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Westby-Christiana (WI) Fire Department Wins Rescue Equipment

Posted: Nov 1, 2016

Westby-Christiana (WI) Fire Department Wins Rescue Equipment

The Westby-Christiana Fire Department won a grain bin rescue tube and hands-on rescue training as part of Nationwide's 2016 Nominate Your Fire Department Contest held in conjunction with Grain Bin Safety Week held annually in February. Grain Bin Safety Week is an annual observance that occurs the third full week of February to promote grain bin safety on farms and commercial grain handling facilities.

Westby fireman Eric Nottestad applied for the grain rescue tube grant on behalf of the Westby-Christiana Fire Department. The annual contest encourages nominations of first responders whose communities would benefit from winning a tube and training. It asks departments to describe how they would share the tube and training information with nearby fire departments. This year's contest generated a record 641 nominations and will provide tubes and training to 19 fire departments across 14 states -- another record.

Westby-Christiana Fire Department Chief Gilbert Turben said winning the grain rescue tube was a win-win for the department which is located in the heart of rural America and an area blessed with many varieties of grain holding and production facilities. He said the training they received on Oct. 5 was very informative and provided his department with information completely new to them.

Hillcrest (CA) Fire Station to Undergo Reconstruction

Fire Station No. 5 in Hillcrest has served the community for more than a half century and is now scheduled for a $9.2 million makeover, officials are reporting. Built in 1951, the station located at 3902 Ninth Ave., will undergo reconstruction and modernization to better serve the growing population in Hillcrest and surrounding neighborhoods, Mayor Kevin L. Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer‘s office announced Monday.

The new 10,731-square-foot, two-floor station is scheduled to include a larger apparatus bay able to house a fire engine, a fire ladder truck and a chief emergency vehicle, according to a news release from the mayor’s office. The project will more than double the size of the current station, which is too small to house modern-day ladder trucks, the release stated.

The current facility will be demolished in late November. “During construction, fire crews will be working out of a temporary facility on Third Avenue to ensure no interruption in emergency service,” the release continued.

The modernized Fire Station No. 5 will reopen at the existing Ninth Ave. in 2018.

In addition to work on the Hillcrest station, the city has also opened a new fire station in Mission Valley and has begun construction of new fire stations for Bayside and City Heights.

Cumberland (ME) Council to Vote on Fire Station Expansion

The Town Council is scheduled to vote on whether to move ahead with expansion plans at the nearly 50-year-old Central Fire Station. The panel on Nov. 14 may also enact on a moratorium on retail marijuana establishments, depending on the outcome of a Nov. 8 statewide referendum.

The fire station project, which would in part mean the building at 366 Tuttle Road would expand from one to three floors, could cost $4.1 million, according to a preliminary report presented last month to the Town Council.

The following items will be discussed, and could be authorized separately or together, according to Town Manager Bill Shane:

• Continuing the project's Building Committee until construction begins.

• Authorizing Shane to enter into contracts with Portland-based Port City Architecture to design the addition.

• Authorizing Shane to work with the Building Committee to interview and choose a construction management team.

• Beginning the project in March or April 2017.

The Town Council in January formed a committee to look into space and storage at the fire station, as well as an inventory of the building's apparatus, in order to develop a needs analysis, building assessment, and conceptual site plan for the department.

The town also selected Port City Architecture to produce a preliminary design report, which included the estimate - a figure shaved down from a $5.1 million total rebuild.

Growing Middletown (DE) to Add Paramedic Station

New Castle County is spending $718,000 to purchase five acres for a new paramedic station south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to improve response times as the area continues to grow. County Council approved the purchase last week after years of discussion over where local government will grow its emergency services in the southern part of the county.

"The location couldn't be better," said Councilman Bill Bell, who is one of two council members representing residents south of the canal.

Southern New Castle County is one of the fastest growing areas in the state.

The land sits off North DuPont Parkway near Boyds Corner and east of Middletown. It is adjacent to a planned shopping center that will be known Huber's Crossing. The property is between Del. 1 on the east and U.S. 13 to the west as well as Pole Bridge Road to the north and Bayview Road to the south.

The station will be next to an Odessa Fire Company station on the north side of the property, Bell said.

Eastside fire commissioners say merger questions based around benefit charge

Eastside Fire and Rescue firefighters have been anxious to hear public comment on the upcoming merger found on the ballots of voters in Fire Districts 10 and 38 this November. And with public meetings held to answer questions about the merger at Station 79 in Maple Hills, Station 76 in Mirrormont, Station 78 on May Valley Road and Station 87 in North Bend in recent weeks, citizens of Fire Districts 10 and 38 have been able to voice their concerns to fire commissioners about the potential fire merger.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2016 1:10:19 PM - SOURCE: Issaquah & Summamish Reporter

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WFC News

Westby-Christiana (WI) Fire Department Wins Rescue Equipment

Hillcrest (CA) Fire Station to Undergo Reconstruction

Cumberland (ME) Council to Vote on Fire Station Expansion

Growing Middletown (DE) to Add Paramedic Station

Eastside fire commissioners say merger questions based around benefit charge

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