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UPDATED:
Saturday Aug 11, 2007 |
North Carolina
FireNews Headlines
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 Union County
Firefighter Killed Saturday in Collision
SAT AUG 11
UPDATED MON AUG
13
FIRENEWS.NET STAFF REPORT
MONROE - Fire officials with the Wesley Chapel Fire Department
in Union County have confirmed that one of their firefighters
was killed in an apparatus collision Saturday afternoon.
Todd W. Hage, 43, was driving Engine 261 to a fire alarm call at
a nearby elementary school. The call turned out to be false. The
engine rolled on Waxhaw-Indian Trail Road. A second engine
arrived at the scene moments after the crash, but Hage died at
the scene.
Arrangements and additional photos have now been
posted.
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 Swepsonville Deputy Chief Dies At Firehouse
WED AUG 08
UPDATED FRI AUG
10
FIRENEWS.NET STAFF REPORT
SWEPSONVILLE - Swepsonville Deputy Chief Jerry Donley, age 46,
was found dead this morning at the fire station after working a
twenty-four hour shift.
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HOT SHOT
Fully Involved Structure Fire
FRI AUG 10
SUBMITTED BY KEVIN HALL. PHOTO COURTESY OFFICER ROBERT SHULER,
MADISON PD
MADISON - The Madison Fire Department was dispatched at 0114 hours
on Monday to this fully involved structure on the opposite corner
from
the fire station. Units arrived to find heavy fire conditions on all
three floors with fire venting through the roof. This was the second
fire at the 3,900+ square foot dwelling in six weeks.
Madison E-51 laid in a 5" supply
from the corner and initiated the defensive attack with (3) 1-3/4"
lines and a master stream. Mayodan E-61 arrived pulling (2) more
1-3/4" lines and a master stream, Mayodan E-62 laid in another 5"
line from the north. Huntsville was third in, setting up to relay
pump from a tanker shuttle by Stokesdale T-124. Jacob's Creek
responded with additional manpower to the scene. Within 20-30
minutes, air horns blasted an evacuation order due to imminent
collapses on side A-second floor and side B-1st floor.
The fire was brought under control
in approximately 2 hours and crews remained on scene until 09:29
sifting through the debris with the large debris being removed
with a backhoe from Madison Public Works. Stokes-Rockingham and
Northwest Rockingham took fill-in positions at Madison and Mayodan
respectively. Rehab was provided by Rockingham County EMS and
Madison Rescue.
Additional photographs at
www.madisonfiredept.com.
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HOT SHOT
Tractor-Trailer Collision With Entrapment
FRI AUG 10
SUBMITTED BY SHANE BOWMAN
BURKE COUNTY - George Hildebran Fire-Rescue responded to a MVC
involving a large truck on Highway 18 South with a possible
entrapment. The first arriving officer reported a Case Farms Chicken
truck overturned with the driver entrapped. After extrication, the
driver was transferred to an aero-medical chopper.
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SPECIAL REPORT
 Rowan
County Implements New CAD, Re-Numbers Apparatus
(Other Departments Should Too.....See Who They Are)
MON AUG 06
UPDATED FRI
AUG 10
FIRENEWS.NET STAFF REPORT
SALISBURY -
Rowan
County 911 began utilizing a new Computer Aided Dispatch System
on June 26. The center processes over 500 calls for service daily.
Due to particulars related to the software, some departments were
required to re-number their apparatus.
It's time other departments around the state do the same. Read
more.
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HOT SHOT
Structure Fire With Fatality
FRI AUG 10
SUBMITTED BY LT MATT STRAWBRIDGE, BUNN FIRE DEPARTMENT
FRANKLIN COUNTY - On August 8, Bunn, Pilot and Hopkins were
dispatched to a structure fire with a report of a subject still
inside. First arriving crews knocked the fire down quickly. A
fatality was found on scene. Bunn E21, E28, E29; Pilot E72 S75;
Hopkins C1, K227, T22; Bunn Rescue T205, EMS202 and EMS4 responded.
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You can now register
on-line for the 2007 South Atlantic Fire Expo, which is
the joint conference of the North Carolina Association of Fire
Chiefs and the NCSFA. The Conference will be held August 23-25, 2007
in Winston-Salem.
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Additional
Headlines:
Vance County:
Driver Burns to Death in Crash
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