Photos by Chronicle Photo Chief Bruce Bishop.

The smoke stack at the former Lorain High School site came down this morning.

Demolition, by Demex, the company hired by the district, started about 9 a.m., and the smokestack finally came down about 12:20 p.m., according to CT Photo Chief Bruce Bishop who was among a crowd of people who gathered to watch.

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MEDINA — A woman fell through the floor of her second-floor bathroom Monday morning and became stuck between the bathroom floor and the garage ceiling, authorities said.
Pamela Benedict, of 945 Kenner Drive, was stuck for about an hour before rescuers could safely remove her. (Kaitlin Bushinski / Gazette)

LORAIN — A recently divorced couple out for a drive early this morning got a scare when they lost control of their car and nearly wound up in Lake Erie.

The couple, a man who lives in Lodi and a woman who lives in Sheffield Lake, were in the parking lot of Jackalope, and the man decided to give the woman a lesson in driving the stick-shift Ford Taurus SHO a little before 7 a.m.

The car was into first gear when the woman accelerated to quickly and lost control.

The car went over a small embankment and struck a tree, which prevented it from going onto the beach east of Jackalope and into Lake Erie.

The couple were unhurt but a little shaken up.

Lorain police and the Lorain Fire Department responded. The car was to be towed from the scene.

Photos by Daniel E. Rice, special to The Chronicle-Telegram.

LORAIN — Lorain firefighters under the direction of Capt. Tom Baker, the Fire Department’s safety training officer, got out on the Black River for cold water rescue training this morning.

The Fire Department got cold-water immersion suits, which cost about $2,000 apiece, a year ago. The suits are one-piece and one-size-fits-all, with the exception of the helmet.

Without the suits, firefighters were limited to throwing a rope to someone who had fallen through the ice, but with the suits they can aggressively go in the water after a person.

It takes each firefighter about 10 minutes to suit up, and today’s training in the near-freezing water — which included five firefighters and Baker — lasted about an hour and a half.

Photos by Amherst Junior High student Evann Figueroa under the guidance of Chronicle Photo Chief Bruce Bishop: