Morning. Four metro Fire Departments are considering a merger plan. Elias lam looking at the map, you can see the boundaries shared by waukee, clive, urbandale, and west des moines. And now the departments are looking at ways to step up response times. Its an idea thats been floated around for a couple of years now, but has gained traction after this summer when all four started using westcom dispatch. Any department can go to a working fire, but Department Leaders are looking to make that possible for any fire. The plan could be a shortterm fix, because more stations are also part of the equation. Clives facing the same issue in the same area. And at the end of the day, it just doesnt make sense for clive to build a fire station and urbandale to build one two miles apart. Elias theres currently no time line for when the changes would be implemented. West des moines currently has the largest staff, while waukee is the smallest of the four looking at the proposal. Elias new this morning
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Of 52,000 to clean the building leffler says the bill will likely be near 75 thousand dollars toward the final estimate. Then one week later, on december 15, only three blocks away. Unfortunately to burglarize i business, we have to clean up our store little joes computer was also vandalized, but this time, in surviellance video, you can see swick throwing a brick through the door, attempting to take joe gilberts bike. He was very efficient but it wouldnt fit through the door then you see the dust from yet another fire extinguisher. Swick was arrested by police in joes attic. Theres no clean space in this store at all today, hes left with a mess, a big bill and no christmas business. The bid was 30k to clean the dust as the cherry on top joe says swick left graffiti in the soon to be, payasyoucan door. He says this vandal not only cost him money. It cost him his holiday spirit. Makes a difference and christmas isnt the same claire little joes computers is aiming to reopen by midtolate
Was it like to be here during it it was very quick. We got a message shortly before 3 oclock that we were under a tornado warning. We called all of our buildings and said to go under the procedures and probably within in a minute or so the event was over. But we did keep kids in shelter, until we were for certain that they were safe. And we held the buses for half an hour until we were sure that going out into the country would be safe for all of the students. I know, during november, this is not a time that anyone expects Something Like this to happen. It was kind of a time where you use your procedures that you put in place in the spring . Yes, we certainly did and the nice thing is our emergency manager for Madison County gave us a heads up saying that we had the potential for some Severe Weather and that put us on alert for today. And i know, lastly a lot of people are wondering whats next, as far the damage is concerned. How long is it going to take to repair it all . Were picking
5 news at 10 in hdteam and we start with your forecast first. Brad wx wall weather adlib afternoon for much of central iowa with Severe Weather from all over the the most common report along with tornadoes were also afternoon across just north of the dsm airport around 3 30 pm. Local 5 news at 10 in hd starts now. We are jack you dont expect to see these kind of images in the middle of november. Campers turned on their sides. Semis blown over. And tress in front of quiet suburban Elementary Schools knocked down in the parking lot. Thats only supposed to happen in the summer, right . Jack well, wrong central iowa was treated with a rare batch of november tornadoes, as well as heavy wind and rain. Stephanie definitely a wild day of weather across central iowa. Starting in the afternoon, stretching into the evening. We were on the air live as your Severe Weather headquarters through the whole system. And joining us now to recap the action is chief meteorologist brad edwards, live in the w