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Three-alarms in Pawtucket, Rhode Island: ProvidenceFireVideos.com has this video from Saturday at Main and Magill Streets.
And now we know the rest of the story: Ever since the dramatic video of last Thursday’s rescue of a child from a fire in the Bronx we have been wondering who actually made the rescue. The video only shows Horia Cretan on the fire escape with the child. As many people surmised, and now Susan Candiotti of CNN confirms, it was the firefighter who found the child and handed him to Cretan. That firefighter is Jimmy Senk. Read the story. Watch the story.
OHP trooper again facing accusations of excessive force: Oklahoma Highway Patrol’s Daniel Martin is on administrative leave again. A Holdenville man says he was beaten by the trooper. It was in May that Martin’s image was seen around the world with his hands around the neck of a paramedic. Read the latest.
Memorial Weekend: We have some pictures for you from the events in Emmitsburg, Maryland put on by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. There are also links to hundreds of other photos and an article about the weekend. Click here. From our region the names of Dale City VFD’s Cecilia Turnbough, Baltimore County’s Jarrett Dixon and Brian Neville were among the 122 names added to the memorial.
I wonder if he ever calls for a second alarm instead of camera 2: Having been making the trip since 1996, this was a new image for me in Emmitsburg over the weekend. I am used to fire chiefs and firefighters taking on lots of different roles to make the events happen. But I had never seen a fire chief in the director’s chair. Make sure you take a look at the video I shot from inside the TV production truck. The man calling the shots was in a fire department uniform. Chief Spruce McRee of Alabama’s Brierfield Fire & Rescue. Like me, Chief McRee is a former member of the Oxon Hill Volunteer Fire Department. Unlike me, he actually has some skills other than yapping about what other people do. Click here to learn more and to see a little behind the scenes action from Memorial Weekend.
Thanks!!!: It started as a last minute idea in 2007 that Chris Hebert, then of Firehouse.com, quickly endorsed and helped me promote. At the same time USFA’s Tom Olshanski, along with PREPnet’s Jeff Elliott were working on their own efforts to provide live streaming of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Memorial Weekend. Each year more websites and blogs are doing the same thing. This year the number of places where you could watch the events live grew substantially. Within the fire service community here are the sites I am aware of (write me if I missed anyone and I will gladly add it): Fire Engineering, Firefighter Nation, Firegeezer, Fire Rescue 1, Capt. Spaulding’s World, Monroe County Fire Wire, IAFF Local 2625 (Collinsville, IL), Fire Department Network News, Fire Critic, Raleigh/Wake Firefighting Blog, Seminole Trail VFD (VA), Colleton County Fire-Rescue (SC), Public Safety Spotlight, and Central Piedmont Community College (NC). I am sure there were others, so please drop me a line at dstatter@wusa9.com.
Also, a big thanks to the 9NEWS NOW crew for making sure all the right buttons were pushed, including Emily Cyr, Jillian Coyle, Patrick O’Brien, Raul Rivero, George VanDaniker, Dave Rankine and Jay Mishkin.
You might want to read that press release again: I know I shouldn’t point out mistakes of others because I sure make quite a few right here on this blog. At one media outlet the honoring of firefighters is geared to the seasons. Check it out yourself (it isn’t just a misprint, because the on-air version reads the same way).
Baltimore videos: Some early views of a dwelling fire in Pigtown. Click here.
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Another Gary, Indiana video: This is from Saturday at 11th and Idaho. Here is the description with the video – On arrival heavy fire was reported coming from the second floor of a 24×40 1.5 story brick vacant house. Due to the fact the stairs had already burned away and fell into the basement crews had to attack the fire from the exterior and via ground ladders. The cause was under investigation and nobody was injured at the fire scene.
