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  Aaron Frank, Town Manager National EMS and Public Works Weeks: The Town of Colchester celebrated both National EMS Week and National Public Works Week from May 16-May 22. We thanked and honored our Emergency Medical Services providers in our Rescue and Technical Rescue squads for their selfless dedication to saving lives and keeping community members healthy and safe, especially during this last tough year during the pandemic. We also honored our Public Works employees who serve an important role in our community to provide services and implement capital projects to keep the town runn...

East Manatee Fire Rescue District practices for heavy-duty accidents

CULPEPER STAR-EXPONENT STAFF In a high stress matter of life and death, many came together Sunday afternoon in downtown Culpeper to save a suicidal, 50-year-old man who climbed to the top of a 250-feet-tall cell tower to end his life. Multiple calls came into Culpeper County E911 starting around 12:18 p.m. on May 2 about a male subject climbing a cellphone tower at the Verizon building in the 600-block of Old Brandy Road at East Piedmont Street. The man was yelling suicidal statements as he climbed the tower, according to a news release Monday morning from Culpeper Police Departme...

The man was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

4 hours ago A van crashed into a house in the Black Country - causing significant structural damage - before driving away. Subscribe to our daily newsletter! Sign Up Fire crews were called out. The van hit a detached house on High Street, Bloxwich, at around 10.15pm last night. No-one inside the house was injured. Fire crews attended the scene, along with the service's Technical Rescue Unit. The gas and electric boards and a structural engineer were also called in amid fears about the property. The fire service said the van left the scene before crews arrived. A West Midlands Fire Service spo...