It’s not too early to start making your plans for the 4^th of July. The annual event, a tradition in the community for over 50 years, nearly did not happen this year. Thanks to the generous support of the local business community and residents enough money was raised to “save the fireworks”.

The day will begin with a 5K walk/run, co-sponsored by the Southeast Volusia YMCA, along South Riverside Drive. At 9:00 AM there will be a dedication ceremony at the recently upgraded George R. Kennedy Park. The park is named after Edgewater Fire Chief George Kennedy who perished on the 4^th of July in 1986 while launching the annual fireworks display. There will be live entertainment, food, kids games and local vendors at Menard-May Park and George R. Kennedy Park beginning at 4:00 PM. The day will culminate with a spectacular fireworks show by Zambelli Fireworks that is guaranteed to be a crowd pleaser.

Mark Friday, July 4^th on your calendar and come spend it with your family, friends and neighbors in Edgewater!!

For more event information or to inquire about vendor space, please call 424-2445.

June 29, 2008

Police still mum about man found tied to bed

By MARK I. JOHNSON
Staff Report NJ

EDGEWATER -- Police today searched the home of a local contractor, where a man was found tied up and bound to his bed early Sunday and was later hospitalized.

Police would not confirm the man's identity but the home at 2232 Victory Palm Drive belongs to Keith Cope and a man by that same name is listed in serious condition today at Halifax Health Medical Center. A neighbor today said that Cope was the one removed from the house about 6 a.m. Sunday and taken away by ambulance.

Police aren't talking about Cope or his roommate, a registered sexual offender named Joseph Jordan, 39, whose whereabouts are unknown. ....

more at http://www.news-journalonline.com/newsjournalonline/breakingnews/bound062909.htm

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June 28, 2009

Pharmacy tech foils robbery attempt

By JULIE MURPHY
Staff Writer NJ

A Rockledge man was unnerved Saturday morning when he was asked to show his gun to the Edgewater pharmacy technician police say he was trying to rob.

Carman

Jeremy Wayne Carman, 27, left the CVS at 1806 Ridgewood Ave., without any drugs, about 10:40 a.m., Edgewater Officer Andrew Gaden said.

"He passed a note implying he had a gun to the pharmacy tech, but she's been robbed before and asked to see the gun," Gaden said. "He just left."

Carman apparently wasn't too discouraged by his failed attempt because he drove almost immediately to the Publix at 1930 State Road 44 and tried to rob the pharmacy there, officials said. .....

more at http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/newEAST02062809.htm

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images courtesy of Edgewater Fire/Rescue

Date: May 11, 2009

Address: 100 block of North Ridgewood Avenue

Type of Incident: Motor vehicle accident – car vs. bus

Number of Alarms: 1

Edgewater Fire-Rescue Apparatus: Engine 55, Engine 57, Battalion 55, Chief 55

Number of Personnel: 8

Dispatched: 7:33 AM

On Scene: 7:36 AM

In Service: 8:17 AM

Injuries: Four – minor injuries – 2 adults, 2 children

Transported to: Bert Fish Medical Center

Situation Encountered: Edgewater Fire-Rescue personnel were dispatched to the scene of a motor vehicle accident in the northbound lane of the 100 block of North Ridgewood Avenue. Upon arrival, crews found a single vehicle that had rear-ended a Votran bus which was stopped to pickup/discharge passengers. Both northbound lanes of US 1 were blocked while patients were assessed for injuries and leaking fluids from the vehicles were controlled. A total of four patients were transported to Bert Fish Medical Center with minor injuries – two adult females and two children. The cause of the accident is under investigation by Edgewater Police Department.

Images provided by Edgewater Fire Department

From Edgewater Fire Department

April 17, 2009

Date: April 17, 2009

Address: 3026 Pine Tree Drive

Type of Incident: Motor vehicle crash

Type of Occupancy: Single family residential

Number of Alarms: 1

Edgewater Fire-Rescue Apparatus: Engine 55, Engine 57, Squad 55, Chief 55, Fire Marshal 55, Rescue 57

Number of Personnel: 10

Dispatched: 2:30 PM

On Scene: 2:35 PM

In Service: 3:18 PM

Injuries: 1 – adult female

Transported to: Bert Fish Medical Center

Situation Encountered: Edgewater Fire-Rescue personnel were dispatched this afternoon to the scene of a car that had crashed through a garage wall of the home at 3026 Pine Tree Drive. The driver of the vehicle had apparently hit the accelerator rather than the brake which caused the car to push through the garage wall into the kitchen of the home. The patient was extricated and treated by Edgewater paramedics as the car remained wedged in between the wall of the garage and the kitchen. The patient was transported by ambulance to Bert Fish Medical Center with minor injuries.

From Edgewater Fire Department

Date: April 3, 2009

Address: Restorations property – west of I-95, north of SR 442

Type of Incident: Brush fire – caused by lightning strike

Edgewater Fire-Rescue Apparatus: Engine 57, Tender 57, Brush Attack 57, Division 55

Mutual Aid Apparatus: New Smyrna Beach Engine 51, Brush Attack 51, Battalion 51

Number of Personnel: 15

Situation Encountered: Edgewater fire personnel were dispatched at approximately 7:30 PM last night to a possible brush fire on the west side of I-95. A column of smoke was spotted by an airplane that reported it to the control tower at the New Smyrna Beach Airport. Fire crews were unable to locate the fire from the vantage points of I-95 and Indian River Boulevard. Air-One from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Department was able to pinpoint the location of the fire on the Restorations development property – several miles into a swampy, wooded area north of SR 442 and west of I-95. New Smyrna Beach fire crews assisted Edgewater fire personnel. Florida Division of Forestry arrived on scene and cut a fire line around the approximate six-acre fire. The cause was determined to be due to a lightning strike. Edgewater, New Smyrna Beach and Division of Forestry crews remained on scene until approximately 12:30 AM and returned to the scene this morning to continue mop up operations. It is anticipated that crews will remain on scene for the remainder of the Friday and continue to monitor the area throughout the weekend.

Information Prepared by: Lt. Jill Danigel, Fire Marshal

PRESS RELEASE

From Edgewater Fire Department

Date: March 12, 2009

Address: Southwest of 650 Roberts Road (Indian River Elementary)

Type of Incident: Brush fire

Number of Alarms: 1

Edgewater Fire-Rescue Apparatus: Engine 55, Engine 57, Brush Attack 57, Division 55, Fire Marshal 55

Mutual Aid Apparatus: New Smyrna Beach Squirt 51, New Smyrna Beach Brush Attack 51, Port Orange Brush Attack 75, South Daytona Battalion 98, South Daytona Engine 98, South Daytona Chief 98, Ponce Inlet Chief 78, Division of Forestry

Number of Personnel: 25

Dispatched: 1:56 PM

On Scene: 1:58 PM

Water on the fire: 2:04 PM

Fire Under Control: 2:11 PM

Injuries: None

Situation Encountered:

Area firefighters put their classroom training in fighting wildland fires to the test at a real brush fire this afternoon in Edgewater. After finishing up a morning of controlling and extinguishing a control burn as part of the Division of Forestry S-190/S-130 training in Edgewater, crews responded to a reported brush fire in the area of Indian River Elementary School. Edgewater Fire-Rescue crews were the first to arrive and found an approximate 1.5 acre fire directly southwest of the Indian River Elementary School property. The fire was quickly spreading to the west and into a heavily wooded vacant lot across the FEC railroad tracks and onto the east side of India Palm Drive. Crews were able to contain and extinguish the fire before it spread across the west side of India Palm Drive. The fire never endangered Indian River Elementary School and its students as wind conditions were driving it away from the school. Railroad officials were on site and assisted in ensuring that no train traffic would go through the area until the fire was extinguished. Firefighters from multiple agencies remain on scene to mop up hot spots. Division of Forestry personnel plan to burn out any remaining vegetation within the fire lines. It was reported that several young males on bicycles were seen on the vacant lot on the east side of India Palm just moments before the fire started. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Information Prepared by: Lt. Jill Danigel , Edgewater Fire Resceu

PRESS RELEASE

Date: March 11, 2009

Edgewater Fire-Rescue was recently awarded nearly $60,000 in Federal grant money through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant that is managed through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The money will be used provide state of the art cardiac monitors for the department’s three front line units – Engine 55, Engine 57 and Rescue 57. The current cardiac monitors from those units will be moved to back up equipment and allow the department to broaden its spectrum of how emergency medical services are provided to area residents. Lieutenant/Paramedic Dan Ruth prepared and submitted the grant while on duty between responding to emergency calls and attending required training sessions. Acting Fire Chief, Captain Steve Cousins, advises, “all members of our department are assigned a ‘special project’ and while this is not Dan’s assignment, he has willingly taken on this role for our department and been extremely successful. He has obtained nearly $2 million dollars in funding to support our fire and emergency medical services operations.” The department anticipates purchasing the units in the upcoming months and putting them into service as soon as they arrive.

Information Prepared by: Lt. Jill Danigel , Edgewater Fire-Rescue

image from Edgewater Fire Rescue

Feb. 27, 2009

Two vehicle accident

Five injured

Edgewater

Indian River Blvd. and Needle Palm Drive.

A POI VIDEO

PRESS RELEASE

From Edgewater Fire Rescue

Date: February 27, 2009

Address: Needle Palm Drive and State Road 442 (Indian River Blvd.)

Type of Incident: Motor vehicle accident – two cars

Number of Alarms: 2

Edgewater Fire-Rescue Apparatus: Engine 55, Engine 57, Rescue 57, Engine 157, Division 55, Fire Marshal 55, Fire Chief 55

Mutual Aid Apparatus: New Smyrna Beach Fire Department Squirt 51

Number of Personnel: 15

Dispatched: 2:59 PM

On Scene: 3:02 PM

In Service: 3:54 PM

Injuries: 3 adults – 2 critical, 1 minor

2 children – both minor

Transported to: 2 adults to Halifax Medical Center, 1 adult and 2 children to Bert Fish Medical Center – all transported via EVAC Ambulance

Situation Encountered: Edgewater Fire-Rescue personnel were dispatched to the scene of a two-car motor vehicle accident at the north corner of SR 442 and Needle Palm Drive. Crews arrived to find a mid-size four-door car and a mid-size SUV that had collided in a side impact (“T” bone) crash. Edgewater crews quickly extricated, using both hydraulic and hand tools, a patient in critical condition from the car in preparation for transport to Halifax Medical Center. The other occupant of the car, also in critical condition, was removed from the vehicle and taken to Halifax Medical Center as well. The occupants of the SUV, a woman and 2 small children, were transported to Bert Fish Medical Center with minor injuries. Edgewater Police Department is investigating the cause of the accident.

Information Prepared by: Lt. Jill Danigel, Fire Marshal

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