VIDEO: The La Crosse Fire Department is taking advantage of three buildings that the City acquired for redevelopment. Using controlled burns, firefighters practiced real-life fire scenarios in three properties on South Avenue. The crews have been training in them for the last couple of months. They will continue to keep using them for training until the buildings are torn down. - PUB DATE: 11/29/2022 2:27:00 AM - SOURCE: WXOW-TV ABC 19 La Crosse
VIDEO: A shell of a house remains after a late-night fire burned through a home near Concord Road and Wisconsin Avenue in Oconomowoc.
Western Lakes Fire District reports the first calls came in just after 1 a.m. Monday.
When law enforcement arrived at the scene, heavy flames were seen from the front and back of the first floor of the home. - PUB DATE: 11/29/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee
A crash on Sunday left two people dead after a head-on collision on U.S. Highway 18 in western Wisconsin.
According to the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office, around 11:22 a.m., deputies were notified of a two-vehicle crash in the township of Bridgeport, between the bridges of Prairie du Chien and Marquette, Iowa. - PUB DATE: 11/29/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV CBS 5 Green Bay
Firefighters put out a shed fire believed to have started by a nearby outdoor wood burner in Almond on Monday morning.
Early Monday morning, a homeowner reported a fire in their shed outside. When firefighters arrived on scene, they quickly extinguished the fire before it spread to any other structures. - PUB DATE: 11/28/2022 5:21:00 PM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9 Wausau
5 years ago, Eau Claire saw one of the worst fires in its history.
Early in the morning on November 27, 1977, a fire destroyed Wagner's Lanes Bowling Alley in what firefighters at the time called the worst fire in Eau Claire history.
The fire caused around $6 million in damages. There were no casualties but the building was a total loss. - PUB DATE: 11/28/2022 3:26:00 AM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire
A man and his dog died Sunday in a fire at a Grand Chute duplex.
The name of the victim has not been released as of Monday morning.
The fire also displaced three other adults.
Sunday, November 27, 2022, at approximately 7:50 pm,
The Grand Chute Fire Department was sent about 7:50 p.m. Sunday to the 600 block of South Olson Avenue for a report of black smoke and fire inside the home, according to the Grand Chute Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kaukauna Community News
Crews fought a fire near Concord and Wisconsin in Oconomowoc early Monday morning.
Oconomowoc police said in a statement they are helping the West Lakes Fire District with a residential structure fire at that address.
There are some traffic closures due to the fire. - PUB DATE: 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTMJ-TV NBC 4 Milwaukee
VIDEO: For first responders, there are no off days. Members of the La Crosse Fire Department are making the most of working a holiday.
Firefighters cook Thanksgiving dinner together. They roast a turkey and prepare a meal to share. Lt. Matt Miller says Thanksgiving dinner is a chance for first responders’ second family to come together. - PUB DATE: 11/25/2022 1:21:21 AM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse
The Durand community is honoring the life and legacy of its former fire chief. Larry “Pit” Plumer led the department for more than three decades.
“Pit was a lifelong member of the Durand Fire Department,” said Jamey King, the current fire chief for the Durand Fire Department. “He had 56 years of service. - PUB DATE: 11/23/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV NBC 13 Madison
VIDEO: A Thanksgiving assist, courtesy of the Bucks organization. Tis the season for donating meals, and on Tuesday, the Bucks donated Thanksgiving meals to Milwaukee firefighters.
Personnel from 29 firehouses came to Fiserv Forum to get their turkey dinners.
The meals are donated by Gordon Food Service and prepared by Fiserv Forum Executive Chef Angel Otero and his staff. - PUB DATE: 11/22/2022 7:11:51 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee
PHOTOS: No one is hurt after a semi trailer caught on fire on Interstate 94 near Eau Claire Monday morning.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation said that the right lane of I-94 westbound just south of the exit to Highway 12/County Highway EE on Eau Claire’s west side was closed for over three and a half hours Monday. - PUB DATE: 11/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV NBC 13 Madison
On Monday, Nov. 21, hundreds of people in Waukesha continued the healing process on the one-year anniversary of the 2021 Christmas parade attack.
A moment of silence and remembrance ceremony was held at Cutler Park. The ceremony started at precisely 4:39 in the evening, the exact time the Waukesha community was changed forever one year ago. - PUB DATE: 11/21/2022 11:05:44 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee
The Madison Fire Department (MFD) responded to carbon monoxide (CO) alarms sounding at a home on the city's west side early Saturday morning.
MFD spokesperson Bernadette Galvez said the department and Madison Gas and Electric responded around 2 a.m. to Whitacre Road to a report of CO alarms going off. - PUB DATE: 11/21/2022 7:47:00 PM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV ABC 27 Madison
A 4-year-old boy pulled from the second floor of a burning apartment building Sunday afternoon has died, according to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office.
Firefighters found the child, paramedics began performing life-saving measures and then rushed the boy to Children's Wisconsin, where he died. - PUB DATE: 11/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee
First responders who raced to the scene after a plane carrying more than 50 shelter dogs crash-landed onto a Wisconsin golf course this week have helped rescue the pets in more ways than one.
The large twin-engine aircraft, which was transporting the dogs to shelters in southeastern Wisconsin from Louisiana, crashed on the golf course at the Western Lakes Golf Club in Pewaukee on Tuesday. - PUB DATE: 11/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News
A fire broke out at a home on Sleepy Hollow Lane in Brookfield early Sunday morning, but nobody was injured, according to the Brookfield Fire Department.
It happened around 6:30 a.m. just off Burleigh Place. Firefighters found a fire on the second floor of the home and brought it under control in around 20 minutes, according to a news release. - PUB DATE: 11/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Brookfield Patch
A dumpster fire damaged the Nitty Gritty restaurant and closed an area of Downtown early Sunday, Madison police and fire authorities said.
Officers working the Downtown Safety Initiative and a Downtown beat officer heard a person yelling in the distance at 1:08 a.m. Sunday, headed toward the yelling and found a dumpster engulfed in flames behind the Nitty Gritty, 223 N. - PUB DATE: 11/20/2022 5:35:00 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com
Gov. Tony Evers ordered the flags of the United States and the state of Wisconsin to be flown at half-staff on Monday, Nov. 21 to recognize the first anniversary of last year's Waukesha Christmas Parade tragedy.
In a Friday, Nov. 18 press release, Gov. Evers's office said that Executive Order #177 is to remember the tragedy and to show respect for the six people who were murdered in the attack. - PUB DATE: 11/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee
A person is dead after an Amtrak train traveling from Chicago crashed into a car in Brookfield on Thursday.
Officials responded to the area of Brookfield and River roads around 5 p.m. on Thursday.
Brookfield police say the driver of the vehicle, a man in his 60s, died. A preliminary investigation revealed the driver had driven around the train crossing gates, police say. - PUB DATE: 11/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTMJ-TV NBC 4 Milwaukee
A Middleton business owner says she's still reeling after a sedan crashed through her storefront on Tuesday.
"The car just ran through and I was in shock," said Le Nails Salon & Spa Owner Anna Le. "I thought I got hit by lightning. Glass everywhere and glass start dropping. I was shaking and scared," Le says. - PUB DATE: 11/17/2022 1:42:00 AM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV ABC 27 Madison
