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where there is now a e1new hospital and a new hotel. a lot of new housing is also under construction. but more e1people and more traffic means a lot f?more call foj@lervice to the police and fire departments. in the past 10 years we ve seen a substantial amount of commercial light industrial and residential growth. reporter: over the last decade avon r population to 22,000 people. amazingly avon s fire chief told volunteer firefighters, but irefighters to nine rs, but per xdshift. calls for service are expected to break a record for the avon fire department, hitting 2500 t( of them are medical lpcalls. during the daytime, with the t( workforce and shoppers, jfavon population doubles. we estimate daytime population being up towards 40,000. the police department is now( taking 5,000 more calls per years ago, which means xdthey r now hiring more qpolice officers. avon s&js&ice chief told me r starting october 17th, applications f?will be availabl on t(the police d ....
that s when it overwhelms servers affecting the central direct re. the department of homeland security says it is investigating all potential causes. and, oh, what a difference a few hours makes. we know the weather is always changing around here for sure. quite the soggy friday to say the least for a while there. romona: yes, but, jeff, what about people s evening plans. how is that looking? jeff: we have friday night football tonight and of course the friday night plans. more rain. but, do you know, there s been a bit of a right now in the greater cleveland area, it s basically west of cleveland getting more rain than the east side. akron area still seeing some rain and here in lorraine county down to western medina county. now, this has mainly turned into a lake-effect rain situation with that brisk, raw north wind coming in off of the lake and most of the rain now is from lorraine county and east. showers. but we re going to keep it in the forecast not only to ....
take a look. this house is a perfect example of what we re looking at in cleveland heights. the backyard is completely annihilated. all of these old trees that are typical of cleveland heights are down. the couple that lives here, the woman karen is on oxygen. they have been without power since tuesday running on a generator. ironically, the generator they re using needs to be returned to their cousin who lives in lakewood who s without power. this is the story. this is we know that they are making progress here. there are teams of first energy workers outside as we speak. as the mouser go by, we re decreasing the number. we ll continue to keep an eye on it out here. i m live in cleveland heights. channel 3 news. rough for a lot of folks. thank you. from rio with great news about athletes from northeast ohio. today not so much. sarah joins us from brazil with the latest. hello. reporter: you said it. we are beginning week two here in rio if you can believe it. that ....
dog runs away somebody brings them back but a baby, it is a situation we cannot understand. she tells us her granddaughter, six months pregnant gave birth and the baby girl was still born. she says when the funeral home contacted the hospital for the infant s remains they found out the remains had been accidentally lost. as of monday, i believe they told her maybe it was through the laundry. mercy released a statement about the matter saying the hospital extends its sincerest condolences for the family and goes on to say with profound empathy for the family s feelings we are continuing to investigate all aspects of this matter. is an apology from the hospital enough? don t know about her. i can t say about her. an apology about a baby? that you disposed of apparently, no. reporter: the hospital also said in that statement they have implemented processes to make sure something like this does not happen again and haven t said what their initial processes are or ....
the timing through 5:00 a.m. and it is still drian and hopkins 81 and getting bits of sun this particular forecast calling for 86. showers and storms still with us. and we don t drop that much in temperature tonight and remaining humid out there. we are tracking the storms, a little cooler tomorrow and still muggy a potential 90-plus day on saturday and then a major front comes through saturday night. that will really change our temperature pattern overall by the time we get to sunday and the risk of more storms into the weekend and details later in the half hour. chris? thanks. chris: you can track the latest weather conditions with the free first alert weather app featuring street level radar and you can customize it to where you live. denise: well, you know the to close today because they just don t have air-conditioning. cleveland school officials checked inside temperatures at 4:30 this morning and it was already in the high 80s. we told one student just arri ....