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Avery Martinez

Colorado, Texas

Mental Health Reporter at KVIA-TV (El Paso, TX)

Environment Reporter at KMOV-TV (St. Louis, MO)

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Articles

  • Climbing on up: Electric Linemen are constantly training to do the most to keep power on

    6 days ago | firstalert4.com | Avery Martinez

    ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - When the lights go off, we all expect the power crews to be out and working hard. That’s usually when the calls start, but the work is plenty demanding and requires a lot of physical and mental strength. The job requires climbing up and down power poles, dealing with electric wires, heavy machinery and dealing with the most destructive weather. Jason Novak is a journeyman lineman, and also a long-time competitor in lineman challenges.

  • New EPA administrator updates timeline for West Lake Landfill, Coldwater Creek

    1 week ago | firstalert4.com | Avery Martinez

    ST. LOUIS (First Alert 4) - Coldwater Creek and the West Lake Landfill could see radiation cleanups start sooner than originally planned, according to a new timeline issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, following a visit to local sites last month. In a status update released today, Administrator Lee Zeldin has moved the timeline for cleaning up the irradiated sites by “two years” compared to the initial draft of the proposed cleanup operations.

  • St. Louis environment groups ask for more volunteers for huge clean-up on Saturday

    2 weeks ago | firstalert4.com | Avery Martinez

    ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - If you’re looking for something to do on Saturday, you could help out with a large-scale clean-up event trying to cover the entire St. Louis region. Saturday is the third annual Confluence Trash Bash, which promises to be one of the largest cleanups on rivers, creeks and across the Lower Missouri River watershed. Volunteers will clean across the area, including sites not along the waterways -- like illegal dumping sites.

  • ‘Some humans are nice’; St. Louis woman working to give chickens a new life post-egg production

    2 weeks ago | firstalert4.com | Avery Martinez

    ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - When most folks think of chicken, they probably think of dinner -- but for Erica Camp, she’s thinking about the literally hundreds of chickens she’s helped foster, rehomed and helped. Second-Hen’d is a local organization dedicated to helping “spent” hens, meaning egg-producing chickens that once laid eggs in commercial operations -- but are now past their egg-laying prime.

  • St. Louis students put soil and wildlife knowledge to the test in Envirothon outside Pacific

    3 weeks ago | firstalert4.com | Avery Martinez

    ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Students gathered around small picnic tables near Pacific, fighting the rain and wet paper, as the clock ticked down on their final entries. These teams of students from the St. Louis area, all from different school districts, were racing the clock and each other to perform correct soil, water, tracking and other tests using the scientific method.

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