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Three people were inside this burning home but managed to get out safely.
Firefighters are battling a massive fire in East Bank in Kanawha County. A house on Walnut Street went up in flames around 5:15 a.m. Firefighters said two people were home at the time but managed to
Three escape massive fire in a home on Walnut Street in Kanawha County
A national manufacturing pilot program will bring together facilities in West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, according to a news release from Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin and Rep. Nick Rahall, all D-W.Va.
There is $30 million in federal funding up for grabs.
According to the news release, the money will be used to, "help strengthen America's manufacturing sector, make America more competitive, and invest in America's workers and businesses".
The following West Virginia facilities will participate: Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing (RCBI), FMW Composites, Inc. in Bridgeport, Touchstone Research Laboratory in Triadelphia, and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Morgantown.
The pilot is the first of 15 new manufacturing institutes around the country that the Administration plans to create as part of its new National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, which will generate regional hubs to develop and expand manufacturing nationwide, according to the news release.
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