News Briefs: Firefighters Treated for Heat Exhaustion After Treatment Plant Blaze

Two firefighters from Middletown, Connecticut, were treated for heat exhaustion after battling a blaze at the J.S. Roth Water Treatment Plant.It took the fire department two hours to extinguish the fire, which had ignited after power was lost at the facility and a backup generator overheated after five hours of use and sparked a grass fire. California Utility Offering Virtual Treatment Plant Tours The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) of West Oakland, California, is offering free one-hour virtual tours of its wastewater treatment facility. Topics covered in the tours include what wastewater is, how it’s treated and career opportunities available at EBMUD.The virtual tours