CEDAR RAPIDS - The Cedar Rapids firefighters who were seriously injured over the weekend when a hose line ruptured have been released from the hospital while fire officials investigate what happened.
Feb 10, 2021 | Features
by TRACY ZOLLINGER TURNER
Nicole Bolden comes from a lineage of women with a legacy of firsts. Her grandmother was the first Black nurse to work in the University of Iowa Hospitals. Her mother, Valeri Haughton, was the first Black woman to be directly elected to the Monroe County judiciary. In 2015, Bolden became the first Black woman elected to citywide office in Bloomington and is the only LGBTQ woman of color in elected office in Indiana.
Born and raised in Iowa City, Bolden followed her mother to Bloomington shortly after graduating high school. Here, she attended Indiana University, where she met her ex-partner and father of her two daughters, Taegan and Zora, who are grown. After she completed law school in 2008, Bolden was asked to take a position as a hearing officer in the office of the city clerk, which “turned out to be the best thing that could have ever happened in my life,” she says. “I began to see how just working in one little space c
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Cedar Rapids firefighters seriously injured by hose at fire scene
Cedar Rapids firefighters on the scene. (KCRG TV photo)
Two Cedar Rapids firefighters were seriously injured when a hose came loose and hit them on the scene of an apartment fire early Sunday.
Spokesman Craig Buelow says one firefighter suffered a concussion and another was hit in the chest. “There was a breach in the hose and it swung and hit them. It was an inch-and-three-quarter line so that would be the equivalent with a frozen line like that of about an inch-and-three-quarter diameter pipe smacking somebody in the head or chest,” Buelow says.
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Hunter 02/08/21 Two Cedar Rapids firefighters were seriously injured as they battled a fire at the Westdale Court Apartments early Sunday morning. According to