Springfield opens combined emergency dispatch center for police, fire departments
Updated Feb 27, 2021;
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SPRINGFIELD An idea first proposed 14 years ago is finally coming to fruition for the city’s police and fire departments in a combined dispatch center that will handle all 911 calls from the public.
The two departments, which historically have had separate dispatch centers in separate locations most likely dating back to the invention of radio will now rely on one combined operation for emergency communications.
City officials on Friday showed off the new facility, located in the Fire Alarm Headquarters Building on Roosevelt Avenue. They said the combined operation will improve communications between police and firefighters, and lessen the amount of time it takes to send help when someone calls 911.
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Trumpâs sleight of hand: shouting fraud, pocketing donorsâ cash for future
By Shane Goldmacher and Rachel Shorey New York Times,Updated February 1, 2021, 9:33 p.m.
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Then President Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Valdosta, Ga., Dec. 5, 2020.Doug Mills/NYT
Former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party leveraged false claims of voter fraud and promises to overturn the election to raise more than a quarter-billion dollars in November and December as hundreds of thousands of trusting supporters listened and opened their wallets.
But the Trump campaign spent only a tiny fraction of its haul on lawyers and other legal bills related to those claims. Instead, Trump and the GOP stored away much of the money â $175 million or so â even as they continued to issue breathless, aggressive and often misleading appeals for cash that promised it would help with recounts, the rooting out of election fraud and even the Republican candidatesâ cha
Questions but no answers: Investigation continues into fire at Springfield’s Martin Luther King Jr. Community Presbyterian Church
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
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SPRINGFIELD More than two days after a suspicious fire heavily damaged the Martin Luther King Community Presbyterian Church, investigators are still looking for answers about how the fire started and whether anyone is responsible.
The fire, reported around 5 a.m. Monday, caused more than $100,000 to the church at 14 Concord Terrace, off State Street near Mason Square.
Firefighters were able to preserve the exterior of the building and some artifacts. But the interior saw significant damage and firefighters had to cut holes in a new roof, installed a week ago, to ventilate smoke.
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