Published Wednesday February 06 2013 9:50 am. Tags: Arlington Heights Police Department, coyote, coyote sighting
Coyote sighted at Memory Gardens Cemetery on East Euclid Avenue in Arlington Heights on Saturday, November 20, 2010. Compare to the appearance of a fox in the video below. General reports of animal sightings without threatening behavior do not require emergency calls to 911. Arlington Heights Animal Wardens can be contacted for coyote sightings and [...]
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Posted in Outdoors, Public Service
Published Wednesday February 06 2013 8:54 am. Tags: Arlington Heights Police Department, car vs light pole Arlington Heights, car vs. light pole
Arlington Heights police responded about 8:42 AM Wednesday to a car vs. light pole crash on eastbound Palatine Road just east of Route 53. Police received a report that a vehicle struck a light pole, with no information about whether there were injuries or not. Police reported no injures, but requested IDOT expedite to the [...]
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Published Wednesday February 06 2013 7:23 am. Tags: Arlington Heights Fire Department, Arlington Heights Police Department, crash, personal injury crash
Arlington Heights police responded about 11:33 PM Tuesday to two simultaneous crashes, but unrelated. One at Thomas Street and Ridge Avenue, and one on Ridge Avenue, just north of Dundee Road.. First police and firefighter/paramedics responded to a personal injury crash at Thomas Street and Ridge Avenue. Seconds later police received a report of car [...]
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Published Monday February 04 2013 8:24 am. Tags: crash, morning rush hour, multiple crashes, Winter Weather Advisory
Numerous crashes on the road during a Winter Weather Advisory in effect overnight and during morning rush. 8:17 AM Dundee Road near Hick Rd, Palatine; crash with no injuries 8:15 AM Northbound Busse south of Pratt, Elk Grove Village; semi-trailer truck vs. car. 8:10 AM Arlington Heights Road and Hawthorne Street, Arlington Heights; crash with [...]
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Posted in FIRE BLOG, Fire/Rescue/EMS Notebook, FIREBLOG B, FIREBLOG C, Public Service
Published Monday January 28 2013 5:05 pm. Tags: animal complaint, animal complaint Palatine, Palatine Police Department, snake complaint
Arlington Heights police responded about 4:57 PM Monday to an animal complaint at Mariano’s, 545 North Hicks Road Palatine, IL. Police received a report that a dead snake was discovered in the parking lot. Police received a report that the snake was in aisle M, the fifth aisle from the police headquarters side of the [...]
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Published Sunday January 20 2013 12:05 am. Tags: wind damage, wind damage Arlington Heights, wind damage Elk Grove Village, wind damage Palatine, wind damage Prospect Heights
Damaging winds hit the area about 10:30 p.m., causing some damage and power outages. The wind speed is expected to start to decrease just after midnight. Wind gusts have been hitting speeds in excess of 40 mph since about 9:45 p.m. Wind gusts are forecast to be back under 40 mph by 2:00 a.m., and [...]
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Published Sunday January 13 2013 10:34 pm. Tags: Arlington Heights Police Department, Inverness Police Department, noise complaint, Palatine Police Department, suspicious noise
Palatine police, Inverness police, and Arlington Heights police responded starting about 9:45 PM Sunday to an unusually high number of noise complaints. Police responded to a large number of callers reporting banging on the roof, banging on the back of the house, fireworks and shots fired. At least one police officer reported hearing the noise, [...]
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Published Saturday January 12 2013 11:23 am. Tags: animal complaint, coyote sighting
Elk Grove Village police responded about 11:18 AM Saturday to an animal complaint at Link School, 900 Glenn Trail West. Police received a report of a coyote sighting and met with a resident at the school. Police reported they were checking on a coyote at the location. Get updates from The Cardinal ALL NEWS FEEDS [...]
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Published Wednesday January 02 2013 3:45 pm. Tags: airway management, emergency childbirth, Illinois State Police, police rescue
Maci Martinez was born on the way to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove Friday morning, December 28, 2012. The 25-mile trip to the hospital was interrupted by her feet first “breech birth” with her umbilical cord wrapped twice around her neck. Fortunately, her father Illinois State Trooper Chad Martinez knew what to do. [...]
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Published Wednesday January 02 2013 6:53 am. Tags: Buffalo Grove Police Department, signoff
Police Radio Communications: Sgt. Scott Kristiansen signs off for the last time at the Buffalo Grove Police Department, and is congratulated and given good wishes by a Northwest Central Dispatch System telecommunicator/dispatcher. Buffalo Grove police and firefighters said goodbye to a dedicated police officer and traffic safety enforcer on New Year’s Eve, Monday afternoon. Sgt. [...]
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Posted in Peeps, Public Service
Published Sunday December 23 2012 9:15 am.
Don’t drive like Clark Griswold. Crashes are up as people fight for parking spaces, rush from store-to-store, text shopping strategies while driving, and drive with visions of sugar-plums dancing in their heads. Clark: Burn some dust here. Eat my rubber. Rusty Griswold: Dad, I think you mean burn rubber and eat my dust. Clark: Whatever, [...]
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Published Thursday December 20 2012 10:39 am. Tags: Indiana Department of Transportation, snow, winter driving
Yes, even fire department ambulances, rescue squads and fire engines can get stuck in the snow. The Indiana Department of Transportation knows snow. Every year Northwest Indiana gets hit by additional Lake Effect Snow from strong northwest winds after the main snow storms hit. Here is information adapted from the Indiana Department of Transportation and [...]
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