From the news files this week: Thursday – Versus apartment building – Fox Ridge Manor Road, Raleigh – WRAL story Thursday – Versus house – Lake Grove Boulevard, Cary – No injuries – WTVD story Thursday – Versus freight train – S. Salem Street, Apex – Minor injuries – WTVD story Sunday – Versus passenger …
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From their Facebook page, here’s a vintage photo of the Foscoe Fire Department in Watagua County. They were organized in 1971 and their first fire station was this one-story block ‘n’ brick building at 8599 Highway 105 South. Twenty years later, they moved to a new fire station at 9230 Highway 105 South. In recent …
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Budgets have been proposed for both the city and county, for Fiscal Year 2016-2017. Here are details on the fire department and fire services expenditures: City of Raleigh Proposed budget presented to City Council on Tuesday. Highlights: Replace two engines and one ladder. [ Ed. note #1: Need more! Ed. note #2: Hearing it’s actually …
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May 18 Chapelboro.com posted this story yesterday with a project update and a drawing. Town council will vote in June whether to approve the joint project, which will erect a fire station and four-story office building on South Hamilton Road. February 11 News out of Chapel Hill. Town Council on Monday approved the sale of …
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Kenly Fire Department Firefighter John M. Davis Jr. was buried yesterday in his hometown in Johnston County. Hundreds of mourners gathered yesterday morning at Kenly Funeral Home & Cremations on East 2nd Street. Burial followed at Center Ridge Presbyterian Church on Glendale Road, with a procession of 60 fire trucks and emergency vehicles escorting the …
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Vintage Wilmington fire apparatus as photographed in September 1997. Wait, when did trucks from the 1980s start qualifying as vintage?!? Courtesy of David Raynor, a blog reader, fire buff, and former law officer who lived in Raleigh and Greensboro in his day. Pictured left to right, top to bottom: 1987 Ford/Grumman pumper, 1000/500 1985 Ford/Quality …
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Found for sale on eBay, vintage dealer photos of Howe fire apparatus from what looks like the 1970s. The Garner Fire Department had a pair of these International/Howe pumpers, one 1974 model and one 1976 model. Same size pump and tank on each. Readers may have more information on these trucks. Click to enlarge:
May 10, 2016 Here’s the agenda for the May 12 meeting. See accompanying agenda packet (PDF): Meeting Called to Order: Chairman Lucius Jones Invocation Roll of Members Present Public Comments Comments from the public will be received at the time appointed by the Chairman of the Fire Commission for 30 minutes maximum time allotted, with …
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For your Monday evening enjoyment, here’s another vintage photo from David Raynor, this one of a Raleigh service ladder truck, operating at a fire at St. Mary’s and Hargett streets in 1987. That’s Truck 15, a 1964 GMC that was shop-built using the ladder rack from Raleigh’s first service truck, a 1922 American LaFrance. It …
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On Saturday and the same day that the state’s fallen firefighters were honored in a ceremony at Nash Square in downtown Raleigh, another member of the North Carolina fire service died in the line of duty. Kenly Firefighter John M. Davis Jr., 45, suffered a heart attack while working at the scene of an overturned …
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