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SENNETT — A 6-year-old girl may have saved her father’s life last month with a 911 call.
Alivia Schroeder was acknowledged by the Cayuga County Sheriff’s Office Thursday after she called county 911 dispatchers when her father Maison Schroeder had a seizure Nov. 17. She was greeted by officials and personnel at the county public safety building in Sennett, accompanied by Maison, her sister, Layla, and her grandparents, Stephen and Kathy Gould.
Cayuga County Sheriff Brian Schenck named Alivia a junior deputy and gave her a certificate.
“You’re my hero,” Schenck told her.
Denise Spingler, the county 911 administrator, reading from a different certificate, said “In recognition of your heroic actions in calling 911, you remained calm and provided the dispatcher with all of the appropriate information to help your dad. Your call amazed us and we are all so very proud of you.”
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Alivia’s eyes lit up like fireworks when Spingler gave her a red balloon that said “911” on it and a bag that included a Squishmallow stuffed animal, a coloring book and crayons. The girl later spoke with Deputy Nikki Loveless, who responded to the scene, Denise Cornelius, communications training officer with the county 911 center, and McKenna Loerzel, a dispatcher who is training at the 911 center. Cornelius and Loerzel, who took Alivia’s call, lauded the girl’s calm composure.
Alivia Schroeder, 6, is recognized by Cayuga County Sheriff Brian Schenck and then Denise Spingler, the county’s 911 administrator, for making a 911 call for her father Maison Schroeder, when he was having a medical emergency in November.
After Alivia had her picture taken with the different personnel, she and her family were brought to the 911 center, where she was introduced to other 911 dispatchers, as Schenck again called her a hero. Aliva was also able to sit in a dispatcher’s chair. Later, Alivia, holding onto the balloon tightly, and her family chatted with the sheriff, Spingler, Cornelius, Loveless and Loerzel.
When Loveless was told around 11 a.m. Nov. 17 that a 6-year-old was on the line calling on behalf of her unresponsive father, her heart sank, she said. Emergency medical personnel were on the scene when Loveless arrived, and after Maison was transported by ambulance, she stayed with Alivia and Layla until Stephen and Kathy arrived, as Maison and his daughters had been staying with them. Loveless lauded Alivia’s response to the situation.
“Imagine being 6 years old and being calm and collected. They said she was giving good information, but you still want to get there (to the scene),” Loveless said.
At one point, Alivia was asked who taught her how to call 911. She said it was her mom, Sara Green. Maison said he started having seizures in adulthood and they became worse over the last year. He was laying in a recliner at Stephen and Kathy’s home in Aurelius when this seizure happened and blacked out. In a soft voice, Alivia explained when her father began seizing, she found her dad’s cell phone plugged into a charger next to him.
When Cornelius and Loerzel received Alivia’s call, she told them that her was father was drooling and shaking. They asked if he was breathing, and Alivia said yes. Since he was in a recliner, the girl hit a button which made the chair recline, opening Maison’s airway. Cornelius and Loerzel noted they could hear Maison breathing on the call. He began waking up as responders arrived. Loerzel, who began with the center in September, and Cornelius said Alivia gave relevant information, such as her name, her father’s name and said they were at her grandparents’ house and gave her grandfather’s name.
“You were super, super strong, you knew exactly what to do and you do it,” Spingler said to Alivia.
Maison said Alivia told her friends about the situation at school the next day. He praised his daughter’s intelligence and said he’s “thankful every night” for Alivia possibly saving his life.
Cornelius said she was impressed by how Alivia and Loerzel handled the situation, and talked about the importance of educating children about emergency calls, including giving dispatchers the address of where the emergency they are calling about is occurring.
“It just shows that people should educate their kids about 911,” Cornelius said.
Gallery: Six-year-old honored by Cayuga County Sheriff for calling 911 to help her dad
Cayuga County Sheriff Brian Schenck awarded Alivia Schroeder, 6, an honorary junior deputy sheriff certificate for calling 911 when her father Maison, left, needed medical help in the family’s home.
Alivia Schroeder, 6, is pictured with, from left, Deputy Nikki Loveless, her father, Maison Schroeder and sister, Layla, 911 dispatchers McKenna Loerzel, Denise Cornelius, 911 Supervisor Denise Spingler, and Cayuga County Sheriff Brian Schenck.
Alivia Schroeder, 6, right, sits in the chair of 911 dispatcher McKenna Loerzel, left, with her sister, Layla, at the 911 center at the public safety building in Sennett.
Cayuga County Sheriff Brian Schenck awarded Alivia Schroeder, 6, an honorary junior deputy sheriff certificate for calling 911 when her father Maison needed medical help in the family’s home.
Cayuga County Sheriff Brian Schenck awards Alivia Schroeder, 6, an honorary junior deputy sheriff certificate for calling 911 when her father Maison, left, needed medical help in the family’s home.
Alivia Schroeder, 6, right, sits in the chair of 911 dispatcher McKenna Loerzel with her sister, Layla, at the 911 center at the public safety building in Sennett during a Dec. 1 event to honor Alivia for calling 911 when her dad was having a medical emergency.
Staff writer Kelly Rocheleau can be reached at (315) 282-2243 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @KellyRocheleau.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Children in state custody are spending months in Tennessee hospitals because the Department of Children’s Services has no place else to put them.
The children have been medically cleared but tie up hospital beds that could be used by others, especially during times of heightened demand.
One child spent more than nine months — 276 days — living at a children’s hospital after he should have been released.
Some hospital officials tell NewsChannel 5 Investigates they are becoming a dumping ground for kids DCS cannot place.
The Children’s Hospital Alliance of Tennessee (CHAT), which represents children’s hospitals statewide, said in a statement the children “account for many hundreds of additional days in which hospital care is not needed.”
TennCare covers the cost of hospital care for children in DCS custody but would not disclose how much taxpayers are spending on the extended stays.
The Department of Children’s Services said these kids are hard to place in foster care, and because they are medically fragile, they cannot stay in DCS office buildings like some other children have been doing.
It often starts in a pediatric emergency room.
A DCS caseworker takes a child to the hospital with a true medical problem.
Usually the children have just been removed from an abusive or neglectful home.
But once the hospital says the child can leave, DCS says they have no place for the child to go.
State Sen. Heidi Campbell, D-Nashville, was disturbed by the details we showed her.
“Our state is failing. I think we’ve failed these children and we’ve quite frankly failed DCS,” Campbell said.
Examples include a 10-year-old with Muscular Dystrophy who stayed for 103 days at the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Knoxville.
DCS could not find a placement for the child after his mother died of COVID and his father could not care for him.
Another 10-year-old with severe autism was housed for 51 days in the same hospital.
He was eventually sent to a facility out of state because DCS did not have a place for him.
And an insulin-dependent diabetic stayed for days because hospital notes reveal “DCS would not take (the child) to office due to insulin shots required.”
“To choose between office floors and hospitals is not a reasonable choice,” Sen. Campbell said.
DCS left a child with a mental health diagnosis at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital for 270 days.
The child occupied a room from May of 2021 through February of 2022.
The agency left another child at a hospital in Johnson City for 243 days, long after the child should have been released.
DCS Commissioner Margie Quin, who took over the agency in September, told Gov. Bill Lee, R-Tennessee, during budget hearings the agency has been getting calls from hospitals concerned about kids staying long-term.
“These are youth that are extremely difficult to place,” Quin said.
“They are staying 100 days in hospitals, and they are not acutely ill, but they can’t stay in an office, and they are not appropriate in transitional homes,” Quin told the Governor.
DCS has a shortage of foster care homes and as a result has been forced to have some children sleep in office buildings.
A DCS attorney said “children in wheelchairs can also be hard to place. The hardest situations are those with both medical and behavioral/mental health needs.”
Commissioner Quin requested more than $8.7 million to fund “Assessment Treatment Homes” that would be located across the state and would keep some of the medically hard-to-place kids.
“They really need specialized care, and we just don’t have programming for them,” Commissioner Quin said in the budget hearing.
Sen. Campbell can’t believe the state is often choosing between office floors and hospital rooms.
“Let’s be responsible and give the money to DCS that we need to take care of children,” Campbell said.
“Our state has more money right now than we’ve had in decades, in reserves, and there is absolutely no reason why we can’t make sure that we are taking care of our most vulnerable,” Campbell said.
Lee signaled in the budget hearing that he was willing to fund requests from DCS for more money.
But even if the budget request is approved, it is months away from helping — raising questions about what can be done now.
“These are issues we should absolutely be able to deal with in the Department of Children’s Services without sending kids to the hospital,” Senator Campbell said.
Here is the full statement from the Children’s Hospital Alliance of Tennessee (CHAT):
“Children’s hospitals serve as the safety net for the physical and mental health and well-being of children and adolescents. For about a decade, children’s hospitals, in TN and nationally, have seen a significant increase in the number of youth presenting with a primary mental health diagnosis, because of the lack of readily available services and a fragmented delivery system for those services.
Another group of children finding themselves admitted to the children’s hospitals in our state are those in DCS custody. These youth are often brought to pediatric emergency rooms because of a true medical or behavioral need. However, when they are ready for discharge, DCS teams are challenged with finding appropriate placement options, thereby delaying discharge. While these children remain in hospitals, it ties up resources that could be used by other children. Lengths of hospital stays across the state range from several days to months, with one children’s hospital reporting the longest stay of 276 days.
Collectively, these patients account for many hundreds of additional days in which hospital care is not needed. DCS frequently cites limited to no placement options and struggles with insufficient resources to adequately staff and support these children in their care. New DCS Commissioner, Margie Quin, recently acknowledged the issue of long hospital stays for some children and has outlined a plan to tackle this and other issues DCS faces through important measures such as more funding and increased training and increased support for case workers.
Mary Nell Bryan, President of the Children’s Hospital Alliance of Tennessee, said, “The Children’s Hospital Alliance of Tennessee appreciates that the employees of the Department of Children’s Services work hard to address challenges in finding foster homes for children who are medically fragile or dealing with chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes.. There are sometimes not enough appropriate places for such transfers to happen quickly. We appreciate that Commissioner Quin has requested more funding and outlined a plan that includes increased training and increased support for case workers. The work of DCS case workers and other DCS staffers is vitally important. As can also be said about those who work in hospitals, while this work can present challenges, it is also extremely rewarding. We urge families to consider fostering children who are medically fragile or who are dealing with a chronic condition such as diabetes.”
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LEXINGTON COUNTY (WACH) — Chief Terrence Green would like to notify the Town of Lexington community that there will be road closures and detours during the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 4 for the Town of Lexington Christmas Parade in downtown Lexington.
These road closures and detours will begin at 1:00 p.m. with the closure of West Butler Street, from Columbia Avenue to North Church Street.
Additional closures include Haygood Avenue and part of Meetze Street to allow those involved in the parade to stage and prepare their floats.
The Lexington County Extension Office parking lot, located at 605 West Main Street, will also be closed throughout the day for float setup and staging.
The Christmas Parade will use the route of Haygood Avenue to West Main Street/US-1 to
North Lake Drive/SC-6. The best viewing of this parade will be along West Main Street from Haygood Avenue to the intersection of Main Street at Lake Drive.
To prepare for the 3:00 p.m. start of the Christmas Parade, West Main Street, from Columbia Avenue to North Lake Drive, East Main Street at Harmon Street, North Lake Drive at Dreher Street, and South Lake Drive at Fort Street, will close at 2:45 p.m. All traffic will be detoured around the parade route until the event is complete.
The main roadway detours will re-open at approximately 4:30 p.m. At the same time, West Butler Street, from Columbia Avenue to South Church Street, will remain closed until all parade floats and participants have been cleared from the roadway.
It is advised that attendees arrive early to find a parking space and seating along the parade route as this is always a well-attended event. Please find parking in public parking lots near the event as those who park in private business parking lots take the risk of being towed from the property at the owner’s expense.
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Thomaston police are investigating after thieves allegedly stole two Ford Mustang cars totaling nearly $200,000 from the Southern Ford of Thomaston dealership.
A Ford Mustang GT500 Heritage and a blue Ford Mustang GT500 were both taken overnight Friday.
“It’s really a special car, we are one of the lucky dealers that have it,” General Manager Chip Richardson said. “The Heritage was a numbered car; less than a thousand of them were built and everything was certified on it.”
According to Thomaston Police, the thieves broke into the showroom and took not only the cars but the keys to most of the cars in the lot.
“I don’t think this was someone coming to do a joyride, they knew what they were looking for,” Chief Mike Richardson said. “And I don’t think these are going to be chopped up anywhere, they’re heading somewhere.”
The thieves disabled the security cameras, according to police.
For those that run the dealership, it’s incredibly disappointing.
“We’re a small country town and normally nothing happens,” Chip Richardson said.
Investigators are asking anyone with information to call Thomaston Police.
There is a $1,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest.
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ASHFORD, CT (WFSB) – An animal control officer reported that a child was bitten by a raccoon in Ashford.
“It was wrapping its arms around my leg,” she explained. “It really hurt.”
State police said they responded to the incident on Fitts Road to assist the officer.
Video of the incident was captured by a surveillance camera:
A girl was attacked by a raccoon in Ashford. The family gave Channel 3 video of the attack.
It happened around 7:55 a.m. on Friday.
“I was going out to get on the bus and a racoon was there and tried to attack me,” said 5-year-old Rylee MacNamara of Ashford. “It didn’t want to go off of my leg.”
Rylee MacNamara said she and her mother suffered some bite marks and scratches before her mother was able to yank the animal off her.
Panicking, Logan, Rylees mother, screams for help.
“It’s a rabid racoon, get some help!,” said Logan.
The raccoon ran off into the woods after she threw it off.
There’s no word yet on if the animal was rabid.
“I thought maybe she slammed her finger in the door. I definitely wasn’t expecting to see a racoon wrapped around her leg,” Logan said.
The two went to the hospital, received rabies shots, and were back home in a couple of hours.
“We just kind of panicked at first. I was more scared than anything,” said Logan.
Neighbor, Jessica Gessay, isn’t surprised this happened.
“These woods around here… I fear them. There’s things out here. Animals, wild animals things like that,” said Jessica.
“It’s disturbing that it would be that close to our houses,” added Dave Frank, Ashford.
Animal control spent Friday morning in the woods to try and track down the animal. However, it was nowhere to be found.
The Macnamara’s might take it into their own hands by setting traps around the house.
Rylee and Logan will head back to the hospital every couple of days for the next two weeks to get more shots.
They Macnamara’s also say their kids won’t be allowed outside alone in the near future.
An animal control officer reported that a child was bitten by a raccoon in Ashford.
An animal control officer reported that a child was bitten by a raccoon in Ashford.
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THE BRONX (WABC) — A car chase that spanned two boroughs ended with a police-involved shooting Saturday night.
Police say this shooting happened in the Grand Concourse section at 161 Street and Summit Avenue, but the incident actually started when they received a call about a car being broken into in Manhattan.
Officers arrived at the initial scene at 149 Street and Convent Avenue in Hamilton Heights to check out the car break-in.
Once they were working that scene, they saw a car driving recklessly close by, officials said.
Police started to chase that reckless driver and ended in the Bronx, where they arrested one of the people in that car.
Officials say another suspect fled into a marshy area near the Major Deegan Expressway. A few minutes later, the suspect pointed a weapon and police.
“At this time, members of the 3-0 Precinct engage this person in an exchange of gunfire. After this exchange of gunfire, the individual runs into the marsh area right here next to the Major Deegan and a second gunfire exchange occurs,” NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said.
The police chief said the suspect was shot in the head and leg. The 39-year-old is known to the police and is in critical condition at a local hospital.
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RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — Hundreds of students in Palm Beach County will receive free, new school supplies next week thanks to the annual Tools for Schools program.
For the 20th year, Red Apple Supplies, the Education Foundation of Palm Beach County‘s free teacher resource store, partnered with Publix Super Markets to distribute more than $201,000 essential school supplies to teachers from 120 Title I district schools.
Teachers and principals drove up to the Red Apple supply store in Riviera Beach as early as 8 a.m. to receive the supplies from volunteers, forming a line long enough to wrap around the building and continue down the street.
Volunteers loaded cars up with supplies while others served hot chocolate and sweets.
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— The School District of Palm Beach County (@pbcsd) December 3, 2022
Education Foundation Chairman Jim Moore also served as a disc jockey for the event while a barbershop quartet serenaded drivers while they waited for the supplies. Santa Claus even paid a visit to the event.
Palm Beach County Superintendent Michael Burke said the event is especially needed with one in five district students at the poverty level.
“This goes a long way to make sure kids have the supplies they need to stay in the classroom,” Burke said.
Dwayne Dennard, the principal of Pahokee middle and high schools, seconded Burke’s words, emphasizing the need for supplies.
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Dennard said 99% of the students in his two schools are on a free or reduced meal program, indicating a significant financial need.
“Without these supplies, a lot of our kids cannot reach their full potential,” Dennard said. “There are some kids that we lost because we didn’t have these types of supplies. It’s a great opportunity for parents and students with the way inflation is now.”
The supplies distributed included everything from notebooks to headphones and more.
Burke said the supplies will be distributed to students in school next week.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Eagles fans woke up bright and early Sunday morning to tailgate ahead of the game, some of fans celebrating a lot more than the best team in football.
“The first time I cried was the ’80 Super Bowl when the Raiders beat us,” said Dan McAlee, who has been an Eagles fan since he was six years old.
This game became one of his all time favorites before the team even took the field. The Vietnam veteran’s entire family surprised him for his 70th birthday.
“I went to help the bus driver move his truck off the highway and they were all on board. I got on there and there they all were,” he said.
In a sea of thousands of Eagles fans, Dan wasn’t the only one celebrating his big day with a tailgate.
“I turned 30 today, so it’s a good day. All my friends and family are here having a great time,” said Rob D’Adrea from Northeast Philadelphia. He boarded a bus to the stadiums with 75 of his closest friends and family, bringing plenty of games and lots of good food.
“We have smoked jerk chicken, we have smoked pull pork here, baked mac and cheese,” he said showing off their spread, which is, of course, the center of any good Eagles tailgate.
“We got the breakfast sandwiches, bacon egg and cheese, pork roll egg and cheese. We got the tater tots, and the mimosas. Most important part, the mimosas,” said Courtney Bartkowski from Ewing, New Jersey.
She and her friends started the day off right. Eagles fans far and wide wanted to show Tennessee why Philadelphia is the best football city.
“This is a city like no other. Everybody has a great time when they come to Philly,” said Shelley Holt from Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
It helps Eagles fans are cheering on the number one team in football. It’s the gift that keeps on giving for lifelong fans like Dan.
“I think this is the best team that I’ve seen in a long, long time,” he said.
Dan’s actual birthday isn’t until January. Now that he’s had his party he is hoping for one more present; an Eagles trip to the Super Bowl.
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