Fire Chief and Two Firemen Honored for Flood Rescue
Scottsdale Fire Chief Lou Witzeman and two firefighters Ronald Butler and Robert Reid received letters of commendation and medals from the USAF Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron for leading a two day flood rescue, saving 17 lives and locating 69 persons. They coordinated helicopter air support from a golf course landing pad, risking their lives in hazardous weather while directing rescue aircraft to exact street locations.
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Eldorado Golf Course
Phoenix Council urged to drop ambulance contract
City Manager Selden Kent urged the Phoenix council to cancel the contract for providing emergency ambulance service citing waste and operating peril. The memorandum to the city council urged revocation of the ambulance firm’s contract and threatened action if not terminated.
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City moves to end AAA Ambulance contract after incidents
City officials review terminating AAA Ambulance Service amid criticism over response failures in a Phoenix shooting and Avondale crash. Council deliberates new bids to assign one third of emergency calls to remaining firms. A commission order barred AAA from emergency runs pending a formal hearing.
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Agencies announce combined cutbacks in Arizona
The State Employment Security Commission and the State Game and Fish Department disclosed Friday they will trim their budgets by a total of 1.3 million dollars. William J. Mayo, executive director of the Employment Security Commission, said 765,000 dollars would be cut from a 12.8 million dollar budget as part of anti inflation efforts. The reductions will cost the agency 6 staff positions through retirements resignations and layoff of part time workers.
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State Game and Fish Department
William J. Mayo
Employment Security Commission
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IRA Threatens All-Out Attacks in Northern Ireland
A Belfast spokesman for the IRA Provisional wing warned of imminent large scale counterattacks against British troops and reoccupation efforts in Roman Catholic areas. About 150 IRA members were believed to be in Buncrana outside Londonderry after British Army raids. Snipers killed a soldier in Belfast and a civilian was found in a village sewer as violence continued.
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Irish Republic
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New York City
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McBrayer Pushed From Campaign Tent In Phoenix
Candidate Art McBrayer faces zoning disputes over a tent used as campaign office on a commercial lot at 4530 E McDowell Rd. He blamed red tape and weighs an appeal while continuing legal fights with Maricopa officials over deputy voter registrars and a libel suit filed this week.
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UPI
Art McBrayer
State Senate
McBrayer
E. McDowell Road
McBraver
Maricopa County
Paul Marston
Marston
Booby trap explosion injures prison guard
In Florence a guard, Manuel Rivera of Coolidge, was injured when a booby trap box exploded during a routine Cell Block 4 check at Pinal General Hospital. Assistant Superintendent Bud Gomes said the box with metal bands and match heads exploded, injuring Rivera and throwing him against a wall.
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UPI
Manuel Rivera
Coolidge
Pinal General Hospital
Bud Gomes
Rivera
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