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EIGHT WALWORTH COUNTY, WISCONSIN, FIREFIGHTERS WERE injured at a major fire Friday when an aerial operating a master stream brushed along a high-voltage electric line. All of them were transported with non-life threatening injuries, but one of them remains hospitalized with burns. Most of them were people who were on the ground but in contact with the truck when it happened.

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The fire began at 2 pm when a grease pit under the broiler flamed up. One of the restaurant’s cooks was there and he acitvated the Ansul system before initiating an evacuation of the popular tavern. By the time the FD arrived, the fire had extended rapidly.

The 6-alarm fire completely destroyed the Mulligan’s Sports Bar & Restaurant, a popular business in the community of Delavan.

WTMJ-TV Ch. 4 Milwaukee has this video report:

* STATter911 has updated the story on the Lancaster (Pa.) fire captain who fell out of the aerial platform while delivering a Santa Claus at the local mall the other day. Check it out HERE and then take a look at THIS STORY from Prince George’s County (Md.) about a backdraft explosion last night that blew several firefighters tush-over-teakettle across the front yard.

* Fire Daily has a remarkable story of some Oak Park, Illinois, firefighters who chose to take early retirements so that the city could re-hire five younger firefighters that had recently been laid off. How wonderfully selfless. Read it HERE.

* Firefighter Close Calls ran a brief report on a domestic dispute in Mangum, Oklahoma, where the town’s fire chief was shot by his own brother-in-law who then turned the gun on himself and killed himself. The fire chief survived after surgery. The story was in The Oklahoman on Friday HERE.

Longtime readers of Firegeezer may remember Mangum from a picture story that we posted in February 2008 about long-lived light bulbs. Two of the top-three longest, continuously-burning light bulbs still in use in the world are in firehouses. The Mangum station is #3 where their bunkroom light has been turned on since 1927. The champion light is in Livermore, California, fire station 6. It has been burning since June 8, 1901. You might have some fun reviewing our story of the bulbs built before planned obsolescence HERE.

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