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 ====== 2024 Year in Review ======
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+===== Fire Prevention Month=====
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+**[[http://www.shaes.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=public:oct_2024|SEE FIRE PREVENTION MONTH GALLERY]]**
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+===== Traditional Push-in Hails Arrival of New Tanker =====
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+South Haven Area Emergency Services (SHAES) celebrated the arrival of a freshly manufactured tanker truck with a century-old tradition during the department's annual Fire Safety Fun Night on Oct. 10.
+The evening's activities began with a traditional push-in ceremony where new equipment is gently pushed into a fire station bay without the benefit of the engine. It's a tradition that dates back to the 17th century when hand-drawn fire engines, ladder wagons, hose carts, and other apparatus had to be pushed back into the station by hand after every call. The horse-drawn steam engines that followed in the 18th century could be backed-up. However, having to control the horses made it difficult to align the engine. For this reason, the horses were typically disconnected and the engine was again pushed back into the station by hand. When the first motorized fire engine was put into service in the early 19th century, firefighters continued to honor the push-in tradition, which grew to mark each new purchase of fire apparatus.
+The new SHAES tanker, unit 2236, replaces a 26-year-old tanker. It was built by South Haven-based Spencer Manufacturing  which also constructed the 1998 model it is replacing. The single-axle tanker truck will be able to access areas that the department’s larger tandem-axle tankers may not. It has a 2,000 gallon tank and 1,500 GPM pump. In the coming weeks SHAES personnel will be training on the new tanker and equipping it before it goes into service.
+Unique to SHAES equipment is a depiction on each vehicle of the 1940s Looney Tunes cartoon character, Yosemite Sam. It is a tradition that started with the founding of the department more than a quarter of a century ago. It started when the former South Haven and Casco fire departments were joined to created the SHAES Authority. Randy Van Wynen, the SHAES chief at the time, and colleagues Keith Bierhalter and Tony Marsala selected Yosemite Sam. The department secured permission from Warner Brothers to display him for non-commercial purposes. Paul Russell from Spencer Manufacturing has been instrumental in creating the caricatures. Each Yosemite Sam depicts the purpose of the truck. Tankers show him with buckets of water. On the engines he is wielding a hose and axe. Shovel and axe are in his hands on grass rigs. Sam holds the Jaws-of-Life extrication tool and a haligan tool on the Rescue truck. The department is also continuing the tradition of placing a large mural featuring an eagle and the American flag on a side of the truck.
+===== Familiar Character Featured on New Tanker  =====
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+**[[http://www.shaes.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=public:new_2236|SEE TANKER CONSTRUCTION GALLERY]]**
+He's back!! A depiction of the 1940s Looney Tunes cartoon character Yosemite Sam has been mounted on the new SHAES tanker being assembled at Spencers Manufacturing in South Haven.
+Steeped in tradition, SHAES is continuing one that started with the founding of the department more than a quarter of a century ago.
+An attention-getting depiction of the cartoon character will appear on the department's new tanker which is scheduled for delivery in the coming days.
+This tradition started at the time of the creation of the SHAES Authority from what had been the South Haven and Casco fire departments. Randy Van Wynen, the SHAES chief at the time, and colleagues Keith Bierhalter and Tony Marsala selected Yosemite Sam. The department secured permission from Warner Brothers to display him for non-commercial purposes.
+Paul Russell from Spencer Manufacturing has been instrumental in creating the caricatures. Each Yosemite Sam depicts the purpose of the truck. Tanker trucks show him with buckets of water. On the engines he is wielding a hose and axe. Shovel and axe are in his hands on grass rigs. Sam holds the Jaws-of-Life extrication tool and a haligan tool on the Rescue truck.
+The department  is also continuing the tradition of placing a large mural featuring an eagle and the American flag.
+When finished 2236 will replace a 26-year-old tanker. It is being built on the same foot print as the 1998 tanker, also built by South Haven based Spencer Manufacturing - - single axle, nimble, able to access areas that our larger tandem-axle tankers may not. It will have a 2,000 gallon tank and 1,500 GPM pump.
+===== Memorial Service to Honor South Haven Firefighters  =====
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+Two South Haven firefighters will be honored and remembered at a statewide memorial on Saturday, Sept. 21.
+Emil Wessling and Stanley (Stan) Wakild will have their names added to the Memorial Wall at the Michigan State Firemen's Association in Roscommon.
+Every year on the third Saturday in September, firefighters from across the state and their families come together to honor the memory the fallen men and women of the Michigan Fire Service. At the foot of the memorial wall is a 12-foot bronze statue of a firefighter carrying a child to safety.
+"Service to our community has always been of utmost importance for our members, past and present," said South Haven Area Emergency Services (SHAES) Executive Director Brandon Hinz. "The years of dedicated service by Emil and Stan represent many sleepless nights, early mornings, missed dinners, interrupted holidays. Honoring them is a small token of our appreciation for their commitment to South Haven."
+Wessling served 38 years of firefighting and EMT service, first with the Casco Fire Department and then as a paid-on-call Lieutenant with South Haven Area Emergency Services (SHAES).  He passed in 2010 at the age of 58.
+Wakild was part of the fire service for over a span of six decades. He joined the South Haven Fire Department, later SHAES, in 1965, was promoted to Lieutenant in 1978 and served as Chief beginning in 1989 until his retirement in 1993. He continued to serve as a paid-on-call member. He died in 2020 at the age of 77.
+===== SHAES Welcomes New Career Member  =====
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+SHAES welcomes new career firefighter Jess Trinklein to its ranks. Jess joined SHAES as a Paid on Call EMT-B in August, 2023. She has been a Captain with the Fennville Area Fire Department and was a  dispatcher for seven years at Allegan Dispatch.
+She is currently completing the Paramedic course.  Jess and SHAES Paid-on-Call member Kevin Wildey are partaking in one of the first grant-funded Paramedic courses offered by the State of Michigan.
+The SHAES career ranks currently has three female members and the Paid-on-Call roster includes six female members.
 ===== South Haven's Beach Flags are Flying  =====
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-**The summer season has arrived with the flying of the Lake Michigan Beach Safety Flags. The City of South Haven has seven public beach accesses to Lake Michigan. The popular North and South beaches also provide access to the pierheads. Access is also available from Packard Park, Woodman Street, Dyckman Avenue, Oak Street and Newcombe Street. To keep these beaches safe for everyone’s enjoyment the City of South Haven has created a water safety program that is administered between May 15th and September 15th.**
+The summer season has arrived with the flying of the Lake Michigan Beach Safety Flags. The City of South Haven has seven public beach accesses to Lake Michigan. The popular North and South beaches also provide access to the pierheads. Access is also available from Packard Park, Woodman Street, Dyckman Avenue, Oak Street and Newcombe Street. To keep these beaches safe for everyone’s enjoyment the City of South Haven has created a water safety program that is administered between May 15th and September 15th.
 **[[http://www.shaes.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=public:beach_safety|VISIT THE BEACH SAFETY WEBSITE]]**

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