Posted: May 16, 2018
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ST. PAUL - The St. Paul Volunteer Fire Department recently received a $2,500 grant. Heath Dillon directed the monies as part of the America's Farmers Grow Communities program, which is sponsored by the Monsanto Fund. The Monsanto Fund, the philanthropic arm of Monsanto Company, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the communities where farmers and Monsanto employees live and work.
Fire department personnel said they will use the funds to install radio equipment and to purchase additional tools for their new pumper/tanker fire engine.
The department’s new tanker truck arrived at the fire department just a couple months ago, on March 21.
St. Paul Chief Garett Debaun commented on how they were able to make the purchase of approximately $225,000, noting that not only did the department put back some money, they were assisted by their town and surrounding communities.
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The city is mourning the loss of a veteran firefighter who died Monday after suffering a heart attack while on duty over the weekend.
Thomas Cannon, 63, a firefighter with the city for over 30 years, died at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. The fire department announced his death Tuesday morning over the public safety radio.
- PUB DATE: 5/16/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Attleboro Sun Chronicle
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Petersburg Fire Chief Dennis Rubin sharply disputed a story — first reported by NBC Channel 12 on Friday — that he was resigning.
Citing unnamed sources, NBC reported that Rubin, who has been fire chief in Petersburg for almost a year now, was planning on resigning.
Rubin disputed the report, saying it was a “non-story.
- PUB DATE: 5/16/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Progress-Index
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A firefighter is going after fellow smoke-eaters who he says slimed him with media leaks painting him as unfit for the job, the Daily News has learned.
Michael Johnson — an African-American "priority hire" who joined FDNY ranks in the wake of a fiery legal battle to diversify the department — is targeting fellow firefighters who teed up tabloid stories saying he ran away from his job when things got too hot.
- PUB DATE: 5/16/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News
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Firefighters doused the blazing Tesla Inc. Model X’s battery pack, and then company engineers removed about one-quarter of its power cells before the vehicle was deemed safe to tow off a California freeway.
That didn’t prevent the powerful and highly flammable lithium-ion battery cells from reigniting.
- PUB DATE: 5/16/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Detroit News
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