The world is awash in seawater that we can’t drink or use for crops. To help people in drought-stricken areas from California to India, new technologies are harnessing the sun to make saltwater drinkable.
MIT researchers recently won an award for their system that can remove salt from 2,100 gallons of water a day. To provide the necessary energy, the team used solar power and so was able to keep operating costs low.
Their system works through a process called electrolysis. Salt in water is made up of positive and negative ions. In the MIT system, the salt water passes between two electrodes with opposite electrical charges and the salt ions are pulled to the sides of the stream, leaving a current of fresh, drinkable water flowing down the middle.
The researchers won the $140,000 Desal Prize for desalination innovations from the U.S. Agency for International Development. The prize money will help the team continue its work, testing the process in 16 villages across India.
A California desalination project Good News Network told you about last year also uses solar power to create fresh water. The WaterFX project doesn’t turn sunlight into electricity, but concentrates the heat of the sun, using solar arrays, to cook the salt right out of the water.
WaterFX officials have promised to cut the cost of desalination in half and the MIT system is nearly twice as efficient as older desalination systems — cleaning 90% of the water it treats. Chemists, engineers and humanitarian groups hail both systems as potential game changers in the effort to bring drinkable water to people around the world.
WaterFX did not return our phone calls when we tried to get an update on their progress.
A small study that looked at diets rich in cheese found some yummy results.
The report published by Danish scientists offers another possible theory to explain why the French don’t seem to suffer from cardiovascular disease, even while eating high saturated fat and high cholesterol diets.
Red wine is one possible reason. Cheese might be another. The average French person eats 57 pounds of cheese each year, significantly more than people in other countries.
The study, published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, and funded by Dairy interests in Denmark, found that those who ate cheese had higher levels of butyric acid, a compound which has been been linked to reduced obesity and higher metabolism. The higher butyrate levels were also linked to a reduction of inflammation and cholesterol.
(READ more in the Telegraph) – Photo by Skånska Matupplevelser, CC
Red Mailbox with Cash Hundred Dollar Bills Sticking Out Isolated on White Background.
Aetna became the latest large corporation to announce a voluntary minimum wage hike. The health insurer joins Wal-mart, Target and McDonald’s in enacting large raises for its lowest earning workers.
Around 5,700 Aetna employees in the U.S. earned the new wages in checks issued on April 24 which paid $16 per hour.
On average, the company’s CEO Mark Bertolini said, it means an 11% raise for employees, but some, who were earning $12/hour, got a 33% increase.
Most of the employees benefiting are the public face of the company to customers every day, centered in customer service departments, claims administration, and and billing.
Higher hourly wages also lead to the possibility of higher bonus and 401(k) contributions.
The new documentary, I Am Big Bird, profiles Caroll Spinney, the man who has been Sesame Street’s Big Bird for over 40 years.
He’s dined with heads of state, won Emmys and been named a living legend by the Library of Congress. But the 81-year-old puppeteer can’t bare to say goodbye to the character he cherishes, so will continue donning the yellow feathered suit, keeping his white-haired, bearded presence happily hidden underneath.
While Caroll’s peers have long since slipped into cozy retirements or passed away, he has held on with no intention of retiring. He has handpicked a successor who has waited, quite literally, in the wings, as the understudy for almost 20 years. Caroll also is the hand and voice of Oscar the Grouch, but Big Bird is the true expression of his soul, a character that he cherishes like a child.
Pure love runs through Caroll’s life: he found it first in his mother, a woman who not only handcrafted his first puppets, but protected Caroll from an abusive father. When Caroll’s first marriage to a woman “embarrassed” by his career ended in divorce, Caroll would find Debra, the love of his life. And then there was Jim Henson, who grew from boss to friend and whose death shattered Sesame Street colleagues.
The unconditional love that envelops Caroll’s life is captured in the hours of home video that went into the documentary, I AM BIG BIRD.
The film opens May 5th in selected theaters and on iTunes and On Demand. Check the locations and learn more at IamBigBird.com
If he had gotten credit when he made the discovery, seven-year-old Diego Suárez would, instantly, have been the most popular kid in his school. As it was, scientists needed 11 years to figure out just what an amazing discovery the little boy made back in 2004. They announced this week he had uncovered an entirely new species of dinosaur.
Little Diego discovered Chilesaurus diegosuarezi while his geologist parents were studying rocks in Chile. He and his sister were collecting decorative stones when he stumbled onto the fossils. He found so many fossils, in fact, scientists now believe the new species was probably the most common dinosaur in the region 145 million years ago.
Palaeontologists first thought Diego had found fossils of several different Jurassic species. Only after finding a full skeleton, did they realize they were working with what some of them called an “evolutionary jigsaw puzzle.” With its mash-up of features from several different dinosaur groups, Chilesaurus has a long neck, like the herbivorea, but a small head and two-fingered hands. Although closely related to the notorious carnivore Tyrannosaurus rex, this one preferred to graze upon plants. Their findings were published this week in the journal, Nature.
“It’s amazing to have found this new species,” Diego, now an 18-year-old university student, told USA Today. “I feel this incredible joy from being able to be part of something big.”
Diego may be happy with the honor more than a decade later, but how cool would it have been to be seven years old — and have your own dinosaur named after you?
(READ more from the University of Birmingham) – Photo from Manuel Suarez – Illustration by Gabriel Lio
Israel has vowed to fully rebuild a village in Nepal that was destroyed by last Saturday’s earthquake.
“We decided to adopt a village in Nepal, to assist with its reconstruction and to do our utmost to help,” Foreign Minister Liberman announced Thursday.
The work on the yet undetermined village will include clearing away the debris, building infrastructure and houses, and making sure residents have drinking water.
Israel is currently operating a field hospital in Kathmandu, and will likely begin the new project after that closes, and after they get assistance from Nepal as to which village to help, he said.
With the winter ice melted on the Great Lakes, the blue waters of northern Lake Michigan are clear enough to give airplane pilots a great view of some legendary shipwrecks lying on the lake bottom.
During a routine April flyover, an aircrew from The U.S. Coast Guard Air Station in Traverse City captured some unique photos of a handful of the many shipwrecks along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
This photo (click to enlarge) shows the wreckage of the Rising Sun, a 133 foot long wooden steamer that became stranded just north of Pyramid Point in 1917, near Leland, Michigan.
Her wreckage now rests in 6 to 12 feet of water.
See the rest of the photos posted by the Coast Guard on Facebook, and also, check out this list of the 13 most famous shipwrecks of Lake Michigan at Lakepedia.com
A Virgina couple hunting for gems in the great outdoors stumbled upon something much more precious.
Beau Ouimette had his camera handy last year when he and wife discovered a severely injured baby fox. Apparently orphaned, the one-month-old kit was “severely dehydrated, weak and had a bloody wound to it’s neck.” Fortunately, Ouimette’s wife is a veterinarian and both have been vaccinated against rabies. The couple scooped up the baby and brought it home to begin nursing her back to health.
A few days later the little one was strong enough to be taken to the Blue Ridge Wildlife Center in Millwood, Virginia where 2,000 native animals are rehabilitated each year.
After six months outside, the kit became healthy and was eventually released back into the wild.
WATCH Ouimette’s videos that show them bonding with the injured baby and saying goodbye, once.
Electric car maker Tesla Motors has rolled out a new battery for homes and businesses that they say could end electric bills while creating a cleaner world. In announcing the Powerwall Home Battery, billionaire CEO Elon Musk called it “a fundamental transformation about how the world works — about how energy is delivered across the earth.”
It is an opportune moment for such an introduction, a time when solar panels and battery costs are falling fast. The Powerwall is based on the same technology used in Tesla’s cars — which have the longest range of any electric autos on the road. But these are big enough to power whole houses, and can be scaled-up or used with other batteries to supply electricity to businesses. Tesla says the battery will let owners cut the cord with traditional electric companies, by allowing them to produce and store their own electricity. Coupled with solar panels, the batteries can power homes, stores and factories around the clock.
“The problem with solar power is the sun doesn’t shine at night,” Musk mused during his press conference (in video below). His new battery changes that. He says it overcomes a lot of problems with older battery systems, by cutting costs, increasing reliability and lasting longer. That means people can use their solar panels during the day to provide electricity and be assured there’s enough juice in the Powerwall to get them through the night and any cloudy days.
The standard, 10 kilowatt-hour Powerwall home system will cost around $3,500 with the first deliveries coming this summer. Even without solar panels, the batteries can charge overnight, when electricity from power companies is cheaper, then power the house during peak billing hours. Tesla executives say that alone could cut electric bills by 25% for most people.
Musk also believes his new battery will address social and humanitarian issues. He says it can supply power to remote places where the stringing of power lines is costly or impossible — on high mountain peaks, in distant jungle villages or in empty deserts. And he sees it as a way to cut the amount of greenhouse gases pumped into our air by making solar power more reliable.
A pilot program has tested 300 of the systems in the San Francisco region. Larger one-megawatt versions of the system have also been installed to power 11 California Wal-Mart stores and a 200,000 square foot Cargill packing plant.
(WATCH a Bloomberg video below – or the 18-min announcement at the bottom)
When disaster struck, twenty of Nepal’s most impoverished–and most fortunate–young ladies immediately stepped in to help their neighbors.
The young women of the Unatti Foundation‘s group home have been cooking for thousands of their neighbors impacted by last Saturday’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake. They have also been helping to distribute first aid kits, and one young lady is even tending to injured civilians directly.
“Our area was hit pretty heavily, and everyone has been weathering the night outside in open rice and vegetable fields, as they’re fearful of going into their homes,” Stephanie Waisler-Rubin, the Unatti foundation’s founder and president, told People.com.
Girls as young as four have been preparing rice and lentils, and others, like 19-year-old Sangita, have directly administered emergency health services to those who have been hurt. Sangita has lived at the group home for 13 years and is two months shy of completing her nursing college education.
The Unatti Foundation has been providing food, shelter, and education for girls in the underserved region of Bhaktapur for the past 13 years.
(WATCH their FB video below – not available on YouTube or website)
This teacher left her students with more than just a love of learning.
Before her recent passing, Violet Laack of Chilton, Wisconsin, allocated all of the funds from her estate–worth about $1 Million–to the students of Calumet County, where she had taught for fifty years.
Laack may not have had any children of her own, but she made a world of difference in the lives of those she taught.
“She had energy, enthusiasm. She had a sparkle in her eye all the time,” Nanci Micke, a former student of Laack’s, told WBAY. She now works in the communications field and credits her English teacher for her success. “She gave me that sense of empowerment and confidence to move forward.”
While she was surprised that Laack was able to accrue so much money, Micke’s not the least bit surprised that she would donate it all in the name of education.
Before eco-designing with recycled materials became a “thing”, there was Phyllis Hill. She and her husband James recently celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary unveiling once again her treasured keepsake gown.
In 1948, one year before their wedding, James offered his WWII silk parachute to his best gal, Phyllis, saying she could do whatever she wanted with it. The next time he saw it, his bride was wearing it while walking down the aisle.
The Gibson, Indiana couple has been approached by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC about donating the gown for their collection, but the Hills decided they’d like to pass it down within the family. Fortunately, the museum has another U.S. parachute wedding dress from that era in their collection, a nylon model that saved Maj. Claude Hensinger’s life in 1947. That gown was worn by his bride, daughter and son’s wife before being gifted to the Smithsonian’s archive.
Evidence that Pit Bulls are actually incredibly sweet just keeps piling up.
When Amanda Granados adopted Roxy the Pit Bull from a Los Angeles animal shelter, her 14-year-old son Joey was so excited that he gave his mother a hug and a kiss for the first time ever.
Joey, who has Asperger syndrome, had never before let his mother hug or kiss him.
“I get emotional thinking about it,” Granados told TODAY. “For all those years, he wouldn’t hold my hand, he wouldn’t hug me — it was all part of the autism — but this dog has taught him how to give and show affection. He holds my hand now! He hugs me! The first time I got a kiss on the cheek was when Roxy came home.”
Joey had been asking his mother for a dog for some time, and once she caught wind of a Best Friends adoption event taking place nearby and saw Roxy’s photo (above), she knew it was fate.
Like teenagers living with Autism, Pit Bulls are also commonly “misunderstood,” a connection that she believes helped bring the two pals together.
Joey now finds it easier to make friends, after previously spending most of his free time alone.
“Roxy has a very goofy and loving personality. She lights up the room with she enters,” Granados told Good news Network. “Joey has been training her, he taught her to give high fives, shake, sit and he even taught her to give hugs. He takes care of her, walks her, and feeds her.”
Photo credits: Best Friends Animal Society and Amanda Granados
The bright lights of New York attract millions of people to the big city, but they’ll be attracting fewer birds–which is a good thing for endangered songbirds that travel up America’s East Coast every year.
New York’s state government buildings are officially joining the National Audubon Society’s Lights Out initiative to help migrating birds bypass the city and its dangers. The state order follows decisions made at some of the most famous landmarks in The Big Apple — including Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building — to dim their lights. Other cities, including Baltimore, Washington, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Chicago, are also doing their part to dim the lights for birds passing through town– helping annual migratory flocks in the Midwest, too.
Migrating birds often suffer from “fatal light attraction,” a condition that draws them to bright lights and leads them off their flight paths, often causing casualties when they fly into tall buildings in Spring and Fall.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered that non-essential lights be turned off between 11:00 pm and dawn during peak migration times until May 31, then again from August 15 to November 15.
New York leaders have also launched an I Love NY Birding website, highlighting the 450 different species of birds which live inside New York’s state borders.
While the bright lights are a threat to some species, others — like this peregrine falcon seen soaring near the Chrysler Building — thrive in them, nesting atop skyscrapers and soaring on the updrafts created by the city’s man-made canyons.
SHARE (below) with other bird lovers… / Photo credits: (top) dolbinator, CC; (falcon) Terry Turner
This woman is celebrating five years of being diagnosed with a rare disorder.
Why?
Because for thirty years, she thought she’d been living with something else, something a lot more serious.
When she was four-years-old, Jean Sharon Abbott, now 38, was told she had a form of cerebral palsy which caused painful muscle spasms and tremors. What she actually has, as she found out in 2010, is a rare disorder called Dopa-Responsive Dystonia, which can be treated with just a single pill.
Within two days she was able to walk. Now she enjoy simple pleasures like cooking dinner, walking with her children to the bus stop, and driving them to their after-school activities.
Jean is the poster child for gratitude, saying, despite the pain and incapacitation, she still had a “fantastic childhood” – thanks in large part to the support of her family and real friends – and says she has no regrets. “My life experiences made me who I am today – and I like me,” she told the Daily Mail.
According to the National Institutes of Heath DRD is frequently misdiagnosed, since it also causes involuntary muscle movements.
Abbott is now an advocate for raising DRD awareness through social media, YouTube and blog posts. Her followers say she’s helped them recognize the symptoms in themselves and others.
As he prepares to end his 16-year run as host of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart has spent some money and time on greener pastures of the farm variety. He and his wife Tracey bought a farm in New Jersey that will soon provide a new home for rescued farm animals.
On the Daily Show, Jon has shown some disdain for the worst practices of the livestock industry. He devoted an 8-minute comedy segment to the absurdity of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s refusal to sign a bill that would end the lifelong confinement of pigs in crates so small they can’t even turn around. And in an April episode, he interviewed the president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, a national group dedicated to changing the way society views and treats farm animals. They discussed his new book, Living the Farm Sanctuary Life: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Mindfully.
In November, Tracey Stewart purchased Farm Sanctuary sponsorships for all of the family’s Thanksgiving guests. She also brought their children to meet the animals at one of the three shelters run by the group.
The animal loving Stewart household includes four dogs, two horses, two pigs, three rabbits, two guinea pigs, two hamsters, one parrot and two fish. Even with all those pets, “promises of animal shelter visits in exchange for completed homework” are motivational gold for the parents.
For all of these reasons and more, Farm Sanctuary named a pair of rescued sheep in their honor. Jon and Tracey gave birth to a lamb, too, which was named Hazleton in honor of the couple’s son.
Learn more about Farm Sanctuary, which operates three shelters in New York and California providing lifelong care for nearly 1,000 rescued farm animals, and their efforts to change laws to promote compassionate, visit farmsanctuary.org.
(WATCH Jon Stewart’s interview with Gene Baur below)
Instead of dumping more CO2 into the environment through its tailpipes, this German car company is recycling carbon dioxide to make green fuel.
Audi has successfully created a high-quality diesel fuel by combining water and C02 and started producing it earlier this week at their research facility in Dresden.
“If we can make widespread use of CO2 as a raw material, we will make a crucial contribution to climate protection and the efficient use of resources, and put the fundamentals of the “green economy” in place,” said Federal Minister of Education and Research Professor Dr. Johanna, who put the first five liters into her own Audi A8 3.0 yesterday.
The Dresden energy technology corporation sunfire, Audi’s project partner, operates according to the power‑to‑liquid principle, using green power to produce a liquid fuel.
The science of it all breaks down like this: water is heated up to form steam, then broken down into hydrogen and oxygen by means of high-temperature electrolysis. Then, the hydrogen reacts with the CO2 in synthesis reactors, creating a reaction product made from long‑chain hydrocarbon compounds known as “blue crude.”
The CO2 used is currently supplied by a biogas facility. In addition, initially a portion of the CO2 needed is extracted from the ambient air by means of direct air capturing, a technology of Audi’s Zurich‑based partner Climeworks. The synthetic e-fuel is free from sulfur and aromatic hydrocarbons, and tests show it is suitable for mixing with fossil diesel or, prospectively, for use as a fuel in its own right.
“In developing Audi e-diesel we are promoting another fuel based on CO2 that will allow long‑distance mobility with virtually no impact on the climate,” said Reiner Mangold, Head of Sustainable Product Development at Audi. “Using CO2 as a raw material represents an opportunity not just for the automotive industry in Germany, but also to transfer the principle to other sectors and countries.”
(READ more from Audi) – Story submitted by Jéan van wyngaardt
The staff at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital used to be known for wearing baseball jerseys touting the building’s legendary namesake, but their new uniform has a giggle factor that brings out the best in young patients.
Not only the nurses, but even the parking valet, in this Hollywood, Florida medical center proudly don tutus once a week to make little patients forget their woes.
The fun started last summer when operating assistant Tony Smith wore a multicolor tutu over his scrubs to entertain a young patient heading to surgery. Before he knew it, a photo of him clad in a zany skirt became a social media hit and “Tutu Tuesdays” was born.
More than 150 employees–from doctors to administrators– waltz weekly down the hallways in colorful tulle. Even Nutmeg the therapy pooch has a custom pink tutu.
“I never knew I would have that much impact. I didn’t expect it to go viral,” Smith told WTVJ.
Where are all of these tutus coming from? They are supplied by the resident clown, of course.
(WATCH Associated Press video below, or READ more from WTVJ)
What could a man do if the entire banking industry suddenly made it impossible for him to continue doing business because they stopped giving loans to his customers? David Fishwick, a short, balding powder-keg of a man, decided he would simply create his own bank — the “Bank of Dave.” It was an instant success, with hundreds of people in Burnley, England lining up down the block to give him $1.8 million worth of business the first day. But it took a lot of scrappy fighting to get there.
Railing against the big banks, Fishwick’s public rants – sometimes profane, always amusing – led to his own Channel 4 TV series called, “Bank of Dave.” The series followed his frustrating efforts to open a community bank in his hometown, 200 miles north of London. The show made fun of the rules and regulators in the UK– and made Dave into a national hero.
Though Fishwick cusses like a sailor, he exudes movie star charisma and can instantly sum up populist anger over banks and their tight-fisted policies.
“[Bankers] gambled away billions of pounds of our money and we bailed them out with billions more,” Fishwick told the Daily Mail. “And they still pay themselves obscene bonuses and refuse to lend money to businesses fighting for their lives. It’s disgusting.”
By selling minibuses, Dave became a self-made millionaire before his 30th birthday. Happy to run his small business, Fishwick never set out to become a banker or a celebrity. But that all changed when the recession hit in 2008.
His customers couldn’t get loans to buy his buses because big banks were sitting on their money, afraid to take the risk of offering loans. It made no sense to Fishwick, who knew his customers and knew they would make good on their debt. The banks were essentially damaging his business, so he thought, ‘Why don’t I just lend the money myself.’
When he tried to get a banking license, regulators told Fishwick he didn’t have the right education, or even the right parentage, to qualify, and said he would go to prison if he used the words “bank” or “deposit” in his business plan. A ‘Dave and Goliath’ showdown was in the making.
By challenging the policies and layers of red tape, Fishwick’s crusade finally led to changes in banking regulations. He was allowed to set up Burnley Savings and Loans in 2011 and he cheekily avoided prison for his use of the word ‘bank’ by using it as an advertising slogan, “You can Bank on Dave.”
One-upping the English financial institutions in almost every way, his S&L pays 5% return on savings accounts. He offers lower interest rates on loans–– from 8.9% to 14.9%, instead of the typical 17.4% to 29%. Most definitely, he doesn’t pay himself bonuses. In fact, all profits from his Savings and Loan go to charity.
Politicians are finally coming around to Dave’s way of thinking. In Parliament, MP Steve Baker told RT News, “In his comical, kind of crazy way he is showing the way to a better banking system, which is responsible, local and in touch with entrepreneurship — which could actually be the basis for going forwards.”
Thanks to Fishwick, it is now easier for such community institutions to crop up in other towns and cities around the UK. Nearly seven years after he launched his bid to open a bank, he’s been told he’ll actually receive his license sometime later this year. Then, maybe he’ll change the name to simply, “Bank of Dave.”
Yet, he is not done crusading on behalf of the little guy. He’s now going after predatory lenders and pay-day loans in a new TV series, “Loan Ranger” and he’s working on yet another series with Channel 4 that will focus on property law in the UK.
Back in the 1970s, comedian Steve Martin joked that if you’re going to start a bank, “You’ve got to give it the right name. It’s gotta be something big and strong like ‘Security First Trust and Federal Reserve’ … because nobody’s gonna put their money in ‘Fred’s Bank.’”
But in the UK, people fed up with High Street bankers now have good reasons to be confident in a bank simply called, Dave’s.
(WATCH an RT news report, and Dave’s own clip below) / Story tip from Men In Blazers
A clever Louisiana firefighter used his mobile ringtone to assist in a unique rescue last Saturday evening.
After a neighbor reported seeing ducklings fall down a storm drain in Slidell, firefighter Cody Knech used the duck-call on his iPhone to impersonate the Mallards’ mother and draw them out.
An exercise in patience, it took an hour and a half for the guys from St. Tammany Fire District 1 to rescue four of the six siblings. The last two were lifted out a bit later. The brood was reunited with their mother in the canal behind the home where the rescue took place.
According to KPLC, this is the second duck rescue in less than a week. Louisiana public official Randy Cheaney rescued 14 ducklings from a storm drain in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
(WATCH the rescue via Facebook below or READ more from NBC News) – Story tip from Denny Hall
Fire Chief – Chris KaufmannFor Immediate Release April 26, 2015Baby Ducks Rescued from Storm DrainSlidell, LA. – On Saturday, April 25, 2015 at approximately 5:24 pm, St. Tammany Fire District #1 responded to a call for baby ducks trapped in a storm drain. The incident occurred on Oak Tree Dr. in the Fairways subdivision in Slidell. A neighbor reported seeing a number of baby ducks fall into a storm drain. Upon arriving on the scene, firefighters verified that several baby Mallard ducks were trapped in the storm drain. Firefighters removed the top cover of the drain to gain access to the ducks. Firefighter Cody Knecht got down in the drain to try and capture the ducks. Captain Chuck Davis, Fire Operator Jason Theriot, and Fire Prevention Officer Billy Dekemel assisted from above. With the help of a duck call ringtone on his iPhone, Firefighter Knecht was able to lure the baby ducks to him. It took about an hour and a half to rescue four of the six baby ducks. Unable to capture the other two baby ducks, the crew went back to the fire station to give the ducks a chance to calm dawn. They returned about an hour later and rescued the two remaining baby ducks. All of the baby ducks were reunited with their mother in the canal behind the home where the incident took place.St. Tammany Fire District #1 responds to numerous public service calls such as these each year. This is the second duck rescue call in less than a week. Firefighters are always eager to help and enjoy giving back to the community. Fire Chief Chris Kaufmann has stressed to our citizens, “If you don’t know who to call for help, call us”.For more information about St. Tammany Fire Protection District #1 visit us at www.slidellfire.org or follow us on Facebook - St. Tammany Fire District #1 and Twitter - @SlidellFire_PIOChad DuffautChief of Fire Prevention/PIOcduffaut@slidellfire.org
