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The City of Palo Alto, California has settled a motorcycle accident suit that alleged firefighters wrongfully stopped their apparatus in the middle of the road in a non-emergency situation. Alexis Ferreira was injured on June 29, 2015 when she rounded a curve on her motorcycle, saw the fire truck, and crashed trying to avoid a collision

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I have a follow-up to the post last week about the Palo Alto Fire Department’s use of a county-wide alerting system to inform residents about a pancake fundraiser. You may recall the alert prompted some in the community to question ...

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Call it a symptom of the digital age, but Palo Alto Fire Chief Eric Nickel is having to answer some uncomfortable questions about the appropriateness of using a county-wide emergency alerting system to advertise a pancake fundraiser. The community alerting ...

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