Was thinking about this last week. There’s lots that goes into a WOW drone photo[1]. It’s an iceberg, of sorts. With many things that you don’t easily or ever see.
Just a rough sketch. The stuff under the water could be re-ordered. Or expanded. But you get the idea. Click to enlarge:
[1] Or at least those cool shots that I’ve taken, or attempted to take.
Here are the run numbers for the Raleigh Fire Department for 2017.
Total calls: 42,207
Total runs: 59,334
Busiest engines:
Busiest ladders:
Busiest battalion chief:
Run Numbers Continue reading ‘Run Numbers for Raleigh, 2017’ »
Whoops, this planned posting didn’t get posted during Christmas week!
Raleigh-Durham International Airport has received their second Striker!
This 2017 Oshkosh Global Striker 6×6, 1250/3000/420/450# was delivered on Sunday, December 14, 2017. Click to enlarge:
Pictures are screen grabs from this nifty short video from RDU, featuring Captain Will Patterson:
Specifications include:
Read complete specs (PDF).
Current Crash Trucks
The new truck will join a 2016 Oshkosh Striker, 3000/420/450#/460# with 50-foot snozzle, that was delivered in April 2016, and placed in service in September. Read blog post.
Mike Legeros photo
The new CFR 3 will replace a 2000 Oshkosh TI-1500, 1500/210/450#. That truck was one of three white 2000 Oshkosh TI crash trucks delivered that year, a TI-3000 and two TI-1500s. CFR 4 was replaced last year with the 2016 Striker and subsequently sold.
Mike Legeros photo
The two Strikers are the airport’s first new yellow trucks since the 1990s. Read more about the airport’s fleet of fire apparatus, past ‘n’ present.
The Winston-Salem Fire Department has a new gold leaf design, as reported in this Winston-Salem Journal story. The design is similar to others seen around our state. Recognize these?
Join the conversation on Facebook.
As featured in this WNCN story, this five-page brochure was produced for the recruitment of a new Charlotte Fire Chief.
It was produced by recruiter Ralph Andersen and Associates and lists the many qualifications needed for the position: executive fire command experience, a bachelor’s degree, certifications, etc.
Former Fire Chief Jon Hannan retired in August. Currently at the helm is Interim Fire Chief Pete Key. The first review of received resumes is February 12.
View the PDF (936K).
Morning After
This was solved within about twenty minutes on the Facebook side. Ex-Durham FD, former Rescue 1, later renamed Squad 1. Picture from the late 1990s or early 2000s, by Legeros:
Night Before
From a reader, this former “Squad 1” was seen in Garner, near the Quarry. Looks like a 1990s International.
Someone will surely ID the thing, but will be a blog reader or Facebook follower? The race is on!
Thanks Kena! Click to enlarge:
Found these in this /r/firefighting thread. Super-cool (and newly posted) dash cam videos of Chicago Fire Department crash trucks in action at O’Hare International Airport on October 28, 2016.
The lengthy clips were filmed as crews responded to, attacked, extinguished, and returned from an uncontrolled engine failure and fire on a Boeing 767. Talk about a smoke plume!
Here’s the Wikipedia story of what happened, American Airlines Flight #383. With 170 souls aboard including nine crew, all survived. Twenty were injured.
See also this Chicago Fire Wire posting [link expired:http://www.chicagofirewire.com/fire-videos/new-video-dash-cam-of-arff-vehicle-as-it-responded-to-and-operated-at-the-american-airlines-boeing-767-300-fire-at-ohare-international-airport-in-2016/] with more notes from the incident and the video.
Knightdale’s new 2017 Spartan/Custom Fire rescue pumper, 1250/750/25, is almost ready.
These production photos were posted today on the East Coast Fire Apparatus Facebook page. Looking good!
New Engine 131
It’s lettered for Engine 131 and should be delivered at the end of month. And includes a Roto-Ray!
Here’s the PDF drawings, from the ECFA web site:
Found in the files of the Raleigh Fire Museum, a News & Observer profile of incoming Raleigh Fire Chief Clarence Puryear. He was named their Tar Heel of the Week in the Sunday, January 14, 1973, issue.
Clarence Rudy Puryear Sr., born in 1919 in Virginia, entered the department in February 1941. After military leave from 1942 to 1946, he returned and rose through the ranks over the decades.
Continue reading ‘Fire Chief Clarence Puryear – Tar Heel of the Week, 1973’ »
On Monday, October 23, Engine 2 relocated to their newly renovated Raleigh fire station. The 1969 engine house underwent a $1.5 million overhaul that stripped the station down to its exterior walls. It’s the second in a series of planned major renovations that started with Station 5 in 2016.
The Pecan Road fire station also housed the fire department maintenance shop until 2004. The oversized vehicle bay then housed the station’s haz-mat trucks. The renovations converted the old shop space into a drive-through apparatus bay, along with additional rooms, including an exercise room and sleeping areas.
Added as part of the renovation was this plaque, created with hysterical historical help from the Raleigh Fire Museum. It recounts the three earlier locations of Station 2 on Fayetteville Street, on Salisbury Street, and at Memorial Auditorium.
Read more history of Station 2 on this page of mine. Click to enlarge:
New Folding Doors
One feature of the newly renovated fire station is a first for the Raleigh Fire Department: “accordion style” folding front doors on the apparatus bay.
They were chosen over the standard overhead door for their quick opening speed (nine versus about 20 seconds), long-term resiliency, and to maximize interior vertical and horizontal clearances.
Next Up, For Renovations?
Station 15 on Spring Forest Road will resume renovation in the spring. The first phase was completed earlier this year, with an installation of a fire sprinkler system.
The renovation of Station 11 on Glen Eden Drive has also been long-planned and with the core purpose of expanding the apparatus bay to accommodate a larger aerial apparatus. The scope of that project has changed and a new round of design work is underway.