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Return of 'Touch a Truck'

One of the “stars of the show” at the 2018 Touch a Truck event was the MRAP (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected) vehicle used by Covington Police and other law enforcement agencies in Northern Kentucky during hostage situations. Show-and-tell event showcases safety, service vehicles  COVINGTON, Ky. - Trucks and equipment will fill the Latonia Shopping Center’s parking lot next ...

‘This has become an epidemic’

Assistant Fire Chief Chip Terry served in Covington for almost three decades. (Photo used with permission from Katie Woodring Photography.) Registration open for PTS seminar Friday honoring late chief  COVINGTON, Ky. - The family of late Assistant Covington Fire Chief Chip Terry didn’t know what to expect a year ago when they organized the City’s first-ever seminar on post-trauma...

Wanted: Firefighter/paramedics

Covington firefighters responded to a fire on Riverside Drive last year. (Photo used courtesy of Katie Woodring Photography) City has 7 openings; must have at least 2 years’ experience  COVINGTON, Ky. - The Covington Fire Department is looking to hire seven firefighter/paramedics, but there’s a catch: You must have at least two years’ experience in a professional fire depart...

Covington says ‘farewell’ to retirees

Covington Fire Chief Mark Pierce, right, reads the details of promotions for three Covington firefighters: From right, Joseph Vance, Kurt Thomas, and Jordan Warner. At left is Assistant Chief Michael Bloemer.   COVINGTON, Ky. - A spate of retirements will take from the City of Covington nearly a century and a half of experience across four departments.  While their “last days&rdquo...

Search for new Engine Co. 2 under way

There’s less than an inch of clearance between Pumper 2’s ladders and Engine Co. 2’s door frame.   COVINGTON, Ky. - The process of building a bigger Engine Co. 2 - and finding a place to build it - has begun. The Covington City Commission voted 5-0 this week to hire Brandstetter Carroll Inc. -- a firm of architects, engineers, and planners - from 10 applicants for a fee of $...

Citizen Lifesavers

EMS Director David Geiger presents Citizen Lifesaver Awards to, from left, Steve Templeton, Eric Funk, Sami Peterson, Melissa Kavanaugh, and Linda Strong, all from Fidelity Investments. City honors Fidelity team whose fast, decisive action saved co-worker  COVINGTON, Ky. - When a Fidelity Investments employee collapsed and went into cardiac arrest while walking from the parking lot to the bui...

Covington mourns retired firefighter

Lt. Dale Allen Brown, a retired Covington firefighter who served for 25 years and a member of a well-known fire-fighting family, died last Friday. (Photo courtesy of Katie Woodring.) Lt. Dale Brown served for 25 years COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington firefighter Dale Brown had one motto, and he quoted it often: "Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day."   It was a motto ...

Precaution after pool chemical accident at Goebel

Goebel Pool is cordoned off after a small chlorine gas release. UPDATE: The shelter-in-place advisory has been lifted.  COVINGTON, Ky. - Residents living in about a one-block area around Goebel Pool are under a shelter-in-place advisory after pool chemicals inadvertently got mixed, Covington Fire officials said early this afternoon.  “The mixture produced a small cloud of chlorin...

'Stop the bleed'

St. Elizabeth Healthcare’s Danielle Stiner teaches a “Stop the Bleed” course to paramedic students from Gateway Community and Technical College. Covington honors instructor who’s trained 600 people to save lives   COVINGTON, Ky. - In 11 years as a paramedic, Danielle Stiner has seen a lot of blood.   But regardless of whether the wound was caused by a bullet, kni...

City Seeks Applications for Firefighter/Paramedic

JOIN OUR TEAM! We are currently accepting applications for Firefighter/Paramedic in preparation for our upcoming entrance exam, which will be administrated on Saturday, May 18, 2019. Potential new hires must possess a Kentucky paramedic license or NREMT paramedic license upon appointment. Currently already a Firefighter? No worries, lateral entry recruits will be paid according to the f...
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