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| Newly retired St. Charles Fire Chief Joe Schelstreet honored at City Council meeting Newly retired St. Charles Fire Chief Joe Schelstreet was honored at the Oct. 7 St. Charles City Council meeting for his many years of service to the city. After being with the department for more than 30 years, Schelstreet retired on Oct. 4. Schelstreet served as acting fire chief in 2012 before stepping into the chief role permanently in 2013. "For the last six years, I don't think there's any question what an outstanding job he has done, not only for the men and women in uniform standing in this room tonight, but for all of our residents who end up seeing the St. Charles Fire Department and all of our first responders on some of the worst days of their lives," said State Sen. Don DeWitte, R-St. Charles. Prior to being elected to the state legislature, DeWitte had served as St. Charles mayor. KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE Fire destroys historic Masonic temple in downtown Aurora The abandoned Lincoln Masonic Temple in Aurora has been destroyed by a fire that broke out Monday night. The longtime historic landmark in downtown Aurora hasn't been used in over 10 years. The fire broke out after 10 p.m. in the 100-block of Lincoln Avenue. As fire crews work to put out the massive blaze, residents in the area were asked to stay back. The Masonic Temple was built in 1922 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The 50,000 square foot building has been empty since 2008 when it was being used as a banquet hall. Since then, the city shut it down because of potentially hazardous condition of the building both inside and out. The structural integrity is a big challenge for firefighters. WLS-TV ABC 7 CHICAGO Fire under Chicago's Lake Shore Drive bridge burns for hours, disrupting traffic Firefighters worked for hours Monday to extinguish a burning wooden piling at a construction site under a Lake Shore Drive bridge downtown. A construction worker's blowtorch had set fire to a piling about 10:45 a.m. near the base of the bridge in the Chicago River, according to Chicago Fire Dept. spokesman Larry Merritt. A fire department boat responded and doused the flames within a half hour, but the fire reignited and proved difficult to extinguish, Merritt said. Fire crews monitored and continued to extinguish the flames well into the afternoon. Merritt said the issue was that the wooden piling was encased in metal, which prevented fire fighters from accessing the source of the fire. The fire was extinguished by 3 p.m. and the scene was turned over to the contractor, Merritt said. WFLD-TV MYFOX 32 CHICAGO Franklin County receives funding for hazardous material preparedness The Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) received more than $600,000 to support Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness. Some of that money has been awarded to counties in southern Illinois. Director of Franklin County Emergency Management, Ryan M. Buckingham says, "There are hundreds of vehicles that travel this interstate on a daily basis that have hazardous materials on board so the risk for HAZMAT emergency is pretty big." Franklin County will receive $55,000 per year for the next three years, all in an effort to keep the community safe. Buckingham explains, "The grant allows for our agency to employ a part time planning person who specially concentrates on planning for hazards materials emergencies and also dealing with the facilities in the county that store reportable quantities of HAZMAT and making sure that that information is available to the public if they request that." WSIL-TV ABC 3 Wheel from helicopter mover crashes through Lynwood family's roof, leaves gaping hole A Lynwood family was stunned when a wheel from a helicopter came crashing through the roof and ceiling of their home, leaving a hole so big rain came right into the house. No one was injured. The home is located near the airport in Lansing. Linda Taylor-Whitt said the impact must have caused an enormous sound, but none of her neighbors heard it. Instead the surprise from the sky was discovered by her daughter, who was just heading upstairs to use the bathroom. Taylor-Whitt and her family had just returned home from dinner Saturday night when they realized something truly bizarre had just happened. "I just couldn't believe it, I just stood there like what the hell," Taylor-Whitt said. "I could not believe that a tire--and I was like 'Is this an airplane?'" WLS-TV ABC 7 CHICAGO Equality Fire Department in need of rescue equipment The Equality fire department is still trying to raise money for new rope rescue equipment. The fire department started a GoFundMe in April and has since raised only $1,420 of the $12,000 needed. The department already has some rope rescue equipment, but it is old and limited. When someone falls at places like the Garden of the Gods, Equality Fire is the first department called to the scene. Fire Chief Cole Baker says this equipment will help his department and others in the region, "The equipment, it's just not going to benefit us, it's going to benefit all the surrounding departments around us. It will be available to them anytime they need it also." 30 to 40 percent of Equality Fire Department's calls come from the Garden of the Gods. WSIL-TV ABC 3 PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| Flames, heavy smoke destroy several shops in Seattle; Two-thirds of Seattle's firefighting fleet responded Several shops were destroyed by a major fire in downtown Ballard on the 2300 block of NW Market Street. The fire started around noon on Monday. Flames and heavy smoke poured out of the building. La Isla restaurant, Supercuts, Kitchen N Things and Octo Designs & Jewelers sustained heavy damage and are a total loss. The Pho Vietnamese restaurant that borders Coleman Jewelers was also damaged from smoke exposure and water, according to the Seattle Fire Department. Nearby apartments were also evacuated. At the fire's peak, 150 firefighters, or about 65% of Seattle Fire's on-duty resources, were responding. One firefighter was taken with minor injuries to a hospital, officials said. No one else was injured in the massive fire. KING-TV NBC 5 SEATTLE Florida fire department looks at staffing concerns after Disney gondola incident Some people were stuck on the Skyliner at Walt Disney World for up to three hours on Saturday night. A union representative for the fire department that responded says they were prepared to rescue people off the Skyliner, but it never should have happened in the first place. "We were told that this would not happen, that this wouldn't happen to the ride and within a week it happened to the ride," said Reedy Creek Professional Firefighters Association Vice President Sean Pierce. The gondolas smashed together, causing a three-hour delay and rescue operation Saturday night at Disney. Pierce says Reedy Creek Fire Rescue rescued six people off one of the gondolas. It was an operation that required a specialty truck reaching 116 feet in the air. WOFL-TV FOX 35 ORLANDO Houston is getting Prop B 'pay parity' money back but firefighters say it came without warning VIDEO: The latest round in the long running Prop B pay battle between Houston firefighters and city hall has a $4,000 price tag for dozens of former firefighters. Months ago, in the midst of a mid-summer city council meeting, Mayor Sylvester Turner warned this day would come and now it's here. Retiring and resigning firefighters paying a big price to leave the department. The City of Houston is clawing back back pay paid to firefighters after a judge declared Prop B the law. Since then, an appeals court judge declared Prop B unconstitutional and the city wants that back pay back. "We're being sensitive, but we cannot give a $17 million gift," Mayor Turner told Houston council members on June 12, 2019. That day, Turner said there was no current plan to claw the money back, but those who left the city would have to. In the last several weeks, the city started deducting the money from retiring and resigning firefighters' final checks. Firefighters say they had no warning. KTRK-TV ABC 13 HOUSTON iCHIEFS Podcast: Creating Value and Opportunity Through Community Risk Reduction In Episode 5, Chief Michael O'Brian, Brighton Fire Area Authority (Michigan), and Retired Deputy Chief Mike Cox, Henrico County (Virginia), discuss the elements and value of a comprehensive community risk reduction (CRR) program and the opportunities it can create. The issues and topics to be addressed are: Differences between CRR and traditional fire prevention; What's on the CRR horizon and how fire chiefs can prepare; Using GIS to align strategic resources and improve outcomes; Success stories of departments integrating GIS and risk reduction; and Low-cost analytic tools for departments with limited resources. IAFC.ORG Indiana fire departments get 10K safe drug disposal pouches The safe drug disposal program in Indiana is expanding. Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke says it's a partnership with the Rx Abuse Leadership Initiative (RALI) Indiana and the Professional Firefighters Union of Indiana (PFFUI). The expansion will provide Indiana fire departments with an additional donation of 75,000 safe drug disposal pouches to help fire departments across the state in the fight against the opioid epidemic. "I am proud of the efforts of RALI Indiana and the Professional Firefighters Union of Indiana to help curb the opioid epidemic across Indiana," said Mayor Winnecke. "With these additional pouches, Evansville fire departments will be able to distribute the preventative pouches to our local communities, allowing more Hoosiers to easily and safely dispose of unused prescription medication from their own homes." WFIE-TV NBC 14 EVANSVILLE PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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