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The Daily Dispatch office will be closed Thursday, June 19 in observance of
Juneteenth. The newsletter will return on Friday, June 20.
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| | | VIDEO: No injuries were reported after an overnight house fire in Cahokia Heights Wednesday morning. The fire broke out around 3:15 a.m. on Mildred Avenue. Flames engulfed most of the house at the time of the fire. |
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| | | Three individuals stranded while kayaking on the Sangamon River near Wyckles Road were safely rescued late Monday night. The Harristown Fire Protection District responded to the scene at 10:17 p.m. |
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| | | VIDEOS/PHOTO: Peoria firefighters were busy over the lunch hour Tuesday with a car fire near the ambulance bay at Carle Health Methodist Hospital. The call came in just after noon and involved a single car. |
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| | | PHOTOS: A fire blazed from an electric vehicle on Monday after it crashed on Walton Bluff Parkway in Chesterfield County. The SUV reportedly ran off the road, clipped a cement culvert and overturned, causing the batteries in the vehicle to catch on fire. |
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| | | VIDEO: The East Providence Fire Department has become the first department in the country to use non-PFAS turnout gear. According to the City of East Providence, the gear is the first to fully exclude the use of fluorinated chemistry, which has been shown to cause cancer. |
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| | | VIDEO/PHOTOS: A fire engine memorializing a beloved chief is being brought back to the community next week. Ed's engine, named after late Comstock Fire & Rescue Chief Ed Switalski, was damaged on an I-94 on-ramp after an out-of-control box truck slid into it. |
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| | COOPERATIVE PURCHASING |  | Sourcewell Cooperative Purchasing - Fire chiefs across North America turn to cooperative purchasing to simplify procurement and stretch their budgets further. As the largest government-based cooperative purchasing organization on the continent, Sourcewell serves as the exclusive group purchasing partner of the Western Fire Chiefs Association. With Sourcewell, departments gain access to a wide range of competitively awarded contracts—helping leaders purchase the equipment and services they need quickly. Get fire apparatus, PPE, training, tech, and more—faster than traditional procurement processes.
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| More than 50,000 public agencies across the U.S. and Canada rely on Sourcewell to simplify purchasing. Buy faster, equip sooner, and skip the hassle of the traditional procurement process with competitively awarded supplier contracts. Fire-Rescue | EMS |
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