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WRESTLING FINISHES RUNNER-UP IN STATE DUALS

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Caldwells face off for first time

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January 24, 2024

TallasseeTribune.com

VOL. 126, NO. 4

Home destroyed in Wednesday blaze

Reeltown to head south on Highway 49. Smoke was also visible from Elmore County on Highway 14. A Tallassee home on Horizon A Reeltown Fire Department Lane is no more, as a fire consumed tanker ferried water to firetrucks the home Wednesday afternoon. servicing the fire as there were no Firefighters from the Reeltown nearby hydrants. Firefighters pulled Volunteer Fire Department and tools from the home as it was under the Tallassee Fire Department renovation. responded. Neighbors said the community Personnel on the scene said stepped up to help the husband and they could see smoke from the wife whose home was lost. fire as they left the fire station in Matt Carden with local By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor

contracting company AMPAC used his company’s equipment to clean the remaining debris. It was placed in donated construction dumpsters. Others donated a RV trailer for the family until the home can be replaced. Someone else donated a bedroom suite. Clothes, food and monetary donations have been received as well. Firefighters on the scene said there were no injuries but one pet was lost.

CLIFF WILLIAMS | TPI

Firefighters from Reeltown and Tallassee responded to a home on Horizon Lane just east of Tallassee Wednesday afternoon.The home is a complete loss.There were no injuries but one pet was lost.

Tallassee hires Lawrence “L.A.” O’Neal as head football coach By DALTON MIDDLETON Sports Editor Tallassee has found its new head football coach. The Tallassee Board

of Education approved Lawrence “L.A.” O’Neal to be the Tigers’ coach and athletic director TuesSee O’NEAL, Page A6

LIFE-SAVING MOMENT Training pays off in well rescue practice scenarios. When an incident does occur, they rely on elements from ractice makes perfect. numerous training sessions It is the case for many over hours, days and even athletic teams, students weeks to achieve a positive in academics and performers outcome. on the stage. Firefighters from the TalIn those situations, partic- lassee Fire Department and ipants know the majority of the Friendship Volunteer Fire what they will face and can Department got a positive better prepare for it. First outcome from a well rescue responders never know what earlier this month. they will face. They can only “A subject fell in a well By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor

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on Jordan Avenue,” Tallassee fire chief Eric Jones said. “We were able to communicate with the subject when we got there.” Firefighters on the scene realized the rescue from 35 feet below ground in a confined space needed extra hands. Mutual aid from Friendship was requested. Getting to the subject See RESCUE, Page A6

The Tallassee Fire Department brought its ladder truck to a well just off Jordan Avenue to allow a high point to lower a rescuer in to help a subject who had fallen down the well.

DALTON MIDDLETON | TPI

Tallassee High School announced on Tuesday the hiring of Lawrence “L.A.” O’Neal as the school’s next football coach.

THS senior helps with school’s male show choir By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor Classmate or choreographer? The answer to the question is “Why not both?” It is such the case for

Tallassee senior Sarah Jane Patterson, who has joined her mother Amanda Glasscock as a choreographer for the all male show choir, Gold Edition. See CHOIR, Page A6

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