# Mayor's Task Force to End Homelessness - October 14, 2026 > Auto-transcribed civic record · Task Force · October 14, 2026 - **Permalink**: https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/meeting/6909 - **Source video**: https://lfucg.granicus.com/player/clip/6909?view_id=14&redirect=true - **Date**: 2026-10-14 - **Body**: Task Force - **Last revised**: October 14, 2026 - **Length**: 12,946 words > ⚠️ **Auto-generated content.** Audio from the official Granicus video was auto-transcribed by OpenAI Whisper-1. Structured facts were extracted with GPT-4o; the narrative summary was written by Anthropic Claude Sonnet. Speaker labels and verbatim wording may contain errors. See [methodology](https://meetings.lexingtonky.news/about/methodology) or [report a correction](mailto:editor@lexingtonky.news). --- ## Full transcript Delicious. Talk about your childhood wishes. You can even eat the dishes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who can make tomorrow? Dip it in a dream. Separate the sorrow and collect the ball of cream. The Candyman. The Candyman. The Candyman can. The Candyman, yeah. The Candyman can coz he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good. Yes! The Candyman can coz he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good. A Candyman! The Candyman, yeah. The Candyman, yeah. Tastes like Mexico. Sunshine gonna wash my blues away. Had sweet love but I lost her. She got too close so I fought her. Now I'm lost in the world trying to find me a better way. Wishing I was deep, deep in the water somewhere. Got the blue sky breeze and it don't seem fair. Only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair. Sunrise, there's a fire in the sky. Never been so happy, never felt so high. And I think I might have found me my own kind of paradise. Wrote a note, said be back in a minute. Bought a boat and I sailed off in it. Don't think anybody's gonna miss me anyway. Mind on a permanent vacation. The ocean is my only medication. Wishing my condition ain't ever gonna go away. Now I'm deep, deep in the water somewhere. Got the blue sky breeze blowing wind through my hair. Only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair. Sunrise, there's a fire in the sky. Never been so happy, never felt so high. And I think I might have found me my own kind of paradise. This champagne shore washing over me. It's a sweet, sweet life living by the salty sea. One day you could be as lost as me. Change your geography. Maybe you might be. Deep, deep in the water somewhere. Got the blue sky breeze blowing wind through my hair. Only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair. Sunrise, there's a fire in the sky. Never been so happy, never felt so high. And I think I might have found me my own kind of paradise. Come on in, the water's nice. Buy yourself a little slice. Grab a backpack, a light. You never know until you try. When you lose yourself, you find the key to paradise. Ooh. Yeah! Uh-uh! Uh-uh! Uh-uh! Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack. I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that no more works flown. I took a wrong turn and I just kept going. Everybody's got a hungry heart. Everybody's got a hungry heart. Lay down your money and you play your part. Everybody's got a hungry, hungry heart. I met her in a kids' town bar. We fell in love, I knew it had to end. We took what we had and we ripped it apart. Now here I am down in kids' town again. Everybody's got a hungry heart. Everybody's got a hungry heart. Lay down your money and you play your part. Everybody's got a hungry, hungry heart. La-da-da-da-da-da-da. La-da-da-da-da-da-da. La-da-da-da-da-da-da. Everybody needs a place to rest. Everybody wants to have a home. Don't make no difference what nobody says. Ain't nobody like to be alone. Everybody's got a hungry heart. Everybody's got a hungry heart. Lay down your money and you play your part. Everybody's got a hungry, hungry heart. Everybody's got a hungry heart. Everybody's got a hungry, hungry heart. Lay down your money and you play your part. Everybody's got a hungry heart. La-da-da-da-da-da-da. La-da-da-da-da-da-da. La-da-da-da-da-da-da. La-da-da-da-da-da-da. Everybody's got a hungry heart. I can see the path you're cutting. Lost me a little piece of my heart. I can see the doors you're shutting. Cause they were open at the start. Baby, loving you is the part of me. You're such a tough little sister just looking for Mr. Right. On the wrong side of town, you better love somebody. It's right, you better love somebody. I feel the way you better love somebody. Don't get fake. You're gonna pull it just a little too far. One night. Your eyes are wild. Your skin so white. You're undernourished and old and fat. She's got the teeth. She knows how to bite. Cause when you bit, I bled. You got the perfect image of the perfect man. You're a tough little sister, but you're single for a Mr. Tonight. But you're running out of time. You better love somebody. It's right, you better love somebody. I feel the way you better love somebody. Don't get fake. You're gonna pull it just a little too far. One night. I'm only saying what I feel. You think I'm wrong, I know. You thought I was sleeping at the wheel. I thought that you were coming through. You better love somebody. You better love somebody. You better love somebody. It's right, you better love somebody. The way you better love somebody. Don't get fake. You're gonna pull it just a little too far. One night. One night. One night. One night. One night. One night. One night. piano plays softly This is the day Of the expanding man That shape is my shame There where I used to stand It seems like only yesterday I gazed through the glass At ramblers, wild gamblers That's all in the past You call me a fool You say it's a crazy scheme This one's for real I already bought the dream So useless to ask me why Throw a kiss and say goodbye I'll make it this time I'm ready to cross that fine line Learn to work the saxophone I play just what I feel Drink Scotch whiskey all night long And die behind the wheel They got a name for the winners in the world I want a name when I lose They call Alabama the krypton town Call me Deacon Boone Deacon Boone My back to the wall A victim of laughing jack This is for me The essence of true romance Sharing the things we know and love With those of my kind Libations, sensations That stagger the mind I crawl like a viper Through these suburban scenes Make love to these women Languid and bittersweet I'll rise when the sun goes down Cover every gang in town Cover every gang in town A world of my own I'll make it my home, sweet home Learn to work the saxophone I play just what I feel Drink Scotch whiskey all night long And die behind the wheel They got a name for the winners in the world I want a name when I lose They call Alabama the krypton town Call me Deacon Boone Deacon Boone Deacon Boone saxophone solo This is the night I'm a standing man I take one last drag As I approach the stand I cried when I wrote this song Sue me if I play too long This brother is free And I want to be I learn to work the saxophone I play just what I feel Drink Scotch whiskey all night long And die behind the wheel They got a name for the winners in the world I want a name when I lose They call Alabama the krypton town Call me Deacon Boone Deacon Boone saxophone solo saxophone solo bass solo electric guitar solo electric guitar solo Love me two time baby Love me twice today Love me two time girl I'm gone away Love me two time girl One for tomorrow One just for today Love me two time I'm gone away Love me one time Do not speak Love me one time Yeah my knees got weak Love me two time girl Lost me All through the week Love me two time I'm gone away Love me two time I'm gone away Oh yeah! electric guitar solo electric guitar solo Love me one time Do not speak Love me one time baby Yeah my knees got weak Love me two time girl Lost me All through the week Love me two time I'm gone away Love me two time baby Love me twice today Love me two time baby Cause I'm gone away Love me two time girl One for tomorrow One just for today Love me two time I'm gone away Love me two time I'm gone away Love me two times I'm Gone away guitar solo electric guitar solo electric guitar solo Give it time Give a look in the mirror All these lies in my face Getting clearer The past is gone It went by like dusk to dawn Isn't that the way Everybody's got the dues in life I know nobody knows Where it comes and where it goes I know everybody says You got the dues to know guitar solo Half my life's in books, written pages Live and learn from fools and from sages You know it's true All the things come back to you Sing with me Sing for the year Sing for the laugh Sing for the tear Sing with me It's just for today Maybe tomorrow The good Lord will take you away guitar solo electric guitar solo Sing with me Sing for the year Sing for the laugh Sing for the tear Sing with me It's just for today Maybe tomorrow The good Lord will take you away Dream on Dream on Dream on Bring out your dream come true Dream on Dream on Dream on Dream until your dream comes true Dream on Dream on Dream on Dream on Dream on Dream on Dream on Sing with me Sing for the year Sing for the laugh Sing for the tears Sing with me Just for today Never tomorrow Good love will take you away Sing with me Sing for the year Sing for the laugh Sing for the tears Sing with me Just for today Never tomorrow Good love will take you away Well excuse me But I think you've got my chair No that one's not taken I don't mind if you sit here I'll be glad to share Yeah it's usually packed here On Friday nights Oh if you don't mind Could I talk you out of a lie Well thank you Could I drink you a bite Oh listen to me What I mean is Can I buy you a drink Anything you please Oh you're welcome Well I don't think I caught your name Are you waiting for someone to meet you here Well that makes two of us glad you came No I don't know the name of the band but they're good Aren't they would you like to dance It reminds me of you and me baby Do you think there's a chance that later on we'll be together On this edition of Lexington Now, Tree Week, the Junior Fire Chief and the Cardiac Crusade. I'm Neal Noah and welcome to Lexington Now for the week of October 12, 2026. Tree Week is upon us and it's a great way to learn about our leafy friends. Here's Heather Wilson with the details. I'm Heather Wilson. I am the Program Manager Senior for Urban and Community Forestry and I help the city manage our urban tree canopy, grow it, care for it, and educate about it. Tree Week is our annual celebration of trees and all the ways that they give back to us as a community and I feel like it's our way to give back to trees. It was born out of the understanding that probably everyone loves trees but they don't love them all in the same way or understand them all in the same way and our goal with Tree Week was to give a platform for people to share how they love trees with everybody else and for others to learn about it. Also to make those cognitive connections that oh, I love this place because of the trees. There are in-person events, there are online webinars, there are tree plantings, there are tree walks, there are tree identification hikes, there are, a lot of our parks are hosting opportunities to do crafts with trees. There's a couple local organizations doing other arts with trees. There's Wild Ones is hosting a poetry reading about trees. They're asking for people to either come read a poem that they wrote themselves or a piece of literature or to read one that was written by someone already, like a famous poet or author. The only ask for that one is that nothing AI-generated is accepted. There is music under the trees at the African Cemetery, number two, there is some leaf rubbings. The Urban Forestry Group is doing a tree mulching over at Coolivan and we're doing a tree evangelist planting over there off of Center Parkway in Gaines Bay. And then we're doing a reforestable grass work day. There is a Red Oak School hosting a tie-dye with tree dye event, so tie-dyeing with tree-derived colors. You can either just go to your favorite search engine and type in Tree Week Lexington and it should bring you to the page with the list of events. You can also go through the city's website, lexingtonky.gov. You can also go through the Urban Forestry page, but it will take you to our list of events. It is full of, I think up to almost 70 events now. And they each have a drop-down with a description. They are all free. I need to make sure to mention that, except for maybe one, which is a non-profit-based and it's just to support their hike. And then they are all throughout the week, all times of the day, really trying to target people and their schedules and what can fit for them. The Lexington Fire Department has named its newest Junior Fire Chief. We were there for the introduction. Our Junior Fire Chief program was developed to teach children about fire safety. As firefighters, we know that it's important to teach both fire prevention and teach kids what to do if they experience a fire within their home. We also know that if we can reach the children, we can often reach their parents, their brothers and sisters, their friends, and their classmates. Charge into fire safety, safe charging is a superpower, is this year's fire prevention theme. And Harper put together an amazing presentation that really stood out to us. Fire affects people of all ages, but it can disproportionately affect children. Oftentimes our Junior Fire Chief can reach other kids and students better than we can. So we look forward to working with Harper over the next few weeks to spread her very important message. Lexington firefighters are involved in our community in many ways, and we're excited to share some of these experiences with Harper. Harper will serve as a dignitary on behalf of the Lexington Fire Department. She will tour local businesses and landmarks. She will be interviewed by local media, attend meetings with me, and the Lexington City Council and Mayor Linda Gorton. And because we want to ensure that Harper has the full firefighter experience, we're also going to feed her very, very well. All along the way, she's going to be able to share her message of fire safety with a wide audience of people. The best part about being a firefighter is sharing what we love with our community. We appreciate Squires Elementary and Lexington Fayette County Public Schools for your partnership and helping us to teach these important lessons. Now, I'm going to invite Harper up to the front of the podium, and we'll do the official pinning. Thank you. Applause Applause This is Charge Into Fire Safety by Harper Sharkey. Lithium-ion batteries are a part of many of our daily lives. They're in some electronics that many people use, such as phones, tablets, laptops, e-bikes, and scooters. But they can be dangerous. Sometimes, lithium-ion batteries can explode and cause fires, so it's important to learn ways to stay safe. It's important to stay safe while using lithium-ion batteries, so here are some tips to stay safe. Store lithium-ion batteries in a dry, room-temperature environment. Use chargers that come with your device or that are approved by the company. Stop using your devices and get away from them immediately if they're overly hot or start bulging. Don't plug appliances with lithium-ion batteries when you're not using them. As said previously, lithium-ion batteries can cause dangerous fires, so it's important to know things not to do with lithium-ion batteries so that no one accidentally causes a dangerous fire. Don't charge your devices on soft surfaces, such as carpets, and don't overload your outlet when charging any lithium-ion battery. Don't risk using cheap or bad quality chargers for your devices. Don't store lithium-ion batteries directly in sunlight or in hot, cold, humid, or wet places. Lithium-ion batteries create oxygen, so if you have a fire from one, don't try to put it out. You can make it worse, and it will emit toxic gases, so it's best to get away from the fire and immediately call 911 so that you don't get burned. Well done, Harper. Applause The cardiac crusade after the break. Music Music Music Music Hey Tyler, are you ready for the Halloween yard decoration contest on LexTV? I'm so excited about it. This is going to be our first one ever. Hold on a minute. What's this? Is this a ghost? I thought you wanted a ghost. I guess we could use one? Sure. You like to go all out and decorate your yard for Halloween? Is your family the ones that go all out for Halloween and the neighbors just shake their heads? Well, you're the ones we're looking for. Post a picture of your parade Halloween yard decorations and pick a couple of favorites and we'll schedule an interview for air on Lexington Now. But do it now before October the 19th. And be sure to follow LexTV on Facebook and Instagram. And maybe you'll get to meet a ghost? I think Haley's having way too much fun. Laughs That was a good one, I think. That's it. Whoa Scary Music Music Music Music Music Music Welcome back to Lexington Now. Cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death worldwide. And the cardiac crusade is highlighting the importance of AEDs in greatly increasing the chances of surviving a cardiac event. We're here to talk about the importance of quick action during a sudden cardiac arrest and the work of a group of local volunteers who are making it easier for all of us to help save a life. According to the American Heart Association, cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death worldwide. Each year, more than 350,000 cardiac arrests occur outside the hospital environment in the United States. And 90% of those individuals do not survive. The best chance for survival comes from quick action. CPR can double or triple a person's chance of survival. And the use of an automated external defibrillator, an AED, increases that chance even more. Often, our first responders, our E911 telecommunicators, and fire department paramedics are the first people who support and guide care during cardiac emergencies. We're here at Fire Station One to highlight the importance of our first responders and the critical role of AEDs. For me, dropping dead from sudden cardiac arrest in front of the Kentucky Theater in 2021, it took someone calling 911, that's the first step. It took people gathering around me to make a scene. It took Charlotte Cowan seeing that group of people and stepping through and taking charge and doing CPR on me for 10 minutes, I'm told. Now what we need is community action. We need everybody who has a smartphone to download the PulsePoint AED app. It looks like the word near in a square. If you see an AED anywhere, you can map it. It's as easy or easier than downloading a video on YouTube. If you want to even get more involved, you can take training and you can be a certifier. For me, this initiative started the way a lot of important work in local government starts, with the resident reaching out and saying there's something we can do better. When Sarah first approached our office, she wasn't simply telling us about her cardiac arrest experience. She was asking us to think about the next person. It raised a simple question. If an AED is nearby, but no one knows where it is, how useful is it in an emergency? And now, we have the opportunity to take her experience and turn it into something that protects people throughout Lexington. We already have AEDs throughout Lexington in businesses, schools, churches, community centers, offices, and public spaces. The challenge is making sure that when someone needs it and someone around is having a cardiac arrest, they know exactly where it is and where the closest one is. That is why this initiative matters. Throughout the PulsePoint system, we have an opportunity to map these devices and create resources that can help our emergency dispatchers and everyday residents locate an AED when seconds matter. For me, this speaks directly to my commitment to creating safer and healthier communities and to my principle for sharing information and resources so people have the tools they need when they need them most. And what I appreciate most about this effort is that the entire community can participate. You don't have to be an elected official. You don't have to be a firefighter. You don't have to be a healthcare professional. If your business, church, school, or nonprofit or community organization has an AED, we need you to help map them. If you are a resident, you can help identify and verify AEDs in the place you already visit every day. This is what community public safety looks like. Government, healthcare professionals, first responders, businesses, residents all working together to build a system that can save somebody's life. So today, I want to challenge Lexington. If you have an AED, get it on the map. If you see an AED, check the map. And if it's not there, help us make sure it's there. Because the AED closest to you today could be the one that saves someone you love tomorrow. Sudden cardiac arrest can happen anywhere, and access to an AED can make a critical difference. Through Cardiac Cats, we are bringing together students, healthcare professionals, and community leaders to help ensure Lexington's AEDs are easier to locate when they are needed the most. Our goal is simple. Identify and verify AEDs throughout Lexington so these life-saving devices can be found more quickly during an emergency. Our goal is to map as many AEDs by February as possible. We have already seen an incredible support from students across several disciplines who are eager to make meaningful impact in our community. Every AED that is verified represents another potentially life-saving opportunity. We are grateful to everyone supporting this effort. Today we can make Lexington a more heart-safe community and a better prepared to respond when every second matters. Thank you. Here's Randy again with our Pets of the Week. Hey everyone, welcome to this week's Lexington Fayette County Adoptable Pets from LexTV and the Lexington Humane Society. We have a Kuma, chocolate in color, a male, approximately four months old, looks like an American Pit Bull mix, does well with other dogs, does well in apartments, and also does well with children. And we have Amy Wilmarhouse, female, approximately age four years old, mature size is large, does well with other dogs, does well in apartments, and also does well with children. And we have Baby, white in color, female, approximately age five years old, looks like a great Pyrenees mix, does well with other dogs, but does meet required, does well in apartments, and also does well with children over the age of five. Thanks for watching these adorable and handsome pets available at LexingtonHumaneSociety.org from LexTV and the Lexington Humane Society. We're joined by our own Tyler Rowlett with this weekend's event. Hey there, I'm Tyler with LexTV. Here's some upcoming events this Friday, October 16th through Saturday, October 18th in Lexington and Fayette County. Please note, events that require registration may sell out or fill up in advance. Be sure to confirm by visiting lexingtonky.gov slash calendar. On Friday, October 16th, start your day in nature with a bird walk at Kelly's Landing at 9 a.m. Binoculars will be provided so you can observe the skies on a one-mile walk around the park. Registration is strongly encouraged. Then, from 6 to 8 p.m., join us at the Living Arts and Sciences Center for the opening reception of the Art by Nature Concrete to Creek Exhibit. Organized by Live Green Lexington, works in this collection will focus on ways stormwater moves through the city. Award winners will be announced at 7 p.m. On Saturday, October 17th, we're hosting our Household Hazardous Waste Collection from 8.30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Old Landfill Pad at 1631 Old Frankfort Pike. Bayette County residents can drop off hazardous materials that should not be put in the trash such as paints, pesticides, batteries, oils, and more. You can find a full list of what you can bring by searching hazardous waste on our website. Junior Naturalists will take place at McConnell Springs Park at 10 a.m. where kids in grades K through 5th can learn about trees through activities, crafts, and a guided walk. Registration is required. Also, at 10 a.m., join us at Heisel Farm Park for a scavenger hunt hike. Park staff will guide you on a walk, teaching you how to navigate the park with a compass and maps while completing a scavenger hunt along the way. Registration is available online. Lastly, on Sunday, October 18th, Tree Week comes to an end with a special Poetry Under the Trees event at the Amphitheater at McConnell Springs Park. The event begins at 5.30 p.m. with an open mic session. Camping chairs and blankets are recommended. That's a look at what we have going on in Lexington and Fayette County this weekend. For more details and registration links, you can visit lexingtonky.gov slash calendar. Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next week. Tyler also has our week's meeting coming. Hi there, I'm Tyler with LexTV. Here's our current live meeting schedule this week starting October 12th for LexTV. Remember, you can watch all our live meeting coverage on LexTV Channel 185 and always online at lexingtonky.gov. On Monday, October 12th, watch the Board of Adjustment meeting at 1.30 p.m. and on Tuesday, October 13th, watch the Environmental Quality and Public Works meeting at 1 p.m. followed by the Council Work Session at 3. On Wednesday, October 14th, watch the Police and Fire Pension Board meeting at 9 a.m. and on Thursday, you can watch the Planning Commission session at 1.30 p.m. That's our current live meeting schedule for LexTV this week. Watch all our live meeting coverage on LexTV Channel 185 or always online at lexingtonky.gov. Click the LexTV tab at the top. I'm Tyler, and I'll see you next time. That's all for now, but as always, you can keep up with us on social media, check out the latest traffic updates on X at LexRex, or catch our live traffic cams on lexingtonky.gov. 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So, red, green, blue... Green means go. Green means go, but does that mean, like, go or blow, or go as in cut, or go as in blow, or... Red means stop. Blue's my favorite color, but I don't know if that's significant. You know what? Let's just go for blue. All right, this is your call. All right! ♪♪ the moment it's just Byj, but Nicole is somewhere around here getting ready for what we're going to be talking about today, the hazardous devices unit here at the Lexington Police Department. You look like you are ready. I'm ready. Ready to lift this stuff up. All right, is it heavy? Just a little bit. It's heavier than our gear that we wear. You ready to go take a little run or do something? Yeah. Okay. All right. So, and obviously we are not too good at picking the color of wires and all that kind of thing. So let's go talk to the folks that do know what they're talking about. And we're going to be visiting with the Lexington Police Department hazardous devices unit. Hey, we are here with Commander Greathouse and Officer Kaylee Sizemore with the hazardous devices unit. Thank you all for joining us today. Thanks for having us. Thank you. You know, we've had Commander Greathouse on several episodes. He obviously is involved in a lot of things in the police department, but I know one of your true passions along, we always talk technology with you, but I know one of your true passions is hazardous device unit. So I guess we'll get started. I always like to talk about a little bit of history. So if you can kind of tell us when it started, how it started, how it evolved and why it started. Sure. So back in 2001, January, 2001. So before September 11th, we were in the process of examining, do we need to actually have a squad back in, back in Lexington? Back in the seventies, we did have one and it kind of went from the police department to the fire department and then back to the police department. They kind of dissolved in the early eighties, I think. And in 2001, we started to form that back. I interviewed for that squad after taking a course in college when I graduated in 99. Back then it was a post-blast investigation. They were holding at Eastern Kentucky University and they asked for volunteers for the first class just to see how it was. And if you took the class, you automatically got an A. Well, I'll definitely take a free class when I get a perfect grade. And it sparked my interest. And so when we started this squad in 2001, we started with four. I'm the last one of the original four that got on the squad in 2001. And so we had our first bomb tech certified not too long after September 11th. I think they were certified by January. And then we had the rest of us certified a couple of years later. I went to basic school in 04, so I've been a bomb tech since then. So I've been on the squad from the very beginning. And then we have our newest members that just started back in the summer of last year, so summer of 25. These are our newest members that are going to take over the legacy and sometime probably soon. Don't know when, but my career is not going to be nearly as long as the folks that are coming behind me. When Kaylee, you know, we were talking earlier, Kaylee was one of our explorers on the Lexington Police Department Explorer Post 357 and back when I used to coordinate it. So I'm excited for you and proud of you and seeing you excel with Lexington Police Department. So since you are new, let's talk a little bit about training, because I am very confident that there is a lot of training required in this job. There is. So something interesting about bomb techs is in the nation, there's roughly about 3,000 at any given time through the entire nation. In Kentucky, we have five separate squads, and we're one of those. And we have eight certified bomb techs just for Lexington that we're allowed to have. Currently, we have six. This fall into the winter, we're actually going to have our last two go to school to get us back up to full strength. So we'll have eight total then. We have 10 members on the team. And so it's governed by what's called the National Bomb Squad Advisory Board. It works in conjunction with the FBI, and they dictate how many hours of training we have to have. We first started, it was only 16 hours. We had two training days a month. And then right around 2020, we've given all the other things that we do in the bomb squad now from either defeating bombs and electronics and robotics and then drones and things like that. They increase that by another 10 hours. So we have three days a month that we train. And that's just the training part, not nearly enough for us to be extremely good at what we do. And I tell the folks when they come on, when we started, if you wanted to get really good, you had to spend a lot of your own personal time. And you talked about this being a passion. This is one of my passions. You don't see a lot of play. We don't have a lot of turnover. When you come on the bomb squad, you stay here. And I'm evident of that. The three people that originally came on, they stayed their entire careers. So we just do this a little bit and then get back out. And I talked about the FBI in conjunction with NABSCAB. There's only one place in the country that you can go get certified to be a bomb tech and that's Huntsville, Alabama. So there's not any other standard. There is one standard. And so bomb techs that are trained here in Lexington as bomb techs can go anywhere in the United States and its territories and run calls with that exact same team because they're at the exact same equipment. They're going to have the exact same training and we can work in conjunction. They could also come here and do the exact same thing. I can walk onto any bomb squad truck across the country, find the equipment that I need to operate and operate, even if nobody else is there because we all have to have the exact same thing. So I think that's pretty special. I've always considered that very special in a very tight community. If there's something going on, somebody's going to know about it. We had a recent house explosion here in Lexington. We worked a few weeks ago. I was getting calls from all around the country. What do you need? What can I help you with? Do you need any advice? I mean, those are the things. If you don't know something, there is absolutely nobody you can't call to find an answer because we all know each other because we all go to one school. And the training, I'm sure, is ongoing too. It's ongoing. Yeah, every three months. As a matter of fact, I think the whole team is here today. The whole team is here, except for one. We have one actually in training in Alabama doing an advanced class. So Patrick Hall is another one of our officers that is here. He just got certified last year and he is in advanced explosive demolition techniques, which is hosted by the ATF, which I have gone down to help teach many, many times after I went through in 05. And it is a wonderful, in fact, I made some great friendships there from guys around the country that I went back every year to teach with. We've flown all over the place and taught all over this country. That's the wonderful thing about this squad is it provides you with so many opportunities to do so many different things. And to speak a little bit back about the certification, it's six weeks. So it's basic six weeks for you to be certified. And that is for you to be able to go down and what most people think, cut the red wire. That's to go down and actually put your hands on stuff. Which we know can not turn out the right way. You talk about, we've got some things around us here, which Nicole, I think you know that's pretty heavy, right? This weighs about 85 pounds. So these are our new, brand new suits. They're made by MedEng. This is the EOD 9N and they are up to a 10, tens we don't care for. I don't like the design of them. In fact, they're terrible. We had them come in and talk to us and their rep, national rep came in and talked to us and we put together some ideas and they're actually in development of making a newer suit that is going to be better fitted for the bomb tech. This suit is not comfortable. Like I said, it weighs 85 pounds. It has all the protective features up front. That's for a reason, because you're always going to be facing device. It's rated at one pound at zero feet. So you could be over top of a one pound stick of dynamite is what it's rated at. You could be blown backwards and you're supposed to be able to survive. I don't know if anybody's actually tested that or not. Don't want to, but it is heavy. There's a lot of new features in these suits that are different from what I started with before you had to have a manual release on your face piece. Now they've got a pop-up hood. They got the integrated lights, a lot of stuff we didn't have back then. So it's great. These are really good suits. They're more comfortable than they were in the beginning. We have one of our robots over here. This robot has been used, it's been taken apart, put back together many different times. This is the original one we got off of Grant. This is our first robot, but it is, I think there's maybe two original parts that are still left on it. So it's been upgraded I think three total times. And this is called a Spartan. It's made by Remotech down in Tennessee. So we can go down there, which is great because we're close. So if we need something we can go down there. Then we have a pan disruptor over here, which we use to mitigate devices and things like that. We use columns of water, using different energy size shells to be able to project water at a certain speed. So a lot of equipment, which brings us to, I think you've got a new vehicle that we have on a grant that's going to be coming in shortly. After 25 years, we're actually going to get our first brand new response truck, primary. So the one we have back here is a recycle from the fire department. This used to be a hazmat vehicle, and we're super grateful that we got this vehicle. Before that, we had an old ambulance from the fire department that we had converted into a response vehicle. This has been really good for us. It's just, it's aging. The problem is you can't find parts for these anymore because they don't manufacture it. So we were lucky enough and blessed with grant money from Department of Homeland Security in Kentucky to be able to purchase that vehicle. We purchased it three years ago, and it should be ready hopefully in the next 30 days. I've gotten some updated pictures, which I'll share with you all. I think we're going to put in the video of the progression from when it started just as a chassis, and they're going to build the thing. So we are super excited. What I'm really excited about is that the same, that is the same vehicle that all of the bomb techs go train on in Huntsville. So it's going to be the same type vehicle. Known platform, it's actually going to have air conditioning that works in the back, it's going to have heat that works in the back, it's going to have room for all of our gear so we'll be able to take everything. It's going to be really cool. Very, very excited about it. Very excited for the new folks because they know this is going to be a 20 or 30 year vehicle. So with us being one of the five bomb squads in the state, do we also help out some smaller agencies? Yep. As I talked about how small the bomb tech community is, we had the call for the house explosion. We had bomb techs from the FBI and the ATF show up. We have great partnerships with our federal partners, but we do. We go assist in the Derby, we go assist in Thunder and Oaks. We have traveled as far east as Kentucky goes and as far west as Kentucky goes, and same north and south. We've actually responded out of state for calls before because other squads are either busy, some of their equipment is broke, and they need assistance. So you just start calling around and we respond really contiguous, not only to our specific location here in Lexington, but also just as a state. That helps us get these grants by being able to assist other agencies, and I know we're the same in the air support unit where we've been fortunate enough to get some grants because we serve more than just Lexington and help some other folks out. So that is fantastic. As far as you, Kayla, question. What made you want to do this? With my background in the military, I enjoy working in a team setting and I love all the opportunities we get to work with our local, state, and federal partners. All right. This is a fantastic team. Everybody's close knit. You do fantastic work. I appreciate it. And everybody in Lexington is very fortunate that you exist. It's one of those things people don't think about until they need you, and then it's pretty important when they need you, right? We like to be quiet. We don't want to be seen. I tell folks when they go out, this is not a job. You can't come in here and be good at this if you just want to do a job. This is a lifestyle. This is just a way of life. You're going to accept the fact that you're going to have to train a lot. You're going to have to lose hours of sleep. And I tell people, when you come here, I'm not going to be able to pay you for all the stuff that you're going to do. If you want to be good, you're going to have to sacrifice personally to be able to get really good at it. And we have a really close knit group of people. So what's the future of the unit? I think the future is very bright. The folks we have here behind us, I hope that I've done a good job selecting, and it's not just me. I say me. This is a team effort. We have a tryout, which Kaylee did the last one. I think I looked at her and said, you could at least make it look hard. She did such a good job, along with all the folks we picked. They have the lifestyle mentality. They know that it's going to take a lot of dedication to be able to keep this unit going. It is near and dear to my heart. I truly, truly love this unit. Well, we can tell, and we appreciate it. And we want to play with the toys. Awesome. We've got everything from drones to whatever. We're going to get out and take a look at some of this. So Commander Kaylee, again, thank you all very much for joining us. This is a very interesting unit. We've had a lot of folks have asked us about this and said, when are you going to do an episode on H2U? So we appreciate you joining us, and let's go see what we got out here. Let's go blow some stuff up. All right. Let's do it. Bajie, it was so fun learning about the Hazardous Devices Unit. It's interesting stuff. You know, a lot of people don't know that we have that here, that resource in Lexington, and for all of Kentucky, really. It is very, very valuable. And just what a great team. Commander Greathouse has done a great job putting that team together. They do so much training. Great. And, you know, of course, while we're here, we're playing on some of the toys here. We've got a future episode coming up down the road with Emergency Response Unit. We'll get a look inside the bear cap. But next month. If you watch CSI, we have a unit similar to that. It's called a Forensic Services Unit. So when we talk about Forensic Services Unit, we're talking about everything from fingerprints, ballistic testing, doing scans for scenes. I mean, it is some, it's truly some of the stuff that you hear about on TV. So I think it's going to be a really, really interesting episode. So join us next month for another episode of Your Lex PD. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next month. Something's wrong with the world today. I don't know what it is. Something's wrong with our eyes. We're seeing things in a different way. God knows it ain't his. It sure ain't no surprise. We're living on the edge. Living on the edge. Living on the edge. Living on the edge. There's something wrong with the world today. The light bulb's getting dim. There's meltdown in the sky. If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin, Mister, you're a better man than I. Living on the edge. You can't help yourself from falling. Living on the edge. You can't help yourself at all. Living on the edge. 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Welcome to the Lexington Senior Center. I am going to teach a beginning yoga, mostly deep stretches. Do what you can when you can. Take a pause whenever you need to. And if you have a block, we use yoga blocks. You can use one or two. And we will be on our knees a few times. So if you know your knees need a little extra pad, we have thick pads. You might have something at home. If not, a pillow. I always double up my mat. So if you need that also. All right. First, let's just sit up nice and tall. Get comfortable. If this crisscross is not comfy for you, you can always stick out one leg. Sit on a pillow, blanket, whatever you feel there. But right now, we're just going to kind of close our eyes. Think about elongating our spine and take some deep inhales through the nose. And you can either exhale through your nose or soft opening of the mouth. Just kind of quiets the body, gets us ready for our little practice here. So deep inhale. Exhale. Let's take a couple of more. Exhale. On this next inhale, think about lifting that spine again. Inhale deeply. We're just going to lower left to your left shoulder. Take your time. Maybe a little tweak forward, tweak back. Lifting the head up again. Inhalation. Exhale. Right ear, right shoulder. Gentle stretch. And good. Lifting the head up nice and tall. Lowering chin to chest. Exhale deeply. And let's give these half circles. Ear to shoulder. Chin to chest. Ear to shoulder. Exhale. Lifting the head up. Let's reach the chin to the sky. Let the head rest back. You may open your mouth here. Take a little jaw stretch, neck, whatever you feel like. And now bringing everything back to center, let's go ahead and get these wrists moving any direction you like to feel here. We are on our palms a lot. You can also flick the water. Finger movements going. Sweeping up. While we're here, let's interlace the fingers. Press the palms to the ceiling. Gaze up. Take a big inhale. And slowly lower left hand as you're reaching upright. And let's hold this stretch for about three long breaths. And one. Good. Sweep up. This time just point the fingers to the sky. Reach, reach, reach. Inhale. And sway to the other side. Three long breaths. And good. One more. And push off, reaching high again. Take a deep inhale. This time we're just going to take a gentle stretch to your left. Maybe one hand goes in back, the other one in front. Just your first twist. Ease into it. And inhale, rise. Every time we rise, think lengthening the spine. Inhale. Exhale, twisting to the other side. Relax your shoulders. And good. Coming center. Let's take our fingertips way behind us, opening our chin and our chest. Take a inhale. Exhale, wrap forward. Palms touch. And draw your navel in, your chest in, and a big stretch of the spine away from you. Doing that twice more. Big opening of the chin and the chest. Lift with an inhale. Exhale, contract. One more. Exhale, round. And palms together. Really reach, reach, reach forward with your fingers as your spine presses away. And good. Let's open it up, shake it out. Left arm. Just going to reach across. Stretch the back of the shoulder. And while you're here, you can give your fingers another little tap stretch. Thumb circles. Inhaling and exhaling. And open again. Take a inhale. Your right arm's coming across this time. Just going to take a nice stretch. Thumbs, fingers, if you need that, wrist. And good. Alright, one more while we're seated here. We're going to turn towards our right thigh. Just kind of lay your chest down. Maybe fingertips in front, whatever you're feeling. What you should feel is that left hip taking that nice stretch. Take some long breaths. Feel that nice stretch. Walk yourself back up. Turn to your left thigh. Walk your fingers out. Let the chest lower. Hold the stretch. And good. Rising up. And now the last one here. We're going to spider walk our fingers out as far as they'll go. And enjoy the stretch coming up from the pelvis. And now this is going to help us come all the way to tabletop, we call it. I'll turn sideways for you. So, take your time. Get up on your hands and knees. I'm going to double up the mat here with knees. Knees are going to be right underneath your hips. Palms are flat or if you want to make a fist here, everything's in line. Shoulders, elbows, wrist. Let's continue the curving of the spine which is called cat pose. Think about shoulder blades to the ceiling. Tailbone tucks. Take a big exhale while you're here. Just let a little bit of the sway of that lower C curve. And as the chin lifts, the tail lifts a little. There's your inhale. Let's give ourselves two more flows of these. Rounding, contracting, exhaling. Inhaling, small lift of the chin and the tail. Once more. Exhaling. And cow pose. So, that was cat and cow. We'll flow into spinal balance now. Getting the spine completely straight. Let's extend the right leg back first. Press the toes into your mat. Pressing through that heel. Nice stretch of the Achilles. And then from there, we're just going to lift that leg up. Just your leg for right now. Your eyes are gazing down at your mat. Your shoulders are gazing down. Now, taking the left hand, which is the opposite of your foot, touch your mat with your pinky finger. And if you can, reach it up. Eyes are looking straight down. This is called spinal balance, so you may feel a little unstable. Now, I want you to go for a big reach. Fingertips and heels or toes. Reach with an inhale. Exhale. Let's bring it all back down to your tabletop. Other side. Left toes. Press into the mat to stretch the heel. Lift that leg up. Ankle circles. Reaching out. Right hand reaches out. Pinky finger down first just to find stability. And then see if you can lift off. And then go for the reach. Fingers reach. Heels reach. And tabletop. Now, we're going to flow that. Take your time if I go too fast. One breath as you reach out. That's your inhale. Reach out with the opposite. Come back to your tabletop. Reach out with the right hand, left foot. Long reach with an inhale. Exhale. Tabletop. Two more. Last one. And good. Now, what we do is just send our hips back to our heels. It's called child's pose. Now, if you've had a knee replacement, your knees don't bend that much, you can keep these hips high. If you can, send it back. Hips touch your heels. Forehead can go on a block. And then we're going to come back to our tabletop position. So, we're going to come back to our tabletop position. Forehead can go on a block. Hands come down by your feet. And this is your resting pose. If anything gets difficult, this is where you will fold to. Let's take five long breaths here. Just kind of check in. Exhale. Extended child's from here. Extend your hands all the way to the top of the mat. Maybe the knees open up a little bit more for comfort. You can curl your toes or flatten them. Just go for a big reach. Really walk those fingers up. Pressing your armpits down. And rise back up to that tabletop where we started. We're going to make this into a little twist now, which is also called Thread the Needle. We're going to take our left arm, rise it up, and thread it through. So, your palm of your hand will be up. Your left ear is going to go to the mat. Hips can be high or hips can be low. Enjoy that spinal twist. And good. We're going to unwind there. And left hand down. The other side. Right arm opens up. The twist first. And spins that spine. Spine. Ear to mat. Reach through with the palm of your hand. And rise up. Hopefully that got a few little vertebrae loosened up. Now, the big plank. Hands are flat. We extend our legs straight back. I'll show you modified. Push into the earth. Arms are straight. Now, if you need a modification, just lower the knees and still pushing out of the shoulders there. Maybe you want to stretch your feet a little more. I shift heels to the front, to the back. Doing good. Doing good. Give yourself one more breath there. And now, everyone lower the knees. Let's walk to our knees. Curl our toes because we want to pop those knees up. Now, if this is uncomfortable, come on up. We're going to be coming up in just a second, but it's a great stretch for the feet. So, with that said, lift your hips. Now, for ragdoll, you want your knees deeply bent. You want your upper body feeling like a loosey-goosey ragdoll. Hold on to something. Your shins, your feet, your thighs. And you want your head to relax. Let's take some deep breaths here. As we come up, we're coming up super-duper slow. Take your hands to your thighs. Your spine is rounded. When you get to the top, roll the shoulders up, back, and down. We're just going to kind of check out here. It's called Mountain Pose. You're straight up. Your palms are open. You're just kind of bringing the blood flow back up. It's a good morning. It's going to warm up these hips. Feet are hip-width apart. Grab your waist. Give it a good tuck. You're going to send your hips way back. Bend your knees and just send your body over parallel, where your spine is parallel with the earth. You're not touching your thighs yet. Now, the energy is going to come from the legs to the hamstrings, to the hips, to the mid-body, which is your core. Lift up. Nice and tall. This just kind of warms up the hamstrings, the hips, folding over. And then bring yourself back up using all of those muscles to lift up. Take an inhale at the top. Exhale. Send the hips back. Bend the knees. Push from the heels to the hams, to the hips, to the core. Up. Okay. We're going one more and then we're going to fold into ragdoll again. Bend the knees. Send the hips back. Lengthen the spine. Go back to your ragdoll, where we were before. Shake it all out. Things should be a little loosened up now. Rolling up super-duper slow again. One more time. Then we're going to get into a little movement here of a small flow. I'll show you side view and front view. First, to start, let's go back to that mountain pose. Nice and strong. Sweep your arms all the way up. Nice straight line. Then we're going to fold again, but the arms circle around. Lengthen the body. Bend the knees on the first few. Hands go behind the calves. If you can, your nose towards your knees. This is called forward fold. Then monkey pose. We take our hands to our shin and lengthen our spine. You've got straight arms, straight legs, straight spine. Monkey pose. Then bend the knees again. Chair pose. Arms by the ears. Pulse those knees out. Warm them up. Now push from the legs again to the center of your body. Just maybe ease back a little. A little breath in. Feel free to go deeper. I don't want you to get too dizzy. Let's do this about three more times. Reach high first. Straight lines. Arms circle around, which are called swan dive. Into a forward fold. Your knees can be bent. They can start to straighten. Your choice. Deep breaths here. It's a deeper stretch. One more. Slide your hands in front of your shins. Lengthen the spine. Monkey pose. Bend the knees. Sweep the arms by the ears. Chair pose. Rise straight up. Inhale breath. Backbend option. Inhale tall. Swan dive. We're doing two more. Hands behind. Nose to knees. One more. Monkey pose. Lengthen. Bellies in. Chair pose. It's a strengthening pose. Feel it in the legs. Power up. Exhale breath. Let's go one more time. Everything feels good. Stretched out. Lengthen down. Swan dive down. Forward fold. Three breaths. One more. Monkey pose. Lengthening. Bellies in. And good. Chair pose. Strengthening. And we rise. Open up mountain. So this is your check-in spot. Mountain pose. Usually you want to maybe grab your water. Shake off your tension. And do a little few side bends and then the fun balance pose. So with a side I want you to think about taking the curve out of your back. We call it tilted pelvis. So you try to get the curve out by zipping that belly up. Tucking that tailbone under. Let's take your left arm up. Think about lifting up through the ribs and grounding down with the side of the body. And we're going to take a nice little side bend over. Three long breaths like we did when we were seated. You can also take this other hand and support your hip. Slide down your thigh. Wrap it around your waist. One more breath. And use that side body to help you come up nice and strong. Cramping my toe. Alright, tuck the pelvis. Get that sway of the back out. Reach high with the right ribs. As you sway. Three breaths. And one. And side body pulls you up. Good. Roll the shoulders. Relax. Okay, so now for your balance pose, you want to find a focal point in front of yourself or out on the floor somewhere. Just not straight down your toes. So let's start with your right leg. Nice and strong into the floor. Feel the strength coming up the leg to the side body. We're just going to take it real easy here. Slide that left toe in by your ankle. Oh, I'm wobbling already. Now, find that focal point. As that toe lifts up off the floor, you just want to stay, reconnect, find the focus point and take five long breaths. Once again, you can be at your kitchen counter holding on to something. The chair. Two more breaths. Awesome. Last one. And relax down. Give that hip that you were balancing on a little knee to chest, something to loosen it up. All right, left foot grounded into the earth. Strong trunk of the tree, which is your leg. Slide your right toe in close to your body. Find that focal point. Do what you can. Five breaths. Two more. And good. One. You did fabulous. All right. You do need to practice those every day. Don't worry about practicing yoga every day, but definitely your balance as we age. Let's go wide in a straddle. So, if you need to turn on your mat, whatever you need. I want you to softly bend your knees. Grab your waist and give it a good squeeze. Now, sending the hips back like we did earlier. Soft bend the knees. Now, your head is really heavy. We're going to think about pulling with the head down to the earth. Hands are going to wrap up behind the thighs, the calves, the heels, whatever you're feeling, but make sure that head's dangling. Give yourself five little breaths here as you slowly pulse through that straddle. And monkey pose just like we did earlier. It's the same thing, but your legs are in straddle. So, monkey pose, a little shake out of the thighs, the knees. We're going to turn this into a twist. So, go ahead and press your right hand into the block. You're going to take your left elbow up, start to twist. If you need to bend a knee, it would be the right one, that arm that's touching the floor. Open up that hand to the sky. Add the twist along the waist. One more deep breath with that twist. And awesome. Left hand comes down. Shake it out again. Relengthen the spine, which is called wide monkey. Left hand staying down. Left knee can bend. Right elbow rises. And maybe it goes all the way up. That's up to you. Good. One more breath there. And perfect. Bring it back down. Shake it out. Now, to come up, turn your heels in. 10 o'clock, 2 o'clock. Take your hands to your thighs. Lift the spine. Lift your chest. And then, let's sweep all the way up. This is a great stretch. It's called five-point start. Always feels good. Take a big breath. And then, goddess pose is a soft bend in the knees and the elbows come back. Give yourself two more of these. Inhale. Deeply. Goddess pose. Exhale completely. Last one. Inhale. And exhale. And rise. Now, flowing into what we call warrior series. Take your back foot. That's going to be your, well, I don't know on the camera. I'm going to take my right foot and turn it to 10 o'clock. My left foot's going to 12 o'clock. Warrior one. You want to try to get these hips centered and the shoulders will be directly over the hips and then the fingertips come up so your front knee is bent, your back leg is strong at 2 o'clock. Feel like you're on one of those balance beams. Warrior one. And all we're going to do is get our chest and hips we call it east and west. As the fingertips stay north and south, your face still gazes at your front middle finger. Shoulders relaxed. We call this warrior two. Nice strong pose. Sink as deep as you can. Into peaceful warrior. The right hand drops back, left arm rises. Reach back there. Feel that awesome stretch. Right in the midsection. And cartwheel just where the forearms are on the thigh and your right hand is going by the ear and you should look like a diagonal line. Reach with the middle finger press through that heel. Big stretch, big stretch, big stretch. And good. Push back off. We're coming back to that straddle and we're going to the other side. Now it'll be your right foot out in front at 12 o'clock. Your back foot 10 o'clock. Try to get those hips turning. Warrior one. Arms over hips, shoulders, fingertips, everything's in line. Open up. Towards the TV. Your chest and shoulders. Hips. Sink down. You gaze north and south. Warrior two. Left arm sort of drop behind. Right arm sweeps up. Reverse warrior or peaceful warrior. Big stretch back. And good. Cartwheel over diagonal. Fingertips or the upper arm right by the ear. Fingertips reach. Press through that heel. And perfect. Come back out. Let's go back to straddle. Let's fold to the floor. Come back to the fold. Let's get one more straddle fold. Reaching back. Down, down, down. Pulsing through, pulsing through. Now to come down. Lower the knees. Lower the knees. And then maybe visit child's pose again. So swing those hips around. Check in. Grab your water. We're going to slide our hips to one side and extend your legs to the top of your mat. Alright, so you want this 90 degrees in your body. Before we go into the point, really, really hard. Get these feet some, give these feet some love. Ankle circles. Point, point. Flex, flex. And then do what you want there. Point or flex. Reaching up. You're in a 90 degrees. See the 90 degrees? So that means you've got to lift up and tuck in. All we're going to do is keep our arms by our ears. Hinge at the hips and reach till you can't reach anymore. And try to keep the spine super straight. Try not to round. We're looking a totally different stretch here. You should be feeling it right in that waistline. Breathe deep. Good. Good. And now just kind of walk yourself back up. I'm going to go ahead and turn center. You can stay wherever you want to on your mat. Butterfly pose. Soles of the feet come together. Reach for the top of your toes. Drive those heels in the best you can. So you want either a diamond shape or a closed diamond. Once again, we sit up super duper tall. We take a big inhale. Just kind of open the knees to start. And now let's gently work the pose. Reach for your ankles. Take a breath. Inhale. And then gently open up the knees. Maybe your spine is falling forward. Maybe you're still sitting up tall. Close your eyes and press with that exhale.