On Monday May 12 we were called out to missing person search with possible rescue. Using our depts swiftwater boat we searched the river were the missing mans vehicle was found. Other firefighters walk the area around the river bank. The search went on through out the day. The Victim was found dead the next day several miles down stream. It looks as if its going to be ruled as a sucicide.

On Thanksgiving morning my dept got called out to the Heaven Hill Distillery for a whiskey warehouse on fire.When we arrived there was smoke showing from the roof. It had apparently been struck by lightning the night before and smoldered into the morning hours. We removed the burned area of the roof and soaked the area down, there was no major damage.My dept has had a previous fire here ten years ago that burned several warehouses and nine million gallons of whiskey. It was the largest… Continue

The other night about 3 a.m. we got called out to a mvc at the couthouse here in town. It turns out it had been a high speed pursuit and the driver ended up crashing into the courthouse at about 80 mph. He never slowed down or tryed to miss the structure. You really never know what your going to encounter on this job.