Wednesday marked the end of an era for the city of Chelan and one of its top emergency management officials. After ten years of service to the resort town of 4,200 residents, Chelan County Fire District No. 7 Chief Tim Lemon is retiring. “Of the forty years (of his career) this is probably the ten years I enjoyed the most,” Lemon told us.
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A new pub will soon be calling downtown Elkhart home.

But it's not your traditional bar. This is being built entirely by firefighters.

They wanted a place to hold their meetings and fundraising events, but also a place for the community to enjoy.

The Parkersburg Fire Department celebrated the grand opening of the new and improved Fire Station No. 2 on the corner of 16th and Covert streets Monday afternoon.

The original Fire Station No. 2 was built in 1931 and suffered a variety of structural issues. It was demolished and ground was broken for the new facility in September.

The process of rebuilding Fire Station No. 2 has been nearly three years in the making, according to Matthews. From designing floor plans to securing the contractual bid through Grae-Con Construction in Marietta and wrapping up the process in late May of this year, it has been a vital process for maximizing modern-day emergency response, officials said.

The subcontractor that went bankrupt, delaying the completion of Palo Alto’s Rinconada Park fire station, was overwhelmed with outstanding credit card and equipment debts, according to a court document.

The company had $2,363,485 in unpaid liabilities, according to the filing from company president Alberto Mendez.

The company has $386,850 in outstanding claims to Ford and Lincoln for seven recent vehicle purchases including $70,000 on a 2019 Lincoln Navigator and $80,000 on a 2018 Ford F150 Raptor. The company has a total of 79 creditors including seven involving recent vehicle purchases.

Police say a fire truck was responding to a call when it was hit by a passenger vehicle Tuesday night.

According to the Baton Rouge Police Department, a fire engine from the Baton Rouge Fire Department was responding to a call with lights and sirens activated. The fire truck was reportedly traveling northbound on Acadian when it was struck by a vehicle traveling west on Fairfields Ave.

Two people were transported from the scene with minor injuries. None of the patients were from the fire department, police say.