See Legeros photos | Listen to radio traffic Two alarms were struck on Saturday, December 30, 2023, at 5919 Hourglass Court. Dispatched 3:21 a.m. as a multi-residential structure fire. While units were en route, dispatch reported receiving multiple calls. Upgraded to working fire. Engine 17 first-arriving at a two-story row of townhomes, with heavy fire …
This was originally posted to the old blog in August 2011 and is being reprinted here, for easier of newer readers to find. As a public service to our readers, Mike Legeros, A. C. Rich, and Lee Price present an overview of fire service leadership in Wake County. The information is delivered in the format …
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Updated November 24, 2023 – Added picture of new Ladder 22 plus all service ladder trucks of yore. Presenting a new infographic, this time with a visual history of Raleigh Fire Department aerial apparatus, sorted by manufacturer. And, in the case of Pierce, further sorted by apparatus type. View JPG version. Very PDF version. See …
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This is a blog version of a Facebook posting originally posted November 4, 2023. Time for a history mystery. When did the role of the state fire marshal merge into the position of the commissioner of insurance? Have seen some conflicting references. Let’s dig a bit. The position of state fire marshal was created in 1914[1], …
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This is a blog version of a Facebook posting originally posted November 1, 2023. In the early 1970s, “radio patrol” units were operating in such western North Carolina counties as McDowell, Mitchell, and Yancey. These were volunteer organizations whose members were each equipped with two-way citizen band (CB) radios, and one or more people monitoring …
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The Wake County Fire Commission will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, October 12, 2023, at 6:00 p.m., at the Wake County Emergency Services Education Center, 221 S. Rogers Lane, Raleigh, NC 27610. View agenda and meeting documents.
This is a blog version of an earlier Facebook posting. Mutual aid to Greensboro, April 1936. From a reader, after a tornado struck the Gate City on April 2, 1936, neighboring fire departments responding to render aid, including Asheboro, Burlington, Graham, High Point, Reidsville, and Winston-Salem. State Fire Marshal Sherwood Brockwell also responded, to help …
This is a blog version of an earlier Facebook posting. Found in my files. Twenty years ago last month, a burgeoning fire historian (and future blogger) was feeling his way around this thing called the Wake County Fire Commission.
This is a blog version of an earlier Facebook posting. New chart, high-level history of fire service governance in Wake County. Source are these lengthy research notes (PDF). See also this history chart of all Wake County fire departments.
This is a blog version of an earlier Facebook posting. We recently received and digitized a pair of program books from the Great American Firehouse Exposition and Muster South, held in Charlotte in May 1988 and May 1989. Both are fabulous snapshots of the late eighties fire service. They were gifted by a fellow history …