Medical crews head out on calls. They make sure theyre stocked up on blankets. To shelter patients being transported into an ambulance from the cold. Opening door dan going into ambulance lt. Dan tyk says. In really cold weather. An extra will respond to calls. Especially outside having a medical emergency, that just helps us expedite getting them into the back of the ambulance and starting that rewarming and an iv warmer is kept in the ambulance. Warmer fluid bag crinkling so that fluids can be pumped into the body at its normal temperature 98 tyk. That helps gradually warm someone suffering from hypothermia. Medical crews also carry Winter Weather kits containing extra clothes and gloves so they can better keep warm. That allows them to better focus on those medical calls. At the nsfd pete z tmj4 north shore fire rescue says the most common medical calls during the winter. Are slips and falls. Back injuries or heart attacks that happen as we start getting more snow wisconsin state tr
Cold front then moved through the area with afternoon flurries, and slowly dropping temps. This morning is partly cloudy, windy and chilly with lows in the lower 20s along the lake, and teens inland. Wind chills will be near 10 all morning, and in the teens all day with highs near 30, a brisk wind, and some sun. Tonight is mostly cloudy and cold with lows in the teens and wind chills in the Single Digits. Haen happening today the man accused of hitting and killing a man and his daughter heads to court this morning. Levi ruohonen is facing three charges relating to that fatal accident in caledonia on black friday. The crash killed kevin dalley and his nine year old daughter emily. According to a criminal complaint rownin told police he started drinking at a hockey game that morning after working a third before driving home. Were waiting to hear the condition of a driver that had to be rescued from a car last night in grafton. Fire Officials Say two cars were involved in a crash. One dri
Over the years i had someone be a lone wolf. I do take my faithfulness really seriously. I am passionate. I have been known to maybe get a little too wound up as i watch the games and they make myself miserable after a loss or maybe happy after a win. Chris willis is also in his 20th year at nfl films as the head of their research library. Chriss profession means he is immersed in the history of the game every day. This is nothing new to chris. He has been preparing for this his entire life. Being a big football fan in ohio one of my other passions was reading and writing. I got that from my mom and dad. My mom ran a used bookstore for years. Besides being a football junk ki was sitting in the sports section and reading almost any football book i could. One of my favorite years of football was the 20s and 30s. I love the sand lots and paying 23 for 20 a game. When they plaid for 50 and you see the context now, so thats how i gravitated towards reading and writing. I never really plan t
Officer lee, are you with us . Definitely impacted at this point. Northbound traffic on 680 is being diverted at capital expressway and southbound 680 traffic is being diverted at mckie. There is no estimated time of opening the lanes at this point pending resolution on the overcrossing. Do you have any sense, officer, how long that is going to take or what they are doing to try to talk this woman off the edge of the overpass . I do not, actually. I have no details on where negotiations stand with her at this point or if its looking like its going to be something that will resolve itself quickly or be extended into the commute hours. Once it does get resolved, any sense given how much the traffic is backing up how long will it take traffic to get back to normal . Do you have any idea . I know traffic on the southbound side was at least backed up to calaveras approximately 30 minutes ago. It is definitely going to impact and be a delay for people who are traveling southbound and northbo
Started higher than what had the dow on track to the worst start of the new year since 2008. Heres how things looked at the closing bell. Dow fell 130 points after being more than 200. The nasdaq now on a fiveday losing streak down another 60 points today. The s p fell 18 points. Barely holding above the 2,000 mark. In the bond market the yield on the benchmark ten year note fell to 1. 88 before recovering a bit to close at 1. 9 . Oil prices fell again to the lowest level since april of 2009. U. S. Crude was down more than 2 today closing at 47. 93 a barrel and brent was also down 2 bucks closing at 51. 10 a barrel. The recent drop in oil prices is a big reason behind the tumble in the dow transport index, down since the start of the year after a strong 2014. Morgan brennan has more on whats driving the transports lower and whether this is the start of a bigger turn. Reporter 2015 has been a rough ride for transports. Its a sharp contrast to 2014 when the index gained 23 or doubled the