BUCKSPORT, Maine -- Bucksport firefighters were called to a remote section of railroad track to assist at a derailment on a section of tracks located in a wooded area along the Penobscot River. Initial reports indicate that four Pan-Am Railways train cars left the tracks, two of them winding up in the nearby Penobscot River, a Bucksport Public Safety dispatcher confirmed.
By Susan Misur Register Staff NORTH BRANFORD -- Officials are disputing a public safety dispatcher's claims of harassment and intimidation by the fire chief now that the town has conducted an internal investigation and implemented a new emergency response policy.
John D. MacIver of Elma, a retired public safety dispatcher for the Village of East Aurora, died Monday in the Center for Hospice & Palliative Care, Cheektowaga, after a long illness. He was 62. Born in Buffalo, he was a 1966 graduate of Iroquois Central High School and served in the Army in the First Infantry Division in the Vietnam War, taking part in more than 100 air missions and attaining the rank of sergeant. He was awarded two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart.
Forget about the fact that he's a public safety dispatcher 1,600 miles from home, sending fire trucks out into a sprawling area he knows nothing about. The scariest thing so far about Anthony Pasquale's 30-day volunteer deployment to hurricane-battered Louisiana was an alligator.
One person was killed Tuesday when a sport utility vehicle crashed in Donegal Township. According to a dispatcher from the Westmoreland County Department of Public Safety, the crash occurred just before 6:30 p.m. near 206 Thompson Road, about one mile from Route 31.
PECOS, Texas (AP) -- An uprising at a privately run prison in West Texas ended Saturday morning after two hostages were released, authorities said. Outside law enforcement officers returned control of the Reeves County Detention Center back to prison personnel about 6:30 a.m., said Patricia Dieschler, a state Department of Public Safety dispatcher.
The Germantown Police Department recently announced officers selected for the Chief's Awards. Recipients are detective Steven L. Lovelace, who was named officer of the year; Les R. Dewey, who was named reserve officer of the year; and Shayla K. Stewart, who was named public safety dispatcher/jailer of the year.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Snow and wind created white-out conditions that contributed to two freeway pileups involving more than 50 vehicles Sunday, resulting in multiple injuries, authorities said. The accidents happened on Interstate 90 on the east side of Madison, said Kevin Fosso, a Dane County public safety dispatcher supervisor.
One person was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital after a head-on collision Wednesday night in Westmoreland County. A dispatcher for the county Department of Public Safety said a second person was transported to a local hospital for treatment of injuries resulting from the crash, which occurred just after 8:30 p.m. on Route 119 about a mile south of Crabtree in Salem.
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