arrived at the Kwik Trip on Northport Drive.
- PUB DATE: 10/3/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS/MyNetworkTV 3 Madison

Green Bay Metro Fire is focusing on the leading cause of home fires and home fire injuries in the U.S. in its latest safety campaign. Teaming up with National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), firefighters are educating the public on unattended cooking. “Year after year, cooking remains the leading cause of home fires by far, accounting for half 49% of all U.
- PUB DATE: 10/3/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLUK-TV FOX 11 Green Bay

VIDEO: The Watertown Fire Department is crediting an employee of a business in the city with helping prevent a fire that caused more than $100,000 worth of damage on Friday afternoon from spreading even further. The worker had been using a fire extinguisher to tamp down the flames until firefighters could reach the business, which is in the 1200 block of American Way.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2023 8:05:00 PM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC/CW 15 Madison

VIDEO/PHOTOS: One person was taken to the hospital in what Dane Co. authorities describe as a duplex fire in Verona. The Red Cross is helping both families who live in the duplex, according to the Verona Fire Department. Responding crews in addition to Verona response involved Oregon, McFarland, Cottage Grove, and Fitchburg.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC/CW 15 Madison

A 61-year-old man is identified as the person killed in a fire at a Tomah motel earlier this month. On Friday morning, Fire Chief Tim Adler released the identity of the person who died in the September 19 fire at the Daybreak Motel at 215 E. Clifton Street. Brian Mark Mallory was pronounced dead at the scene.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 La Crosse

VIDEO: 59 Northeast Wisconsin veterans braved torrential rain Friday to visit the 9/11 Memorial and Museum In New York City. Meteorologists there say about a month’s worth of rain fell in just over three hours. Even though officials urged people to stay indoors Friday, this visit was so important that the veterans continued outside despite the weather.
- PUB DATE: 9/30/2023 5:15:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

VIDEO: Flashing lights and sirens are constant in Adam Yaresh’s life. However, Saturday night, the lights and sounds he experienced were there to save him, though he’s used to it being the other way around. Yaresh has been with the Brookfield Fire Department for the last six years. Before that, he worked on a volunteer basis with the Ixonia Fire Department and then in a full-time capacity with the Watertown Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 9/29/2023 12:16:00 AM - SOURCE: WTMJ-TV NBC 4 Milwaukee

The history of the "Great Fire of 1871", known locally as the Peshtigo Fire, will be revisited on its 152nd anniversary next month. Barb (Englebert) Chisholm, a fifth-generation American of Belgian descent with ancestors who survived the devastating fire, will speak at the Belgian Heritage Center during the Remembrance of the Great Fire.
- PUB DATE: 9/28/2023 10:49:32 PM - SOURCE: Door County Daily News

VIDEO: Talk about being in the right place at the right time. The driver of a truck hauling carbon dioxide is being credited with putting out the fire that started burning underneath the hood of a vehicle that was sitting right behind him in traffic. The fire was already out, but smoke was still rolling off the once-burning car, when the first firefighters arrived around 1 p.
- PUB DATE: 9/28/2023 7:25:00 PM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC/CW 15 Madison

A lithium-ion battery was blamed for setting off a carbon monoxide detector at a Madison home on Tuesday night. Firefighters responded to the house in the 100 block of Shiloh Drive, on the city’s west side, shortly after 9 p.m. when the alarm went off for what the homeowners said was the second night in a row.
- PUB DATE: 9/28/2023 12:56:00 AM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC 15 Madison

VIDEO: A "Healing Ink" and "United for Waukesha Resiliency Center" partnership provided tattoos for first responders who rushed to help during the 2021 Christmas parade attack, helping them process their pain through permanent ink. Organizers said they hope the tattoos for 30 first responders over two days will help those on the front lines continue to heal.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2023 6:49:54 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

VIDEO: Fire equipment no longer being used by fire departments across the country is making its way to a new home in Nicaragua. Firefighters United is a program within the ‘Wisconsin-Nicaragua Partners of America’. Equipment like fire hoses, rescue equipment, air tanks, and more are being shipped from Stevens Point.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2023 4:09:26 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau

VIDEO: The Land O’ Lakes area is upgrading their emergency response times by building a series of new helipads. The helipads are being constructed in cooperation with LifeLink III which is the air ambulance service which serves the Northwoods. The new helipads will be along County Highway B with one just north of the intersection of County Highway S and County Highway B, and the other just south of the intersection of County Highway B and Palmer Lake Road.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2023 1:30:00 AM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander-Wausau