Below are a few photos from a fire that I missed while on coverage. The photos are from a few friends that support my blog site. Its one fire, I hated to miss for working it and shooting the incident,  Its been busy lately I hope to catch one soon.

Norwich 2nd Alarm +, 4-13-14

On Saturday April 19, 2014 the Fire Science Club  of Dutchess Community College conducted 2 test burns at the Dutchess County Fire Training Center. The burn tested standard lightweight floor construction, consisting of 3 wooden I beams  supporting a plywood floor and 300 pounds of cinderblocks.  The I beams were supported by 2 walls of 2x4 and sheetrock construction, and the rear was blocked by plywood to prevent the wind from blowing fire and heat out the side.  All materials were donated by Williams Lumber.  The Roosevelt Fire District of Hyde Park, NY supplied an engine and a crew to provide the necessary hand lines

 

Here is a picture of the set up before the burn.  Fire load was provided by several pallets of wood, about 4 bales hay, and small part of section couch.

 

   

 

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At 03:46 I woke up to tones for a smoke investigation a few blocks from my house.  The first due Engine read their MDT notes and requested a full structure fire response, so I was out the door.  Approaching the scene the breeze smelled like a legit fire and there was a light haze in the street.  Aurora Police arrived just after I did and parked pretty close.  Walking up alarms were sounding and light, laminar smoke was showing from both floors... The homeowner owner opened every window before he evacuated. 

 

   

 

Engine 13's crew stepping off...

   

I was able to attend an unusual incident last night. There is a small area that belongs to Chicago, that lies along Foster ave west of River rd, adjacent to O'Hare Field. This is much closer to a couple of suburbs..Rosemont and Schiller park, yet it belongs to CFD. It isn't really a good run for either the Airport companies..nor engine 11.Sort of a no man's land. Rosemont responded to smoke in the area, as well as Schiller Park , Desplaines, and Park Ridge. CFD was notified as well. Arriving units found a well involved tour/party type bus inside an industrial building. Park Ridge, due on auto aide, used a deck gun to hit the bulk of the fire. Chicago companies arrived and worked in concert with all the suburban units. Another interesting aspect to this was the MVU (924) was used..this rig lives at O'Hare Field and most of us fire fan types have never actually had a chance to see the unit in operation. I also took a photo or 2 of the various municipality street signs at each end of the block. They used suburban style hydrants, but I think I heard the sprinkler connections on the fire building were Chicago threads. All in all a "once in a billion years" kinda deal.
Steve

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About 23:58 hours on 4-16-2014 Fort Wayne Allen County 911 Got several 911 calls from passing motorist reporting a structure fire in a used car dealership in Huntertown Indiana. Communications dispatched Huntertown Fire depattment, Washington Township Fire Department (Ladder Task Force Response), Northeast Fire (RIT response) to Tim Hake Automotive located 2220 Lima Plank Street in Hunterttown, Indiana.  

 

 

Units from huntertown fire arrived very fast and made an aggressive interior attack and knocked the main body of fire down in the office area. Smoke pushed from the building for about a half hour as units knocked down hidden pockets of fire.

 

Units on scene

 

Huntertown / Perry Twp. Fire Rescue

 

Engine 92

Engine 91

Rescue 98

Tanker 93

Emergency 95

 

Washington Twp. Fire Dept. (Ladder Task Force Response)

 

Ladder 67

Rescue 68

 

Northeast Fire (Rit Response)

 

Engine 171

 

 

First photo is as I walked up

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Hey so a friend of mine still active in wildland firefighting told me tonight at thier RED card recert class that the instructor said that after 2014 fire shelters well no longer be required in the US?????


Has anyone heard this also any please explain. The instructor told them the reason being is the Yarnell Hill fire and that with shelters were being too aggressive on the fire line and not saying far enough back, and that Canada and noone else uses them in the world were the only country, so I guess were to fall in line with everyone else ???


Idk this sounds kinda wacky and I couldn't find anything with a google search, figure someone hear has an inside in some FS fire division or BLM and maybe it hasent been made offical yet can anyone confirm and clarify.


thanks guys again

I noticed that the other trucks....Semi's,Tow,Plow/Dump ETC were spread out on a few diffrent treads so I figure why not start a new tread for the Commercial Trucks.    

Most days when I leave work I put on the PulsePoint Live Dispatch Radio here in Las Vegas. Today I did not for some reason. I was at Pecos and Desert Inn when I got a text message that there was a working fire in the area of East Charlston and North Lamb. Being as this was the way I sometimes go home I looked in that direction and saw a large column of smoke. All pictures were taken with my Cell Phone as that's all I had with me

 

On Scene Units

 

Clark County Fire Department Engine 16, Engine 27, Truck 16, Rescue 16

Las Vegas Fire and Rescue Engine 8, Engine 201, CBRN 8, AIR RESOURCE 1, RESCUE 8. PIO1, BATTALION 1 AND 3, EMS 1, CARS 6i4, 6i5, AND 6i7

AMR AMBULANCE

 

I put on the Live Radio Feed as soon as I could safely. When I was close I saw smoke in the area still and decided to take in the fire.

 

After parking and getting close this is what I saw. Now sorry about the quality but all I had with me was my cell phone.

 



 



 



 

I will post more in the morning. I am still working on getting the pictures fixed and making a video of the fire.

This morning at around 5 am I heard a lot of sirens but did not think anything about since I live in North Las Vegas, truth be told we hear sirens all the time. It was not till I turned on my cell phone at around 6 am that I found out that there was a fire right behind our house. At the time that I looked outside this is the smoke I saw

 



 



 



 

So I did not really think much about it

Well, another year comes and goes, and 30,000 of the nation's bravest made their way to Indianapolis for FDIC.  It was a  really good trip for yours truly this year, aside from some inconveniences at the hotel.

 

This was a great year to catch up with some old friends, as well as finally getting to put a face with some folks I've talked to on the internet for years.  Some of the who's who in apparatus histories and photography were there:  Greg Stapleton, Dennis Maag, Kent Parrish, Lukas Prestovnik (who gets an award from flying from Austria to shoot a single fire engine), Dave Mattingly, Bill Friederich, Glenn Vincent, Steve Loftin, Tom Shand (who I passed at a distance in the Pierce booth).  I also got to talk to Travis "Juice" Messersmith, John "T-Bone" Raley, and Rick Mosher passed through a booth I was standing in as well.  Did I miss anyone?

 

Anyhoo, I'm sure you all are ready for the photos.

 

First up, an overview of the Lucas Oil Stadium (LOS), where Pierce, Alexis, and HME were on display.