Fire Department

The Nicholasville Fire Department, with the assistance from the Jessamine County Fire District, battled a fire at Planters Row Golf Course, located near Toyota on Nicholasville, around 2 a.m. Monday. When fire units arrived, firefighters found a maintenance building engulfed in flames. JCFD supplied a tank shuttle while NFD firefighers extinguished the fire. There were no injuries reported, and fire units cleared the scene shortly after 5 a.m.

HARRODSBURG - A retired Mercer County hospital administrator, the sheriff's department, and Mercer Central Fire Station joined forces Tuesday to share emergency preparedness information and the potential benefits of neighborhood watch programs with the community. The presentation was part of Neighborhood Watch Month in Mercer. Part of Tuesday's program was designed to educate community members about what to do if they are ever in a situation such as the movie theater shooting that recently occurred in Aurora, Colo.

CLARK¿COUNTY¿FIRE - At 10 a.m. Wednesday, firefighters were called to 5555 Rockwell Road for a smell of gas in the building. A battery had exploded.

Lore Brewing Co. in Danville has donated $10,000 to Boyle County Fire Department for improvements to the department's training facility in Danville. “The improvements should greatly bene¿t the residents of Danville and the rest of Boyle County by providing state-of-the-art upgrades to their training program.” says Lee Rossman, owner of Lore. The impact is even bigger than the local area - the upgrades will give Boyle County the most up-to-date training facility for fire¿ghters across the state who will come to train here.

Danville Fire Department is applying for a $130,000 grant from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security.  The money would allow for a mobile decontamination trailer for the city. Currently, the city has a decontaminating tent center that needs time to set up before people can be treated. So far, there have been four events where people in the Danville area had to be decontaminated, including the recent bed bug incident outside the jail and meth lab contaminations.  But Danville Fire Chief Woody Ball said the current decontamination system is not enough.  “We've got to be faster,”¿said  Ball.  One of the challenges, Ball said, was decontaminating enough people so that facilities won't be locked down.  “The challenge is that our hospital is a 222-bed facility,”¿he said.

STANFORD - The Stanford Fire Department is in need a few more people who can stand the heat. Acting Chief Robin Jones said the city currently has a roster of about 15 firefighters, which is about a dozen less than where he'd like it to be. Jones said the low numbers haven't yet affected the department's ability to respond to any fires, but he's concerned about the number of people he sees leaving the area in the bad economy. "We've had a lot of firefighters move away to new jobs," he said.