Trust fund board recommends $47.6M for land buys, recreation
LANSING (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder is endorsing a $47.6 million package of land purchases and improvements to trails, parks and other recreation facilities selectedby the Natural Resources Trust Fund board.
The money comes from a fund established 40 years ago from royalties paid to develop state-owned minerals.
Among the biggest grants for 2017 were $6 million to buy 60 acres and over 1 mile of waterfront on the Flint River for recreation improvements and $3.1 million for 1,020 acres near the Au Sable River in Crawford County.
In the Upper Peninsula, Gogebic County’s Bessemer Township got $294,800 for a trailhead and renovation of Memorial Park. The city of Hancock was awarded $294,000 for a waterfront pier on Portage Lake.
MDOT to drivers: Be on the lookout for flashing green lights
LANSING (AP) — Green means slow.
That’s the message from the state Department of Transportation, which is telling drivers to look out for road maintenance trucks with amber or green blinking lights.
The goal is to reduce crashes between cars and trucks in a heavy snowstorm like the one that hit Michigan on Sunday.
M-DOT and several county road commissions are using green lights instead of white ones. The cost typically is less than $100 per truck to change the lens on the back of a light.
The Kent County Road Commission has been using flashing green lights on trucks for two years. It says there have been no rear-end crashes.
Lawsuit filed on behalf of fallen female firefighter
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The family of the first female firefighter to die in the line of duty in Philadelphia is suing 30 fire equipment manufacturers in connection with her December 2014 death.
Attorneys representing the estate of Lt. Joyce Craig recently filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking damages in excess of $50,000 in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas.
The suit alleges that the 11-year fire department veteran would’ve survived the fire that caused her death if the equipment that she was using was working properly.
Attorney David Kwass says Craig “literally went into the heat of battle without the proper resources to come out alive.”
The National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health inspected Craig’s equipment following her death. The result of that inquiry remains unclear.
Boat oar goes through car windshield
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A 33-year-old woman’s quick instincts likely saved her life when a boat oar crashed through the driver’s side windshield of her sports utility vehicle as she drove on Florida’s Alligator Alley.
Christina Kay Theisen tells the SunSentinel she’s glad she wasn’t on her phone or changing the radio station last Friday as she drove home following a business trip.
The Florida Highway Patrol says the oar either dropped from a recreational vehicle as Theisen passed by, or it kicked up from the asphalt. It struck the front end of her Chevy Suburban before going through the windshield.
Theisen says she quickly ducked to the right and was able to keep control of the vehicle.
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