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EDGERTON, Wis. - Last week, Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill that would expand the Safe Haven Law, allowing parents to anonymously and safely surrender their newborns to hospitals, fire stations, police stations. The update came months after southern Wisconsin was shaken by the news of an abandoned newborn child found dead in a cornfield just outside of Whitewater. "They (residents) felt like this baby's life really mattered and they wanted to do something to make sure that if somebody else found themselves in this situation that they had an option," Rep. Ellen Schutt (R-Clinton) said. Now that the bill...

SEA 340 Expanded Use of Baby Boxes at Indiana Fire Stations MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. – A baby was safely surrendered Sunday into a baby box at a Michigan City fire station. Newborns up to 30 days can be anonymously surrendered under the Safe Haven Law at fire stations, hospitals and police stations. Indiana law also allows for the installation of baby boxes at hospitals and fire stations. The Indiana General Assembly just passed Senate Enrolled Act (SEA) 340 that allows for the expansion of baby box installation at fire departments, including volunteer fire departments, that are staffed by an emergency...

...gossip mills are beginning to gush and grind about increasingly muscular CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper and his muscle Mary man-friend Antoine "Ben" Maisani snatching up a very butch firehouse on West Third Street in New York City's Greenwich Village. These roiling real estate rumors of Misters Cooper and Maisani–who recently vacationed together in India –purchasing Fire Patrol House #2 seems to have first found legs a few days ago on the New York City-centric gossip site Gawker. Listing information for the four and some story firehouse shows it was listed at $4,750,000, measures a considerable 8,420 square feet, and...

Fire fighters from the Al Benook Fire Station in eastern Baghdad run toward a mock fire during a media visit Oct. 3. Photo by Norris Jones. BAGHDAD -- As a fire fighter, he’s working in one of the toughest neighborhoods in the world. Jwaad Mohammed, chief of the Al Benook Fire Station in East Baghdad, has 15 years of experience as an emergency responder. He says his 52-person squad gets three or four calls daily, as they’re responsible for a 12-sector area involving some 60 streets and several hundred-thousand residents. They also provide mutual support to nearby fire stations when...

Sorry, can't find newsarticle. My mother-in-law lives in Mt. Laurel. She just called and says the guy who dumped the white powder (salt) in the polling place this morning, struck again. this time it is the local firestation /polling place. I don't believe anyone caught him. I'm going to try to find news.

NEW YORK - A blazing building? Not a problem for New York City firefighters. A firehouse infested with vermin? Well, that's a rat of a different color. Horrified members of New York's bravest have temporarily abandoned a firehouse because of massive rat infestation, and fire officials say the building must be gutted to eliminate the pervasive rodent population. "It was like that movie `Willard,'" Steve Cassidy, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, said Wednesday, referring to the film about a social outcast who goes on a rampage and uses his rats to attack colleagues who had been tormenting him. "I...

Rescue spurs aid donations By PATRICK BUCHNOWSKI, THE TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT August 05, 2002 SIPESVILLE – The influx of cards and letters offering support for the Black Wolf miners and Sipesville firefighters has astonished this leafy community. And the firefighters have found something else inside – checks. So far, the fire company has received 150 to 200 cards and letters of support as well as donations to help firefighters achieve their dream of building a modern station and replacing their battered and worn 150-year-old structure. While how much has been raised in the 10 days since the rescue hasn’t been divulged, this...