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North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey on Monday will be attending the Fayetteville Technical Community College-Cumberland County Regional Fire and Training Center Topping Out ceremony.

Commissioner Causey will sign the last steel beam before it is installed in the training facilities at 2:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 20. The FTCC-Cumberland County Regional Fire and Training Center is located at 775 Tom Starling Road, Fayetteville, N.C. 28306.

North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey on Thursday will honor three firefighters and two paramedics who earlier this month delivered a baby in a car outside the Black Mountain Fire Department.

Commissioner Causey, who is the State Fire Marshal, will also announce the new insurance rating for the Swannanoa Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad while in Buncombe County.

Firefighters Derek McKinney, Will Lonon and Chance Hensley, along with paramedics Cameron Bradley and Allison Bradley, will receive the Commissioner’s Award.

h Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey on Wednesday will honor an 11-year-old girl who protected her younger brother after a fire broke out in their Charlotte home in March.

The girl, Tyshala Ni’Ann Wilson, will be given the Commissioner’s Award for Heroism.

North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey on Wednesday will honor firefighters and first responders who helped rescue a 14-year-old boy from a fire in Iredell County in September 2020.

Commissioner Causey, who is also the State Fire Marshal, will present ceremonial grant checks to rescue squads in Catawba and Iredell counties during the day.

Eight firefighters and 911 dispatchers who teamed up to help save the teenage boy from a fire will receive SAVE Awards, which go to people who go above and beyond the call of duty.

North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey and New Hanover County Sheriff Ed McMahon will hold an Operation Medicine Drop drug take-back event Wednesday, April 14, at the New Hanover County Detention Facility in Castle Hayne.

Operation Medicine Drop events are held throughout the state in an effort to curb the state’s opioid crisis and save lives. The New Hanover Sheriff’s office OMD event will be held from 10 a.m. to noon. Commissioner Causey and Sheriff McMahon will have a media availability at 11 a.m.