Clearfield County Brush Fire 6:25 pm
Planes and a dozen fire companies from two counties battled a large brush fire in Clearfield County Tuesday afternoon.
Emergency dispatchers say crews were called to the area of Clearfield Street in Cooper Township when the flames started spreading out of control.
According to Morris Township Fire Company, who was called to assist Grassflat Fire Company, two air tankers, or planes, were called to drop water on the flames.
The planes were called in from the Pennsylvania DCNR Bureau of Forestry who also provided ground crews to help.
Fire companies that responded include: Grassflatt, Winburne, Morris Township, Karthus, Chester Hill, Osceola Mills, Philipsburg, Sandy Ridge, Snow Shoe and Milesburg.
By Justin Hendry on Apr 16, 2021 12:50PM
Seven years of event registrations found online.
Swinburne University has revealed that the details of more than 5000 staff and students were inadvertently made available on the internet.
In a statement on Friday, the university said it was alerted to the data breach last month and had immediately launched an investigation.
The data, which includes names, email addresses and phone numbers, is “event registration information from multiple events from 2013 onwards”.
Around 5,200 staff and 100 students, as well as some external parties, are believed to have been impacted by the data breach.
Swinburne said the investigation had traced the data to “an event registration webpage that is no longer available”.
Ernest W. Force, Jr.
Ernest W. Force, Jr. (Ernie) went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Jan. 9, 2021.
Ernie was born in Philipsburg on May 25, 1937. He was the son of the late Ernest and Elsie (Lapps) Force. He grew up in Grassflat where, he stated many times, he had a very enjoyable childhood. Baseball in the summer, ice skating and skiing in the winter, fishing and hunting all the time, for what more could a kid ask.
After graduating from Cooper Twp. High School in 1955, he went to work at Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna, N.Y. where he decided the Buffalo winters were too much for him and he returned to Clarence, Pa. to the J. H. France Refractories.