Firemen Honored For Life-Saving Efforts
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
Warsaw firefighters Kerry Stogsdill and Terry Himes were presented with awards Monday during the city council meeting, for saving lives.
According to fire chief Matt Warren, the department received a car fire call at East Gate Apartments on Nov. 18.
Stogsdill and Lt. Tim Hood put the fire out. When Stogsdill broke the driver's side window to release the hood latch, he found the driver inside the vehicle.
Stogsdill pulled him out of the car and found the man not breathing and without a pulse.
Stogsdill began CPR with the assistance of Himes.
Emergency medical services crews took over the life-saving efforts when they arrived and the firefighters went back to extinguishing the fire.
Former Warsaw mayor Dale Tucker attended the meeting, thanking the council for reversing its decision to hang American flags on the city's 41 ornamental light poles.
"You gave the Democrats the best campaign platform ever," Tucker said. "I almost ran for election again."
Bill Dalton approached the Board of Works in September requesting the city hang American flags as a show of patriotism.
At that meeting the board members, Jerry Patterson, Charlie Smith and Wiggins, advised Dalton to get permission from NIPSCO and to get costs on the hardware to hang the emblems.
They were in favor of the display but didn't have the funds to purchase the flags, they said.
"A number of us feel passionately about this issue," Dalton said at the council meeting. "We will raise the funds, we have commitments now."
"The issue was never that we were against hanging the flags," he said. "It was the funding for it. We found the 2-by-3-foot flags will work on our globes."
Last week a "test" flag was hung and seemed to work well.
"No one on the council was ever against this," Patterson said.
"If we have miscommunicated it was because we were frustrated things weren't moving fast enough," Dalton said. "Right now we've all rallied around the flag, Warsaw will be the better for it."
Councilwoman Trish Brown asked that an endowment fund be established to help with upkeep and maintenance.
The council advised Dan Beam he would receive a $500 abatement from the sewer tap fee.
Beam, a Duncan Drive resident, had installed a septic system a couple of years before the city installed sewer service. He wants to wait until his current system fails before hooking into the city system.
He had no knowledge about the city's plans, he said in October, and still owed on the septic system.
The item was tabled while the council investigated what was done in the past. They discovered that residents waiting 25 to 36 months to tap onto the service received a $500 abatement from the tap fee.
In other business the board:
• Tabled amendments to the sign ordinance.
• Heard from police chief Steve Foster regarding lockout assistance. Foster indicated the service would be provided until the department was directed otherwise.
He explained the CCAC was one mile beyond the city's westernmost boundaries and the department would respond to lockouts there because the sheriff's department no longer provides the service.
The recent assistance provided in Leesburg was an incident where a small child and keys were locked in a vehicle at the Marathon station. Lt. Bret Richardson was in the vicinity and took the call, Foster said.
• Reviewed the police department's October and November selective enforcement reports. Served on a voluntary basis, eight hours were worked in October with 35.5 spent in November.
• Reviewed the November Kosciusko Communication Center report, which details E911 calls from January to now. In November, 4,801 calls were taken, with 649 of those made on cellular phones. For the year, 17,016 calls have been taken, a 5,112-call increase over last year.
The center began taking cellular calls May 1. In November, cell phone calls accounted for nearly 43 percent of calls received.
• Received a letter from Joseph Spite regarding red light running. Spite indicated yellow light time should be lengthened along with the time between the red and green light changes.
Spite's letter was forwarded to the Indiana Department of Transportation's Fort Wayne office.
• Heard the police department has decided to make .40 caliber handguns standard issue, replacing the 9 mm guns.
A dozen more weapons will finish the transition at a cost of $8,280.
The department also requested a transfer of funds from several accounts for a new computer at a cost of $4,974, and a $8,800 change order for work on their new building on East Fort Wayne Street.
• Other approved fund transfer ordinances were: for aviation, $600 from communication/transportation to insurance; for the council, $700 from salaries and wages to FICA; and for the council, $1,000 from miscellaneous to mayor's public relations.
• Reappointed Bruce Woodward to a four-year term to the Board of Zoning Appeals; and Charlie Smith and Bob Steele to the Warsaw Redevelopment Commission for one-year terms.
City council members are: Mayor Ernie Wiggins, Jerry Patterson, Trish Brown, Joe Thallemer, Jeff Grose, Charlie Smith and George Clemens. Bill Rhoades was absent. [[In-content Ad]]
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Warsaw firefighters Kerry Stogsdill and Terry Himes were presented with awards Monday during the city council meeting, for saving lives.
According to fire chief Matt Warren, the department received a car fire call at East Gate Apartments on Nov. 18.
Stogsdill and Lt. Tim Hood put the fire out. When Stogsdill broke the driver's side window to release the hood latch, he found the driver inside the vehicle.
Stogsdill pulled him out of the car and found the man not breathing and without a pulse.
Stogsdill began CPR with the assistance of Himes.
Emergency medical services crews took over the life-saving efforts when they arrived and the firefighters went back to extinguishing the fire.
Former Warsaw mayor Dale Tucker attended the meeting, thanking the council for reversing its decision to hang American flags on the city's 41 ornamental light poles.
"You gave the Democrats the best campaign platform ever," Tucker said. "I almost ran for election again."
Bill Dalton approached the Board of Works in September requesting the city hang American flags as a show of patriotism.
At that meeting the board members, Jerry Patterson, Charlie Smith and Wiggins, advised Dalton to get permission from NIPSCO and to get costs on the hardware to hang the emblems.
They were in favor of the display but didn't have the funds to purchase the flags, they said.
"A number of us feel passionately about this issue," Dalton said at the council meeting. "We will raise the funds, we have commitments now."
"The issue was never that we were against hanging the flags," he said. "It was the funding for it. We found the 2-by-3-foot flags will work on our globes."
Last week a "test" flag was hung and seemed to work well.
"No one on the council was ever against this," Patterson said.
"If we have miscommunicated it was because we were frustrated things weren't moving fast enough," Dalton said. "Right now we've all rallied around the flag, Warsaw will be the better for it."
Councilwoman Trish Brown asked that an endowment fund be established to help with upkeep and maintenance.
The council advised Dan Beam he would receive a $500 abatement from the sewer tap fee.
Beam, a Duncan Drive resident, had installed a septic system a couple of years before the city installed sewer service. He wants to wait until his current system fails before hooking into the city system.
He had no knowledge about the city's plans, he said in October, and still owed on the septic system.
The item was tabled while the council investigated what was done in the past. They discovered that residents waiting 25 to 36 months to tap onto the service received a $500 abatement from the tap fee.
In other business the board:
• Tabled amendments to the sign ordinance.
• Heard from police chief Steve Foster regarding lockout assistance. Foster indicated the service would be provided until the department was directed otherwise.
He explained the CCAC was one mile beyond the city's westernmost boundaries and the department would respond to lockouts there because the sheriff's department no longer provides the service.
The recent assistance provided in Leesburg was an incident where a small child and keys were locked in a vehicle at the Marathon station. Lt. Bret Richardson was in the vicinity and took the call, Foster said.
• Reviewed the police department's October and November selective enforcement reports. Served on a voluntary basis, eight hours were worked in October with 35.5 spent in November.
• Reviewed the November Kosciusko Communication Center report, which details E911 calls from January to now. In November, 4,801 calls were taken, with 649 of those made on cellular phones. For the year, 17,016 calls have been taken, a 5,112-call increase over last year.
The center began taking cellular calls May 1. In November, cell phone calls accounted for nearly 43 percent of calls received.
• Received a letter from Joseph Spite regarding red light running. Spite indicated yellow light time should be lengthened along with the time between the red and green light changes.
Spite's letter was forwarded to the Indiana Department of Transportation's Fort Wayne office.
• Heard the police department has decided to make .40 caliber handguns standard issue, replacing the 9 mm guns.
A dozen more weapons will finish the transition at a cost of $8,280.
The department also requested a transfer of funds from several accounts for a new computer at a cost of $4,974, and a $8,800 change order for work on their new building on East Fort Wayne Street.
• Other approved fund transfer ordinances were: for aviation, $600 from communication/transportation to insurance; for the council, $700 from salaries and wages to FICA; and for the council, $1,000 from miscellaneous to mayor's public relations.
• Reappointed Bruce Woodward to a four-year term to the Board of Zoning Appeals; and Charlie Smith and Bob Steele to the Warsaw Redevelopment Commission for one-year terms.
City council members are: Mayor Ernie Wiggins, Jerry Patterson, Trish Brown, Joe Thallemer, Jeff Grose, Charlie Smith and George Clemens. Bill Rhoades was absent. [[In-content Ad]]