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NEWS
IN WEST SENECA FIRE DISTRICT 2 |
April 02, 2011
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Water
Rescue Course Hosted by Vigilant Firefighters from Vigilant, Union, Seneca
Hose, East Seneca, and The 3-day course offered every couple
years to West Seneca Firefighters, begins with classroom
training on Friday Night, and hands on in water training over Saturday and
Sunday. The training is used to certify personnel to become part of the Town
wide West Seneca Water Rescue Team. Union Fire Company elected to send
four firefighters to this years training to bolster the number of personnel
already certified to respond for The West Seneca Water Rescue Team
has already been summoned once already in 2011, to assist other teams, Erie
County Sheriffs, and firefighters in the search for a missing Evans girl in March. Numerous other
requests for the team have been received from other municipalities over the
course of the past several years. The West Seneca Team has also
experienced numerous incidents of varying degrees on the two local creeks
that past through Founded in 1977 by
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public safety professionals. |
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