Archive of entries posted by Mike Legeros

Kinston Public Safety Splits Into Fire, Police Departments

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Belated news from Lenoir County. On July 1, the Kinston Department of Public Safety was split into separate fire and police departments. Local news–Kinston Free Press, WITN–have been covering same. The departments merged in 2004, when a special response unit was created of fourteen cross-trained police officers and firefighters. The split originated after the retirement …

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Vintage Photo of Henderson Ford/Howe Engine by Tony Kelly

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Found for sale on eBay is this postcard view of Henderson Engine 5, a 1970s (?) Ford/Howe pumper-tanker. The back reads “North Carolina Fire Apparatus post cards, from the collection of Tony D. Kelly. Collection consists of approximately 200 cards such as this one for trade.” And with his address of “Kinston, NC, 28501.” The …

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Guest Post – My Antique Fire Trucks by George Mills

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By George Mills, a former Chief of Bay Leaf VFD Last year Mike asked to me write a posting about antique fire trucks. Here’s that article from August 2015, where I wrote about several restored and decaying American LaFrance rigs in North Carolina. This time I’m write about my antiques. Beginning with my first, a …

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How to Easily Monitor Raleigh City Council Minutes & Agendas… And News Releases

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Here’s an easy means of monitoring Raleigh City Council minutes and agendas, and/or news releases for mention of your favorite topics. Say, the fire department: Sign up for the MyRaleigh Subscriptions service. Select such options as City Council, News Releases, and NewsCor. City Council minutes will arrive as email messages with links to Word documents. …

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Raleigh Receives Federal Grant for Fire Sprinkler Systems for Fire Stations 2 and 15

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The city has received a $151,155 grant from the federal government, to install fire sprinkler systems at Station 2 and Station 15. Both of the facilities are part of a multi-year, multi-million dollar project to update fourteen older (legacy) fire stations. See page 14 of last year’s five-year strategic planning document (PDF) for more details. …

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Garner’s New Engine 1

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The Garner Fire Department yesterday received their new Engine 1, a 2016 Pierce Impel pumper-tanker 1250/1000. It will replace a 2012 Pierce Saber pumper-tanker. By my count, this is their sixteenth Pierce fire engine, since the delivery of a 1984 Pierce Dash pumper 1000/700. The new engine is the fourth of four Pierce Impel pumper …

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Eight Line of Duty Deaths So Far This Year

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We learned on Sunday of the passing of Severn Fire Chief Kevin Britt, who died on Saturday after suffering a medical emergency at his home, after responding to a motor-vehicle collision. See this [FireNews.net] story as well as his obituary [Internet Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20160624025547/http://www.rrspin.com/obituaries/item/12581-david-kevin-britt.html. He’s the eighth line of duty death in North Carolina thus …

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Hose & Nozzle Stories, 1967 – Wake Fireman Breaks Leg, Winston-Salem Fire-Police Vehicles Damaged, etc.

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Random page of stories from the May-June 1969 issue of Hose & Nozzle magazine. Wake [County] Fireman Breaks Leg; Thomasville [Fire] Truck Involved in Wreck; Two Cleveland Firemen Injured; Winston-Salem Fire-Police Vehicles Damaged. Winston-Salem fire police, you say? Here’s a blog posting about that entity, which was created in in late 1957. Looks like they …

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Raleigh Fire and Police Want Higher Salaries

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Last week, on Tuesday, June 7, Raleigh firefighters, police officers, and friends, family, and supporters met at the Municipal Building on Hargett Street, in advance of a public hearing on the proposed budget for FY17. (See the budget documents.) They came with signs and matching shirts (for fire)–“would you do this job 56 hours a …

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