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State Fire Marshal gives local fire departments $40k for communications systems Daniel Susco © Provided by Dayton Daily News Four departments respond to two-alarm fire in Greenville Smaller fire departments in three area counties have been awarded more than $40,000 total in grants to pay for systems, equipment or services to use as part of the Multi-Agency Radio Communications System. MARCS is the state’s wireless digital communication system for local, state and federal agencies and first responders. ICYMI: State Fire Marshal Kevin S. Reardon announced the first round re...

–San Luis Obispo County Assistant Fire Chief Alan Peters has announced his retirement. After 16 years, from 1988-2004, working in the private timber industry all over the western United States, Chief Peters, a Registered Professional Forester, joined Cal Fire in 2005. He started his Cal Fire career as a fuels reduction Forester I in the Tuolumne/Calaveras Unit. In 2009, he promoted to his current Unit Forester position in the San Luis Obispo Unit, where he has served as the Pre-Fire Division Chief for over 11 years. Peters has always promoted an “extremely ambitious agenda in SLO County,�...

GREEN — Two residents spoke out this week against using $540,000 in Nexus pipeline settlement funds to build a new hiking and biking trail in Green.  Residents Tony Ziehler and Pat Carleski voiced opposition through the “Public Speaks” portion of Tuesday’s City Council meeting to using any remaining natural gas pipeline settlement funds to help build the Willadale Trail. Their letters, which were read during council’s virtual meeting, were prompted by a Nov. 24 council discussion of Green's proposed $10,279,000 capital appropriations budget for 2021. The Pipeline Settlement Advisor...

Don't see any real chaos. i know that i talked to president trump just last week. he was very relaxed and at ease. he's having a great time. i don't expect there to be no hiccups. it would be ridiculous. i think he's done an outstanding job. his approval the other night in his speech was outstanding across the board between republicans and democrats. and this is all the while there is this little hornet's nest across town where the president has set up camp in a $5 million castle that has 8,000 square feet with valerie jarrett just to sit in fire division at the white house. to think he how we...

Amazingly everyone has now been rescued. division chief napoli credits all of the police and fire crews on the bridge that day with saving the inspectors' lives. >> it was a difficult, technical rescue with a high possibility of loss of life. >> he believes things would have been much worse if the whole crane arm had fallen into the water. >> i think they would have either sunk with the piece of equipment or the trauma they sustained when it hit the water would have not been good for them. >> while some of the inspectors did suffer minor injuries, the emotional impact of the accident has had a...