Mick Humer News Today

We checked in with area leaders in government, education and public safety to find out their hopes and goals for this community in 2024. Read what they said here.

This will be the second new fire station since the opening of the headquarters station on Main Street in 2017.

The town of Normal plans to spend almost $5 million to build a fire station at Shepard and Hershey roads by March 2025.

Normal has approved a Design-Build contract with Core Construction for a new fire station. The new station wil...

Shortages of nurses, McLean County jail workers, and police officers are well known. The looming national shortage of firefighters is less known, but no less significant. That is true in Bloomington-Normal, too.

Normal is a step closer to a new $5 million east side fire station, after the town council on Monday OK’d plans to negotiate a contract for building the future firehouse at Shepard and Hershey roads.

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Normal leaders have voted to finance half of a new $5 million fire station, using a low-interest loan.

Charlie Schlenker / WGLT The Normal Fire Department said Tuesday the blaze that heavily damaged or destroyed 12 units at the Sugar Creek Apartments on Saturday was caused by repair work being done inside a lower-level apartment. The fire caused the roof to collapse and caused substantial damage throughout the building. Crews spent much of Saturday afternoon battling the blaze, after spending much of the morning cleaning up a nearby train derailment. Normal Fire Chief Mick Humer said in a n...

The Normal Town Council meets remotely, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. The Normal Town Council on Monday night heard updates about this weekend’s train derailment and fires, including that specialized equipment should arrive Tuesday to transport debris. Also at the remote meeting, the council awarded Stark Excavating an $863,000 contract to complete a culvert project on Gregory Street; OKd spending $365,000 on a Maxwell Park update; and renewed a  contract for City Manager Pam Reece.  Normal Poli...