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A construction worker's vehicle was lost in a fire Monday morning west of the city.
Saline firefighters were dispatched to the 4500 block of Williamsburg on the River Road at 8:30 a.m. for a vehicle fire. Fire Chief Craig Hoeft said when firefighters arrived, the vehicle, a four-door sedan parked in the street, was fully involved. Firefighters put the blaze out, but the vehicle couldn't be saved.
"It was a total loss," Hoeft said.
Nobody was injured by the blaze.
The fire began in the engine compartment. The vehicle owner was on the job for about an hour before anyone noticed the fire.
In other news from the fire department, firefighters were dispatched for mutual aid to the 9900 block of Saline Waterworks Road when a hunter passed out while removing a tree stand. Firefighters used harnesses and ladders to extricate him from the tree stand located 16 feet in the air.
Overcast , with a high of 18 and low of 4 degrees. Overcast during the morning, clear in the afternoon and evening, overcast overnight.
Her name is MAILE Weberlein.
I wonder what it would cost the city to withdraw from authority all together? To service only the city limits of Saline may be a simple task and require far fewer people. The police can be cross trained to work both law enforcement and fire safety. Does the City of Saline own the building and the fire trucks?
Police officers and fire officers are totally different things. The bold assumption that they could be cross trained to do both is incredibly foolhardy.
Interesting. So, it would seem the Board's earlier decision, a decision facilitating the data center, afforded residents a mechanism to have their voices heard and to potentially stop the unwanted data center. The Board has now reversed that decision to deny citizens that very right to with they are entitled.