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Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority
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FUTURE EVENTS * Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority officers will meet at 11 a.m. on Friday at the central office, 601 Brooks St., Charleston. The board of directors will meet at noon. For information, call Tammy Hatton at 304-345-2312, ext. 130.
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The Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority is feeling the pinch of increasing fuel costs. The agency is running about 13 percent over the amount allotted to cover fuel costs so far this fiscal year, said Joe Lynch, executive director of the Ambulance Authority.
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Kanawha County drivers heading to work Friday morning should be extra-cautious of children who will be crossing roadways for the first day of school. Members of the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department and the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority will be in traffic vests outside schools encouraging drivers to heed the speed limit.
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The first heat wave of the season saw more than 100 children treated for heat-related issues during Tuesday's Power game at Appalachian Power Park. Five people were taken to the hospital from the stadium, said Mike Jarrett, chaplain for the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority. One was an adult with a medical condition, one was a child hit by a baseball, two were children with issues related to the heat, and the last was a teacher also experiencing heat-related issues.
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Plans for a new Sissonville fire station are still in the very early stages, but county officials are already hoping for big improvements over the one that burned down last month. When a new facility is built, Kanawha County Commissioners and others would like it to include an outpost for the sheriff's department and the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority.
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Poca-based ambulance service closes Poca-based Duff Ambulance has stopped transporting clients, and the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority is picking up the slack.
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The Sissonville Volunteer Fire Department has hired an architect and consultants to work on a proposed multi-agency public safety building. The fire department's board of directors voted Thursday to hire architect Aric Margolis, engineer Gary Facemire and designer Larry Adkins to serve as liaisons between the fire department, Kanawha County Sheriff's Department, Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority and other local agencies and work out a plan for a multi- agency building to replace the fire department's old fire station, which burned to the ground Oct. 1.
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The Kanawha County Commission will explore a plan that could create an emergency services campus centered around the soon-to-be built Sissonville Volunteer Fire Department. The proposed campus plan would include a new, permanent home for the volunteer fire department, as well as satellite offices for the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority and Sheriff's Department.
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A paramedic with the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority has been fired after being charged with slapping a person who had been arrested by Dunbar police. Michael Wears, 37, of Gallipolis Ferry, was arrested Wednesday on charges of misdemeanor battery. He is charged with slapping a male who was under arrest for public intoxication on May 19.
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Kanawha County emergency responders and health officials say they are ready for this week's heat wave. Kanawha-Charleston Health Department Director Dr. Rahul Gupta, Metro 911 officials and officials for the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority and Charleston Fire Department talked Tuesday about keeping cool as temperatures climb throughout the week.
