Where there is now a e1new hospital and a new hotel. A lot of new housing is also under construction. But more e1people and more traffic means a lot f . More call foj lervice to the police and fire departments. In the past 10 years weve seen a substantial amount of commercial Light Industrial and residential growth. Reporter over the last decade avon r population to 22,000 people. Amazingly avons fire chief told volunteer firefighters, but irefighters to nine rs, but per xdshift. Calls for service are expected to break a record for the Avon Fire Department, hitting 2500 t of them are medical lpcalls. During the daytime, with the t workforce and shoppers, jfavon population doubles. We estimate daytime population being up towards 40,000. The Police Department is now taking 5,000 more calls per years ago, which means xdtheyr now hiring more qpolice officers. Avons js ice chief told me r starting october 17th, applications f . Will be availabl on t the Police Departments website. Or us. As
Thats when it overwhelms servers affecting the central direct re. The department of Homeland Security says it is investigating all potential causes. And, oh, what a difference a few hours makes. We know the weather is always changing around here for sure. Quite the soggy friday to say the least for a while there. Romona yes, but, jeff, what about peoples evening plans. How is that looking . Jeff we have friday night football tonight and of course the friday night plans. More rain. But, do you know, theres been a bit of a right now in the Greater Cleveland area, its basically west of cleveland getting more rain than the east side. Akron area still seeing some rain and here in lorraine county down to western medina county. Now, this has mainly turned into a lakeeffect rain situation with that brisk, raw north wind coming in off of the lake and most of the rain now is from lorraine county and east. Showers. But were going to keep it in the forecast not only tonight but through the day tom
Take a look. This house is a perfect example of what were looking at in Cleveland Heights. The backyard is completely annihilated. All of these old trees that are typical of Cleveland Heights are down. The couple that lives here, the woman karen is on oxygen. They have been without power since tuesday running on a generator. Ironically, the generator theyre using needs to be returned to their cousin who lives in lakewood whos without power. This is the story. This is we know that they are making progress here. There are teams of first Energy Workers outside as we speak. As the mouser go by, were decreasing the number. Well continue to keep an eye on it out here. Im live in Cleveland Heights. Channel 3 news. Rough for a lot of folks. Thank you. From rio with great news about athletes from northeast ohio. Today not so much. Sarah joins us from brazil with the latest. Hello. Reporter you said it. We are beginning week two here in rio if you can believe it. That means track and field which
Dog runs away somebody brings them back but a baby, it is a situation we cannot understand. She tells us her granddaughter, six months pregnant gave birth and the baby girl was still born. She says when the funeral home contacted the hospital for the infants remains they found out the remains had been accidentally lost. As of monday, i believe they told her maybe it was through the laundry. Mercy released a statement about the matter saying the hospital extends its sincerest condolences for the family and goes on to say with profound empathy for the familys feelings we are continuing to investigate all aspects of this matter. Is an apology from the hospital enough . Dont know about her. I cant say about her. An apology about a baby . That you disposed of apparently, no. Reporter the hospital also said in that statement they have implemented processes to make sure Something Like this does not happen again and havent said what their initial processes are or what the recisions are they ma
Weather as we start the new week. It is not raining now that this is an overview of the forecast today it looks like we will all see showers and perhaps a few rumbles of thunder today. Cloud cover increases this morning. The sun is up a few minutes after 7 00 a. M. If you will still be mainly dry at 9 00 a. M. Butt by noon 70 degrees and rain likely. Perhaps thunderstorms embedded in there. By evening things will start to clear. Our window of time will be from late morning into the afternoon. Including the time youll be picking the kids up from school and coming home from work. We are dry now because a lot of what weather to the west. This is what we are tracking the next few hours. Grab your umbrellas, i would have a windbreaker something of a raincoat today too. Lots of wet weather this morning as we are checking on check there for delays if you are flying from through chicago. And as we track future view watch of a chance for rain increases beyond 9 30 a. M. Maybe a few spotty showe