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Miami House Fire Highlights The Unexpected

Miami firefighters were confronted with a not so typical entry situation in early August 2008. Firefighters arrived to a single family dwelling well off. First team on the attack was confronted with an entry door that was welded shut. Firefighters were able to utilize a partner saw to get into the dwelling turning an exterior attack into an interior attack.

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Added by Firefighter Spot on August 15, 2008 at 4:06pm — 3 Comments

Charlotte FIRE TRUCK v SUV

CHARLOTTE -- Five people including four firefighters are recovering after a car accident involving a fire truck and an SUV on Monday morning.

The incident happened at the intersection of South Boulevard and Woodlawn Road. Firefighters were on the way to another accident on Interstate 77 at the time.

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Added by Firefighter Spot on August 15, 2008 at 4:04pm — No Comments

Conshohocken went to work on a massive 8 Alarm Blaze

August 13, 2008

Firefighters from Conshohocken went to work on a massive 8 Alarm Blaze in a luxury apartment house that later spread to four other buildings. Despite the massive fire philly.com is reporting only one firefighter and one civilian were injured. The fire took place at the RiverWalk at the Millennium complex in Schuykill.

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Added by Firefighter Spot on August 15, 2008 at 4:03pm — 3 Comments

PRAY FOR FIREFIGHTERS IN NIGERIA!!!!!!!!!!

Complements of the season fellow firefighters.I am happy since I dicovered this site.Some of us have been talking with me.I am wondering why firefighters cannot be recognised in Nigeria just like in other countries.They are not even recognised even by the government.They are excluded from other paramilitary groupd in Nigeria.they are even the least paid workers in the country even after harzadous works they do.Can it be believed that up till today in nigeria that Firefighter are still… Continue

Added by MARTIN O.AGBILI on August 15, 2008 at 2:41pm — 2 Comments

BLUE LIGHT QUESTION

so, i have a jeep cherokee and i have a little small round blue light but i want to get something bigger... any ideas do let me know... would like to know what model, price range and size that would be good...

thanks

Added by Katia on August 15, 2008 at 2:00am — 12 Comments

Emt-basic testing

Tonight I test out for my Emt-basic. The test was easier then I had thought it would be but me and my partner aren't sure we passed the trauma scenario. We got out of the test to learn that we had missed a mutial aid call for a fully involved structure fire. So we were welcomed back to the station with 1200 feet of hose to clean and rerack. We may have missed the fire but we didn't miss the clean up!

Added by Abby Lawton on August 15, 2008 at 2:00am — 3 Comments

August 14

What a kick ass fire season it has been already 20 calls since the first of August the troops are starting to show the wear and tear a little. Are grocery bill for the first week of August was over $800.00 feeding the department. Everybody is getting a little nervous we continue to get smoke calls almost daily everything is tinder dry and temperatures are soaring into the upper ninetys and one hundred degrees this week. A mean light show moved through the area early Saturday the 9th of August… Continue

Added by Gordon Hennigs on August 14, 2008 at 7:24pm — No Comments

The Continuing Chronicles of the FNG(irl): "This One Time....at Boot Camp?"

I traveled to Erie County in mid-July to attend Firefighter 1 Boot Camp under the auspices of the White Hatted Wonder. For personal reasons I withdrew after two days of training, but what an experience those two days were!

For anyone interested in completing FF1 in a compressed time frame while testing your limits and endurance, this is the appropriate format to find out just exactly what you’re made of. Upon arrival the first morning, we were split into smaller companies and… Continue

Added by Mary Ellen Shea on August 14, 2008 at 9:24am — 7 Comments

Aaaaaaand the Stats to Prove that We're Still Killing Ourselves the Same Old Way

USFA report highlights lack of seat belt use in '07

By FireRescue 1 Staff

A lack of seat belt use accounted for a number of vehicle-related LODDs last year, according to the USFA.

The Firefighter Fatalities in the United States 2007 report reveals that in 19 of the 27 incidents where seat belt status was known, 11 firefighters were confirmed as not wearing seat belts at the time of the incident.

During calendar year 2007, a total of 118… Continue

Added by Mary Ellen Shea on August 14, 2008 at 7:21am — 14 Comments

Help Us Equip in a Little way U can!

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ORmoc Rescue is a group of volunteers who in their own occupation and profession volunteered to be a part of the first Rescue Team of Ormoc City. Its member compositions are Professional Fire Fighters, Policeman, Instructors of Philippine National Redcross Ormoc Chapter, and Emergency Medical Technicians (trained by US Emergency Medical Technicians). Ormoc Rescue's inception was last September 2005 and was part of several operations both local and regionwide.

We are… Continue

Added by marvin on August 14, 2008 at 6:59am — No Comments

Rainy Day

Here I am sitting at home hoping for a good call. The weather is a cool 71 degrees compared to the 100 degrees that we have been getting. Its been raining off and on and here when it rains we usually get dozens of calls at the same timd for auto accidents. Some serious some not. As much as I would love a good house fire but an accident scene is just as good some days. The best thing about being a volunteer is that the idea that you can give to the community and you get alot of respect back. Its… Continue

Added by Thomas Doney on August 13, 2008 at 1:55pm — No Comments

Arkansas Fallen Firefighters Memorial

What can I say, the pictures don't do it justice. This memorial will be built on the grounds of the state capital in Little Rock, AR. It is funded strictly through donations, it's been many years of hard work from numerous volunteers.

Added by Susan Heikkila on August 13, 2008 at 10:01am — 2 Comments

Finally together!!!

hey all just wanted to let youknow that mikayla finally came home to us august 2nd!!! she now weighs 3 lbs 13 oz and is kicking sme major booty!! i am so happy that we are finally all together without the trouble of being in the hospital and having to be in the forever watchful eye of the nurse b/c they don't think you knwwhat ur doing with children when u have children already at home..lol ut its all cool we are allhome ad dng great. jut drop us a line sometme. ttyl trish an… Continue

Added by Trish Girard on August 13, 2008 at 1:30am — 3 Comments

How did I Get Here? Part II

In late 1977 into early 1978 the local ambulance service sponsored an American Red Cross, Advanced First Aid course. Many of the junior and younger firefighters attended this training that was held at the fire hall several nights a week and on a few Saturdays as well. In fact, Smedley and I were only 15 when the class started and were not officially junior firefighters yet. We were learning how to do some good, how to help someone out in their time of need. Of course there was a bit of goofing… Continue

Added by Phil Ferris on August 12, 2008 at 11:30pm — No Comments

We received our new truck yesterday!

Maybe some of you would not understand the happines, but for us, firefighters from a country that doesn't spend much on Fire equipment, we are very very happy. Yesterday, on a cold, rainy morning, Miraflores 28th Fire Station received the new pumper truck, a new truck in 28 years! We didn't care about the cold weather, we were so exited to jump inside the truck and sound the horn to demostrate everyone in the city our entusiasm. We received this new… Continue

Added by Sharon Garcia Valle on August 12, 2008 at 9:35am — 4 Comments

miss the job

well i officaly hate iraq i can not wate to get into a structure fire ive got bran new gear to break in back home and its killing me that it is just sitting in a box insed of me using it. I got to get back to work soon or ill lose whats left of my mind. i also need some friends on here so if thers any one woho will talk to me let me know.

Added by Andy Perkins on August 12, 2008 at 9:18am — 3 Comments

Funeral info for DISTRICT CHIEF BOB LEEK Toronto fire

LODD Funeral Information for Active District Chief, Bob Leek

Monday August 11, 2008

ACTIVE MEMBER LODD

BOB LEEK

DISTRICT CHIEF OF EMERGENCY PLANNING

Full Department LODD Funeral

Visitation

De Marco Funeral Home

3725 Keele St, South of Finch

Wednesday 2:00pm to 4:00pm and 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Thursday 2:00pm to 4:00pm and 7:00pm to… Continue

Added by Brad Duncan on August 12, 2008 at 7:28am — 1 Comment

Buffalo Fire Department - over time - whats the cause - who's getting sick of what ?

Is overtime in the Buffalo Fire Department is out of control? Many fear it could hamper FF's ability to negotiate a new contract. Some Union Officials blame it on manpower, some feel sick time abuse may be partly to blame. Whatever the cause or causes - some changes must occur as taxpayers are growing tired of increased taxes.

Buffalo City Officials say:

Fire overtime in the first pay period of the new fiscal year hit its highest level since Byron W. Brown became…

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Added by Rick on August 12, 2008 at 1:00am — 7 Comments

WTFD Ice Cream Social

On Sunday 8/10/08 our Association for the Fire Department held its 60th annual Ice Cream Social at Station 41. It was a beautiful day for the social and lots of people came out for the BBQ chicken, burgers, dogs and corn, Oh did I mention the ICE CREAM. They were also entertained with music and live demos from all of our Firefighters. My Station (45) did a tanker ops demo as well as a bucket brigade game for all the kids, (sadly there were no losers in the game it was a tie), the next demo was… Continue

Added by John on August 11, 2008 at 5:11pm — No Comments

Lessons Learned

Okay, so I've been here for a long time (in FFN terms anyway) and have yet to make a blog post. I'm going to cheat and use a part of the speech that I gave Saturday night when I was installed as President of the Vermont State Firefighters Association....

There are many lessons that I have learned over the span of my fire service career. I’d like to share a couple of them with you.

The first is “don’t run”. We all know, or should know, that running on the scene is to be… Continue

Added by Kristy Oxholm on August 11, 2008 at 5:02pm — 3 Comments