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| 2 workers at State Farm building rescued by Normal Fire Department Firefighters rescued two workers who became trapped on scaffolding more than 150 feet above ground at State Farm corporate headquarters Wednesday morning. Normal Fire Department's Technical Rescue Team, which is trained to navigate complicated rescues involving high angles and trenches, helped the workers to get inside a window on the 10th floor of the building at 1 State Farm Plaza. "They're trained on how to bring themselves down and self-rescue techniques for the amount of work that they do on scaffolding," said Matt Swaney, public information officer for the Normal Fire Department, "but I think if you can avoid repelling down 11 stories, that's always a good day for them. "They were happy to be down inside the safety of the building." BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL PANTAGRAPH Mattoon likely to appeal ambulance service reinstatement ruling The city will likely appeal a state panel's ruling that the Mattoon Fire Department's ambulance service should be reinstated, officials have said. The three ambulances have been in storage since the city shuttered its emergency medical service on July 25, 2018, but officials have said that new equipment would be needed before the service could resume. An Illinois Labor Relations Board State Panel ruled on Aug. 18 that the service should be restored because the city violated firefighters' collective bargaining agreement by the way it was eliminated. City Administrator Kyle Gill said the ruling hinges on differing interpretations of the Illinois Substitutes Act's scope. He said the city maintains that it did not substitute "unqualified contractors" for firefighter-paramedics, but instead exercised its right to eliminate the municipal ambulance service and rely instead on the certified paramedics in existing private service in Mattoon. MATTOON JOURNAL GAZETTE & TIMES-COURIER Du Quoin firefighters get their work week in writing The Du Quoin city council has given preliminary approval to putting the city's fire department work schedule in writing, a bit of housekeeping that has gone undone since 1985. "It was never urgent, which is why it kept getting put on the back burner," Fire Chief Dave Durkota said. The action changes nothing about how much firefighters work or how they are paid. But it does codify the work schedule in writing. It clarifies that firefighters work an average 53-hour week, and are not eligible for overtime until after 53 hours. While most city employees are entitled to overtime after 40 hours, the unusual nature of firefighting means that the work experience and therefore the rules, are different. The department's six full time firefighters are on 24 hours and off 48. Durkota is the seventh full-timer but does not follow the 24/48 rule. DU QUOIN EVENING CALL Christopher firefighter honors fallen firefighters throughout Southern Illinois Brent Vanfossan has been a firefighter in Christopher, Illinois for over 20 years. And he has wanted to buy his own firetruck for quite some time. "This engine belonged to the Sesser fire protection district. They had it for sale for a while. And I had been looking for something to honor my son Kody," said Vanfossan. On May 5th 2019, Vanfossan's son Kody was killed in the line of duty while fighting a fire in Christopher. "He was a character. Didn't know a stranger. Had a little bit of a mouth on him, which every young kid does. Do anything to help anybody. And he loved firefighting," Vanfossan said. To honor his son and other firefighters throughout the area, Vanfossan is creating a memorial for fallen firefighters across Southern Illinois, by putting the names of the firefighters, their fire department, and when they died on the side of the truck. "There are unfortunately 20 names on the door. We wish it was zero," Vanfossan said. This winter, Vanfossan will be repainting and relettering the firetruck and will rename it the 237 engine. WSIL-TV ABC 3 CARBONDALE PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| Fire destroys Texas storage facility VIDEO: More than a dozen units were severely damaged Thursday morning by a large fire that spread through a storage facility. Flames shot high into the air as firefighters responded to the facility around 6:15 a.m. in the 2600 block of Allen-Genoa near S. Houston Road. No injuries were reported and it wasn't clear what was inside the units that were destroyed. Sections of sheet metal were torn from the structures as crews hosed down the flames and debris that was left. The facility is located behind a gas station and car wash. No other structures appeared to be threatened by the fire. The building that burned contained approximately 24 individual units. KTRK-TV ABC 13 HOUSTON Florida firefighter says being rock 'n' roll drummer by night helps relieve stress VIDEO: By day he is a firefighter/paramedic for the city of Tampa, and by night he is a rock 'n' roll drummer for the local band Jack Jagger. Nick Cedela quickly and quietly packs up the hook and ladder in preparation, the fire alarm could go off any second inside Tampa Fire Rescue Station 19. He's part of the Marine Division. "Water rescue, any kind of marine fires, boat fires, we respond to it all," said Cedela. But when Cedela isn't fighting fires, he's pounding the drums, with his band. "It's a great stress relief especially the way I play," said Cedela. Cedela and bandmate Lani Daniels just finished their newest song, "Chemicals," when the pandemic hit. "You know there are obstacles in this world that you need to overcome right now in this current situation, but this is our heart and we want to express ourselves," said Daniels. So instead of debuting "Chemicals" at a concert, they decided to make a safe, socially distant, music video. WFTS-TV ABC 28 TAMPA Google Maps Will Now Display Coronavirus Outbreaks And Cases Google Maps will now highlight coronavirus case counts around the world and how bad outbreaks are in each region, Google announced Wednesday, with a new layer dedicated to information about the pandemic. The new feature will display the seven-day average for COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people for the map area that a viewer is looking at, as well as whether cases are trending upward or downward. The map, which will offer information for every country currently supported in Google Maps, will be color-coded to easily show the density of each area's outbreaks, ranging from green (less than one case per 100,000 people) to dark red (more than 40 cases per 100,000 people). The map will be based on information from "multiple authoritative sources," including Johns Hopkins University, the New York Times and Wikipedia. Users can access the feature, which will roll out this week on Android and iOS devices, by tapping the "Layers" button and clicking "COVID-19 info." FORBES How Spokane's ‘Buffalo Soldiers' saved Idaho town from historic 1910 blaze Wildfires are nothing new in the Northwest, and the "Big Burn of 1910" in Idaho and Montana is still remembered as one of the worst disasters in the region's history. What's not remembered so much is that one group sent to battle the blaze was a company from the 25th Infantry, a regiment of Black soldiers, most of whom were from the American South, but who were stationed at Fort George Wright in Spokane. The Big Burn of 1910 has been the subject of books and documentaries – notably by Northwest author Timothy Egan and from PBS – for the centennial 10 years ago. The fire in late August of that year was actually a series of blazes mostly in Idaho and Montana, though partly in British Columbia and Washington, too. A total of an estimated three million acres burned, and at least 87 people died after what had been an exceedingly dry spring and summer. The science of forestry and the Forest Service as a federal agency were relatively new in those years. MY NORTHWEST Firefighter honors fallen firefighters throughout Southern Illinois Brent Vanfossan has been a firefighter in Christopher, Illinois for over 20 years. And he has wanted to buy his own firetruck for quite some time. "This engine belonged to the Sesser fire protection district. They had it for sale for a while. And I had been looking for something to honor my son Kody," said Vanfossan. On May 5th 2019, Vanfossan's son Kody was killed in the line of duty while fighting a fire in Christopher. "He was a character. Didn't know a stranger. Had a little bit of a mouth on him, which every young kid does. Do anything to help anybody. And he loved firefighting," Vanfossan said. To honor his son and other firefighters throughout the area, Vanfossan is creating a memorial for fallen firefighters across Southern Illinois, by putting the names of the firefighters, their fire department, and when they died on the side of the truck. "There are unfortunately 20 names on the door. We wish it was zero," Vanfossan said. WSIL-TV ABC 3 CARBONDALE PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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