During the quick moving thunderstorm last Monday night, the Alamo Heights Fire/EMS Department conducted a high water rescue utilizing the Quint Ladder Fire Apparatus. They received an emergency call concerning a vehicle stuck in the Olmos Basin area in 4 feet high rising waters. The fire crews were able to extend the Apparatus ladder approximately 85 ft to perform the rescue avoiding personnel entering the rising waters. Two individuals were rescued with no injuries to both fire personnel and the occupants of the vehicle.

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Our first two Movie Nights in the Heights events, sponsored by Grande Communications, have been a great success!

The next event is on July 30th and the feature movie is “The Blind Side”.

As part of giving back to the community the Alamo Heights Police Department in conjunction with Grande Communications is sponsoring a Food Drive that night. So please join us in a night of family fun and participate in a good cause by bringing a non-perishable food item.

Beginning March 29th the Alamo Heights Police Department will begin enforcement of the new twenty-five mile per hour speed limit (25 mph) on residential streets.

Warning citations will be issued for thirty (30) days in order to provide an extended awareness period.

Streets not affected by the new speed limit are Broadway (30 mph), North New Braunfels Avenue (30 mph), Austin Highway (35 mph), and Jones Maltsberger Road (35 mph).

The City of Alamo Heights will expand the enforcement zone prohibiting the use of hand-held communications devices to all school crossing zones around Cambridge Elementary School, 1001 Townsend Avenue, beginning March 29, 2009.

The Texas Transportation Code prohibits the use of hand-held communications devices that use a commercial mobile service while operating a motor vehicle within a school crossing zone unless the motor vehicle is stopped or a hands-free device is used with the wireless communications device. Hand-held wireless communications devices may still be used to make an emergency call to an emergency response service (police, fire, EMS), hospital, health clinic or a medical doctor’s office.

New notification signs will be erected at the entrances to all school crossing zones around Cambridge Elementary. Alamo Heights Police will begin an education campaign by passing out information flyers and issuing warning citations for a thirty-day (30) period. We hope everybody understands the seriousness of this school safety initiative and shows their support by complying with this law.

The Alamo Heights Fire Department received the nation’s second highest ISO rating for fire safety, a Class 2 Public Protection Classification (PPC) from the Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) With a Class 2 ISO rate property owners are estimated to realize a 10 to 15% decrease in property insurance premiums. Property owners should contact their insurance providers to inquire if their premiums will be impacted by the new classification rating.

ISO Informational Flyer