We recently paid a visit to the Charlotte Fire Department’s new headquarters. Opened last year, the two-story, 36,000 square-foot facility is located at 500 Dalton Avenue. That’s just north of uptown, on a prominent parcel between Statesville Avenue and North Graham Street. The triangular, ten-acre site was last occupied by a Sealtest plant and office …
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The Fayetteville Veterans Administrations Hospital once had a fire department, we’ve learned through a SPAAFAA posting on Facebook, from the Dover (NC) Fire Department. Their first engine originally served the hospital, and is pictured below. It’s a 1941 Howe Defender that they received from Civil Defense surplus in 1953. What’s the history of the hospital’s …
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Looking for major fires in North Carolina fire stations over the years and decades (and centuries). 2014, June 22 – North River-Laurel Road FD at 839 Merrimon Road in Carteret County – Fire started in apparatus bay and destroyed all three trucks and equipment. Believed to have started by 1991 Mack/Ward LaFrance (correct?) pumper/tanker. Bay …
January 16 One of the rescued boaters filmed their adventures–including while airborne!–and has posted a six-minute video on Vimeo: January 12 On Sunday, January 10, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol and the Raleigh Fire Department performed a helicopter rescue of two kayakers who capsized on the Cape Fear River in Lee County. They …
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The next meeting of the Wake County Fire Commission is Thursday, January 21, at the Wake County EMS Training Facility, located in the basement of the Wake County Commons Building, 4011 Carya Drive in Raleigh. The meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. Agenda is below. View the meeting documents. Meeting Called to Order: Chairman Lucius Jones …
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January 14 – Evening Added Hose & Nozzle story as comment. January 14 – MorningThe WRAL feature Tar Heel Traveler this week took reporter Scott Mason to the town of Hertford, where fire department members recalled the Winslow Oil Company fire of January 10, 1978. Watch the video story for numerous vintage images and even …
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Lee Wilson snapped this spy picture on Monday of Wake Forest’s new Engine 4, a 2015 Rosenbauer, 1500/1000. Note the Roto-Ray on the front. The truck’s at C. W. Williams in Rocky Mount. See more photos from Lee, including new Station 4. Should be opening soon.
New poster created by the Raleigh Fire Museum, for a set of vintage Hurst tools installed this month at the museum. They originally served Wake Forest Rescue Squad in the mid-1970s, and were last used by Stony Hill Fire Department. The department has graciously loaned the tools for display. Read more about local rescue squad …
Two alarms were struck early this morning at 3812 Western Boulevard, at Sushi Nine restaurant. Engine 5 arriving at a one-story, brick-and-wood commercial structure with 5,885 square-feet. Built 1985. Fire showing through roof on the left side/center of structure. Defensive operations started, as water supplies were established. Second alarm requested within about five minutes. Three …