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He dies on his Harley. A 69-year old Buffalo man met his eternal reward Sunday, 4/30, while roaring along Old Niagara Road on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Chalmers Cunningham died when he drove his cycle into a stopped vehicle in front of All Season Rental. (5/1/06)
Police investigating death in Lowertown. Police sources indicate a 51-year old woman was found dead in an apartment at 301 Market Street, Tuesday morning, 12/27. A police investigation was launched. A coroner was called to the scene. Both police and fire rescue personnel responded. (12/27/05)
Body Found In Lowertown Apartment
There was no immediate identification information released on the 51-year old victim removed from 301 Market Street.
Police save man from suicide on TriWay Bridge. Fast and alert police work saved an 18-year old man from jumping off the TriWay Bridge to his probable death Tuesday evening, 12/6. City police received a number of reports of a man calling "911" with a threat of suicide and then hanging up. First a call was made from a pay phone at Walmart on South Transit and then another call came in from another pay phone near 100 South Transit. Police spotted the young man with a yellow-hooded jacket just before he was about to make the leap. A single patrolman, first on the scene wrestled the man to the ground. When other units arrived he was taken into custody and held for transport to "The Coconut Hotel" in Niagara Falls. (12/7/05)
An early morning fire raged through the roof then went on to consume much of a house as responding firefighters sought to find a working fire hydrant for water. Crews on the scene had to just watch for a time as the home at 103 Irving Street went up in flames. Finally fire crews found a working hydrant and had to run over 600 feet of hose from another city street to get water to the blaze that was called in about 12:45AM on Friday, 11/25.
Reports received by The Lockport Home Page indicate that two fire hydrants within a few hundred feet on Irving Street would not produce useable water. One was reported bone dry when opened and another just gave out wimpy amounts of squirt. Fire crews were going all over a couple block area, in sub-freezing temperatures, before they found one hydrant that would work. That required over 600 feet of hose laid through back yards.
Talk on the street Saturday called the fire hydrant situation as outrageous and intolerable. The incident on Irving Street comes just months after a similar situation on Pine Street allowed a home there to go up in flames when firemen couldn't get water from a hydrant. There was a call for a city investigation as to how such non-maintenance of vital hydrants could be allowed. There was no immediate word as to when (if ever in the past year) the two failed hydrants had been tested (and by whom).
Dog House Saved; People House Destroyed. A View From The Rear
A damage estimate was first pegged at about $100,000. The house could be slated for demolition. City Council members will be asking about the city's testing and inspection of fire hydrants and why current procedures appear to be a failure. (11/26/05)
Update: Mayor Tucker has asked city Fire and Water Dept. leadership for a detailed report on the City fire hydrant maintenance situation with an aim to improve it. The city has about 1200 fire hydrants. (11/29/05)
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