Monthly Archives: May 2006

A BIG day for our CERT Program

Today Assistant Chief Scott Taylor attended the Spring Grant Awards ceremony hosted by the Eden Prairie Foundation.  The foundation is a non-profit group that raises money to support various groups in our city. 
Over the years the Foundation has issued grants totaling more that $100,000 to the Fire Department.  The grants have been for such items [...]

A Busier Week than Normal

No real blog action from me this week as it has been a crazy one.  Earlier this week we were up early, 0400 hrs on Wednesday to kick-off our Women’s Fire Service Expo.  Firefighter/Administrative Assistant Kim hanlon has been the driving force behind this program.  The idea is to have a one day program for [...]

A Near Miss

Yesterday morning we received a call for assistance with a car that had crashed into a townhome. As you can see by the picture, the car made it all the way into the living quarters of this dwelling.
The resident of the townhome was sitting on the couch and was thrown about 15 feet [...]

Station 4 progress underway

Site preparation is underway for station four.  The picture below shows the large auger drilling holes for geo piers.  
 A few details about geo piers.  There will be 80 piers installed on the portion of the site where the building sits in order to stabilize the soils.  Each pier is 30″ iin diameter and ranges from 11 to [...]