GOWRIE — Two Colo residents were seriously injured Sunday when their car collided with a Union Pacific Railroad train in Gowrie. Mary Harrison, 62, was airlifted to Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, according to the Iowa State Patrol. She was picked up by a LifeFlight ...
Fort Dodge firefighters and paramedics will continue to respond to help people get back up after a fall, but in some cases there will now be a fee for that service. The City Council on Monday approved a fee schedule — one for nursing facilities and one for private individuals — to be charged when the Fire Department responds to what is called a lift assist. Terry Evans, the emergency medical service supervisor for the Fire Department, said a lift assist happens when a person falls from the standing or seated position, is not injured, but cannot get up by themselves. He told the ...
GOWRIE — Two people were seriously injured when the car they were in collided with a freight train in Gowrie Sunday afternoon. The collision happened at about 3 p.m. at the grade crossing on Lincoln Street. One of the injured people was airlifted to a Des Moines hospital by a ...
One of the things that the current Prairie River Trail System doesn’t lack for are destinations in both Fort Dodge and greater Webster County. The list on the map is long. They include John F. Kennedy Memorial Park, Rosedale Rapids, Webster County’s Freedom Rock, and Iowa Central ...
Preliminary steps toward creating a small park along Central Avenue will be taken by the Fort Dodge City Council this evening. The council will also consider implementing a fee to be charged when the Fire Department is called to lift someone up who is otherwise uninjured. The council will meet at 6 p.m. today in the Municipal Building, 819 First Ave. S. On the north side of the 700 block of Central Avenue there is a grassy area where The Hayloft once stood. The Hayloft building was to be renovated as part of a larger downtown facade improvement project. But when architects examined ...
