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It was a long weekend for the Normal Fire Department.
It started early Saturday morning, when a freight train derailed in Uptown. That afternoon, a fire destroyed a dozen units at Sugar Creek Apartments. Then came two more fires from trailers overturned by the derailment. All of that on top of routine calls for service.
No one was hurt during the weekend s catastrophes. But NFD Public Information Officer Matt Swaney said first responders sure are tired.
“We usually at least have some down time between our workdays and the firefighters can go home and recuperate,” Swaney said. “But in this case, we were calling back shifts quite frequently over the weekend. So, we wouldn t have been able to do it without our mutual aid agencies to help us.”