Police Beat features safety articles from local fire fighter/EMT

Be sure to check out our Police Beat section for the latest safety tips from our guest columnist Alexander J. Zielinski. 

Mr. Zielinski is a caareer fire fighter and emt working with the Providence Fire Department. He has published articles with a number of other sources, and has only recently come on board to help The Journal-Enterprise offer you safety tips through the online version of our Police Beat section.

Here is a sample of his latest article:

Preventing fires in your home, a small battery can save your life

by Alexander J. Zielinski 

Fires can happen at any time, day, month. In the U.S. someone dies in a house fire every three hours, these deaths can be prevented. It is important to take steps to reduce your risk for fire but also have a plan of action should a fire happen. Should a fire occur in your residence it is important to call 911 immediately. Remember, it takes time for firefighter to arrive on scene and fire has the potential to double in size in minutes. While it may be a fire that you can extinguish with a home fire extinguisher it is never too small to call the fire department. If you are unable to stop the fire the emergency responders are that much closer arriving at the fire than if you had waited to call.  

There are simple things that you can do to prevent fires in your home and focus on the common causes of household fires.  

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Principal without a school: WCMS principal prepares way for students

by Matt Hughes

J-E News Editor

Some people had questions when the Webster County school district hired a middle school principal more than a year before the middle school would be opened, but since arriving on campus, Geoff Bailey has been hard at work paving the way for the 2014-2015 school year.

Bailey’s office in the middle school administration suite is nothing more than four bare concrete walls without a ceiling. For the time being he has been assigned to a conference room three doors down from the high school office. His new school now sits six feet away from his “office” behind a temporary wall, still four to five months away from looking anything like a school.