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Posted: Apr 13, 2018

Ambulance driver charged in Stafford crash that resulted in death of patient

Matthew Alexander Vancamp, 30, of Manassas, is also charged with reckless driving. He was indicted by a Stafford grand jury earlier this month and was arraigned Wednesday in Stafford Circuit Court, where his trial is set for Aug. 8–10.

Samantha Lehmann, 47, of Culpeper, died March 7 at Mary Washington Hospital. She was being transported to a medical facility the morning of Feb. 27 when the private ambulance driven by Vancamp crashed into the back of a tanker truck on southbound U.S. 17 and Hartwood Road.

An affidavit for a search warrant filed by Stafford Deputy 1st Class J.P. Aubry states that Vancamp was traveling 60 mph when he struck the rear of the tanker. According to the search warrant, Vancamp told police that he couldn’t see the tanker until it was too late because he was blinded by the sun.

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Posted: Apr 13, 2018

Plans advance to rebuild Lorain fire stations

Safety-Service Director Dan Given said bids for the city’s new east side fire station, which is expected to be built at the corner of Missouri Avenue and Garfield Boulevard, will go out Wednesday and will take about 30 days to get back.

“From there it’s going through them,” he said. “But it’s our intention to break ground on the new station early this summer.”

Given said a new west side station, which is at 2111 West Park Drive, is about two or three months behind its east side counterpart but it won’t be built at its current location.

Instead, Given said, it likely will be moved further west near the intersection of Kolbe Road and West Erie Avenue.

“We’re tentatively thinking it will be in that corridor but there are still soil samples and things like that we have to take. We want to make sure the land can have that kind of facility before we commit,” he said.

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Posted: Apr 13, 2018

Work begins on fire station in growing corner of Delaware

The station will provide coverage to the city’s southeast quadrant, where “the city is seeing continued growth, with substantial growth expected in coming years,” Yoakum said.

The new station’s “design and layout will be almost a twin to Station 303 on West Central Avenue,” he said.

“It will have the same footprint and very much the same look.”

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Posted: Apr 13, 2018

Florida school rescuers scrambled to save lives while fearing shooter would strike again

As first responders rushed to the Parkland high school where Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people and wounded 15 more, one thing quickly became clear: People were dying. "This is going to be a big event," a Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department commander said in newly released audio recordings from the Feb.
- PUB DATE: 4/13/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Miami Herald
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Posted: Apr 13, 2018

Radioactive material washed off 3 firefighters after sludge barrel ruptures at Idaho nuclear site

A barrel containing radioactive sludge ruptured at an Idaho nuclear facility, federal officials said Thursday, resulting in no injuries and no risk to the public but possibly slowing progress in shipping waste out of the state. The U.S. Department of Energy said the 55-gallon (208-liter) barrel ruptured late Wednesday at the 890-square-mile (2,305-square-kilometer) site that includes the Idaho National Laboratory, one of the nation's top federal nuclear research labs.
- PUB DATE: 4/13/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KBCI-TV 2 Boise
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