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UPDATED:
Friday Sept 15, 2006 |
North Carolina FireNews Headlines |
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HOT SHOT
FRI SEP 15
SUBMITTED BY MIKE POROWSKI, CFP-3419
CHARLOTTE - Charlotte firefighters
fought this fire at a motel on South Wilkinson Boulevard on
Tuesday, September 5. The intentionally set fire was quickly
controlled in about 15 minutes.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Pierce Unveils New Velocity™
and Impel™
Chassis
FRI SEP 15
PHOTO COURTESY PIERCE MFG
DALLAS, TEXAS -
Pierce
Manufacturing Inc., North America’s leading manufacturer of fire
and rescue apparatus, unveiled two new custom chassis – the
Velocity™ and Impel™ at the Fire Rescue International show in
Dallas. The Velocity and Impel chassis were designed with input
from fire fighters and maintenance personnel from around the
country and feature five significant improvements never before
seen in the fire industry.
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FEATURED SHOT
FRI SEP 15
SUBMITTED BY MIKE LEGEROS, CFP-7474
GOLDSBORO -
Sixty years of American LaFrance are parked
at Station 1 on South Center Street, where a 1919
triple-combination is stored alongside a 1979 reserve pumper.
The vintage pumper, recently repaired, originally served at the
Central Station on North John Street. It was also housed at the
second Central Station, built in 1939 on East Ashe Street.
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FEATURED SHOT
FRI SEP 15
SUBMITTED BY T.C. CREWS
LaGRANGE - The LaGrange Fire
Department recently held this live fire training exercise at an
abandoned barn.
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HOT SHOT
FRI SEP 15
SUBMITTED BY TAFT SPENCE, CFP-1661
HAYWOOD COUNTY - Haywood County Rescue and Junaluska Fire and First
Responders are seen removing one of four patients involved in a
head-on collision on Mauney Cove Road.
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HOT SHOT
FRI SEP 15
SUBMITTED BY DEREK POOLE
IREDELL COUNTY - Cool Springs Fire, Iredell Rescue along with
Iredell EMS were toned out around 2330 on Sunday night to a reported
head-on collision on Mocksville Road near Brookview Road. Fire units
on scene reported a two-vehicle head-on collision with an
entrapment.
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SPECIAL SERIES
  Then
and Now #11: Down East
FRI SEP 15
SUBMITTED BY MIKE LEGEROS, CFP-7474
RALEIGH - Historian Mike
Legeros visits Chowan, Edgecombe, Martin, Pasquotank,
Perquimans, Pitt, and Washington counties for another comparison
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INCIDENT REPORT
FRI SEP 15
SUBMITTED BY ROBBIE BOLIN
WILKES COUNTY -
At 0900 on September
7, the Millers Creek Fire Department was dispatched to a working
house fire in the Summit Ridge Community. First arriving
firefighters reported a well involved 2500 square foot home with a
possible entrapment. Millers
Creek Fire Chief Jason Smithey requested mutual aid from two other
Wilkes departments and one Ashe County department for tankers and
manpower.
The home in the secluded mountain
community was two miles from the main Summit Road with most of the
road being one lane of traffic. An engine and tanker responded
from MCFD Station 2 and two pumper tankers from MCFD station 1.
Also involved were tankers and manpower from Champion FD, Cricket
FD and Fleetwood FD from Ashe county. Wilkes EMS and Wilkes Rescue
Squad also responded and provided a paramedic ambulance.
Firefighters made a valiant effort to
save what they could but with limited manpower. It was quickly
relayed by the daughter of the home owner that there was no one at
home at the time of the fire. Tankers were staged at intervals
along the narrow roadway to allow the units to travel in and out
for the water shuttle which took place from MCFD station 2
which was an 8 mile round trip from the fire scene.
Firefighters did manage to save the
contents of one bedroom and protected two exposures which included
a storage building and an SUV. The family was able to salvage
many pieces of memorabilia and other items from the bedroom.
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