candgnews.com DECEMBER 12, 2024 Vol. 20, No. 28
4A REMEMBERING THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR THROUGH LOCAL TIES
Deel retains Rochester Hills City Council president role
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Rochester Hills fire lieutenant saves 2 from second story of burning home Firefighters extinguished a house fire in the 700 block of John R Road Nov. 27. Pictured right, Rochester Hills Fire Lt. Chris Ogg rescued two people from the fire.
BY MARY BETH ALMOND malmond@candgnews.com
ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester Hills City Council President Ryan Deel will continue to serve in his leadership position for another year. Every year, the Rochester Hills City Council elects members to one-year terms for the president and vice president positions. Deel, an attorney, was unanimously elected to retain his position by his peers Dec. 2. “Thank you everybody for your continued faith and confidence that you have in me in this position,” Deel said during the meeting. Deel and his wife, Melinda, and their twin sons, Jack and Brennan, have lived in the city since 2003. Deel was first elected to the council as the city’s District 4 representative in 2017. The council, also by a unanimous vote,
ROCHESTER HILLS — Two people are alive thanks to the quick thinking of an off-duty fire lieutenant in Rochester Hills. The Rochester Hills Fire Department was dispatched to the 700 block of John R Road on the report of a house fire with people trapped inside just before 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 27. Rochester Hills Fire Lt. Chris Ogg, who was off duty, happened to be driving by the area and saw smoke coming from the home. “He went there, saw people upstairs, went around the corner, grabbed a ladder, put the ladder up himself, climbed the ladder and pulled two people down (from the second-story window),” Rochester Hills Mayor Bryan Barnett said. Ogg — who was recently promoted to lieutenant — comes from a long line of people who have served the community, Barnett noted. His grandfather was the city’s first mayor, Earl Borden. “It was absolutely heroic work,” Barnett said. “Those two folks, thankfully, were taken to (DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital) and spent a couple days recov-
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