Posts Tagged: Weather
Must see pair of dash-cam videos as ice takes toll on firefighters in OH & IN. Vehicle smashes into crash scene. Ice chunk takes out fire truck windshield.
Two dash cam videos show incidents where firefighters were injured during icy conditions.
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Tree Destroys Mobile Home During Storm
WIS-TV
DARLINGTON -- A singlewide mobile home has been damaged by a tree uprooted during the storms moving through Monday afternoon. Darlington County Fire Chief David Williamson tells WMBF News that a singlewide mobile home on Wire Road wa…
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Aubrey Atkinson Named New Dorchester County Fire Coordinator
DORCHESTER COUNTY - Aubrey “Tres” Atkinson has been hired as the new Dorchester County Fire Coordinator. His start date is Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Mr. Atkinson was formerly employed as the Fire Chief for Columbia Co…
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2012 SConFire Calendar is HERE!
Check out the new 2012 SConFire Calendar! Each calendar is $20! This price if for a limited time! It is 11" wide and 16" tall opened! Each month has a high quality photograph of a emergency action scene from South Carolina! Email us at southc…
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Firefighter Talks After Drunk Driver is Given Tougher Charge
GOOSE CREEK - Mixed emotions come to mind when Mike Althoff thinks of the car accident that changed his life. "The accident happened October 19th and I probably haven't slept 10 full nights since the accident happened, because of pains I get in …
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Woman Accused of Hitting Firefighters Charged with Felony DUI
GOOSE CREEK - A woman who arrested on DUI charges in October is now facing upgraded charges. Court records show Jessica Lanier was booked again Thursday night around 10:30pm for an additinal charge of felony DUI with great bodily harm.
Sources tell Ne…
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First Due Friday; 2-Story Balloon Frame Rockin’ on the Peninsula
Watch the video of this heavily involved 2-story balloon frame house. Note the wind and the exposures. Give us your RECEO breakdown, initial actions and initial rig placement. Have fun!
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Large Fire Destroys Displaces 7 North Charleston Families
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) -- The North Charleston Fire Department responded to a massive structure fire in the area of Rolling Fork Road on Tuesday. It was a fire that forced several families out of their homes on one of the coldest days of the yea…
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Submit Incidents From Around the State of South Carolina!
We aare offering a new service for you, the viewer, to submit incidents to us in real time. Just click the SConFire Incident Report link and type the info. We will post it and send it out to everyone to see.
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Tanker Carrying Acid Overturns in Spartanburg
SPARTANBURG - A tractor trailer tank truck has overturned at Union Street and Cedar Branch Road. The tanker was carrying a sodium hydroxide solution at the time of the accident.
Spartanburg Firefighters report that only fuel from the saddle tanks is l…
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UPDATE: 3 NOW CONFIRMED FATAL; ONE MISSING
YORK COUNTY - A massive line of severe weather created several tornado's that touched down in South and North Carolina. At least three people have been killed and up to five or more are still missing.
One tornado touched down in Chester Count…
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State Fire News Round-Up
WREN - Fire Destroys Mobile Home
TIGERVILLE - SUV Hits Home; 2nd Crash in 3 Weeks
GREENVILLE - Man Killed While Fleeing Authorities
HORRY COUNTY - Incident Sends 2 to Burn Center
WALHALLA - Moped Driver Dies After Striking Vehicle
MYRTLE BEACH - MBF…
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Fire-Rescue Boat Debated by Hilton Head and Beaufort County
HILTON HEAD - A Town Council committee remains unconvinced Hilton Head Island needs a fire-rescue boat, despite incidents last week in which two people were rescued after a shrimp boat ran aground in Calibogue Sound and another boat caught fire off the c…
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Community Reaches Out to 28 Families Displaced by Fire
DUNCAN - Ashton Holmes Rogers didn't know where his family would sleep Tuesday night.The 20-year-old lived with his family for more than 6 years at The Haven at Berry Shoals, until a fire ripped through his building about 4 p.m. Saturday. (more...)
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Two Goose Creek FF’s Struck by Suspected Drunk Driver
***BREAKING NEWS***
GOOSE CREEK - The City of Goose Creek Fire Dept's Rescue 1 and Medic 9 were operating at an MVA when a suspected DUI entered the scene striking 2 FF's.
FF/Medic Christopher Harrison and Captain Michael Altoff were struc…
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SC Highway Patrol Probing Crash That Killed EMS Patient
ORANGEBURG - Highway Patrol reconstruction team is working to determine the cause of an ambulance crash which left a 79-year-old patient dead. Mary Thompson of Vance died Monday as a result of blunt force trauma sustained when the ambulance overturned, O…
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State Fire News Roundup
September 11th: One Victim Identified in Triple Fatal MVA
September 9th: Hundreds Attend 9/11 Service
September 9th: Columbia FF Bicyclist on the Mend
September 8th: 1st Responders Form 9/11 Choir
September 6th: 2 Upstate FF's Honored by Red Cros…
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Fire Damages Downtown Newberry Businesses
NEWBERRY - A fire has destroyed at least two businesses on the square in Newberry. The fire broke out after 2 this morning. The fire was spotted by Friendly firefighter who were headed to their station after being called to a barn fire in Bush River. The…
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State Fire News Roundup
August 29th: 2 Homes Destroyed in Beaufort County
August 28th: Horry County Under Fire on Response Times
August 28th: Anderson Fights 2 Fires at Same Time
August 27th: Old Codes Likely Causes Fire to Spread
August 27th: 1 Killed, 1 Hopsitalized …
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State Fire News Roundup
August 20th: Car vs. Firetruck, Driver Charged w/DUI
August 19th: Chief Remembered as All Around Good Guy
August 18th: Car, Cement Truck Crash; Catch fire
August 18th: Store Fire Considered Suspicious
August 17th: Horry County Approves Vollie Positio…
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Crane Overturns Injuring Construction Worker
SPARTANBURG - Poole and another witness said the man, who was not identified, plunged about 15 feet from the seat of the crane into an 8-foot-deep hole. Construction workers were at Cornerstone Baptist Church Tuesday to install a vault that will supply w…
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White Knoll Students’ Generosity Still Shines 10 Years Later
LEXINGTON COUNTY - A small but significant chunk of American history sits in a display case in the front lobby of White Knoll Middle School in rural Lexington County: A battered section of sheet metal bearing the words “Red Hook Raiders.&rdquo…
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State Fire News Round-up
August, South Carolina Fire News
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Burn Ban and Red Flag Lifted
WCIV News 4
CHARLESTON -- Fire warnings and burn bans have been lifted across South Carolina. Tuesday's rainfall provided the moisture the area had been missing for much of the summer, and eased the fire danger.
The weather brought a welcomed chang…
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