{"id":218292,"date":"2025-10-16T22:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218292\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:01:12","slug":"new-novel-by-retired-milwaukee-firefighter-firefighter-training-explained-and-wisconsin-book-festival-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218292\/","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<p>\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<p>\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<p>\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<p>\t\t\tEpisode Credits<\/p>\n<p>\tLarry Meiller\tHost<\/p>\n<p>\tGregory Lee Renz\tGuest<\/p>\n<p>\tWard Lyon\tGuest<\/p>\n<p>\tJane Rotonda\tGuest<\/p>\n<p>\tJill Nadeau\tExecutive Producer<\/p>\n<p>\tJoel Patenaude\tProducer<\/p>\n<p>\tLee Rayburn\tTechnical Director<\/p>\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":218293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":["post-218292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}