A cold day to test our new Fire/Rescue boat last Friday, but that was the date selected a few weeks ago when it appeared the weather would never cool off. Well Friday came and it wasn’t all that nice, but as they say in Hollywood, the show must go on. Assistant Chiefs Koering and Taylor [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Watershed Legislation Being Proposed
February 17, 2006 – 10:40 am
Since the early 1900’s in Minnesota there has been a fire insurance tax imposed on every property casualty policy written in Minnesota. The purpose of the tax was to fund a strong and active State Fire Marshal’s Office. Over the course of time some of the revenues generated by this tax have been rerouted to [...]
New blog platform
February 16, 2006 – 8:52 am
I’ve installed the blogging platform WordPress here for George’s weblog and imported all his previous entries from the past. Let me know if you discover any glitches.
A Rare Event in Eden Prairie
February 10, 2006 – 12:05 pm
Just when you thought you’d seen it all this situation arises. Without going into all the details, our Fire Marshal was summoned to a single family house in an established part of our city. Neighbors alerted him to a house without windows or doors and snow accumulating inside.
To make a long story short this property [...]
Interviewing Fire Chief Candidates
February 2, 2006 – 3:09 pm
Earlier this week I participated in the interview process for the Eagan Fire Department’s first full-time Fire Chief position. The move to a full-time Chief is getting more and more common in the Minnesota fire service, we did it about 3 1/2 years ago. Eagan Fire has done their homework, gotten buy-in from [...]
