Meet Matty Gregg, pictured below (center left) at Raleigh Fire Station 2 yesterday. He’s running across America for the Firefighter Cancer Support Network. For seven months and nearly 4,500 miles, he’s been spreading the word about firefighter cancer and the national support group. The Firefighter Cancer Support Network is active in 35 states and growing. …
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Here’s the run card for New Hope Fire Department’s major woods fire last week, on Wednesday, May 29. Some 50 acres were involved, and threatened some residential structures. The resources included 60 firefighters, 34+ pieces of apparatus, and a complete EMS box alarm with 16+ EMS personnel. The first units were dispatched at 5:02 p.m., …
Here are factory photos of the Zebulon Fire Department’s new Pierce Pumper 91 and Ladder 9. The ladder truck arrived on Tuesday, May 28. It’s a 2019 Pierce Enforcer PUC Ascendant, 1500/500/107-foot. The engine is due soon. Download the uncropped versions on the company’s Flickr site, https://www.flickr.com/piercemfg.
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