As the National Weather Service predicts high temperatures in the teens today, Washington County Emergency Management wants to remind parents to make sure their children are staying warm and safe when on the road.
Emergency Management Coordinator Marissa Reisen says during cold winter days parents should plan for an early start, and keep the carrier portion of infant seats inside the house when not in use to reduce the loss of a child’s body heat in the car. Reisen recommends not only dressing your child in layers, but making sure one particular layer isn’t worn under their safety harness, “It is not recommended at all to put your kid into a car seat with a big bulky winter coat. There are all kinds of like homemade cape kind of things that will go over the car seat which are a great thing to use especially as you transition. That way you can put that cape-like thing on them as you’re getting them loaded into the car and take their big bulky coat off, because you don’t wa
Officials in Jonesborough anticipate firefighters will be on the scene of a rubber manufacturing plant fire for several days after the blaze started with an explosion early Thursday morning.
Washington County 911 officials received a fire alarm call at 1:52 a.m. at HEXPOL Jonesborough, 260 Old State Route 34. Firefighting crews arrived at the scene to find flames coming from the roof.
Fire departments from Jonesborough and Johnson City, as well as Washington, Greene and Sullivan counties responded to the call.
From the beginning of the response, firefighters mounted an external attack rather than send crews into the building, Jonesborough Operations Director Craig Ford said.
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