“We want to give this family that same thing.”įunds will be raised through mid-January. “During that time, it was this community that stood by me and came together to raise funds for my family which impacted us like no one will ever know,” Smith said. Smith suffered two serious burns in 2009 and was sent to the same burn center as the victim in this tragedy. This young lady has a husband and small children who need to know that this community is with them all the way.” “We often find ourselves needing to help those beyond the call. “As First Responders we go to calls day in and day out, but to us being a part of this volunteer life is more than just responding to the citizens in their initial time of need,” wrote Smith in a text. That GoFundMe has a goal to raise $25,000. 27.Ī separate GoFundMe has raised $22,800 to assist the family as of press time on Tuesday. An anonymous donor agreed to match the dollar amount raised from Friday, Dec. The initial goal was proposed by a member of Cordova Fire to raise $1,000. One victim, the mother, suffered severe burns to her body and was transported to a burn center at UNC Chapel Hill in critical condition, and has since been upgraded to stable condition and is showing signs of improvement, according to Assistant Chief Bob Smith. There’s no need for different users to verbally identify themselves by name when requesting their profiles.įinally, Alexa now supports more Fire TV-friendly words and phrases (such as Alexa, Go To Library), while a new Alexa Home Page has been added to the Fire TV interface to help people get a better appreciation for just what they can accomplish with their Fire TV Stick’s built-in Alexa functionality.CORDOVA - Cordova Fire & Rescue has raised over $2,600 for a family that suffered a house fire two days before Christmas. So you only have to say “Alexa, open my profile” and Alexa will know which profile to open. Once you’ve set your profiles up, Alexa can even automatically recognise the voice of each user and select their Fire TV profile accordingly. With the amount of streaming services and content expanding exponentially right now, the introduction of profiles should make it much easier for different Fire TV users to home in on the sort of content they personally like best. This will allow everyone to enjoy a more tailored service complete with more appropriate content recommendations, viewing histories, watch lists and preferred settings. Potentially the single most useful new feature of the revamped Fire TV interface, though, is the way it lets you set up individual profiles for up to six members of your household. One of the new Amazon Fire TV Sticks plugged in and ready to go. There’s an improved Find feature too, that allows for both broader and more specific searches based on genres and helpful categories (such as ‘kids and family’). This main menu also lets you access your most-used streaming service directly, while scrolling over other apps now generates previews of their content that you can select to immediately begin playback (provided an app supports the ‘preview’ feature, that is). One of the first things you notice about this is how it puts a Main Menu at the center of the screen, making it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for.
Launching alongside the two new Fire TV Sticks will be what Amazon describes as an ‘all-new Fire TV experience’. The new Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick Lite both go on sale next week, but you can already pre-order them from Amazon’s website. The new Amazon Fire TV Stick Photo: Amazonīoth of the new Fire TV Sticks apparently only burn half as much power as the previous model, in keeping with Amazon’s push to make its products greener.
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