Emergency Response

Detective Bradley Tatro and Lt. Trevor Bilgo are police officers who are called in to try to negotiate tense, life-and-death standoffs. They share wisdom about the craft of negotiating and explain what movies get wrong about police negotiating.

At least 10 people were injured in a shooting at a Madison apartment building early Sunday morning near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

One person died and a Milwaukee firefighter was badly burned early Sunday in a fire that spread to three houses.

Ron Firnrohr is the battalion chief for the Milwaukee Fire Department. He was a member of the department’s Dive Rescue Team team for 28 years. Firnrohr spoke with “Morning Edition” host Alex Crowe about how their team prepares for high stress rescue situations.

A Milwaukee woman whose death at a bus stop on a freezing cold day inspired a change in the city’s 911 response policy died of heart disease.

Paramedics in Milwaukee will now get out of their vehicle to look for patients when responding to calls in extreme weather or when there’s reduced visibility or obstructions at a scene. 

Milwaukee officials are urging local ambulance companies and the Milwaukee Fire Department to change their policies in the wake of the January death of a 49-year-old woman in subzero temperatures.

Seventeen-year-olds would be able to provide emergency medical services as part of ambulance crews under a bill proposed by Assembly lawmakers.

As 2024 approaches, the heads of police and firefighting services in two western Wisconsin communities are looking ahead with concern. Like the leaders of other rural first responders, Galesville fire […]

When the U.S. Navy formally decommissioned the USS Milwaukee in September, the juncture marked the end of an eight-year journey plagued by problems nearly from its start in Wisconsin. The […]