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| West University Place makes internal appointment, taps Fire Captain Jennifer Drake for chief role The city of West University Place will soon have a new fire chief. Jennifer Drake, the city's fire captain, was tapped for the promotion by City Manager Dave Beach and unanimously approved by the City Council during its Nov. 8 meeting. "Captain Drake is well-qualified; she's been working for the city since 2004 and has served the city faithfully in that timeframe," Beach said during the meeting. "She clearly understands the West [University Place] model, the service delivery expected by our residents, and [she] embraces that every time she comes into work." Drake will be taking the reins from Fire Chief Aaron Taylor, who recently announced his retirement effective Jan. 3. The timing of the new appointment is designed to allow Drake and Taylor the opportunity to implement a transition plan for the fire department, according to a Nov. 8 agenda report. COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER New Corpus Christi fire station set to open in 2024 City Council gave the greenlight to spend over $620,000 for the design of a new Fire Station Number 3. Last year, voters passed a bond that called for Fire Station Number 3 on Morgan Street to be replaced by a new fire station that would be built a few blocks away. The reason being because the station was built back in 1954 and was simply too small for modern fire trucks and did not have adequate A-D-A access. City manager Peter Zanoni told 3News that the total cost to build the new fire station is $7 million, which will now be paid through federal grant monies. According to Fire Chief Robert Rocha, the new station will be placed in an ideal spot. "The station is going to be situated along Morgan Avenue the street which is a perfect street for it. It's right next-door to the current fire station that's currently one of the busiest stations in the country," Rocha said. KIII-TV ABC 3 CORPUS CHRISTI ‘I was surprised I lived:' Dallas firefighter injured in apartment explosion returns home A Dallas firefighter injured in an explosion at a southeast Oak Cliff apartment complex returned home Tuesday afternoon after being hospitalized for more than a month. Dallas Fire-Rescue driver engineer Ronald W. Hall was one of four firefighters wounded in the Sept. 29 explosion. Hall suffered second-degree burns and a broken right tibia and was transferred to a rehabilitation facility last month after weeks in the hospital. His discharge comes almost six weeks after the blast, which displaced hundreds of residents. A silver SUV followed by a firetruck dropped off Hall — still wearing a leg brace — at his Oak Lawn apartment Tuesday afternoon. Asked by reporters whether he ever expected the day of his release from the hospital to come, Hall responded that he had been preparing for his own funeral. DALLAS MORNING NEWS - METERED SITE Why Denton firefighters stay with the department for decades The Denton Fire Department knows a thing or two about job retention, with the department keeping about 90% of the firefighters and paramedics it hires. The secret, says the Fire Department's most senior member — Capt. Mike Tucker, who has been at the department since 1988 — is the family feel of the department. Personnel records from September show 53 firefighters have been with the department since 2000 or earlier, and more than half have been there for the past 10 years. Tucker started his career with the Fire Department when he was 21. "My father was a firefighter, so it just kind of went with the family," Tucker said. "He was the chief in Sanger while I was growing up. … Whenever it got time to where I could join, I started testing and got hired in Denton." Tucker, now 55, worked up the ranks until becoming a captain in 2005. DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE Update: Fire at former Kilgore Recycling likely caused by electrical line, official says A large fire that scorched an old recycling facility in October likely started due to an electrical line, according to the Kilgore Fire Department. Fire officials received a call on Oct. 28 of smoke coming from the former Kilgore Recycling facility on Highway 42 near Industrial Boulevard. The plumes of smoke could be seen for miles. Firefighters contained the flames the following morning and allowed the fire to burn itself out over the next several days. Kilgore Fire Captain Jason Chamblee said he was "99.9 percent certain" the fire was caused by an electrical line. High winds that day caused issues around East Texas, including downed trees and power lines. Chamblee added that the wind likely played a role in the fire, but certainly added to the fire's intense spread. KLTV ABC 7 TYLER Cotton bale fire at warehouse in Seminole burns for 11 hours According to the Seminole Volunteer Fire Department, it took about 11 hours to put out a cotton bale fire and remove the damaged cotton from a warehouse in Seminole. The fire started just before 6 p.m. Monday evening. Volunteer Fire officials say it was not a typical warehouse and it was filled with smoke with minimal visibility. Around 5 a.m. Tuesday, about 11 hours later, the burned and smoldering bales were removed from the warehouse. No injuries were reported and the majority of the property was saved. KJTV FOX 34 LUBBOCK PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| No injuries reported in massive Southwest Philadelphia junkyard fire VIDEO/PHOTOS: A large fire that overcame a junkyard Tuesday afternoon in Southwest Philadelphia continued to smolder hours after firefighters gained control of the inferno that sent thick black smoke billowing across the city. Fire crews from multiple departments responded to the construction waste recycling facility on the 3700 block of South 61st Street just before 4 p.m. Captain Derek Bowmer told reporters that the fire started in a heap of trash and quickly spread. "Wood, tires, things like that, when they break down houses. It looks like that's what's in the piles," said Captain Derek Bowmer of the Philadelphia Fire Department. Nearly 100 firefighters responded to the blaze, including marine units that pumped water from the Schuylkill River to douse the flames. WTXF-TV FOX 29 PHILADELPHIA Veterans an easy fit in first responder jobs At community events where first responders are present and the U.S. flag is raised, you'll see many of the men and women working for fire, police, and other emergency services salute. That's how you know they are military veterans. "Service members both past and current are allowed to salute in civilian clothes," said Spicewood Fire Chief Sam Stacks, a U.S. Navy veteran. "When you see someone saluting, nine times out of 10, they are a veteran." Once out of the military, many veterans feel called to continue their service, this time in the community as first responders, turning their military experience into a civilian career. While only 7 percent of the U.S. population has served in the military as of 2020, 19 percent of police officers are veterans, according to a research project conducted for The Marshall Project, a nonprofit journalism organization dedicated to criminal justice. It is the third most common occupation for veterans. DAILYTRIB.COM Texas Tech researchers team up with fire crews for their latest project The engineering department at Texas Tech University headed down to the Lubbock Fire Rescue Training Facility to gain first-hand experiences as a firefighter for their latest project. Suman Chowdhury, with the Department of Engineering at Texas Tech, says the project isn't actually for a grade, it's about the safety of firefighters. "Department of Homeland Security is interested to develop a firefighting helmet," Chowdhury said. "So, right now, the firefighters' activities and roles have changed a lot throughout the years. Only 7% of their activities that are mainly fire extinguishing, but mostly respond to the vehicle extrication, automated accidents and, and also, like there are active shooting incidents firefighters are responding to, but they do not have a ballistic helmet." These researchers are trying to improve one the most important pieces of safety equipment a firefighter can have: helmets. KLTV ABC 7 TYLER New York law strengthens building code enforcement; Here's what it means Property owners who repeatedly violate building codes and fail to correct potentially dangerous conditions will face mandatory penalties under a law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul. The law, sponsored by Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowski, D-New City, adds to the current penalties by imposing a minimum fine of $25 a day after 180 days of a property being in violation. An unaddressed violation after 360 days would bring a minimum penalty of $50 a day. The maximum code violation penalty remains $1,000 a day that could be levied by a judge. But Zebrowski said the amount is rarely imposed so he and state Sen. Rachel May, D-Onondaga, proposed strengthening code violation penalties. Zebrowski and May said the tougher fine structure is meant to push municipal governments to act faster on properties that are not up to code and have languished for months with token fines put in place. LOHUD - METERED SITE COVID-19 tests: Does accuracy vary throughout the day? When a COVID-19 test returns a false-positive result — meaning a person does not have a SARS-CoV-2 infection, yet the test is positive — this disrupts that person's life unnecessarily. However, a false negative — when someone does have an infection, but the test is negative — is more detrimental. This is because treatment is mistakenly deferred, and the individual may infect others as they continue to participate in their regular daily activities. A new study from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, suggests that the time of day at which a person takes an RT-PCR COVID-19 test may affect the likelihood of an inaccurate result. The study found that the participants were up to twice as likely to receive an accurate positive result if they got tested in the middle of the day and not at night. MEDICAL NEWS TODAY PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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