Saturday morning the Fire Department was called to the report of smoke coming from an electrical appliance in the basement of a residence. Before he even arrived, Assistant Fire Chief Rick Hammerschmidt could see smoke billowing from the neighborhood. This was substantially more than a smoking appliance.
Sometimes those initial reports can be misleading, clearly this [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
A Close Call
January 22, 2008 – 8:54 am
Disambiguation – What does this word mean anyway?
January 18, 2008 – 2:31 pm
I ran across this word, disambiguation, a few days ago while searching for information on google. What exactly does this word mean anyway? I dug deeper and got the following definition: “Noun to establish a single semantic or grammatical interpretation for a word”. My word crazy, and very smart father gave me a concise definition: [...]
A Record Low
January 9, 2008 – 2:23 pm
Usually in Minnesota when there is a headline like the one above, it refers to the temperature, not so in this case. What I am referring to here is the record low Eden Prairie experienced for fire loss in 2007.
Over the past several years the fire loss in dollars in Eden Prairie has been in [...]
USFA Kicks Off A Program To Address The Major Cause Of fire Deaths In The United States
January 9, 2008 – 2:11 pm
USFA Kicks Off Smoking and Home Fires CampaignIAFC and the Fire and Life Safety Section Urge Fire Departments to Take Part
Fairfax, Va., Jan. 9, 2008… The IAFC is a proud partner of the public-safety campaign announced today by the U.S. Fire Administration to end the number one cause of preventable home fire deaths: fires started [...]
An Ounce of Prevention
January 7, 2008 – 9:59 am
Over the course of each year the fire Prevention staff has conducts meetings with local businesses that are interested to educate employees about fire safe behaviors and steps to be taken around the home to help prevent injury and fire.
I just received an email from a business leader that reads as follows: “The safety training [...]
