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Ohio firefighter dies on duty - WTTE

by @ Saturday, February 28th, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized

Ohio firefighter dies on duty
WTTE, OH
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Officials are investigating the death of an on-duty firefighter in northwest Ohio. Toledo Fire Chief Michael Wolever says firefighters found 45-year-old Michael Darrington unresponsive on Friday at his fire station when he did not ...
Toledo Firefighter Michael J. Darrington Dies While On Duty FireFighting News.com
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Streetsboro Fire Announces 2008 Department Statistics - E-Portage

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Streetsboro Fire Announces 2008 Department Statistics
E-Portage, OH
The Streetsboro Fire Department responded to a record number of incidents in 2008 where a total of 1986 calls for service were received. Of these incidents 76%, or 1511 calls, were emergency medical in nature. Another 411 incidents are classified as ...

Officers getting upgrade - TMCnet

by @ Saturday, February 28th, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized

Officers getting upgrade
TMCnet
"The fire department is volunteer, the ambulance service is a private entity, the highway department is dispatched through us as if the forest warden. So it's going to be nice to have it more streamlined." The redesign of the dispatch center coincides ...

Williston Fire Dept. dealing with roof woes | KXNet.com North … - KXMC

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Williston Fire Dept. dealing with roof woes | KXNet.com North ...
KXMC, ND
AP Williston, ND (AP) The Williston Fire Department is dealing with a leaky roof, and preparing to replace at least part of it. The building has a flat roof that Fire Chief Alan Hanson says doesn't handle heavy snow very well. The Fire Department has ...
Flat roof fiasco Williston Daily Herald
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This time, heads must roll after Owino fire - Daily Monitor

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This time, heads must roll after Owino fire
Daily Monitor, Uganda
If Uganda were a country, say in Europe or the USA, the Minister for Disaster Preparedness would resign immediately. The resignation would not spare the Inspector General of Police whose Fire Brigade situated about 300 metres from the scene could not ...

Camp Fire USA takes reins at Tuttle Recreation Center - Delaware News

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Camp Fire USA takes reins at Tuttle Recreation Center
Delaware News, OH
26 the Camp Fire USA Central Ohio Council would assume operations of one of the 11 recreation centers closed because of cuts to the Department of Recreation and Parks 2009 budget. Tuttle Recreation Center, located north of Ohio State University, ...

Skepticism Surrounds Clinton's Successor in the Senate - Washington Post

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Washington Post

Skepticism Surrounds Clinton's Successor in the Senate
Washington Post, United States
Appointed to fill Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's former Senate seat after serving only one term in the House, Kirsten Gillibrand (D) has been under siege ever since -- by colleagues who say she is too inexperienced, by New York tabloids ...

Couple, infant son homeless after house fire - Tarentum Valley News Dispatch

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Couple, infant son homeless after house fire
Tarentum Valley News Dispatch, PA
By Charlie Ban, FOR THE VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH A basement fire yesterday afternoon snaked its way through a ranch-style house on Indiana Avenue in Vandergrift yesterday afternoon, destroying the dwelling. No one was injured, but a couple and their infant ...

County discloses embattled fire department's financial records … - White Mountain Independent

by @ Saturday, February 28th, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized

County discloses embattled fire department's financial records ...
White Mountain Independent, AZ
He said he has already chosen a seven-person advisory board to help the governing board run the department. Parsons said the new advisory board's goal is to reopen the fire station by April 1, but he added that in his opinion May 1 is a more realistic ...

Airport chief to stay put - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

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Airport chief to stay put
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL
On Monday, the board still plans to still discuss another hot-button issue: who will staff the airport's fire station. The lighter agenda is a welcome relief for authority chairman Eric W. Robinson, who said Friday that the fire station was the more ...
Fire-rescue providers down to one at SRQ Bradenton Herald
Piccolo withdraws from Cincinnati airport job Bradenton Herald
Piccolo staying at SRQ Bradenton Herald
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