All Orange County Power Outages Expected to End Wednesday Posted by Staff | Mar 11, 2014 | Safety Representatives of Duke Energy and Piedmont Electric say they expect power to be restored for all customers by late Wednesday night. Read More
OC EMS Opens Temporary Shelter At Stanford Middle School Posted by Staff | Mar 7, 2014 | Safety As the sun sets and temperatures drop, more than 30,000 residents in Orange County are still without power. Read More
OC Sheriff’s Office Searches For Missing Man Posted by Staff | Mar 7, 2014 | Safety The N.C. Center for Missing Persons has issued a Silver Alert for a missing endangered man, Thomas Jeffrey Searle. Read More
New Chapel Hill Fire Marshal Hired From Pennsylvania Posted by Staff | Mar 6, 2014 | Safety On April 1st, Reading, Pennsylvania Fire Marshal Todd Iaeger will step into that same position for Chapel Hill. Read More
Fourth Rabies Case Confirmed In Orange County For 2014 Posted by Staff | Mar 4, 2014 | Safety “Twelve is actually low by historical standards. If you go back into the 1990s…” Read More
Inclement Weather Warnings Cause Confusion On UNC Campus Posted by Staff | Feb 21, 2014 | Safety “Some of the PA system sirens on the announcements say “tornado sighted’ because that is the way they are prerecorded…” Read More
Animals Services Warns Of Possible Wildlife Attacks On Pets Posted by Staff | Feb 19, 2014 | Safety “In both of these situations, the dogs died. One dog apparently died of an attack from another animal….” Read More
Chapel Hill Police: Please Move Your Stranded Cars Posted by Staff | Feb 14, 2014 | Safety CHAPEL HILL – Chapel Hill Police are grateful that drivers did not flood the department with phone calls about minor fender benders during this week’s big storm. Now, police have another request: Please move your abandoned cars. Read More
Fire Breaks Out At NC Nuclear Plant, No Radioactive Materials Released Posted by Associated Press | Jan 18, 2014 | Safety Duke Energy officials say no radioactive materials were released when a fire broke out in electrical equipment at Harris Nuclear Plant near New Hill. Read More
Don’t Touch That Gas Tank Without Discharging Posted by Ran Northam | Jan 11, 2014 | Safety Why do you get shocked most noticeably in the winter? Read More