Community Development ..............4
Supervisor's Commentary ..............7
Pittsburgh China Center Opens ......8
Tech Company Profile ....................9
Pillars of the Community ............10
Local Chamber Merge..................11
Calendar ......................................12
Public Works................................14
Fire Company ..............................15
Public Safety ................................16
School District ............................21
Library ........................................22
In Briefs ......................................23
Special Events ..............................24
a bright September morning,
a terrifying message crackled
through Cranberry's emergency
radio network. A fuel tanker truck
had exploded next to Rowan
Elementary School and was now
engulfed in flames, it said. An
unknown number of children
had been hurt, the dispatcher
continued, and all emergency
services in Cranberry were needed
immediately. Within minutes,
they were there.
19 children were strewn across
the school's playground, not far
from the tank truck, many with
gruesome-looking head and face
wounds. Their conditions were
unknown, and time was clearly
exceptionally high level of
coordination among the three
major emergency services police,
fire, and ambulance to evacuate
the injured, secure the site, and
put out the flames.
the disaster, that's understandable;
it was actually a mock drill, on
an otherwise quiet Sunday
morning. Minutes before it began,
Cranberry Ambulance Corps
Executive Director Steve Tedesco,
who planned and coordinated the
exercise, was forced to change its
original scenario which had
involved fire and entrapment
resulting from a school bus
fire at Rowan Elementary School on a clear Sunday morning in September. The drill tested the
coordination of fire, police and ambulance services from various communities in responding
to a large-scale disaster.
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when the funds eventually become
available to improve that heavily
trafficked state road? Cranberry's
working assumption is that it will
become a four lane boulevard, rather
than the narrow two-lane road it is
today and that additional turning
lanes will be added at its signalized
intersections.