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Check out this awesome clinic being held this Saturday at the Justice Police Department! If you have a dog or a cat who is not microchipped, please consider stopping in. Accidents happen, pets get away from us, help us help you get them back home safely!

Scott’s Law/ Move Over Law

Applies to drivers approaching any police or other emergency vehicle stopped along the roadway. When approaching an emergency vehicle with flashing lights, drivers are required to change lanes (if possible), reduce speed and proceed with caution.

History

Scott’s Law is named after Chicago Fire Department Lieutenant Scott Gillen, 37, who was killed in 2000 after responding to an early morning accident on the Bishop Ford Freeway.

Firefighters, paramedics and Illinois State Police were tending to a two-car crash in the southbound lanes of the Bishop Ford when a speeding car tried to slip by traffic and struck Gillen.

Please pull to the right and stop for sirens and lights! 🚑🚨🚒

Come see us tomorrow at the Hills Farmers Market for free blood pressure checks and to learn more about our new Community Connect program!

The “Close Your Door” campaign aims to increase awareness of a new preventative measure that helps increase fire victim survivability.
A simple behavioral change, closing your bedroom door, could have a potentially life-saving impact. Tests showed that a closed door made a life-saving difference in case of a fire. A room with an open door showed temperatures over 1000 degrees, while a room with a closed door had temperatures at only 100 degrees. Research also showed that a closed door kept room conditions survivable longer than an open door.
A closed bedroom door provides a layer of protection between you and a fire, which is especially important at night when family members may be vulnerable, disoriented with little time to react. “If you can get out of a burning structure, get out,” “If you can’t, put a closed door between you and the fire to buy yourself valuable time.”
A closed door helps limit oxygen flow, which may help prevent a fire from growing. Consequently, when escaping a burning structure, it’s important to remember to close the door behind you to help limit property damage.
Forty years ago, victims had an average of 17 minutes to escape a burning home after the activation of a smoke alarm. Today, that time has dropped to 3 minutes or less due to evolutions in furnishings, homes incorporating more open layouts and lightweight construction materials, allowing fires to spread much quicker. With less time to escape a fire, it becomes of increasing importance to sleep with your bedroom door closed.
For more information refer to the following website:
www.closeyourdoor.org

We can't wait to see everyone at the Krueger Park - Hickory Hills Park District's Annual Bicycle Rodeo tomorrow! Test your riding, hands signals, and bike safety features. After testing is finished, a drawing
will be held for one lucky boy and girl to win a brand new bicycle!
See www.hhparkdistrict.org for more information.

Even though its been a bit rainy today warmer weather means we get to start shooting outside soon!

Illinois concealed carry fails to produce hoped for bloodshed and mayhem Non-event

“..women have taken up wanting to safely know how to handle them and when they go for instruction they find out that shooting guns can really be fun,” It can be fun!

More Women Shooting, Buying Guns In a study by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the number of women in the U.S. who practiced target shooting jumped 60% to 5.2 million. In that same study, women were responsible for 20% of...

Keep an eye on our website for a price reduction on our basic handgun training classes! This is the first step towards Conceal Carry in Illinois.

"When you look at it, we were the last of 50 states to implement this law. We act like this was some big new deal. In reality, everyone else had been doing it for many years, and there just haven't been any problems," Aurora Police Commander Paul Nelson said. "There was no reason for us to expect that it would be different in Illinois."

In Illinois, concealed carry of guns has quiet first year; expansion sought Keith Hearn was getting out of his car in front of his home in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood when, as he tells it, police pulled up and told him he had committed a minor traffic offense.