Homewood Fire Department was honored recently by Transportation Community Awareness and Emergency Response (TRANSCAER) with the first Outstanding Community Safety Partnership Award in large part for the role it played in creating a training video that will help fire departments across the country prepare for rail emergencies.
At the award presentation on June 27 at the department headquarters on Dixie Highway, Erica Fischer, director of training, outreach and partnerships with TRANSCAER, thanked village officials for working…


