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News<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Book Antiqua" ><IMG SRC="15b4a620.gif" border=0 width="586" height="98" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <bR> <div> I will update the news page as it </div> <div> appears in local newspapers or </div> <div> local television news stations. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com/pfp/localjump.asp?aff=WFMJ" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.msnbc.com/pfp/localjump.asp?a"><U>TV 21 WFMJ</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.vindicator.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.vindicator.com/"><U>The Youngstown Vindicator</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.tribunechronicle.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.tribunechronicle.com"><U>The Warren Tribune Chronicle</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Injured Firefighters Are All Recovering</b></div> <div> <B>Youngstown Vindicator 2.19.2001</b></div> <div> YOUNGSTOWN-Three firefighters injured Saturday at a house fire at 640 W. Boston Avenue are all recovering, said Assistant Fire Chief Joe Jasinski.</div> <div> Lt. Ron Moran suffered a dislocated shoulder when fire flashed over and knocked him down steps, and Lt. Jim DiMuzio had bruises to his upper body after a slip on the ice.</div> <div> Firefighter Fred Beehler was treated for second degree burns to his hands after the fire flashed over, Jasinski said.</div> <div> The fire started about 5:40p.m. in the attic and did about $30,000 damage to the 2 1/2 story frame rental home. </div> <div> The cause is under investigation but may have been the result of electrical problems, Jasinski said.</div> <div> A frozen hydrant delayed firefighting efforts.</div> <bR> <div> <B>One-On-One: Youngstown Firefighter Welcomes Challenges</b></div> <div> <B>Youngstown Vindicator Article by Patricia Meade 2.19.2001</b></div> <bR> <div> Profile:</div> <div> Reinaldo "Ray" Sanchez</div> <div> Age: 50</div> <div> Hometown: Youngstown</div> <div> Occupation: Youngstown Fire Department since 1976; captain at No. 1 Fire Station downtown, commander of Rescue Squad 33.</div> <div> Education: Cardinal Mooney High School; one year of college; Army from 1971 to 1973.</div> <div> Family: Wife, Wildemina, two daughters and one son.</div> <div> Last book read: "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan.</div> <bR> <div> Q. Are you carrying on a family tradition of firefighters or are you the first?</div> <div> A. No, I'm the first. My father worked at the steel mills for 33 years, Sheet and Tube. My mom was a homemaker.</div> <bR> <div> Q. So what drew you to fire fighting?</div> <div> A. I was working at General Motors at the time--didn't like the work. I was looking for something that would offer sort of a challenge, I would say. It's challenging, it's different. GM was very repetitive. This is totally different. Every day is different.</div> <bR> <div> Q. If you had to do something else to make a living, what would you do?</div> <div> A. I'd love to be an astronaut.</div> <bR> <div> Q. Anything else?</div> <div> A. Forest Ranger--that would be a good one.</div> <bR> <div> Q. Did being Hispanic cause you any problems at all?</div> <div> A. Well, we had two Hispanics before I came on--the ex-fire chief, Hector Colon, and Johnny Rentas, who is also a captain, so they more or less paved the way. They were first, they took some of the bumps. You always have, when you come to an established environment, people who are going to be this way or that way.</div> <bR> <div> Q. Big strides in what way?</div> <div> A. The department? Oh, I'd say it's more multicultural. We have more blacks on the job now. We have women now, which we didn't have at the time. The department has gotten younger. We have better equipment. We have breathing apparatuses now . . . when I got on it was sparse. The trucks have roofs on them, you're enclosed now--at least you get [to the fire] dry. Before, you were wet on the way there, cold on the way there--no heat.</div> <bR> <div> Q. What's most satisfying about the work?</div> <div> A. Just helping people. Especially if you can save a life. I think that's every fireman's dream or what they strive for and it's very fulfilling just to do the work, to know what you're doing is helping someone else. Whether it's pulling somebody out of a house, out of a car wreck or helping someone get into a car if their baby's stuck, something like that.</div> <bR> <div> Q. Before you became a captain, as a regular firefighter, did you have to be a short-order cook?</div> <div> A. We all take our turns cooking. My policy is, I assign days. I cook on Mondays. No one's barred. You do have to become a cook.</div> <bR> <div> Q. How do you learn?</div> <div> A. You either watch one of the older guys and he teaches you or your wife has a recipe, grandma has a recipe, mama has a recipe, grandma has a recipe and then you come down here and try it out on us. Experimentation is what it is.</div> <bR> <div> Q. Have the guys ever said what kind of a cook you are?</div> <div> A. Well, I consider myself a good cook but you gotta ask them. Sometimes you pass, sometimes you don't pass, let me tell you.</div> <bR> <div> Q. What’s your favorite fire station meal, to cook?</div> <div> A. Stir fry. Chinese stir fry.</div> <bR> <div> Q. Does it go over well with the crew?</div> <div> A. It goes over big.</div> <bR> <div> Q. Can you sum up, in a few words, fire station meals, not just what you cook?</div> <div> A. Oh, got to have enough, got to have plenty of it, got to be moist. --we got a lot of dunkers--they like to dunk. It's got to taste good. That's it, got to be wet and got to taste good and got to be plenty.</div> <bR> <div> Q. A lot of firefighters--because of one day on, two days off--have other jobs, do you?</div> <div> A. No, not to say. I work on small engines. I'm a small engine mechanic. Lawn mowers, chain saw, tractors. I [once] had my own business.</div> <bR> <div> Q. What do you do for fun?</div> <div> A. I have three kids in college. I don't have too much time for fun. I gotta work. I drive for an auction place--you pick up money where you can, it's either home improvements, odd jobs.</div> <bR> <div> Q. A lot of people probably wonder what firefighters do to pass the time between fires--not the rountine stuff like checking equipment or training--just down time?</div> <div> A. Some read. Some watch sports, work on hobbies, work on things that you bring from home.</div> <bR> <div> Q. What's your favorite thing to do during down-time?</div> <div> A. Read. Mostly Auto Week and Time, that type of stuff, but there's not too much time because there's somebody always calling you for something. I repair the airpacks here and I'm also in charge of the compressors, keeping the air systems up.</div> <bR> <div> Q. That's because of your talent with small engines?</div> <div> A. Right, mechanically inclined. I was a crew chief in the army, fixed helicopters, I like machinery.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Youngstown firefighter burned in flashover</b></div> <div> <B>Tribune Chronicle Article by JOE GORMAN</b><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" ><B> 2.18.2001</b></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> YOUNGSTOWN  A city firefighter was in satisfactory condition Saturday at the Regional Burn Unit in Akron after a flashover hit the third floor of a South Side home.</div> <div> Firefighter Fred Beehler received second-degree burns on his hands while Lt. Ron Moran suffered a separated shoulder as the home at 640 W. Boston Ave. burst into flames, Battalion Chief James Flynn said.</div> <div> The fire was one of three that had city fire crews scrambling Saturday night.</div> <div> Flynn said the pair were with the first unit to arrive on the scene of the two-alarm fire. They were searching the house for occupants when the flashover occurred. No one was home at the time of the fire, Flynn said.</div> <div> Moran was with Beehler when the fire flashed over.</div> <div> "They kicked open the third floor (door), and it just flashed over," Flynn said.</div> <div> The force knocked Moran down the steps, which is how he separated his shoulder, Flynn said.</div> <div> Flynn said another firefighter, Lt. Jim DiMuzio, also suffered a separated shoulder later while outside of the home.</div> <div> Moran and DiMuzio were both treated and released from St. Elizabeth Health Center.</div> <div> An extra company had to be called because of problems with a hydrant and for more manpower, Flynn said. He said firefighters were on the scene for almost three hours.</div> <div> A damage estimate for the home was unavailable, Flynn said. He added that because the roof was almost destroyed, the home might be a total loss.</div> <div> Almost all of the damage was contained to the third floor of the home, Flynn said. "It was like a maze up there," he said. "It was all cut up into rooms."</div> <div> The cause of the fire is still under investigation, Flynn said.</div> <div> A flashover is a point in a fire when the air is heated to such a high temperature that everything combusts. A flashover occurred in a New Year's Eve fire in Warren that led to the injury of two firefighters and death of the home's resident. Following that fire, a response time of six minutes was cited as a reason for the injuries.</div> <div> Flynn said that response time Saturday was two minutes.</div> <div> "In our case, had we gotten the alarm sooner, we might have been able to avoid it (flashover)," Flynn said.</div> <div> Firefighters also had to battle a fire at 16047 Alden Ave. on the East Side just after 8:30 p.m. That fire was caused by a 6-year-old child playing with matches, Flynn said. The fire was contained to a bedroom and damage was estimated at $5,000, Flynn said.</div> <div> Another minor fire broke out at 4213 Southern Blvd. just after 9 p.m. Battalion Chief Terrence Jordan said sparks from a fireplace got in between a wall. There was little damage, Jordan said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Youngstown Firefighters Honored</b></div> <div> Tribune Chronicle 2.8.2001 </div> <div> YOUNGSTOWN  City Council Wednesday passed resolutions honoring two firefighters who entered a burning house to save an infant last spring.</div> <div> Council honored Capt. James Hellman and firefighter Steven Herschel for their actions during a fire at 365 E. Lucius Ave., April 29, 2000.</div> <div> Heavy smoke was coming from the house when firefighters arrived just after 2:30 p.m. As they began to prepare their equipment to fight the fire, they were told an infant was in the house.</div> <div> Hellman and Herschel entered the house without the aid of a hose and located the sleeping baby, one-year-old Brian Brown, in a bedroom. They brought the baby outside and revived him.</div> <div> Brown was flown by helicopter to Akron Children's Hospital, where he stayed for several days. He is now doing very well, according to the resolutions.</div> <div> Two other people who lived in the home were uninjured. The fire was started by a child playing with a lighter who set fire to a plastic hangar and tossed it beneath a bunk bed.</div> <div> The boy who started the fire was placed in a special program for youngsters who commit fire-related offenses. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Firefighters recognized for saving child from blaze</b></div> <div> TV-21 WFMJ-NBC 2.09.2001</div> <div> YOUNGSTOWN-  A pair of Youngstown firefighters are being honored for their bravery while on the job. Captain James Hellman and Firefighter Steven Merschel ran into a burning home on East Lucius last April. The pair pulled an infant boy from the flames and rushed him to paramedics who had to revive the child. The young child was hospitalized for injuries sustained during the blaze, but has now made a complete recovery. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Police, council plan how to check noise</b></div> <div> Youngstown Vindicator 1.24.2001</div> <div> <I><B>The committee endorsed building a new fire station to service Brownlee Woods.</b></I></div> <div> <I><B>Another Decision</b></I><I><B>:</b></I> Committee members also endorsed building a new fire station to service the Brownlee </div> <div> Woods neighborhood on the South Side. Station No.9 at Midlothian Boulevard and Sheridan Road is 70 years old and needs $40,000 in repairs in each of the next four of five years, said Fire Chief John J. O'Neill Jr. There are asbestos, water leakage and roof problems, he said. Firefighters have a hard time pulling in and out since the station is on busy Midlothian near a traffic signal. A new station would cost about $350,000. A site near Shirley Road or Zedaker Street is preferable, he said. Committee members will send the mayor a letter supporting construction of a new station. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Deciding the fate of an old Youngstown fire station</b></div> <div> TV 21 WFMJ-NBC 1.25.2001</div> <div> YOUNGSTOWN-Local law makers must decide what to do about an old fire station on Youngstown’s south side. Fire Chief John O’Neil says the building on East Midlothian Boulevard has cracked walls and a leaky roof. He would like the city to invest in a new station that is closer to I-680.</div> <div> Firefighters say the new location would improve response time and alleviate the traffic problems at the old station.</div> <div> (Webmaster's Note: The station in question is Station 9.)</div> <bR> <div> <B>Apartment fire forces evacuation of 25 people</b></div> <div> Youngstown Vindicator 1.14.2001</div> <div> YOUNGSTOWN- A fire confined to the kitchen of an apartment caused 25 people to be evacuated for about an hour Saturday evening from a three-story apartment complex and a blaze earlier in the day sent an 83-year-old woman and her 45-year-old son fleeing from their home. </div> <div> The evening blaze occurred at a complex of 48 apartments at 838 E. Midlothian Blvd. Firefighters had to carry an invalid woman, said Assistant Fire Chief Joe Jasinski. </div> <div> Reginald Wallace jumped from his second-floor apartment window into grass and shrubs, but was not hurt in the 7:21 fire, Jasinski said. </div> <div> The fire was caused by an occupants failure to off an electric stove when leaving an apartment, he said, estimating total loss at about $5,000. </div> <div> Earlier Fire: Jencie Wilkie and her son, Terry, escaped safely from the earlier blaze in a two-story wood house at 122 Ayers St. around 11:31 a.m. Saturday. </div> <div> That fire, cause by cooking oil igniting, gutted the kitchen and extended up the outside of the house to the roof, causing $20,000 in loss, said battalion Chief Tim McGarry.</div> <div> An ambulance crew flushed debris from the eye of firefighter Kevin O'Neil, McGarry said. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Fire destroys Youngstown home</b></div> <div> TV 21 WFMJ-NBC 1.10.2001</div> <div> (Photo Coming)</div> <div> YOUNGSTOWN- A house on Youngstown’s north side went up in flames early Wednesday morning. The house located on Gypsy Lane next to the Jewish Community Center. Heavy smoke was pouring from the structure when firefighters arrived. No one was inside the home at the time of the blaze.</div> <div> There is no word yet on what caused the fire.</div> <div> (Personal Note: I just happened to coming home from work at 3am when I heard the sirens. I drove around where I thought I had heard them, hoping to get several pictures for the site. I drove all around the upper-North Side and the high Briar Hill area and never found the fire. Only later did I learn that I had seen the reflection of the lights from the trucks, which I had dismissed because I saw them from so far away. The fire was two blocks from my house. Not as far as the mile I had driven looking for it. )</div> <bR> <div> <B>Organization honors Heroes of the Year </b></div> <div> Youngstown Vindicator 1.7.2001</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="166f5a70.gif" border=0 width="245" height="167" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Abdul Lateef, 17, points to the home where he rescued </div> <div> two residents from their burning High Street home May 5. <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#808080" FACE="Arial" >Photo courtesy of the Youngstown Vindicator </FONT></div> <bR> <div> YOUNGSTOWN- Two local residents have been named one of over three dozen people who made a difference in the Mahoning Valley during the past year. They both rescued others from Youngstown fires. Abdul Lateef, 17, a 2000 honor graduate from Watkins Christian Academy and first-degree black belt tae kwon do instructor and teacher, rescued two residents from their burning High Street home on the city's South Side 5 May 2000. Osachin Taylor, 22, of 354 E. Lucuis Ave. in Youngstown, climbed a ladder April 29 to reach a neighbor's smoke-filled, second-story window. City firefighters said Taylor's efforts helped them rescue 1-year-old Brian Brown, who wasn't breathing but later was revived. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Fire damages house </b></div> <div> Youngstown Vindicator 12.15.2000</div> <div> YOUNGSTOWN-A fire swept through the home of Alice Tillery, 87, and her 62- year-old son Claude on Thursday, causing $15,000 damage. The fire department arrived at 423 Foster Drive shortly before 4 p.m. in response to a 911 call from the home, according to reports. The fire was under control within a half-hour, but not before it spread from a second floor bedroom to the attic and living room of the wood frame house. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Blaze destroy home of Youngstown family</b></div> <div> TV 21 WFMJ-NBC 12.10.2000</div> <div> YOUNGSTOWN- Officials say an electrical problem may have sparked a blaze on Sunday that left 7 people homeless in Youngstown. The Covington Avenue home was completely gutted in the fire. The entire family was home at the time of the blaze, but everyone reportedly escaped the flames without injury. </div> <div> Also, firefighters were able to save the family's Christmas presents.</div> <div> (See separate entry under <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Book Antiqua" >Recent Fire and Runs</FONT> for more on this fire )</div> <bR> <div> <B>Flames Destroy Youngstown Home</b></div> <div> TV 21 WFMJ-NBC 11.28.2000 </div> <div> YOUNGSTOWN- Fire crews in Youngstown were called to a home on the city's east side early Wednesday morning. The home on McGuffey Road was completely destroyed by flames. Firefighters say the blaze started in the basement and traveled all the way to the roof.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Fire Dept. promotes 4, adds 6</b></div> <div> Youngstown Vindicator 09.27.2000</div> <div> The number of applicants has decreased, possibly because of a more rigorous physical exam.</div> <div> YOUNGSTOWN- Four firefighters were promoted and six more sworn in during a ceremony today. </div> <div> Fire Chief John J. O'Neill, Jr. administered the oaths to newly promoted officers Capt. Kevin O'Neill, Capt. Gary Ditullio, Lt. Kevin Johnson and Lt. Wilbert Mullins.</div> <div> Mayor George McKelvey swore in new firefighters Justin Jurovcik, 22, of Kent; Kenneth Horn, 27, of Bristolville; Joseph Lantz, 32, of Youngstown; Justin Durkin, 23, of Youngstown; Timothy Frease, 22, of Hubbard; and Stephen Murphy, 28, of Poland.</div> <div> O'Neill said the openings resulted from retirements earlier this year and he expects to hire four to six more firefighters after the first of the year. The department now has 147 employees and is considered at full strength, he said.</div> <div> Test: O'Neill said the number of applicants has decreased since he took the test in 1985 and suggested that a rigorous physical exam could be the reason. In 1985, about 700 applied; 200 applied for the most recent test and 45 passed.</div> <div> After a study of other fire departments by Capt. Terry Stephens, a physical was designed that included concurrent timed events such as a half-mile run, hose drag, raising a hose up a pulley and using a sledge hammer, O'Neill said. The tests, he said, involve activities that firefighters actually do have to do.</div> <div> In the past, the prospective firefighters' exam included the basics, such as sit- ups, a step machine and body fat analysis, the chief said.</div> <div> The new test is fair to male and female applicants and was pre-tested by current firefighters whose average age is 32. All passed, O'Neill said. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Arson investigators receive recognition</b></div> <div> Youngstown Vindicator 08.16.2000</div> <div> YOUNGSTOWN- Lt. Robert Sharp, commander of the fire department's arson bureau, and Alvin Ware, an arson investigator, have received recognition from the Ohio chapter of the International Association of Arson Investigators.</div> <div> Sharp, who had 26 years with the department, was named investigator of the year for 2000 and as such has been nominated for international investigator of the year.</div> <div> Ware, a 15-year veteran of the department, was elected to a seat on the board of directors of the Ohio Chapter.</div> <div> The statewide recognition is a first for Youngstown, department officials said. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>