Posts Categorized: Donna
The Daily Donna, 12/1
The continuing saga of Donna and his magic fire truck. All previous articles are archived in the Donna category.
Are We A Fire Department Yet?
Frederick Cross (aka Donna Clark) and Charles Clark set about to assemble a "fire department" by purchasing s…
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First of Four FF Funerals In Warwickshire
THE FUNERAL FOR JOHN AVERIS, AGE 27 WAS HELD YESTERDAY. FF Averis was the last of the four firefighters to be found in the debris of the food packing plant where they died in a fire on November 2.
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BBC News photo
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Injury Update #2
ON SEPTEMBER 9 A KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FF suffered a severe head injury when she fell out of the cab of a fire engine while responding on a call.
On November 14 we posted an update on her condition along with a link to the original story HERE. Today …
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Must Follow The Rules
YESTERDAY WE TOLD YOU ABOUT THE LOS ANGELES fire engine that got a $100 ticket for not paying a road toll while on the way to a fire.
Today it's the ambulance squad's turn to deal with idiot pencil pushers. In Newcastle, England, the local hospital se…
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Omagh Fire Victims To Be Buried Today
THE McELHILL FAMILY OF SEVEN THAT PERISHED in a tragic house fire in Omagh, Northern Ireland, just over two weeks ago will have their funeral service and burial today.
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Arthur McElhill, age 39, and his partner Lo…
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Morning Lineup – December 1
Holy moly, here it is December already. Am I the only one it sneaked up on, or are you surprised too? I'm a little late making it to the lineup this morning. I was sleeping so good that I was a little slow getting into motion. But I did take tim…
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The Daily Donna – 11/30
Firegeezer notes: Yesterday I neglected to post the Seligman FD website link until later that evening. If you missed it, it is HERE.
Also, in the recent past some people have posted the URL for the Bridge Canyon VFD website. I am not going to do t…
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Ambulance Converted To Courthouse
ONE OF WISCONSIN'S TEN-MOST-WANTED CRIMINALS was brought to the Harris County courthouse in Houston, Texas, yesterday in an ambulance for an extradition hearing.
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Judge Ross hears Timoth Riley's ple…
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Massive Fire This Morning In Ontario
Update, 11:15 am, scroll down.
FIREFIGHTERS ARE STILL ON THE SCENE of a large fire that broke out early this morning in Wasaga Beach, Ontario.
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CTV photos
The community is located on the southern shore of …
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Geneva, Switzerland, FD Slammed
GENEVA IS THE 2nd LARGEST CITY IN SWITZERLAND, after Zurich, and has built its reputation and economy as a neutral international center.
But they are certainly not concerned with their reputation for fire and emergency services. The city's newspaper, …
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Morning Lineup – November 30
Wow, here we are at the end of November already. This past month has really breezed by for me. And my list of honey-do's has gotten longer and longer. I've never been a very good personal time manager, but I am starting to grasp the concept of "mul…
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Musician's Home Burns In Virginia
THE HOME OF STEFAN LESSARD, BASSIST FOR THE DAVE MATHEWS BAND, burned down this morning.
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Daily Progress photo
Fire broke out around 7:30 am in the house near Charlottesville, Virginia. Stefan an…
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The Daily Donna, 11/29
Continuing the saga of Donna and his magic fire truck.
Where Is Seligman, Arizona?
Seligman is located at the northern edge of Yavapai County on the high desert of Arizona at an altitude of 5,240 ft. Typical of the vast distances of the far West, the u…
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Around The Fire Web
* FirefighterHourly objectively looks at the Volusia County, Florida, flag flap HERE.
* STATter911 has the follow-up story on the Johnson City, New York, asst. chief who decided to show up for work wearing nothing but a necktie the other week HERE.…
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Scottish Ambulance School Staff Investigated, Suspended
THE SCOTTISH AMBULANCE SERVICE TRAINING HEADQUARTERS at Barony Castle, Peebles, was raided yesterday by the National Health Service (NHS) fraud investigators. As a result, three high-level staff members have been place on immediate suspension while t…
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Make-Believe Medic Steals Ambualnce
IN SAULT STE. MARIE, ONTARIO, an ambulance crew was inside the Windsor Park Retirement Residence tending to an emergency call.
While they were inside, Bruce McAllister got inside the ambulance and drove it away. The police found the ambulance eight mi…
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Armadillo Arson
THE CAUSE OF THE TRAGIC FIRE AT THE INDIANAPOLIS ZOO on Nov. 10 (Firegeezer report HERE) has been determined.
An armadillo, just doing his thing, most likely pushed some bedding material too close to a heat lamp.
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Crude Oil Pipeline Fire In Minnesota
AN EXPLOSIVE FIRE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON CRIPPLED A MAJOR pipeline that delivers crude oil from Canada to the U. S.
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The Enbridge pipeline carrier is actually four lines, two larger and two smaller pipelines laid …
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Morning Lineup – November 29
Whenever new technology or methods are brought into the mainstream culture, there are always some delays and skepticism before these new ways are fully accepted.
But I should say almost always. In the case of the massive transfer to the electronic era…
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Train Tricks
WHEN I WAS A KID, WE THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY DARING to put a penny on the train tracks.
But we're in a more sophisticated era now. These innovative Norwegian youngsters have taken train tricks to a new level. I guess these kids were born with carpentr…
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Donna And The Magic Fire Truck
LAST WEEK A PHOENIX TV STATION ran a sensational story about a "female impersonater" who had bought a fire engine and tried to run fire calls with it in the little Northern Arizona town of Seligman. Firegeezer picked it up and posted it on Nov. 21 HERE…
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Female Impersonater Buys Fire Truck, Runs Calls
Update #2: On November 28 Firegeezer began running an in-depth series on this strange story. To read all the postings so far, go to the Categories section on the right sidebar and click on the "Donna" category. The results come up in reverse chron…
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Sinkhole Gulps Fire Engine
THE HARLINGEN, TEXAS, FIRE DEPARTMENT was participating in a scheduled fire drill at the Valley Baptist Medical Center on Monday afternoon.
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Valley Morning Star photo
However, an unscheduled part of the drill inc…
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Morning Lineup – November 21
What In The World Is Going On Here?
When I saw this photo a few weeks ago, my first thought was: Why did they spend all that money on ladders?
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They are certainly quite proud of them because they keep them…
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Around The Fire Web
* Rhett Fleitz at VAFireNews is hosting a page for an ambitious project attempting to list the apparatus rosters for every fire dept. in Virginia. The collection has been maintained for 13 years by Kristopher Bageant and he is migrating it onto the w…
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