Portable, light-weight Jaws on order for Seneca

An axe and a pry were used to help extricate golfer Tiger Woods from a wrecked car yesterday near Los Angeles. Woods’ predicament was very much on the minds of Seneca fire fighters later yesterday, as they gathered for an announcement that, thanks to a donation from a local manufacturing plant, the fire department will receive enough money to buy its first portable, light-weight Jaws of Life to be used to free injured from local car accidents.  Two officials of chemical product plant BASF presented Fire Chief Richie Caudill a check for $11,983.36 cents.  Caudill says acquiring an additional Jaws of Life was part of his department’s budget request that, because of last April’s tornado, was sliced from his budget, so he and his force are grateful to BASF for coming to their aid.  BASF’s new plant manager, Elba Lizardi, and the plant’s emergency chief, Greg Reed, represented their company at yesterday afternoon’s ceremony.