Northern Wake Fire Department took delivery on Monday, May 21, of their new Ladder 35, a 2019 Pierce Impel PUC Ascendant, 1500/500/107-foot. Once in service, it’ll be housed at Station 3 on Norwood Road. It replaces a 1999 Pierce Dash rear-mounted aerial ladder, 1500/200/20/105-foot. It’s one of three incoming 107-foot Pierce quints in Wake County, …
Found this neat piece of Raleigh history this week, with more details on black auxiliary firemen during World War II. Previously on the Legeros Channel, just a bit of this was known: “A company of black auxiliary firefighters was suggested, or asked about. Some black citizens served as auxiliary firemen, as cited in the September …
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Found the correct date for the creation of the state colored firemen’s association, formally known as the North Carolina Volunteer Firemen’s Association.[1] It’s been previously cited on my site, and in my writings, as “1888 or 1889.” That is incorrect. The year was 1890. The evidence is a pair of period newspaper articles: Greensboro North …
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https://www.legeros.com/history/library For your reading pleasure. Vintage Civilian Defense Handbooks from 1942. Extracted from this hardcover compilation, via the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/14021300R.nlm.nih.gov. Its missing a couple, notably Auxiliary Policemen. Will scan and add my copy of that one, at a later date.
For your Friday reading, here’s a bit of Forsyth County rescue history. Found on eBay a year or two ago. Vintage, 24-page “yearbook” of the (all-black!) Air King Rescue Squad. https://www.legeros.com/history/library/ They operated from 1962 to 1981, previously as Citizens Radio Club, and subsequently as Southeast Winston Rescue Squad. They ceased operation in 1993. Some …
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Be advised. There are no pending items for business for the May 16, 2019, regular meeting of the Wake County Commission. The meeting is thus cancelled. The next meeting is July 18, 2019, 7:00 p.m., at the Emergency Services Training Center on South Rogers Lane. That is all.
For your Monday reading. Here’s another vintage North Carolina fire department history book that I’ve scanned. Slowly building a digital library for everyone. More to come: CFD, GFD, WSFD, etc. They’re PDF copies and a bit reduced in size. Large but not voluminous. https://legeros.com/history/library
During the combined meeting of the North Carolina Firemen’s Association and the North Carolina Association of Fire Chiefs, held at the Hilton Hotel in Greenville, NC, on August 6-8, 1987, the vendors were invited to introduce themselves at the conference participants. Here’s who they were and what they said, as recorded in the printed proceedings: …
Change log. May 10. Evening. New map, updated with response districts instead of municipal and ETJ areas as base map. May 10. Morning. Slight edits. Noting that existing Cary P25 radio system being used. Annotating map, noting that shaded areas are municipal and ETJ boundaries. Etc. Introduction On Tuesday, May 7, the fire departments of …
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The Town of Cary Fire Department activated a fourth ladder company this week. Ladder 8 was placed in service on Sunday, April 23, 2019, at Station 8 on Mills Park Drive. They’ve been assigned the 2018 Pierce Enforcer 1500/300/105-foot rear-mount that had been assigned to Ladder 5. The latter ladder laddies are back on their …