Yesterday the Eden Prairie and Edina fire departments were asked to put on a demonstration for a combined Eden Prairie and Edina Chamber event. The Edina Fire Department demonstrated some of their cool tools for handling technical rescue situations. The Eden Prairie Fire Department demonstrated to live fire simulators. A few brave people from the [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Just Passing By
June 22, 2007 – 2:25 pm
Over the past few days we have caught glancing blows from several storms that have passed through the metro area. Below is a picture I took of the back side of a storm that rumbled over on it’s way east. This storm dropped some brief heavy rain but not much else.
When storms make a direct [...]
A Youthful Afternoon
June 15, 2007 – 12:44 pm
Late this morning and early this afternoon Fire and Police staff participated in a mini safety program for kids held at Olympic Hills Country Club. The weather was excellent and of course the kids were great!
There were inside activities that included safety information geared for kids as well as a magician and some other entertainment [...]
Refreshing!
June 7, 2007 – 9:12 am
Every two years all EMTs (Emergency Medical Technicians) are required to go through 24 hours of skills refresher. In Eden Prairie we accomplish this by taking the classes in 3 hour chunks every quarter for two years, at the end of the process we are all re certified and the whole process begins again. Today [...]
Brush 41 Arrives
June 1, 2007 – 1:45 pm
Today we took delivery of a new brush and grass fire rig. This Polaris Ranger is a new approach for us. As the city develops our drivable grasslands have been disappearing with development, we still have grass and brush fires but the terrain is a little harder to get around on with our Ford F-250 [...]
Brush 41 Arrives
June 1, 2007 – 1:45 pm
today we took delivery of a new brush and grass fire rig. This Polaris Ranger is a new approach for us. As the city develops our drivable grasslands have been disappearing with development, we still have grass and brush fires but the terrain is a little harder to get around on with our Ford F-250 [...]
