Maricopa PD officer suspended 20 hours after K-9 partner left in car died of heatstroke
The officer went inside for a meeting at police headquarters, leaving K-9 Ike in the vehicle with the engine on. After the meeting, he found the vehicle not running. Author: Cameron La Fontaine Updated: 11:48 AM MST February 12, 2021
Editor s note: The above video is from a June 2020 newscast
MARICOPA, Ariz. The Maricopa Police Department said it concluded an internal investigation into the hot car death of police K-9 Ike in June of last year and the department has issued a 20-hour unpaid suspension to Ike s handler.
“We are deeply saddened by the line of duty death of K-9 Officer Ike,” Maricopa Police Chief Jim Hughes said in a statement. “This was a preventable death and we are taking corrective action to ensure this never happens again.”
The department said an internal investigation was completed after Officer Craig Curry left K-9 Ike inside his patrol vehicle while he went into police headquarters for a meeting last summer.
Water flooded eight properties after a vehicle struck a fire hydrant on Vine Street Monday morning.
Saugus Fire Chief Mike Newbury that the vehicle crashed at around 8:30 a.m. and broke a water main, which caused major flooding with damage to several homes and yards in the vicinity.
Four of the homes experienced significant flooding, Newbury said. Firefighters and Saugus Emergency Management pumped out a few basements.
The Department of Public Works isolated the leak and repaired it with Agganis Construction, Newbury said.
Water impacted a large tree that posed a risk to falling on a home, Newbury said. The Forestry Department took the tree down.
By Claire Read2021-02-10T07:00:00+00:00
Panellists on an HSJ webinar, in association with Graphnet, expained how the pandemic had forced them to urgently enhance the way they used data
On his very first day as the lead of Cheshire and Merseyside’s out of hospital covid cell, Joe Rafferty made an important realisation about the data available to assist in his new role.
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“What was really clear to me was we were drowning in data, but actually hardly any of it was the data I needed to have. The data that I could have wasn’t particularly well joined up so it didn’t in essence tell a story. It was also retrospective.
File Photo: Pat Donahue | Thomasville Times Enterprise
Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin speaks at the 2017 rededication of Lt. Henry O. Flipperâs grave near Thomasville, the resting place of the first Black graduate of West Point. S.Ga. recalls defense secretary s Thomasville days
By Pat Donahue
pat.donahue@gaflnews.com Jan 23, 2021
File Photo: Pat Donahue | Thomasville Times Enterprise
Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin speaks at the 2017 rededication of Lt. Henry O. Flipperâs grave near Thomasville, the resting place of the first Black graduate of West Point.
WASHINGTON, D.C. â Thomasville native Lloyd Austin is now the secretary of defense.
The U.S. Senate confirmed his appointment Friday morning in a 93-2 vote.