Let’s build a history of airport fire protection in Charlotte. Update, February 24, 2023. Migrated to PDF format. See this document: https://legeros.com/history/charlotte/charlotte-airport-fire-history.pdf See also this fleet roster: https://legeros.com/history/fleets/charlotte-airport.pdf See also this infographic on early NCANG ARFF rigs: https://legeros.com/history/charts/content/ncang-crash-trucks.pdf
Last updated May 20, 2024. How many Aerialscopes served in North Carolina, over the decades? Here’s a montage plus list. Avery County 1976 Mack CF/Baker – 0/0/75′ – Lee Wilson photo Ex-Cherry Hill Twp, NJ. Sold to Blackstone, VA, in 2003. Boone 1987 Mack/Baker – 0/0/85′ – Lee Wilson photo Ex-demo unit? Chassis #CF688, FAPS-1161 …
The story is a familiar one. Members of a municipal-based fire department separate themselves into a second group to serve rural residents. A second organization fire department is formed. The resulting relationship between the two departments can be good or not so good. The latter was the case in Elon College in Alamance County in the …
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Presenting a master list of all tractor-drawn tankers that have served in North Carolina, including foam units and Air Force runway foamers. View the document (PDF)
Last updated February 6, 2023 – Content converted from web page to PDF document. This is a re-posting of a Legeros Blog Archives posting from December 21, 2013, that’s no longer available on the old site, due to technical problems. Presenting a master list of all articulating platforms, including snorkels, that have served in North …
This is a blog version of a Facebook posting from August 14, 2020. Tale of a tragedy. Early in the morning of Tuesday, July 14, 1942, a pair of explosion at a bulk fuel storage facility in Waynesville, NC, killed six people, and also fatally injured Fire Chief Lawrence Kerley. Below are a pair of …
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This is an expanded version of a blog archives posting (PDF) from September 4, 2012. The history of the Raleigh Fire Department includes instances of members who were permanently disabled as a result of injuries on duty. Here’s one of those stories. RFD yearbook portrait, 1984 On February 18, 1958, Raleigh firefighter Claude W. Johnson …
See photos by Mike Legeros | Listen to radio traffic Two alarms (with a third for mayday, then cancelled) were struck in Raleigh on Sunday morning, February 5, 2023. Was the fourth working fire in eight hours. Dispatched 6:12 a.m. for Old Lead Mine Road and Mere Oak Drive. Reported house fire, plus report of …
See photos by Mike Legeros | Listen to radio traffic Mike Legeros photos Two alarms were struck overnight in north Raleigh on Walden Pond Drive. It was the third of four working fires in the city in eight hours, between Saturday night, February 4, and Sunday morning, February 5, and the first of two extra-alarm …