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One person is dead and another was airlifted to an area hospital after a crash in Bridgewater Township Friday evening.,
The Clinton Fire Department was dispatched to US-12 and Willow Road for a motor vehicle crash at 7:38 p.m. At 7:58 p.m., they requested assistance from the Saline Area Fire Department with the jaws of life and additional manpower. Dispatches told Saline firefighters it was a three-vehicle crash, and that one person was already dead, another had been ejected and another was pinned in a vehicle. Survival Flight had been called by about 8 a.m. to airlift the person who was pinned in the vehicle.
Firefighters had successfully extricated the person from the vehicle by 8:11 p.m. By 8:24 p.m., the person was loaded onto Survival Flight. Saline firefighters were released from the scene at 8:38 p.m.
Sunny, with a high of 28 and low of 0 degrees. Sunny in the morning, clear in the afternoon and evening,
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.