Writing assignment for September 15, 2010
Posted on September 15, 2010
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Responding to a cat in a tree call could have turned out better for fire fighter Bob Harwood. The cat’s ok, but Harwood is in St. Luke’s Hospital following a 15-foot fall while attempting to rescue the cat.
The calico cat, belonging to twins Suzanne and Samantha Decker, twin daughters of Charlie and Kim Decker, was trapped 50 feet up in the tree. Fire fighter Harwood broke his left leg when a dead limb broke 15 feet up. The cat then landed on top of Harwood.
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East High principal Laura Vibelius revealed this week that a series of suspensions has resulted from 5 students who were caught smoking Marijuana on campus. Those five were suspended for one week.
Ten upperclassmen received one-week suspensions for triggering a series of false fire alarms in protest of the suspensions. In a possible unrelated event, there was a food fight that closed the school cafeteria on Tuesday. Principal Vibelius commented that there was general unrest in the student body, “not so much … because of the suspensions, but because of summer vacation being so near.” She feels that there will be no continuation of these “incidents” in the near future.
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Catastrophe and HAZMAT procedures and training proved valuable when a Texaco tanker truck, filled with gasoline, overturned just outside of town. The accident, occurring at the corner of 48th and Correctionville road, spilled the fuel into sewer lines and over the streets and ditches in the area.
Local traffic was re-routed through side streets, and four families were evacuated from their homes for the two hours until the gas was flushed away.
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