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Oak Ridge fire department reports mutual-aid deployments and urges caution on brush burning
Summary
Assistant Chief Sam Anders told the council the department is rostering equipment and personnel for mutual-aid deployment to western North Carolina and urged residents to obtain forestry burn permits and avoid smoldering burns that produce dangerous smoke.
Assistant Fire Chief Sam Anders told the Town of Oak Ridge Town Council on Oct. 3 that the Oak Ridge Fire Department has been actively preparing personnel and equipment for mutual-aid deployments following hurricane damage in western North Carolina.
“Departments across the county will give make a list of names and equipment that is available,” Anders said, describing a coordinated system in which county emergency management and the fire marshal’s…
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