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
When an eight-vehicle crash left Ross Kopfer and his 11-year-old son trapped in their Ford F-150 pickup, the hood in flames, they never imagined passersby would save them.
But as some onlookers captured video on their smartphones of the bloody scene on Interstate 39-90-94 near Lodi, a truck driver, a mom and her two young adult children rescued the injured Kopfers seconds before their vehicle exploded, saving two lives on June 12, 2020, in a chain-reaction collision that killed four. - PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KION-TV CBS/CW+ 46 Monterey
The state Department of Health Services announced Monday that it will begin receiving requests for applications for $12 million dollars in EMS Flex Grant funding recently unveiled by Gov. Tony Evers alongside an additional $22 million investment toward emergency response in the state. This investment comes from the American Rescue Plan Act Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds. - PUB DATE: 6/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Chronotype
A dive team responded to the area near 27th and Loomis Monday, June 13, in search of an 11-year-old child and two men who authorities say were swept into a drainage tunnel.
In a press conference Monday evening, authorities said a preliminary report indicates that an 11-year-old child slipped into the drainage ditch leading into the Kinnickinnic River. - PUB DATE: 6/13/2022 10:35:48 PM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee
The Waupun Fire Department is investigating why a gas main was struck during street reconstruction Friday, resulting in the evacuation of 20 homes.
Fire Chief B.J. DeMaa said crews responded to the area of South Madison and Doty Streets around 3 p.m. and confirmed a 4” gas main was leaking after being struck by a piece of construction equipment. - PUB DATE: 6/13/2022 7:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison
The Bristol Renaissance Faire became the site of an “active shooter” drill Sunday as hundreds of law enforcement, fire and rescue, and emergency management personnel descended on the grounds to train. In the wake of several mass shootings nationwide, the exercise was conducted by Kenosha County Emergency Management, which tested the area’s multi-agency response to a simulated mass casualty incident at the grounds at 12550 120th Ave. - PUB DATE: 6/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News - Metered Site
