Archive for November, 2007
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Life is good in The Villages, with a lifestyle that offers plenty of recreation, social interaction and entertainment, and is proving to be a mecca for retail and restaurant options.
The community thrives on its motto: “It’s a beautiful day in The Villages,” for those who enjoy playing golf, dining, shopping, having fun or simply spending time at home. But like anyplace else, life without problems isn’t a realistic scenario.
Accidents happen and mistakes can be made. Mother Nature can unleash her fury. The human body can’t always stay in tip-top shape or ward off the latest bug. Fortunately for Villages residents, there’s a group of professionals who are committed to being there when cars collide; a storm wreaks havoc; someone suffers from illness or injury; or smoke, or even a flicker of flame, appears. They are here, 24 hours a day, while the community works, plays and sleeps.
They are the men and women of the District Public Safety Department, providing first-response emergency medical service to The Villages and fire protection to a vast portion of the community and points beyond. They protect and serve from five existing stations, and capitalize on their ability to provide quick responses from the occasional roaming vehicle.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
The professional firefighters did not roll up to Corral Canyon . So Matt Haines finally had his chance to rev up the private fire truck that he bought at a public surplus auction.
pumper truck and tanker truck of similar vintage helped a do-it-yourself fire brigade save a dozen homes as flames encircled their El Nido neighborhood.
As Haines sprayed water on homes on both sides of Sequit Drive, his neighbors used their own hoses to extinguish burning embers that rained from the sky and to douse shrubs and fencing as they caught fire. As it fought the blaze, the crew could see four homes fully engulfed on Sea Breeze Drive above them.
The fire here on Saturday burned west of the portions of Malibu hit by wildfire last month. As of Sunday morning, it had destroyed 49 homes, damaged 27, and caused at least 10,000 people to be evacuated, the Associated Press reported.
But in the El Nido neighborhood, the residents seemed prepared to help themselves. Bill Raffin pulled out his portable pump and started drawing water from a swimming pool. Ken Wherry unrolled a canvas fire hose and connected it to a hydrant up the street. Kai Chan stretched out smaller garden hoses and laid them in strategic places around houses.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Police have named a Mid-Canterbury woman who was killed when her car collided with a milk tanker this morning.
Margaret Anne Taylor, 50, of Mayfield, died at the scene of the crash at an intersection 17km west of Ashburton.
Senior Sergeant Arnold Kelly of Ashburton police said Ms Taylor, known as Anne, was the only occupant of her Nissan Primera car.
Mr Kelly said the police commercial vehicle investigation unit was investigating.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
It s one of the most perilous roads in the world, a strip of ice built on frozen lakes that connects remote billion-dollar mining outposts in northern Canada with civilization 350 miles away. In the brief two months a year that the road is passable, ten thousand loads, some weighing as much as twenty-two tons, will travel over the highway in an urgent race to provide critical supplies to the camps before the ice melts.
ICE ROAD TRUCKERS follows the competition and camaraderie of six truckers over a season on the ice road, as they brave white-outs, thin ice, and the deadly cold to perform one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. From the construction of this massive frozen highway and the preparation of the truck fleet, to the risky final days when the melting highway grows dangerously unreliable, THE HISTORY CHANNEL takes viewers on a thrilling, adrenaline-pumping ride.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
A 44-year-old man was charged in connection with a police chase and the attempted hijacking of a construction truck from a vacant lot on Chicago’s North Side over the weekend that left two Chicago police officers injured.
Coba Palmer of the 6400 block of South Langley Avenue was charged with attempted vehicular hijacking, attempted theft, aggravated battery and resisting arrest after the Sunday afternoon chase that ended near Wrightwood and Ashland Avenues, according to Chicago Police Officer Laura Kubiak. Palmer was also cited with driving on a suspended license, driving without insurance and reckless driving.
The incident started at about noon, when a neighbor spotted a man, later identified as Palmer, poking around the fenced construction site where a five-unit apartment building is planned. He was trying to start the smaller of two trucks at the site.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
A hit-and-run sent two people to the hospital, including an 18-month-old baby.
The California Highway Patrol said Jimmy Dean Lynch sideswiped a car on Chester Avenue near Decatur Street, sending the driver Charlene Miller to the hospital with moderate injuries.
Lynch lost control of his truck, jumped a curb, hit a parked car and the front of Woody’s Liquors.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Two pedestrians were injured when they were hit by a pickup truck in Aurora, police said.
The accident happened Monday at Chambers Road and East 13th Avenue, police said in a news release.
The victims, Abdirahman Hilowie, 19, and Siyad Khalif, 25, both of Denver, were taken to a local hospital, police said.
Both remain hospitalized. Hilowie suffered serious injuries, and Khalif’s injuries are moderate, police said.
The pair were walking west across Chambers Road at East 13th Avenue when they were hit by a red 2003 Dodge pickup truck heading south on Chambers Road in the right lane, police said.
The driver of the Dodge Truck, Patrick Mahadocon, 67, of Aurora, had a green light to go through the intersection, and the pedestrians had a red light, police said. He was not injured.
The accident remains under investigation.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
troopers, police and dive teams from Commerce and Dallas remained on the scene of what appeared to be a one-vehicle accident that sent a pickup truck hurtling off Two Mile Bridge on State Highway 276 into Lake Tawakoni Monday night shortly after 8 p.m.
Trooper Rebecca Uresti of the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed that divers had found the truck but no sign of any occupants. Police responded to the bridge Monday night after witnesses reported seeing the pickup strike the guard rails on the bridge several times and then go off the bridge into the water.
Registration information has been recovered from the sunken truck, but investigators are not releasing that information.
According to Trooper Uresti, the investigation is ongoing and the cause of the incident has yet to be determined.
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