Posts Tagged: Raleigh
Tillered Aerials and Safety Collaboration
We find too often that people are unwilling to accept the observations and experiences of others and instead "reinvent the wheel" regularly, wasting time and money in the process.
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UPDATED Video: Tornadoes in North Carolina. As many as two dozen people dead.
Home video of tornadoes and damage in Sanford & Fayetteville.
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Live coverage & public safety audio: Possible tornadoes moving through North Carolina.
Severe weather underway in and around Raleigh.
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Bullet narrowly misses firefighter sleeping in Raleigh, North Carolina fire station. Women battling out on the street.
Women fighting outside firehouse sends a stray bullet six inches from sleeping firefighter's head.
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FireTruckBlog.com: Glenn looks at the trooper ticketing the fire chief. You will want to read this one. Plus, another example of why the chief was right.
Trooper didn't like that chief had blocked two lanes.
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New Jersey Pension Board Says Former Harrison Firefighter Is ‘A Cheat, Fraud’
[fblike]Former firefighter Herman Ellis has balls. That's right. Huge balls. To retire on disability in November 2008 at $2,500 per month moving to Raleigh, NC to work as a firefighter at a salary of $37,000 a year - yes this takes balls. What we have he…
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Quick Takes
Fire & EMS news for Wednesday.
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Early raw video from fiery Amtrak crash in North Carolina. 11 injured when train derails after hitting truck in Mebane.
Train was traveling at about 70 mph when it hit a tractor-trailer.
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House Fire Video – Princeton North Carolina
This house fire was reported on the Raleigh/Wake Firefighting Blog recently. The fire now has video to go with it on youtube. Firefighters definitely had their hands full on this fire.
You can also read about his fire here
The 2,900-square-foot home was…
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Luxury Boats Burn in Sydney
Six luxury boats have been destroyed by fire at a Sydney marina. The boats have burned in a domino effect after one boat caught fire while being worked on. During a scramble to move the boats on fire to open water a couple more caught fire. Part of the m…
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Firefighter Bedding To Go
I found this neat product on a fire blog (the Danville Firefighters Blog). The product is basically bedding to go. A gourmet sleeping bag. First Alarm Roll-out bedding has been such a recent hit that they have sold out of many of their stock. Don't worry…
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Tuesday Morning Job Security Check – Motorcycles
There is one unique thing about motorcycles. They will get you "there" quicker than most other things. Where is "there" you might ask? "There" is the scene of the crash. Certain injury and maybe even death may soon follow. There are two reasons why I don…
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Wildland Firefighters Eat Your Heart Out
I don't know about you but I think this video is pretty darn cool. If I were a wildland firefighter I might think it were that much more special. The plane is a Lockheed L-188 Electra. The video below is from a fire reported here.
Read about the Kelowna…
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The Fire Critic Twitters!
This is a reminder to all you twitter users out there that The Fire Critic uses Twitter. On top of feeding the RSS feed from this blog, I find to twitter about other information too. I have found the site (twitter) to be fairly informative if you narrow …
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Around the World Fire Report
Good Monday Morning everyone. Today I bring you an Around the World Fire Report. This is not a normal column by The Fire Critic, but you will see it time to time.
California - Calif. fire burns 2,000 acres, forces evacuation
A lightning-sparked wildfire…
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Monday Morning Shoutout – The Bravest Online
Today's Monday Morning Shoutout goes to The Bravest Online. The Bravest Online is one of those best of the best sites. They don't post anything but the cream of the crop. By that I mean the best fires videos and photos. They also put together video compi…
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Fighting Fires in Vacant Structures
I recently came across a forum post on Firefighter Nation by Christopher J. Naum. The post titled "Firefighter Safety at Vacant Structures" got me thinking. Does your department or more importantly you assume that vacant structures are unoccupied?
Don't…
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Tiller Ladder Truck Overturns in Raleigh NC
This morning around 10:50am, a tiller ladder truck overturned in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. Three of the four firefighters on the rig were injured, two being in serious condition.
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