Yesterday long-time friend, business leader and former State Senator, Roy Terwilliger came for a visit with his grandson, Charlie. As you can see from the picture below, Charlie is an aspiring firefighter! We toured all the trucks and the station and introduced Charlie to the firefighters that were at the station. Charlie was even witness [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
A lot of Appreciation
November 21, 2007 – 11:10 am
October was Fire Prevention Month, nationally. Eden Prairie is no different and all of our firefighters take fire prevention seriously. fire prevention is proven effective in the fight against fire loss, injury and death.
Almost every day during October our firefighters visit the various schools and daycares in Eden Prairie to teach children about fire safe [...]
Happy Thanksgiving, Be Safe
November 21, 2007 – 8:28 am
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day, a great time to share time and experiences with family and friends. This is also the beginning of the most dangerous time of year in the United States for fire deaths and injury. More people are packed into our collective houses and there are, no doubt, a lot more candles burning [...]
17 Years Later a Case is Cleared
November 16, 2007 – 10:49 am
A 17 year old fire cause has been determined. In 1990 there was a fire on Alpine Way, I was actually a Lieutenant on the first due in company for that fire along with former firefighter Roger Schmidtke, current firefighter Rod Uting and others. The home was well involved with fire upon arrival. The home [...]
The Fire Service in the United States
November 13, 2007 – 2:11 pm
Our State Fire Marshal, jerry Rosendahl recently sent out some interesting statistics from the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA). the numbers give a little insight as to what the American Fire Service is up to these days and points out some areas that need to be addressed, namely firefighter health and safety. Some highlights from [...]
How Prophetic
November 5, 2007 – 7:14 am
Just last week I wrote my blog entry on a visit by Sate Fire Marshal, Jerry Rosendahl to Eden Prairie. Among the facts Jerry presented was that cigarettes are the leading cause of fire damage and fire deaths. Fast forward to this past Friday night and the first structure fire in a long while for [...]
