Quick takes
Audio of the day: This is the brief audio clip of Loudoun County, Virginia’s Lt. John Earley as he arrived in quarters aboard Tower 6 Friday night (see below).
Lt. John Earley home: In case you didn’t check in over the weekend, you many have missed that Loudoun County, Virginia’s John Earley came back to the county in style Friday night after almost 10 weeks at the burn unit. Read the story.
FF/diver dies during effort to find boater: In Tiverton, RI Sunday evening a firefighter for the Tiverton Fire Department went into cardiac arrest and died while part of a dive team searching for a boater. Click here for the details.
Return from antique fire truck muster ends in tragedy: An aerial ladder into power lines killed the owner of an antique fire truck and a state trooper Sunday. It happened as the truck’s owner was trying to change two flat tires at the border with Canada. FireGeezer is on top of this one.
DC takes steps towards firing four FFs: If you missed the news from late Friday, DC Fire & EMS Chief Dennis Rubin is moving to fire four firefighters found by an internal investigation to have avoided being dispatched on emergency ambulance calls. Click here for the story and a bit of a discussion in our comments section.
VA house fire video: Click here for video of a house fire Saturday evening in Fairfax County. It was at 5901 Columbia Pike in Bailey’s Crossroads. Werner R. Ennesser (W. R. E. Productions) took the video.
The man Johnny Carson called NBC’s “crack meteorologist” knows his stuff about fire: Dr. Frank Field helped inspire a series of TV reports I did in the mid to late 1990s about fire safety. In fact we ripped off the title of our series from Dr. Field’s book Get Out Alive. By the time my reports aired, Field had been there and done that.
Now things have come full circle and Frank Field is referencing a little bit of my work in a quest commentary in the August issue of Firehouse. Click here to read more about it.
Video of the day is a new view of an old fire: At least the angle is new to us. Scroll down or click here for the fire from San Diego.
Ladder trucks and rescue squad can now be staffed with two: That’s the decision in Huntington, West Virginia after a judge’s ruling will force the city to pay more for retirees medical benefits. Engine company’s will continue to operate with three, but OT can’t be used to fill in to go above two for the trucks and squad. Here’s the story.
