MORGANTOWN – Chance the Fire Dog is going to get no shortage of attention this week. The two-year-old Labrador retriever trained in accelerant detection will be among a contingent from the Morgantown Fire Department visiting Eastwood, Mountain View and Suncrest elementary schools this ...
MORGANTOWN – Where there’s smoke, there’s fire? Not always, Eddie Campbell Jr. said Monday. At least not at University High School on Monday morning – though there was plenty of smoke in a classroom for a time. When said smoke started roiling at 6:40 a.m., it didn’t take ...
MORGANTOWN – It takes a special breed to go to work at 16 months old. And if you want a job sniffing out arson with the Morgantown Fire Department, that breed is Labrador retriever. Representatives of the MFD made the rounds this week introducing the community to Chance, an accelerant ...
MORGANTOWN — In his brief tenure as chief of the Morgantown Fire Department, Gary Freshour said he’s already started hearing some rumblings of “the new boss is gonna set the department back 20 years.” The truth is, Freshour admitted, the rumblings are spot-on. He would like to turn ...
MORGANTOWN -- To accommodate the design of WVU Hospitals’ forthcoming $233.5 million eye institute project, Morgantown City Council will consider a land swap that will relocate the road accessing the city’s North Side Fire Station (Station 3). The issue will be up for first reading at ...
MORGANTOWN -- While nearly every city in West Virginia has already taken the police and fire pension funding lifelines first offered by the West Virginia Legislature in 2010 (Optional I) and then again in 2023 (Optional II), Morgantown has not. Today, the city finds itself with more than ...