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Colleton Fights 2nd Fire on Same Shift
WALTERBORO - Colleton Fire & Rescue responded to a reported structure fire at 90 Gentry Lane late Thursday evening September 23rd at around midnight.
Stations 1, 19, 24 and 26 responded to the call with the first arriving within 6 minutes. Upon ar…
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Fireground audio from Manassas, Virginia multi-house fire. Video as first crews arrive. Home builders group says sprinklers wouldn’t have helped. FM disagrees.
Two homes were burning as firefighters arrived with a third about to light off.
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Store Lawyers Call for Sanctions Over Fire Records
47,000 pages of material by expert fire panel is center of issue.
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Is he one of us?
Unusual high-speed interstate crash raises uncomfortable question.
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2nd Alarm Blaze Keeps Colleton’s Bravest busy
WALTERBORO - Stations 5, 17, 19 and 26 responded to a structure fire at 6222 Augusta Highway at 0600, Thursday morning 23-September. Engine 26 arrived to report a two story wood frame dwelling 100 percent involved. The building was located about 200 feet…
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Skeleton of Missing Dispatcher Found
THE REMAINS OF A WALKER COUNTY, GEORGIA 9-1-1 dispatcher were found Monday by a man who was gathering firewood in Chattooga County.
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PSA #1
When the EMT asks if you are injured, and you answer "I'm not sure," you are not injured.
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Weekend Caption Contest
NOW HERE IS A FIREFIGHTING TECHNIQUE that I'm not familiar with, but it certainly meets with the crowd's approval.
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Hot Shots
Updates from some previous Firegeezer reports.
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UPDATED: Arrival photos & More raw video from Manassas, Virginia fire. Three homes destroyed. Eight others damaged.
Video from neighbors and chopper.
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The Perfect Company Officer
In my mind it boils down to this; if an officer is not willing to or does not continaually improve himself as an individual and leader and firefighter, he will never be able to improve his crew. He just wont have the respect and credibility to facilitate that improvement. If it isn't important to him, it wont be important to the crew.
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Vinyl, Wood Chips and Glue – Day 2
FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE DAY, an ordinary house fire has ended up destroying three homes and damaging five others, all of them built with the cheap "lightweight construction" methods that are favored by home builders these days.
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Raw video & fireground audio: Rochester house fire.
Electric service creates fireworks in the rear of the house.
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60 year old female CC: Dizziness – Discussion
Let's talk about this heart rhythm a little bit, and when we do, let's go back to the basics.
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Morning Lineup – September 24
Rumor has it that FossilMedic (Mike Ward) will be around on Thursday.
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Mayor Trying To Evict Fire Company From Firehouse Owned By Fire Company
There are a number of nasty disputes going on around the country between volunteer firefighters and local politicians. Perhaps these types of disputes are inevitable. Lord knows that well over 90% of the career fire departments I come in contact with…
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Bull Run Retreat – 1861
Sixth of a short series on the establishment of the Metropolitan Fire Department in NYC.
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OVERWELMED!!
@#$$%^^&*(%#*^*&^&^%$# AHHHHHHH!!!!! SHIT! I have so much on my mind right now that I can't even think straight much less function normally (good thing I'm on break huh). Try to bear with me and I'll do my best to lead you through a tour of w…
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Epijunky
They don't teach that in paramedic school. Either you have it, or you don't.
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Multi-alarm fire in Manassas, Virginia. Fire heavily damaged or destroyed 5 single-family homes.
Wind helped spread flames from house to house.
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When Did It Become Okay To Say ‘No’?