Chadron State plays role in firefighting effort

Tim Anderson bags meals for firefighters while CSC employees Connie Rasmussen and Loree MacNeill make sandwiches.
Tim Anderson, Department of Business and Economics chairman, bags meals for firefighters while CSC employees Connie Rasmussen and Loree MacNeill make sandwiches. Many volunteers joined CSC's food service Monday to prepare about 1,500 lunches.

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Following is a list of notes pertaining to Chadron State College and the wildfires of northwest Nebraska:

  • About 550 firemen and support personnel from 20 states have been residing in the High Rise, Kent Hall and Edna Work Hall. “They are so grateful to be able to take a shower and have a bed to sleep in,” said Sheri Simons, CSC director of housing. “Some of them said they have been to fires where they didn’t get a shower for two weeks.”

     

     

  • The firefighters have come from as far away as Massachusetts and Pennsylvania to California and Washington State. Someone from Tallahassee, Fla., checked in Tuesday morning. At least 15 Colorado communities and nearly 10 from South Dakota are represented.

     

     

  • On Monday, personnel from Creative Dining Services and volunteers made 1,500 lunches that are available to the firemen. That’s about a two-day supply, they said.

     

     

  • The Joint Information Center has been moved from the High Rise to the Student Center. There are about 140 National Guardsmen involved in various aspects of the effort, a Guard spokesman said Monday.

     

     

  • At least three CSC students, Aaron Vigen of Grant, Craig Lowe of North Platte and Travis Connot of Sidney, gave up their summer jobs and began helping with the fire suppression efforts over the weekend. One of their duties was driving supplies to the fire lines.

     

     

  • When the Pine Ridge Job Corps Center was evacuated Saturday afternoon, about 150 students from there moved into CSC residence halls. They left Tuesday morning. However, members of the firefighting unit from the Job Corps are still living at CSC.

     

     

  • CSC President Janie Park has sent out a memo to campus personnel, asking them to provide support and assistance to the fire suppression effort whenever it is needed. She also has posted a statement on the CSC Web site, noting that the college was undamaged by the fire and that it will be ready and able to serve the students when they return to the campus the weekend of Aug. 18-20. Classes will begin on Monday, Aug. 21.

     

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President Janie Park's Message to Students

 

 

-College Relations

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