Posts Categorized: Pipe Bands
Morning Lineup – March 14
The annual St. Patrick's Day parades around the country kick off the long-awaited parade season for the year.
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Note For Pipe Band Fans:
Piping Season Starts Soon
PIPE BAND FANS IN THE GREATER WASHINGTON, D. C. AREA will want to circle their social calendars for Saturday February 5. That's when the Northern Virginia Firefighters Emerald Society Pipe Band will be holding their annual …
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Morning Lineup – August 24
It is also the largest fire service-based parade in Florida, and possibly the entire southeast U. S. The 2011 parade theme will be "Firefighter Appreciation."
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25 Years On The March
St. Patrick's Day, 1984
The Northern Virginia Firefighters Emerald Society Pipe Band is pictured above in their inaugural perfomance marching in the Alexandria, Virginia, St. Patrick's Day parade.
After spending the previous autumn and winter taking …
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"Houston, We've Got a Sick-O"
THE HOUSTON, TEXAS, FIRE DEPARTMENT IS IN A TURMOIL this week as a result of a demented person who is succeeding in creating a bad situation. One of the firehouses, Station 54, is located at the airport and has approx. 50 firefighters assigned there i…
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Cologne FD Specialized Truck Crashes Into Tree
A COLOGNE, GERMANY, SPECIALIZED TRUCK WENT off the road and crashed into a tree Wednesday afternoon. The vehicle is an equipment van that carries tools and rigging for animal rescue operations.
All photos courtesy Feuerwehr Koln
It is not yet known w…
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Air Ambulance Fund-Raising Scam Unfolds in UK
AN AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE THAT DOESN'T OWN A HELICOPTER is being exposed and brought to task in Great Britain this month. The so-called charity calls itself the Northern Ireland Air Ambulance Service and also refers to itself as "Alpha-5."
Alpha-5 has …
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5-Alarms in York
YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, FIREFIGHTERS WERE HARD-PRESSED Wednesday afternoon as two major fires broke out less than an hour apart. The first was a fire at a scrap yard that immediately tied up several of the city's fire companies. Just before 3 pm another …
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Morning Lineup – July 9
It seems like this has been "Fire Chief Week" for the past two weeks. Stories about fire chiefs, both good and bad, keep dribbling out on a daily basis, the latest being the vol. chief in rural Virginia who checked himself out after a grand jury passed…
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Emeralds Win In D. C.
THE WASHINGTON, D. C., ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE was held this past Sunday and the results are in:
The Northern Virginia Firefighters Emerald Society Pipe Band came away with the honor of Best Music Entry in the parade.
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Made in China – cont'd.
THE LATEST CONTAMINANT COMING OUT OF CHINA is more serious than most of the more recent problems because it involves medicine.
The Associated Press is reporting that U.S. health officials have identified a contaminant in batches of the blood thinner hep…
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"Route 1 Snatch" Gains Credence
BREAKING NEWS: "Route 1 Snatch" Has Scientific Validity.
Firegeezer’s discussion of the famous "Route 1 Snatch" (HERE) reminded me of a study that I heard about when listening to a summer 2006 presentation about the Los Angeles Fire Department EMS cr…
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Car Plows Into Illinois Auction Crowd
CRESTWOOD, ILLINOIS, FIRE AND RESCUE PERSONNEL HAD THEIR HANDS FULL yesterday when a car went out of control at an auto auction and drove into a crowd of bidders.
The Tri-State Auto Auction, just outside of Chicago, was in operation when an employee wh…
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Former Fire Chief Indicted
A FORMER FIRE CHIEF WHO RESIGNED TWO WEEKS AGO was indicted on one count of burglary and one count of grand theft by a Perry County, Ohio, grand jury on Tuesday.
No other details of the crime have been released, but Denny Dew, 48, had been arrested on…
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3 Missing In "Empty" Hotel Blaze
A FIRE AT A SHUTTERED HOTEL IN RHYL, WALES, late Tuesday night left a 45-yr.-old vagrant in critical condition. After being rescued by firefighters from the burning 28-room hotel building, he said that he believed there were three more squatters remai…
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Morning Lineup – March 20
Along certain areas on the East Coast there is a basic first-aid procedure long known as the "Route 1 Snatch." It is utilized when it is crucial to get an accident or medical victim to an emergency room. You just "snatch" the patient, put them in wha…
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Off-Duty Fire Capt. Casualty of Helicopter Crash
A POPULAR CAPTAIN OF THE WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, FIRE DEPARTMENT was killed last Thursday when his private helicopter crashed and burned in the city.
John C. Miller, 51, was a 17-yr. veteran of the department and had recently started his own helicop…
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Seattle FD Pipes and Drums
SFD Pipes & Drums photo
THE PIPES AND DRUMS BAND OF THE SEATTLE FD have a good write-up in today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. They were just formed 3 years ago, but have already made an impact in the area. Mostly concentrated in the eastern s…
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Firefighter run over by his engine
A NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS FIRE ENGINE slipped out of pump gear into road gear and ran over one of the firefighters. Fortunately, he does not have life-threatening injuries, but will be hospitalized for a while.
Boston channel 7 has good video here.
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If you’re going to rob a bank…..
.......THEN WAIT UNTIL you get home before you stop for a beer.
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Medic retires with 40 years service
DAFYDD WYN WILLIAMS, A MEDIC WITH THE WELSH Ambulance Services, has retired after 40 years on the job. During that time he only used a total of four sick-leave days. He has seen an unbelievable change and upgrading to the emergency ambulance service …
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RV fire in Toronto claims two
Henkenhaf / Sun Media photo
A MOTORHOME PARKED BEHIND A TRANSMISSION SHOP burned yesterday morning, killing two still-unidentified people. It is thought that one of them is a shop mechanic who recently purchased the RV.
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Suspects nabbed in Russian cafe fire
Marina Sulim / Itar Tass photo
POLICE HAVE DETAINED 2 SUSPECTS in the Russian fire that killed 10 people yesterday. The argument began in another bar and followed to the fatal location. The fire killed, among the others, the owner of the cafe.
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Bootie Beer update
FIREGEEZER'S FAVORITE BREW THAT HE'S NEVER HAD, BOOTIE BEER was first brought up here when they had their brewery contract "temporarily suspended" because they never brewed any Bootie.
Now they've issued their 1st-quarter financial report and -surprise!…
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Why didn’t he just take a pistol and use them for target practice?
IN WARREN COUNTY, NEW YORK A DARWIN AWARD NOMINEE decided to collect shell casings to sell to the scrap yard. Your aim falters when you use a screwdriver and hammer.
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