After 36 years in the Waukesha Fire Department, Chief Steve Howard has decided to retire. Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly made the announcement in an email that Howard will retire effective May 1.
"While it saddens us to see Chief Howard leave the organization, we acknowledge that his well-deserved retirement marks the culmination of nearly 36 years of exemplary service to the city of Waukesha," Reilly said. - PUB DATE: 1/12/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Greater Milwaukee Today
VIDEO: Flames broke out early Friday morning at a business near the intersection of Yates and Copeland avenues in Beloit forcing the evacuation of several homes in the area.
Around 12:45 a.m., fire crews from around the region were called to 1515 Yates Avenue. City officials say the blaze will be difficult to extinguish because of current weather conditions and a large number of tires stored in the area. - PUB DATE: 1/12/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WIFR-TV CBS 23 Rockford
VIDEO: Winter is here. With another snowstorm hitting our area on Friday along with bitter cold temperatures forecasted for this weekend, Gundersen Tri-State Ambulance is ready.
"We have two full time fleet technicians making sure our vehicles are roadworthy," director Darin Wendel says.
The way they handle calls will change. - PUB DATE: 1/12/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse
Thanks to the quick action of the homeowners, damage caused by an electrical fire in the Town of Brussels was limited to just the basement. The Brussels-Union-Gardner Fire Department was called to a home on Misere Road at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday after the homeowners heard a loud noise from the basement and noticed it slowly filling up with smoke. - PUB DATE: 1/11/2024 10:14:11 AM - SOURCE: Door County Daily News
VIDEO: Waukesha first responders had to use a saw to free a man's hand stuck in a snowblower. It happened at a home near Greenfield and Racine avenues at the height of Tuesday's storm.
"He's 34 years of age. Got his hand stuck in a snowblower," someone can be heard saying over the dispatch radio. "Three fingers are definitely stuck in there. - PUB DATE: 1/11/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee
PHOTO: The Little Rice Fire Department received vital funding for new automated external defibrillators. The department received the funding from Marshfield Clinic Health System, Community engagement, CoVantage Cares Foundation, and the Sacred Heart Hospital Foundation. The department hopes these new AED's will help save someone’s life in the event of cardiovascular emergency. - PUB DATE: 1/10/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander
PHOTO: A garage fire in Cedarburg last week was all but extinguished before any fire trucks and hoses arrived thanks to a simple fire suppression tool that can frankly be used by anyone.
According to Fire Chief Jeff Vahsholtz, a man on Willowbrooke Drive left his home around 7:45 a.m. Thursday, but forgot something at home and turned around to go back. - PUB DATE: 1/9/2024 2:00:00 PM - SOURCE: Greater Milwaukee Today
The Kenosha City Council Public Safety and Welfare Committee voted unanimously Monday evening to approve renovations for a fire station.
Members of the committee voted to recommend the City Council award a contract to Rasch Construction & Engineering, of Kenosha, for work on Fire Station No. 7, 9700 52nd St. - PUB DATE: 1/9/2024 1:00:00 PM - SOURCE: Kenosha News - Metered Site
The Beaver Dam Fire Department has announced that the city and the Beaver Dam Community Fire and Rescue Association have amended their agreement for fire, rescue, and emergency medical services. The city and Associatoin have a long history of working together to provide essential emergency services to the townships of Beaver Dam, Calamus, Lowell, Trenton, and Westford. - PUB DATE: 1/9/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBEV-FM 95.3 Beaver Dam
VIDEO/PHOTOS: A truck drove through a wall at the Regency Inn & Suites in Eau Claire Monday night. The driver was injured and taken to the hospital.
A reporter on scene captured the image of a Ford F-150 pickup truck with its front end inside the building. City police and fire crews are also on scene. - PUB DATE: 1/9/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire
VIDEO: Milwaukee's fire department has ignited a new paramedic unit and reopened a firehouse.
Officials say southside Fire Station 17, along with its engine company, was closed in 2020 because of budget cuts.
Fire Chief Aaron Lipski has said in the past that his department is stretched thin. He says reopening the fire station is a step in the right direction. - PUB DATE: 1/8/2024 6:41:49 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee
Authorities say one cat was rescued Sunday Morning from a De Pere apartment fire that caused an estimated $50,000 in damages and sent six people to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation.
According to a release from the De Pere Fire Rescue, crews from the De Pere Fire Rescue and the Fox River Fire District responded at about 6:15 a. - PUB DATE: 1/8/2024 3:35:22 PM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV CBS 5 Green Bay
A fire early Sunday morning, Jan. 7, caused thousands of dollars in damage to a Racine home.
According to the Racine Fire Department, at about 2:44 a.m., firefighters responded to a single family home on McKinley Avenue for a bedroom fire.
When they arrived, they encountered a bed and bedding on fire in a first floor bedroom. - PUB DATE: 1/7/2024 10:29:34 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee
PHOTO: A station wagon went up in flames in Slinger on Saturday morning, Jan. 6.
It happened near Lovers Lane and Glacier Pass – north of State Highway 60 near the interstate – around 10:30 a.m. Photos posted on the Slinger Police Department's Facebook page showed the extent of the fire, which fully engulfed the station wagon. - PUB DATE: 1/6/2024 8:00:12 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee
VIDEO/PHOTOS: A Milton dog breeder is still in shock after she said a New Year’s Day fire killed 25 of her puppies.
Katy Sperle said the building is a disconnected part of their home that was furnaced, dry walled and meant to keep 25 puppies and their mother warm inside a 10 by 10 kennel.
Sperle breeds Corgis and Mini Australian Shepherds. - PUB DATE: 1/5/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC/CW 15 Madison
It was 1962, and Duane Ashenbrenner had just turned 21.
That was the minimum age to join the Shawano Fire Department, and he didn’t waste time signing on.
More than 60 years later, in late 2023, Ashenbrenner retired as deputy fire chief from the department.
“He is the kind of guy who, when they say they’ll take care of something, they take care of it,” said Fire Chief Shawn Borlace, who is going on eight years as chief. - PUB DATE: 1/5/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Media Inc.
Having a child in the hospital is a difficult and emotional time for parents.
Cooper Henry is almost 18 months old. He has been in the hospital three times with RSV since he was born.
"Watching your child go through that is so scary," said his mother, Sara Schladweiler. "He was on full high-flow oxygen for three days. - PUB DATE: 1/5/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee
It has been a lot of a year for Lodi Area Fire Chief Nate Sievers, with big changes still on the horizon.
At the start of 2023, after four years as assistant chief, Sievers was appointed fire chief, officially taking over from retiring Chief Bobby Annen on Feb. 1. At the end of the year, the department had responded to 132 calls, almost double the previous year’s total of 74. - PUB DATE: 1/4/2024 11:29:00 PM - SOURCE: Lodi Enterprise & Poynette Press
VIDEO: Every winter when conditions are right, volunteers in Eagle River cut nearly 300 blocks of ice from a local lake and stack them into an ice castle. The last ice castle built was 2 years ago and time is running out for this year.
The month of December was unusually warm, which is affecting communities like Eagle River. - PUB DATE: 1/3/2024 11:48:00 PM - SOURCE: WJFW-TV NBC 12 Rhinelander
Oconto Fire & Rescue responded to an early-morning vehicle fire on Highway 41 near the Town of Oconto.
At approximately 5 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 3, Oconto Fire & Rescue responded to a call of a dump truck on fire in the southbound lane of Highway 41 near S Range Line Road in the Town of Oconto. The caller said the fire continued flaring up despite using a fire extinguisher on it. - PUB DATE: 1/3/2024 4:53:00 PM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay