The Fire Chief and his assistants or officers in command are hereby vested with full and complete police authority at fires and may cause the arrest of any person failing to give the right-of-way to the Denmark Volunteer Fire Department responding to a fire call.
The Fire Chief, or his designee, shall have the power to cause the removal of any property whenever it shall become necessary for the preservation of such property from fire or to prevent the spread of fire or protect adjoining property, and during the progress of any fire the Fire Chief, or his designee, may order the removal or destruction of any property necessary to prevent the further spread of the fire. The Fire Chief, or his designee, shall also have the power to cause the removal of all wires or other facilities and the turning off of all electricity or other services where the same impede the work of the Denmark Volunteer Fire Department during the progress of a fire.
It shall be lawful for any firefighter acting under the direction of the Fire Chief or any officer in command to enter upon the premises adjacent to or in the vicinity of any building or other property then on fire for the purpose of extinguishing such fire, and no person shall hinder, resist or obstruct any firefighter in the discharge of his duty as hereinbefore provided; the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of resisting firefighters in the discharge of their duty.
Every person who shall be present at a fire shall be subject to the orders of the Fire Chief or officer in command and may be required to render assistance in fighting the fire or in removing or guarding property. Such officer shall have the power to cause the arrest of any person refusing to obey said orders.
No person shall give or send, or cause to be given or sent, in any manner any alarm of fire which he knows to be false.
No person shall willfully injure in any manner any hose, hydrant or fire apparatus belonging to the Denmark Fire Department, or its contract provider, and no vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected fire hose when laid down on any street, private driveway or other place, to be used at any fire or alarm of fire, without the consent of the fire official in command.
No person shall occupy any portion of such streets or alleys with a motor or other vehicle between such fire engine or fire truck or other fire apparatus and any hydrant to which a fire hose may be, or may be about to be, attached.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall be subject to a penalty as provided in §
1-4 of this Code. In addition to any penalty imposed for violation of § 943.01(1), Wis. Stats., any person who shall cause physical damage to or destroy any public property shall be liable for the costs or replacing or repairing such damaged or destroyed property. The parent or parents of any unemancipated minor child who violates § 943.01(1), Wis. Stats., may also be held liable for the cost of replacing or repairing such damaged or destroyed property in accordance with § 895.035, Wis. Stats.