There are still a lot of good people in this world, Mayor Andy Mack said. Author: Reagan Roy Updated: 10:37 AM CDT May 28, 2021
LONGVIEW, Texas A local UPS driver was honored by the Longview Fire Department for saving the life of a family during a fire.
On May 3, around 8 p.m., Daniel Carmical was delivering a package in the 100 block of Primrose Lane and saw fire and smoke coming from the roof of a nearby house.
Carmical broke into the house and rescued homeowner, Ben Slater, who was asleep. (He) yelled UPS and I thought, wow they re really delivering their packages on point now, Slater said. But anyways, he said, Is anybody in here. because your house is on fire.
Programming Director Grady Kirkpatrick and Broadcast Engineer Ben Slater at the 2018 StoryCorps event in Jackson.
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UPS delivery driver warns resident about fire, gets him, dog out
UPS Driver Rescues Fire Victim By Erin Wides | May 11, 2021 at 4:11 PM CDT - Updated May 11 at 7:01 PM
LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - A doorbell camera captured video of a quick-thinking UPS delivery driver running across the street to a neighborâs house to warn its occupant that his home was on fire. UPS driver Daniel Carmical said he was not on his traditional route.
âIâm in Liberty City now. I havenât been over there in a year and a half, and it was a small amount of deliveries I had just in that one strip of Pine Tree Road. There was no point in me being over there,â he said. âI believe it was Godâs will that had me over there on Monday afternoon. Iâm glad I could help them.â
Virtual work experience for youngsters at Energy Coast UTC
Students at a Cumbrian school have experienced the world of work remotely as space-age technology helped careers advisers beat COVID-19 restrictions. Year 10 students at the Energy Coast University Technical College, at Lillyhall were unable to physically visit workplaces during their work experience week because of the pandemic.
So, instead, college leaders and employer partners brought the world of work into the school via virtual reality headsets, courtesy of Ben Slater, managing director of SME MissionCX, a specialist commissioning service provider, and recently appointed Enterprise Adviser to the school.
Enterprise Advisers are senior level professionals coming from different industry sectors and from many backgrounds to work with a school or college’s senior leadership team to develop their skills programme for the benefit of students.
Take a walk down memory lane at the 18th edition of the Singapore HeritageFest, which returns from May 3 to 30. This year’s theme delves into our country’s signature healthcare and food heritage milestones, namely the 200th anniversary of Singapore General Hospital (the nation’s first hospital) and the inclusion of our hawker culture in Unesco’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
“Singapore’s healthcare history and food heritage have a wealth of stories that are waiting to be discovered,” explains Singapore HeritageFest festival director David Chew. And these will be celebrated through an exciting line-up of on-site and online programmes that include virtual talks, photo essays, video documentaries, tours and hands-on workshops. Moreover, these will tell the stories behind medical buildings of our past, history and benefits of Eastern healing practices like traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, as well as foods that represent diff