WARWICK — The Rhode Island Airport Corporation will hold the next virtual public information session for Rhode Island’s General Aviation airport communities on Wednesday, July 17, at noon, for local officials and members of the public. The session will be held via Zoom. A link will be posted on the Rhode Island Secretary of State’s website and at flyri.com on the day of the meeting.
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In late September 2021, Rhode Island Public Radio, which operates as The Individuals’s Radio throughout the state, filed an software with the FCC for a brand new noncommercial training radio station licensed to Bradford, R.I. Within the software, The Individuals’s Radio request a waiver of part 73.509(a) of the Fee’s guidelines to permit an in any other case prohibited contour overlap with a second-adjacent channel noncommercial station — a Class A member of the “Renew FM” household.
Then got here an off-the-cuff objection from the licensee of an FM translator in Windfall. It had advantage. Al Shuldiner, Chief of the Media Bureau’s Audio Division, has denied the waiver request and granted the objection. As such, he dismissed the NPR Member stations’ software.
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Virtual information session on project updates for Rhode Island state airports
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A recent autopsy report following the Mother’s Day incident shows the man died of a “blast injury.”
A 39-year-old man was killed on May 12 when a mortar-style firework was placed on his head and set off, according to police in Westerly, Rhode Island.
A recent autopsy report of David Ziegenfuss lists the cause of death as a “blast injury” to the head and the manner of death as accidental, Westerly Police Chief Paul Gingerella told the Providence Journal. Those involved in the incident were drinking alcohol, he said.
“It appears they were messing around, and they placed a firework on top of his head,” the chief told the Journal.
An investigation into the circumstances of the death at the home at Pound Road continues, Gingerella said.
The mix of high-risk activity with alcohol use is dangerous, Gingerella said.
“The involvement of alcohol increases the dangers of illegal activities exponentially,” Gingerella told the Journal.
The mortar-type firework used is illegal in Rhode Island.
According to the 2023 US Consumer Product Safety Commission Fireworks Annual Report, there were eight reported fireworks-related deaths the prior year, with the majority of deaths associated with mortar-style devices. Five of those deaths were due to fireworks misuse.
The agency is reporting 159 fireworks-related deaths between 2008 and 2023, for an average of 9.9 deaths per year.
Family members set up a GoFundMe page to help with end-of-life expenses.
The page says Ziegenfuss was airlifted from Westerly to Yale New Haven Hospital, where he died.
His brother wrote that Ziegnefuss was an “adoring father to his son, a fun uncle, a listening ear and a caring shoulder. He was very loved by his family and friends.”
Gingerella said the state’s Attorney General’s office will determine any pending charges.
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