Posted: Aug 8, 2017
American Medical Response, the Colorado-headquartered ambulance business of Envision Healthcare Corp., will be sold to New York buyout firm KKR & Co. LP in an all-cash deal worth $2.4 billion, Envision said today.
KKR plans to combine Greenwood Village-based AMR with its Texas-based portfolio company, Air Medical Group Holdings (AMGH).
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Denver Business Journal
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Posted: Aug 8, 2017
Tensions between Fayetteville City Councilman Chalmers McDougald and the city fire chief flared Monday night in a council work session when Ben Major appeared to update council members on progress to increase firefighter diversity in his department.
“It seems as though this department is really not willing to reach people,” McDougald said.
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fayetteville Observer
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Posted: Aug 8, 2017
At 10 a.m. on Monday, South Zanesville Fire Chief Russell Taylor met with engineers at the Owens-Illinois glass plant on State Street to discuss the possibility of a tank rupture.
A few hours later, the bottom of a tank ruptured.
"Basically like a volcano," Taylor said.
Three hundred thousand tons of molten glass spilled into the facility, he said.
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cincinnati Enquirer & Cincinnati.com
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Posted: Aug 8, 2017
Work has stopped on part of the Highway 99 Tunnel project after a worker fell 15 feet from a scaffold over the weekend, according to Seattle Tunnel Partners (STP).
It happened early Saturday in the south portal of the tunnel.
STP said the worker was on a scaffold which tipped over, causing him to fall.
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO News
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Posted: Aug 8, 2017
Norfolk (NE) Fire & Rescue tanker. Freightliner M2 cab and chassis; Cummins ISL 350-hp engine; UPF Poly 2,000-gallon tank; Waterous CL 500-gpm PTO pump.
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