Dry, natural vegetation, grown on the property can still be burned outdoors in open piles, unless prohibited by local ordinances. Burning can only be done on permissive burn days. Despite the inherent danger of responding to accidents on the freeway and the challenging nature of the calls, Captain Patterson skillfully directs his crew to manage care for multiple patients.
His calm demeanor and decades of experience ensure patients receive the care they need and his crew remains safe from harm.
Since , Captain Patterson has led the Spark of Love Toy Drive which collects new, unwrapped toys and sports equipment for local children and families.
In cooperation with the Community Assistance Program of Moreno Valley, and other non-profit groups, Captain Patterson has helped make the program more successful each year. Three years later he was promoted to Fire Apparatus Engineer for the Beaumont Battalion, serving Station 21 in Calimesa for nine years. They wore the tiniest of hospital gowns, tucked away in cribs and hospital beds.
Machines with snaking tubes and monitors dwarfed the children who waited on the third floor of the Riverside University Health System Medical Center, hoping for something good — a test result, a stable insulin level, the news that they could go home and sleep in their own beds. Just two days to go before Christmas. Instead of last minute shopping and present wrapping, the families gathered here, accepting the fact that their Christmas would most likely be celebrated in a hospital room.
But it was definitely something good. His belly shook as he high-fived his firefighter helpers and climbed up on the aerial ladder truck. Up the ladder he went with an ease in his step like he had done this a time or two.
On the third floor, young patients pressed their faces to the window, not believing what they were seeing. Santa was headed toward them — one black boot after another he climbed up the ladder. He stopped to wave to the crowd below before disappearing into the window. A patient demanded her older brother push her in her wheelchair down the hall to see what the commotion was all about.
She giggled when she saw him — and his entourage of firefighters. But the boy was too shy to look up from his blocks — or wave. Dozens of gift bags appeared.
Santa carefully placed a stuffed dog and a light-up ball in the crib of a six-month old baby in the intensive care unit. A 9-year-old boy recently diagnosed with diabetes smiled — a genuine smile — as Santa dug into his bag of tricks and pulled out toy after toy and placed it on his hospital bed. The toys, puzzles and games were donated by members of the Moreno Valley community and companies including Amazon and Walmart as part of the Spark of Love toy drive.
A blue sports car. A safari set play set with striped dinosaurs. A police car raced along the hospital floor toward a pretend emergency. The little boy smiled. A boy waiting for his mom to finish her treatment in the infusion center threw his new football to Santa.
The spontaneous game of catch was interrupted by a young mother who handed Santa her 1-month-old twins so she could take a picture of him, a baby cradled in each arm. For a few moments, the sickness, the machines with the snaking tubes and the worry were all forgotten. The Moreno Valley Fire Department experiences several preventable near drowning and drowning incidents each year. These preventable events can cause severe injuries and may lead to death. The Moreno Valley Fire Department is asking for your help in preventing drowning with the following water safety tips.
For more information please visit poolsafety. Summer thunderstorms Southern California summer thunderstorms occur primarily over the mountains in the south and east and generally receive more storm activity than those ranges in the north and west.
Thunderstorm weather typically begins in early July and tapers off gradually through August and into September; usually there are alternating periods of high and low thunderstorm activity during the season. Compounding the situation, these sudden and extreme thunderstorms carry the potential of flash floods. Flash floods are the most dangerous type of floods and combine destructive power of a flood with sudden and unexpected speed.
These events typically occur suddenly within 2-hours of the start of high intensity rainfall. Most damage and fatalities tend to occur in densely populated areas immediately near a stream, creek, river or flood prone areas and intersections.
In addition, heavy rain falling on steep terrain can weaken soil and cause mud slides, damaging homes, roads and property. Flash floods occur when slow moving or multiple thunderstorms happen over the same area. When storms move faster, flash flooding is less likely since the rain is distributed over a larger area. For more information, please contact the Office of Emergency Management at As summer approaches, activities, gatherings and outdoor cooking become a huge family favorite.
In order to keep yourself and your family safe the Moreno Valley Fire Department would like to offer the following general barbecue safety tips. Industrial facilities such as wastewater plants also can cause sulfur odors. City News Service reports that that the smell, first noticed around 10 p.
Badgett also pointed to the Salton Sea as a possible suspect in the source of the smell, noting to CNS, "We had that storm system dragging everything up from the desert yesterday, so who knows?.
Eastern Municipal Water District offcials -- servicing customers from Moreno Valley to Temecula -- said the stench was not connected to any of the district's operations. Throughout the day, the terrible smell has traveled a distance across Southern Califonia. Lisa Brenner September 10, Reports are wafting in from the Inland Empire about a foul odor in the area.
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