Last night members of the Fire Department were on stand-by at Life Touch, Inc. Life Touch is a major employer based in Eden Prairie and was celebrating it’s 75th year in business. As I understand it this was a week long event that ended yesterday with a large scale carnival and a fireworks show. Several [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2006
A view from above
July 25, 2006 – 6:55 am
Several weeks ago Assistant Chief Scott Taylor and firefighter Kurt Schendel went flying. Kurt is a licensed pilot and a business owner at the Flying Cloud Airport. While Kurt and Scott were up they flew over the fire station #4 construction site. Kind of a unique view of the project and the surrounding area. I [...]
Firefighter Nate Wiley in Iraq
July 13, 2006 – 6:36 am
Nate Wiley is one of our firefighters and is currently on a 12 month assignment in Iraq. Nate is assigned to protection of visitors to the region, like all duty in Iraq this is a hazardous job. The fire department has an initiative underway to collect useful items for Nate while he is in Iraq. [...]
The teamwork involved in Safety Camp
July 12, 2006 – 10:01 am
For months now a dedicated team of Park & Rec staff, Police staff and Fire staff have been planning the many details involved in putting on the Annual Safety Camp for 180 Third Graders. Yesterday was day one of the two day event. From my brief visit there today and yesterday the camp is as [...]
