VIDEO: An internship program in Rock County is helping fire departments better serve the community while also teaching students what it’s like to be a firefighter. The internship program started about three years ago in Edgerton. Since then, it has expanded to other fire departments in Rock County. Now, the program is offered in Edgerton, the Town of Beloit, Milton, Orfordville and Clinton. - PUB DATE: 9/27/2016 9:18:00 PM - SOURCE: WMSN-TV Fox 47 Madison
Two people had to be taken to the hospital after a man reported an explosion and subsequent fire at a home in West Bend Monday morning, September 26th. Firefighters responded to the home on Eagle Lane around 8:15 a.m. after the Washington County Sheriff's Office was notified of the fire by a 911 caller, reporting an 18-year-old family member was trapped in the basement. - PUB DATE: 9/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FOX 6 Now
VIDEO: Flames were flying at the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds on Monday. It was all part of a training session over three years in the making. The Wisconsin Propane Education and Research Council teamed up with the Chippewa Falls Fire District, as well as some other local fire department, to hold a special training session. - PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 10:26:39 PM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire
Three fire departments were called to fight a fire at a catering business in Bellevue on Monday. They were dispatched at 2:45 p.m. Monday to Biebel’s, 1234 Bellevue Street, where firefighters found light smoke coming from a utility/wash room. Crews found the fire in a bin of towels. They removed the towels from the building and put out the flames in the parking lot. - PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 3:49:18 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay
A mom was able to get her child unbuckled from the back seat of their car Sunday morning before it went up in flames on Northport Drive, according to a release. The woman was driving a 2008 Chrysler 300 with a man down Northport Drive just before noon when they heard some crackling coming from the trunk of the car, officials said. - PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 1:24:59 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison
The proposed new fire and ambulance station in Brussels was a topic for discussion this week in Sturgeon Bay and the Town of Union. At Tuesday's meeting of the Door County Board, the 19 Supervisors present approved a resolution spelling out a “land lease and construction agreement for (a) south ambulance station” to be located on County C, near the intersection with Wisconsin 57. - PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 1:22:02 PM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette
One dog perished in an apartment fire in Juneau on Sunday afternoon.
Firefighters were dispatched at 4:30 p.m. to 214 N. Main Street for a fire in the upper apartment of a duplex. According to Juneau Fire Chief Curtis Ninmann the fire was contained to the apartment and only the room and contents of the apartment were destroyed. - PUB DATE: 9/25/2016 6:40:49 PM - SOURCE: wisc news
Two females were pulled from the Chippewa River by Eau Claire fire department personnel Saturday. The fire department received a report at 4:44 p.m. of two females nearly in the middle of the river behind the city shops at 910 Forest St. The department launched two boats and a firefighter in a cold-water rescue suit entered the water. - PUB DATE: 9/25/2016 2:12:18 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram
VIDEO: It's a tense waiting game for people facing flood threats from swollen rivers and creeks in parts of Iowa and Wisconsin. Flooding already claimed two lives this week in western Wisconsin's Vernon County. One man was killed Thursday after a mudslide destroyed his home. A second man died Thursday while trying to drive through floodwaters near his home, the station reported. - PUB DATE: 9/24/2016 9:28:22 PM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison
VIDEO: Members of the Granton Fire Department pulled a man out of more than six feet of flooding water Wednesday night. The Granton Fire Chief said the man's vehicle was swept off the road after he drove through a closed road that was covered in water. The driver eventually got out of his vehicle and was taken away by the strong current. - PUB DATE: 9/24/2016 4:05:21 PM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau
More than 350 of people gathered in West Salem for the first ever Tunnel to Towers walk/run earlier this month to remember the men and woman who gave their lives in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center terrorist attacks. At 8:46 a.m., the very moment when in 2001 the first plane struck the the first tower, the wail of a fire engine signaled the start. - PUB DATE: 9/23/2016 7:08:23 AM - SOURCE: Coulee News
VIDEO: An elderly couple had to be rescued late Thursday night after their house was surrounded by a swelling Eau Claire River. Augusta Fire Chief Ken Zich told News 18 the call came in around 8:30 Thursday night, but due to the long driveway and rising river, they couldn't get to the home off Channey Road north of Augusta. - PUB DATE: 9/23/2016 6:19:06 AM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire
Former Green Bay Metro Fire Department Lt. Michael Miller will be honored during the annual National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service on Oct. 9. Miller, 45, was on duty at Station 3 on Shawano Avenue on June 20, 2015, when his fellow firefighters found him unresponsive. Known as "Peanut," Miller had been with the fire department for 18 years and was remembered by firefighters and friends for his quick wit and warm smile. - PUB DATE: 9/22/2016 4:39:46 PM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette
VIDEO: North Shore Fire & Rescue crews were dispatched to an apartment building near the intersection of Oakland and Kensington in Shorewood on Thursday afternoon, September 22nd. Officials say when they arrived on the scene, they found a haze in the building. The fire crews determined it was exhaust from carpet cleaning equipment -- and carbon monoxide (CO). - PUB DATE: 9/22/2016 1:36:53 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6
A Madison man is facing an arson charge in connection with a fire that displaced four people last month, police said. The Madison Fire Department responded to a report of a fire at the home on Aug. 27 at 4:54 a.m. Officials said someone called 911 to report the fire but hung up before providing further information. - PUB DATE: 9/22/2016 9:18:46 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison
A Town of Burlington man who perished in a vehicle fire last week was a dedicated employee who worked for more than 23 years at Best Bargains Inc. in Wheatland, an employer said Wednesday. “He was an absolutely indispensable cog in our machine. One of the most dedicated men and employees I have ever seen,” Doug Helnore, an owner of Best Bargains, said of Paul H. - PUB DATE: 9/22/2016 2:13:12 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times
VIDEO: Crews are called to a barn fire Wednesday in Chippewa County. Firefighters responded to the structure located on 320th Street in the Town of Delmar, which is northeast of Boyd, earlier Wednesday evening. The barn, located across the street from the house, is fully engulfed. Several cows were housed inside, but Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk, tells us they all got out safely. - PUB DATE: 9/21/2016 11:27:20 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News
A family was displaced by a fire at a mobile home Tuesday in Stevens Point, but no one was hurt. Firefighters were called at 5 p.m. to a mobile home near Torun Road, according to Stevens Point Fire Capt. Dennis Zvara. Two people were inside the home when the fire started, but both made it out safely, Zvara said. - PUB DATE: 9/21/2016 7:46:25 AM - SOURCE: Stevens Point Journal
While responding to a medical emergency at Madison College on North Carroll Street, the Madison Fire Department found themselves in the midst of a robbery scene. According to a Madison Police Department incident report, a criminal grabbed the backpack of a 24-year-old woman, who was seated on a beach in a second floor hallway. - PUB DATE: 9/21/2016 1:46:09 AM - SOURCE: Badger Herald
VIDEO: Severe weather season is slowly coming to an end, but that didn't stop the city of Green Bay from installing a new tornado siren last week in the Red Smith neighborhood. The two mile radius siren is the strongest of it's kind and cost the city $17000 dollars to install, but according to its neighbors, that was worth every penny. - PUB DATE: 9/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV Green Bay
