Two Alarms on Brooks Avenue – November 16, 2025

Two alarms were struck at a house fire in Raleigh on Sunday, November 16, 2025.  Dispatched ~2:50 p.m. for 1345 Brooks Avenue. One- and two-story, single-family dwelling with 4,116 square-feet. Built 1948. With gusty wind conditions that day, statewide. Engine 6 first-arriving with smoke showing. Upgraded to working fire. Interior attack to start, with crews …

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Relocating Fire Station 3 – November Update

This is an ongoing blog posting about the project to relocate Raleigh Fire Station 3. Contents  Nov 2025 – November Update Feb 2025 – Construction Update Nov 2024 – Design + Public Art Unveiled Nov 2024 – Community Meeting Scheduled Oct 2024 – Site Clearing Started Aug 2024 – Construction Bid Awarded May 2024 – …

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Run Card for Louisville Cargo Jet Crash

This is a blog version of a Facebook posting from November 5, 2025.  Pleasure Park Ridge Fire District photos Here’s a run card created by reader Kameron Brown–plus annotations added by Legeros–for the major incident in Louisville, KY, on November 3, 2025, involving an cargo jet crash + commercial building(s) + petroleum recycling facility just …

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MEDIC Starts Service in Charlotte – November 1, 1978

This is a blog version of a Facebook posting from November 6, 2025.  Morning reading. How ’bout some EMS history from Mecklenburg County and Charlotte. Forty-seven years ago this week, MEDIC, the Mecklenburg EMS Agency, began operating as the county’s new ambulance service. They were placed in service at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, November 1, …

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