Five Fox Valley fire departments are examining ways they can further their collaboration with one another to meet increased demands for service amid fiscal constraints and a tight labor market.
The Appleton, Oshkosh, Neenah-Menasha, Grand Chute and Kaukauna fire departments recently hired the Wisconsin Policy Forum to study opportunities for regional cooperation. - PUB DATE: 6/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Post Crescent - Metered Site
A few firefighters in Stevens Point were honored for their courage.
Distinguished Service Awards were given to two members of city fire staff (Lt. Mark Schoeberle, and John Klementz) and a Mid-State Technical College intern (Riley Cate) for saving lives at a fire in a Stevens Point high rise last October. - PUB DATE: 6/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9 Wausau
The Milwaukee Fire Department responded to a fire at a laundromat on the city's east side Monday evening, June 20.
It happened at East Side Maytag Coin Laundry located on Prospect and Kenilworth Place.
Officials say fire shot through the roof, but fortunately, no one was hurt in the incident.
They say the building will likely be closed for a few days. - PUB DATE: 6/20/2022 10:14:01 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee
If it weren’t for the quick actions of a Cottage Grove firefighter, the fire damage to an apartment complex in the Village of Cottage Grove could’ve been much worse.
At approximately 5:28 p.m. on Friday, the Cottage Grove Fire Department was dispatched for a structure fire call to an apartment complex on Limestone Pass. - PUB DATE: 6/19/2022 9:44:45 AM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC 15 Madison
Waukesha Fire and Police departments responded to a structure fire on Fairview Ave in the City of Waukesha Saturday.
Crews arrived and found the outside front of a two-family residence fully engulfed in flames. Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the exterior fire and stop any further spread into the house. - PUB DATE: 6/18/2022 4:56:09 PM - SOURCE: WTMJ-AM 620 milwaukee
A fire broke out at an assisted living home late Thursday night in Eau Claire.
The Eau Claire Fire Department got a call at around 10 PM for a structure fire at 104 Illinois Street, which houses a transitional assisted living home for adults. The firefighters saw light smoke on the second floor, which was coming from a fire in the upstairs bathroom. - PUB DATE: 6/17/2022 2:24:00 AM - SOURCE: WQOW-TV ABC 18 Eau Claire
VIDEO: The Milwaukee Fire Department said two firefighters were injured Thursday, June 16 when a stairwell collapsed from underneath them.
It happened while crews were battling a house fire near 1st and North shortly before 6:40 p.m. MFD said both firefighters were taken to the hospital; their injuries are said to be non-life-threatening. - PUB DATE: 6/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee
The De Pere Fire Department has received a $206,831 state grant for an EMS mobile unit.
The money comes from the Healthcare Infrastructure Capital Grant program.
"The grant will fund a mobile unit to allow De Pere Health Department and De Pere Fire Department to collaboratively provide services such as mobile vaccination clinics, the Stay-at-Home Assistance Program, COVID and other disease outbreak response, shelter response, community education campaigns, and many other programs for De Pere residents," Debbie Armbruster, Health Director/Officer for the City of De Pere, said in a news release
"Currently, these initiatives tie up Fire/EMS critical response vehicles, which can lead to delays in care and emergency response. - PUB DATE: 6/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLUK-TV FOX 11 Green Bay
Firefighters on Friday morning, June 17 responded to the scene of a duplex fire on Port Washington Road, south of Capitol Drive, near Vienna Avenue in Milwaukee. The call came in around 1 a.m.
The fire initially started in a vacant structure – before spreading to neighboring duplex buildings that were occupied. - PUB DATE: 6/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee
The bodies of two men who went into a rain-swollen drainage ditch in Milwaukee to try to save a 10-year-old boy have been recovered, officials said Thursday.
The discovery comes three days after the three people were swept into a tunnel that runs under a road, shortly after a storm dropped heavy rainfall. - PUB DATE: 6/16/2022 2:36:00 PM - SOURCE: Greater Milwaukee Today
The Town of Silver Cliff in Marinette County was hit hard by storms Wednesday.
The town’s fire department was one of the buildings hit by severe weather.
The nearby Town of Lakewood Fire Department posted a message about the damage on Facebook.
The department says the Marinette County town’s fire station was “severely damaged. - PUB DATE: 6/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay
The Wausau Common Council has unanimously approved a staffing expansion of three additional firefighter/paramedics to be added to the fire department. This is the first phase of a plan to add a total of 12 additional firefighter/paramedics to the department.
The additional three firefighters will restore the department to the operational staffing level established in 1970. - PUB DATE: 6/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau
As fire engines become older and outdated, they eventually need to be replaced. On April 11 of this year, the Tomahawk Fire Department replaced Engine 5 with a brand-new truck.
Fire Chief Paul Winter has been serving with the Tomahawk Fire Department for 28 years and about nine months ago became their newest Fire Chief. - PUB DATE: 6/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tomahawk Leader
Firefighters battled a fire and a storm Wednesday night, responding to a house fire on the 100-block of Atlantic St.
Firefighters received the emergency call at 7:45 P.M. The people in the house were evacuating.
Heavy smoke was coming from the 2nd story of the house, and fire crews discovered the fire in the attic area. - PUB DATE: 6/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay
Search and recovery teams continued efforts to locate the bodies of two missing men who were swept away in a drainage tunnel earlier this week.
The two men were trying to save a ten-year-old boy was the first to be dragged by water and into the drainage tunnel.
The body of ten-year-old Mouhammad Arman Rashidulla was found Tuesday afternoon near Pulaski Park. - PUB DATE: 6/15/2022 3:43:50 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee
The City of Fond du Lac has revealed who will succeed Peter O’Leary as Fond du Lac’s fire chief.
After a unanimous decision by the Police & Fire Commission, Erick Gerritson has been promoted to fire chief. Gerritson previously worked as assistant chief of operations for the Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue Department and has been serving as interim fire chief since O’Leary’s retirement. - PUB DATE: 6/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFRV-TV CBS 5 Green Bay
Two people died in a fiery head-on crash involving two semi-tractor trailers Tuesday in southeastern Wisconsin.
Union Grove-Yorkville Fire Department Chief Tim Allen says a tanker truck hauling corn starch and a semi hauling plastic drain tile collided on State Highway 11 east of Union Grove. Both drivers were killed. - PUB DATE: 6/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison
Three people needed to be rescued from the La Crosse River on Tuesday, a day after heavy rain has water flowing very quickly.
According to the La Crosse Fire Department, six people in four kayaks and a canoe — with two of those six in the canoe — hit a tree on the river near the Viterbo Fields area, and ended up stranded. - PUB DATE: 6/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WIZM-AM 1410 La Crosse
Residents of a north Madison home and two dogs were displaced Monday night after fire tore through the building’s garage, the Madison Fire Department reported.
Firefighters deployed to the scene just before 7:40 p.m. after a neighbor reported seeing the fire on the 4500 block of Sherman Avenue. When firefighters arrived, they saw smoke blowing out from the garage eaves. - PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 1:23:48 PM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC 15 Madison
VIDEO: Emergency staff from several fire departments responded to a fire at Festive Foods in the town of Belmont. Many were at the scene for nearly nine hours.
Festive Foods is a food processing plant that makes frozen pizzas. It’s located south of Amherst, near the Waupaca and Portage county line.
According to Waupaca Fire Department, it started around 9:00 a. - PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau
