{"id":127015,"date":"2025-10-17T01:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127015\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:29:08","slug":"new-novel-by-retired-milwaukee-firefighter-firefighter-training-explained-and-wisconsin-book-festival-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127015\/","title":{"rendered":"New novel by retired Milwaukee firefighter; firefighter training explained; and Wisconsin Book Festival returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory Lee Renfro talks about his new crime novel, \u201cBeyond the Flames.\u201d Then, we talk to the director of firefighter training at Wisconsin\u2019s two-year technical colleges. Then, we get a preview of the Wisconsin Book Festival Fall Celebration.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tFeatured in this Episode<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-wpr-segments__list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-wpr-segment\">\n\t\t\tVeteran Milwaukee firefighter writes gritty, violent second novel<\/p>\n<p>In his new action-packed novel, \u201cBeyond the Flames,\u201d author and retired Milwaukee firefighter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/person\/gregory-lee-renz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gregory Lee Renz<\/a> tackles PTSD, political corruption, gang warfare and voucher school programs. The author joins us.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"wp-block-wpr-segment\">\n\t\t\tWhat it takes to be a firefighter in Wisconsin<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll talk about the training required to become a firefighter in Wisconsin with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/person\/lyon-ward\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ward Lyon<\/a>, director of fire service education and training for the Wisconsin Technical College System.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"wp-block-wpr-segment\">\n\t\t\tWisconsin Book Festival brings 70+ writers to Madison next week<\/p>\n<p>More than 70 authors \u2013 including Jane Hamilton, Laila Lamani and Mary Roach \u2013 will converge in Madison Oct. 23-26 for the Wisconsin Book Festival Fall Celebration. We talk to festival director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/person\/jane-rotonda\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Rotonda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t\t\tEpisode Credits<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-wpr-credits-list__list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-wpr-credits-list-item\">\n\tLarry Meiller\tHost\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"wp-block-wpr-credits-list-item\">\n\tGregory Lee Renz\tGuest\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"wp-block-wpr-credits-list-item\">\n\tWard Lyon\tGuest\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"wp-block-wpr-credits-list-item\">\n\tJane Rotonda\tGuest\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"wp-block-wpr-credits-list-item\">\n\tJill Nadeau\tExecutive Producer\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"wp-block-wpr-credits-list-item\">\n\tJoel Patenaude\tProducer\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"wp-block-wpr-credits-list-item\">\n\tLee Rayburn\tTechnical Director\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wisconsin Public Radio, \u00a9 Copyright 2025, Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Educational Communications Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gregory Lee Renfro talks about his new crime novel, \u201cBeyond the Flames.\u201d Then, we talk to the director&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[359,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-127015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}