CRIME & SAFETY
Whiteside County firefighters test skills in training
Smoke filled a house, and Rock Falls and Sterling firefighters bust in to save the lives of trapped people. It looks real but it’s a training exercise. The training is a way for firefighters to team up for an emergency exercise and improve their search and rescue skills. “It...
Thank you to the volunteers who have served
Over the past few months, newsrooms across the Shaw Local News Network have been interviewing, filling notebooks and assembling stories about the first responders who serve cities and counties throughout northern Illinois. Police officers, sheriff’s deputies, paramedics, dispatchers, doctors, nurses and firefighters – all of them are represented in today’s...
At 20 years old, 911 dispatcher has a ‘poise you can’t train’
STERLING – On her days off, Alexis Echebarria often cleans her room – a way of “resetting her area” – before heading to Sterling for an iced blondie from 7 Brew Coffee and some shopping. “I feel like, getting into this job, mental health has...
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