Charlotte Fire Department Helps Move Polio Patients – March 5, 1945

Posted by Mike Legeros on 10 January 2019, 8:46 pm

On March 5, 1945, the Charlotte Fire Department assisted with the “greatest mass transfer of polio patients in history”. Led by Fire Chief W. Hendrix Palmer, the fire department helped the Charlotte Variety Club move 88 patients from the emergency polio hospital in Hickory to the new polio unit at Charlotte Memorial Hospital. Travelling the …

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Vintage Footage of Shaw University Fire, 1991

Posted by Mike Legeros on 7 January 2019, 7:37 am

Found footage alert. Here’s 39 minutes of raw video from Meserve Hall at Shaw University, which went to four alarms in January 1991. Converted from VHS and posted to the Raleigh Fire Museum YouTube channel. Original videographer(s) TBD. Might’ve been two cameras operating, as the footage isn’t strictly sequential. Incident description below, from my Raleigh fire history …

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RECAP – Wake County Fire Commission – Long-Range Planning Workshop, January 3, 2019

Posted by Mike Legeros on 6 January 2019, 8:20 am

January 6, 2019Blogger David Handy has posted an excellent recap of this meeting, in this posting. He also adds a number of personal perspectives. His blog is titled Friends of Fairview, and is a newer site, created as a forum for raising citizen concerns about the Fairview Station 2 closure concept, proposed last summer to …

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Wake County Fire Tax District Long-Range Business Plan, January 2005

Posted by Mike Legeros on 6 January 2019, 8:10 am

Here’s another planned posting, first drafted in August 2018, when the Fairview Station 2 closure concept was being discussed. At the time, was updating my Wake County Fire Commission posted docs. They live here: https://legeros.com/blog/docs/wcfc. Found in Mike’s archive, scanned copy of the Wake County Fire Tax District Long-Range Business Plan, as recommended by the Wake …

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Vintage Vehicles of Ogden Rescue Squad

Posted by Mike Legeros on 6 January 2019, 7:57 am

How about some vintage ambulances and rescue vehicles? Found these on the Odgen Rescue Squad Facebook group. The squad was chartered in 1962, and merged with New Hanover Volunteer Rescue Squad in 2004. The joint organization operated until 2014.

Raleigh Fire Department – Digitized Yearbooks from 1984 and 2002

Posted by Mike Legeros on 6 January 2019, 7:55 am

Whoops, this posting was originally planned in November. Let’s catch up… The Raleigh Fire Museum in partnership with the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center in November 2018 announced the digitization of two fire department “yearbooks” from 1984 and 2002. These commemorative volumes are no longer in print, and document the personnel, facilities, equipment, and history of …

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North Carolina Fire Departments in 1896

Posted by Mike Legeros on 4 January 2019, 5:33 pm

Here’s a list of North Carolina fire departments in 1896, as reported by the Statistician of the North Carolina State Firemen’s Association, for the year ending April 1, 1896. This reported was printed in the proceedings for the Eighth Annual Convention Tournament, held in Salisbury, NC, on August 19, 20, 21. The printed document–61 pages, …

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Warsaw Fire Chief Killed on Duty – December 31, 1949

Posted by Mike Legeros on 31 December 2018, 9:29 am

Here’s the front page of the Duplin Times from January 5, 1950, which includes a story on the death of Warsaw Fire Dept Fire Chief Stacy H. Britt, 38, who died in the line of duty in an apparatus collision on December 31, 1949. You can read the entire issue at this digital North Carolina …

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Emergency Landing at Winston-Salem Airport, 1971

Posted by Mike Legeros on 22 December 2018, 11:52 am

From the May-June 1971 issue of Hose & Nozzle magazine. Piedmont Airlines prop plane made an emergency landing at Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem. Jammed landing gear forced a belly landing. Runway foaming was started, but stopped when the pilot reported that the plane had only a few more minutes of fuel. It had circled …

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Winston-Salem Snorkel in Action, 1975

Posted by Mike Legeros on 20 December 2018, 7:41 am

Random historical image. Winston-Salem’s “short” snorkel in action. Was a 75-foot FWD/Baker/Pittman, model year 1964. List of NC snorkels here: https://legeros.com/blog/snorkels-in-north-carolina/ From Hose & Nozzle magazine, March-April 1976.