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Warthogs donate $30,000 to local honor guards
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WARREN Local police and fire department honor guards rely on fundraisers to support their efforts to recognize those who have served or fallen in the line of duty.
Limitations on gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic made hosting spaghetti dinners, fish fries and other community fundraisers impossible.
Enter the Southern Macomb Warthogs Chapter 44. The motorcycle club with a membership made up of current, retired or reserve police officers and firefighters, corrections officers, prosecutors and court officers makes charitable giving its mission. Through their own charity bingo, they have raised money to support families with children battling illnesses, to purchase tactical litters for local police K-9 teams and to host “Wish with a Warthog” events for children in need at Christmas.
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After hours of discussion and weeks of community opposition, the Troy City Council Thursday night approved a budget transfer to hire six new community police officers.
By transferring more than $182,000 in the city budget, the Troy City Council voted 5 to 2 to hire six new officers, to bring the city’s community policing unit up to eight officers in the department of 131 sworn personnel.
The move to bring on more cops, backed by Democratic Mayor Patrick Madden, was highly controversial. City residents offered more than two hours of discussion against the proposal, with only two speaking in favor Thursday night – a Republican city council candidate and the head of the Troy Fire Department’s union.
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Family of 9 safely escapes home during overnight fire
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A family of nine are all safe and accounted for after escaping a structure fire that started during the early morning hours of May 6 in the family’s attached garage at their home in the 2000 block of Lovington Drive.
According to a Troy Fire Department press release, smoke alarms in the home notified the family before the fire had spread to the house. The family used multiple exit points, including placing some of the children out of a bedroom window in the single-story home, to evacuate safely.