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 A firefighter is recovering from a serious injury suffered in the Fort Atkinson blaze which continues to smolder.  Crews were called to a warehouse yesterday afternoon with about 250 firefighters from dozens of fire departments responding to the scene.  The injured firefighter suffered a deep cut and underwent surgery at UW Hospital.  Two other firefighters were treated for heat-related injuries.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services confirms the average number of new COVID-19 cases tops eleven-hundred a day.  Officials say over seven-percent of those tested for COVID-19 statewide are positive for the virus.  Just under 50-percent of residents have completed their vaccination series with about 53-percent of residents receiving at least one dose of vaccine. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

Today marks 12 years since an Antigo girl disappeared.  Kayla May Berg went missing from Antigo on August 11th, 2009.  She was 15-years-old at the time, and the entire Antigo community has been touched by her disappearance.  Antigo police say they continue to actively investigate Kayla’s disappearance and welcome any tips or leads to follow up on.  Antigo police have posted photos of Berg on Facebook.

Madison police are looking for the owner of a lost fanny pack turned in by a good Samaritan.   Police today say the fanny pack contained a phone, an ID card and a sock.  The sock wasn’t valuable but the ten-thousand-dollars inside is.  The fanny pack was found at Winnebago Street and Bashford Avenue last month and police have it safely stored until the owner can claim it.

Organizers of the first annual “Forge Fest” Music Festival want to publicly thank all healthcare workers and are offering a small gesture of appreciation to them during the September 18th event. Event organizer and promoter, James Kasmarek, had this to say:  “We recognize that the COVID-19 pandemic has had impacts community-wide, especially affecting the many levels of healthcare staff and volunteers. As such, the Forge Fest team wants to give a sincere THANK YOU to every healthcare hero that has

A lot of politicos are wondering what comes next in western Wisconsin now that longtime Congressman Ron Kind is stepping aside. CLICK TO HEAR MORE WITH MORGAN MCCARTHY: Kind shocked some people yesterday when he said he will not run for re-election next year. Kind says he’s ‘out of gas.’ His retirement opens-up the race for Congress in the western portion of the state and could see an end to Democratic control over the area. Kind has been in Congress since 1997.

The pilot of a small plane walked away from a crash landing in Polk County earlier this week. The plane went down in a soybean field not far from the Osceola Airport about 6 p.m. Monday evening. No one is saying why the plane had to crash land. The FAA is now investigating.

More families in Eau Claire schools are looking to send their kids to school online. The city’s school board says enrollment at Eau Claire’s Virtual School is now up to 120 kids. Last year, enrollment was just 40 kids. The Virtual School is its own program, and is different from the online classes many kids took last year during the coronavirus lockdown. Virtual School principal Laura Schlichting says some families have realized their kids just do better online. She says

A few more people are getting the coronavirus vaccine in Wisconsin. The latest numbers from the state’s Department of Health Services shows a slight increase in vaccine doses over the past three weeks. DHS says vaccine numbers fell to below 40-thousand doses-per-week in mid-July, but rebounded to nearly 55-thousand doses-per-week last week. Still, DHS says less than 53-percent of people in the state have gotten at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

A new report backs up what a lot of doctors have been saying for months: the coronavirus lockdowns made Wisconsin’s opioid problems worse. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said the evidence shows more people died from opioid overdoses during the early months of the outbreak. DHS says there’s no indication the people who died from taking too many pain pills or taking heroin were positive for the virus. The report comes as Wisconsin gets ready to spend 10-million-dollars from the McKinsey