• Service all heating systems and all gas-, oil- or coal-burning appliances by a technician annually.
• Install a battery-operated and electric-powered carbon monoxide detector in your home and check or replace the battery when you change the time on your clocks each spring and fall. If the detector sounds, leave your home immediately and call 911.
• Contact a doctor if you believe you have carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Do not use gas-powered devices such as a generator, grill or stove inside your home, basement or near a near a window or door. Generators should be operated more than 15 feet from the home.
• Do not run any gas-powered motor inside a closed structure, such as a garage.
Novi Fire Capt. Charles Roberts recently graduated from Eastern Michigan University’s School of Fire Staff and Command leadership program.
His graduating class included more than 40 other fire department professionals from about 40 communities throughout the state.
Novi Fire Captain John Martin has been promoted to assistant fire chief, filling a position that has been vacant for the past 10 years because of a reorganization within the public safety department.
Martin has been fighting fires since 1997 when he joined the Macomb Township Fire Department. He served as Macomb’s firefighter and training coordinator until 2006.
Westland hopes to hire 13 firefighters with a $2.4 million federal SAFER grant the city fire department recently received.
SAFER stands for Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response, and the grants are managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Livonia fire investigators were at Parkway Heights Apartments Friday morning, sifting through wreckage to determine what caused an overnight fire there.
The department’s Senior Captain Michael Magda said firefighters were called to the apartment building at Wayne Road and Ann Arbor Trail at about 3 a.m. because of 9-1-1 calls.
An elderly Westland woman dropped a cigarette in her front living room Monday, sparking a blaze that killed her husband and put her in a local hospital’s intensive care unit.
Westland police and fire officials are not releasing the couple’s names but said the wife, 79, is in stable but critical condition at Detroit Receiving Hospital.
Bringing Our Work Home With Us
Everyone likes to think that our work lives and our home lives are separate. This is not actually true. Our work is affected by the stuff that happens at home and we certainly let our work life affect our home life. This is normal. If you don’t believe me, ask the people you live with (family, wife, husband, kids).
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Bringing Our Work Home With Us
Everyone likes to think that our work lives and our home lives are separate. This is not actually true. Our work is affected by the stuff that happens at home and we certainly let our work life affect our home life. This is normal. If you don’t believe me, ask the people you live with (family, wife, husband, kids). Read More...
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