Posts Tagged: Virginia
Prince William County Readies To Dissolve Another VFD
They've Done It Before ... They Mean Business
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Technical rescue: Tractor-trailer cab dangles from Monitor Merrimac bridge in Newport-News, VA with driver inside.
Driver was stuck in cab for more than an hour as firefighters secured rig to make rescue.
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UPDATED: Couple arrested in Eastern Shore arsons. Man had been fire captain in Tasley, VA.
Arrest today in latest of more than 70 fires since November.
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Best of the Rest – Never Ask The Dead, Accomack Arson Spree, Paramedic David Lee Roth, Eagle Scout Project, and much more!
Best of the Rest - Never Ask The Dead, Accomack Arson Spree, Paramedic David Lee Roth, Eagle Scout Project, and much more!
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Forcible Entry Training Opportunity in Bedford, VA This Weekend!
For those in the Southwestern, VA region (or beyond) please consider attending this outstanding training opportunity being taught by two of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department's most seasoned and highly proficient instructors - Captain Dave Barlow and Lt Scott Kraut.
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Video: Firefighter Tells Bystander He Can’t Record Car Fire on Video. Can He Do That? What do you Think?
As a firefighter, do you waste your time getting bystanders to turn off their cameras?
Do you think it is illegal for bystanders to record events?
If you do think it is illegal, do you think Firefighters have the authority to stop it?
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New Fairfax County, VA fire chief is Montgomery County, Maryland’s Chief Richard Bowers.
Appointment effective April 29.
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Early video: House fire in Bedford County, Virginia.
Fire on Dickerson Mill Road in Moneta on Wednesday.
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UPDATED – Must see videos: BLEVE at shopping center in Amherst, VA. Propane tank rockets into building. Firefighter slightly hurt.
Explosion of 1000 gallon propane tank at shopping center.
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Who ya gonna call? Well, apparently not the fire department in this case. Richmond, VA cops have the kitten thing all figured out.
Cops provide some innovation on an old problem for public safety.
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4 Firefighters Injured in Bedford (VA) Fire Engine Rollover
From my sources, four firefighters were injured when their apparatus rolled over in Bedford today. All four were transported to area hospitals by ground or air. Bedford FD Engine 1 is a 2007 Seagrave Marauder II.
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Sandy arrives. Horton leaves. Portsmouth, VA’s emergency manager exits as storm hits. The latest on former fire chief’s ever changing employment status.
He's here. He's gone. He's back. He's gone again.
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VAFireNews.com Now Led by Taylor Goodman
Many of you know that along with FireCritic.com and some other web sites, I was the creator of VAFireNews.com. The site began in 2006 when I realized that there wasn't any site of its form in Virginia. For the past 6 years, I have updated the site regularly with Fire and EMS news from across the State.
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Portsmouth, VA fire chief back on job three months after he resigned. City officials refuse to provide an explanation.
What could be so bad that the press, the public and even the Portsmouth City Council don't deserve an answer?
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September 11, 2001
Looking back eleven years.
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Virginia rescue squad chief orders members in uniform to stay away from local ice cream stand. Business owner is former cop facing child sex charges.
Chief tells members to stay away from business while legal proceedings are pending.
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Mayday radio traffic: Two-alarm house fire in Fairfax County, Virginia. Lieutenant falls though third floor.
Springfield house fire leaves lieutenant with non-life threatening injuries.
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Fatal fire truck crash on VA’s Eastern Shore. Firefighter David Chew Jr. of Bloxom VFC killed.
David Chew served as chaplain and leaves behind a three-year-old son
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Fire truck crash in Accomack County, VA. Bloxom VFC Firefighter David Chew Jr. killed.
Single vehicle crash on Eastern Shore of Virginia with two firefighters on board.
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Virginia fire engine rolls into burning tractor-trailer. Ford VFC rig heavily damaged by fire & crash.
Pumper responded to truck fire on Friday.
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Helmet-cam video: Prince Edward County, VA house fire.
Fire Wednesday on Whittaker’s Lake Road .
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Virginia’s Middleburg VFD says treasurer & radio personality who committed suicide embezzled a half million dollars from department. Criminal investigation ongoing.
Money missing is from donations and funds from town and Loudoun County.
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Where’s the outrage? Oh, that’s right this is the price of freedom. Stupid Dave gets riled over early video of another conflagration & forgets it’s the American way.
God bless America and the homebuilders who are fighting each day to keep us free.
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Raw video: House fire in Chesapeake, Virginia. Police officer helps with the supply line.
Police officer helps get the kinks out.
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A firefighter’s line-of-duty death that barely made the news. Five-years-ago Kyle Robert Wilson died in a Prince William County, Virginia house fire.
Why we have to try extra hard to keep Firefighter Kyle Wilson's death from being overshadowed.
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