Vintage Manual – Hurst Power Rescue Tool
https://legeros.com/history/library/ Let’s add a vintage manual to our ever-expanding digital history library. The original Jaws of Life and their 32-page manual, undated. Maybe… late 1970s or early 1980s?
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Run Card for Charlotte House Explosion
This is a blog version of a Facebook posting, about details and units at a four-alarm explosion and fire in Charlotte. The narrative has been updated a bit, from the original posting. Charlotte Observer photo Four alarms were struck at a house explosion on Charlotte on Tuesday, July 3, 2019. The incident was dispatched just …
New Numbering for Wake County EMS System
The Wake County EMS System has a new numbering system for their ambulances. Now based on geographic district and shift configuration. Among the notable changes: Two-digit numbers for all ambulances. Single digits reserved for special event units. _7, _8, _9 reserved for peak-load units. The transition started around 9:00 p.m. on Sunday and finished around …
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Raleigh Fire Department Newsletter – Summer 2019
The summer edition of the now twice-yearly Raleigh Fire Department Newsletter has been published. The issue includes an interview with the Fire Marshal, an update on facility projects, a list of all retirements, promotions, and passings since the last issue, and more. View the newsletter at https://raleighfirenews.org.
Raleigh Fire Facility Updates – Summer 2019
What’s happening with the city’s fire department construction projects? Here’s your summer update… Station 6 – Construction continues on rebuilding Station 6 on Fairview Road. Concrete masonry unit walls are finished on the first story, and construction continues upward with the second-floor slab placed. Planned completion January 2020. The 1949 engine house was closed in …
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Seagrave Painter’s Log – 1906 to 1951
https://www.legeros.com/history/library Added to my digital history library. Have had for a couple years. Bought on eBay. List originally saved by Eric A. Sprenger (“Mr. Seagrave”), then shared by Ken Soderbeck. Original date unknown. Scan of second-generation (or more) photocopy. Close as we’ll get to a Seagrave delivery list, I guess. How many were delivered to …
New Bern Firefighter Dies From Injuries After Apparatus Accident – 1963
Found another firefighter fatality of yore, from an account in Daniel Bartholf’s new book “History of Firefighting in New Bern, North Carolina.” Here’s the story, from the book and newspaper accounts, copied from the state library in downtown Raleigh. On February 26, 1951, a New Bern Fire Department engine overturned while en route to a …
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New Book on New Bern Fire History
New book alert! History of Firefighting in New Bern, North Carolina – Colonial Days to the 21st Century, has been published. The author is Daniel Bartholf, a 45-year veteran of the volunteer fire service (NY, NC, WV) and a member of the staff at the New Bern Firemen’s Museum. His bio is below. The softcover …
Wake Forest Engine Returns Home
Antique acquisition alert! The Wake Forest Fire Department has reacquired their old 1947 Chevrolet 6000/Southern pumper[1]. It was delivered in 1948, and replaced a 1934 Chevrolet pumper, which was given to the town’s second fire department, Wake Forest Fire Department #2. They were an all-black department, that operated separately from WFFD. And were one of …
New Source of Digitized Conference Proceedings
There’s a new source of digitized proceedings of the early conferences of the North Carolina State Firemen’s Association. The Internet Archive (archive.org) has digitized a portion of the proceedings in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina. The direct links are listed below, and each year’s proceedings is fully-searchable. There are also …
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