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Fate, a biker bar, Angela Shelton and a benefit for 6-year-old with cancer
Comments: 1 Views: 84Let the renovations begin: Civic Center lands $2 million TDA grant
Comments: 2 Views: 298It’s counterproductive to egg on Bele Chere Baptist street preachers
Comments: 2 Views: 240Russell’s “Tommy” to be screened by Asheville Film Society
Comments: 1 Views: 250State launches 66 hunting and fishing rules changes Aug. 1
Comments: 0 Views: 61Scores of hang-gliders converge for 5th Tater Hill Open Aug. 1
Comments: 0 Views: 21Blue Ridge Parkway: 75 Years of Heritage and Communities held Aug. 7
Comments: 0 Views: 39EPA Announces $16 Million in Brownfields Funds to Clean up Communities
Comments: 0 Views: 42The weekend’s events at MoDaddy’s
Comments: 0 Views: 44Trash, Inc. Creative Reuse Center opens for business August 1st.
Comments: 0 Views: 72Budget cuts may end program that trains inmates to fight forest fires
BlueRidgeNow reports: Henderson County fire chiefs are trying to save a program that trains inmates to support firefighters at wildfires. The program, run by the North Carolina Forest Service, is in danger of being cut because of state budget reductions....
The Forest Service and the N.C. Division of Prisons use a program called BRIDGE (Building Rehabilitating Instructing Developing Growing and Employing) in which inmates ages 18 to 25 help fight fires. Once the inmates receive certifications, they are part of a team that can be dispatched to help fight wildfires and relieve local fire departments.
The program is set for elimination in July 2010....
The BRIDGE program is based at Western Youth Institution in Morganton...
The Forest Service and the N.C. Division of Prisons use a program called BRIDGE (Building Rehabilitating Instructing Developing Growing and Employing) in which inmates ages 18 to 25 help fight fires. Once the inmates receive certifications, they are part of a team that can be dispatched to help fight wildfires and relieve local fire departments.
The program is set for elimination in July 2010....
The BRIDGE program is based at Western Youth Institution in Morganton...
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‘Hoods In The Woods’is what we always called ‘em on fires. Without them we would never have had the awesomeness that is ‘Firestorm’. |
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