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UPDATED:
Monday Aug 14, 2006 |
North Carolina FireNews Headlines |
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HOT SHOT
MON AUG 14
SUBMITTED BY TAFT SPENCE, CFP=1661
HAYWOOD COUNTY - At 1703 hours last
Friday, the Center Pigeon Fire Department was dispatched to 902
Chestnut Mountain Road for a structure fire. Fire was showing
through the roof on arrival. Additional units responded from
Clyde, North Canton, Junaluska, Cruso, Canton, Lake Logan and
Enka Candler. The Haywood County Fire Marshal's Office is
investigating.
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FEATURED SHOT
Lightning Strike Forces
Dispatchers to Use Manual Dispatching
MON AUG 14
SUBMITTED BY CAPTAIN ROB BRISLEY, CHARLOTTE FIRE DEPARTMENT PIO
CHARLOTTE - The Charlotte Fire
Department’s Communications Center went back on line just after
midnight Friday morning August 11, after being off line for about
three hours. A lightning strike around 9 p.m. Thursday damaged the
uninterruptible power source (UPS) at Station 1 and caused the
computer aided dispatching system (CAD) to go down.
Fire Communications’ backup plan was quickly implemented, with
telecommunicators relocating to the communications centers at the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and MEDIC.
Telecommunicators from all three centers worked together to ensure
that emergency response did not suffer because of the problems.
Forty-eight calls for service were responded to by using this back
up system as this weather front passed through the area.
Employees from Business Support Services’ Information Technology
Division and Radio Shop responded to Fire Communications and were
quickly able to make the necessary repairs. They are to be
commended for their speed and competence to ensure that Fire
Communications was quickly back up.
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HOT SHOT
MON AUG 14
SUBMITTED BY MIKE LEGEROS, CFP-7474
RALEIGH -
Apparatus, personnel, and onlookers filled
the 500 block of Rose Lane in southeast Raleigh on a recent
Sunday morning. The three-alarm house fire was dispatched about
6 a.m. with multiple calls and reports of subject trapped. The
single-story structure was well-involved upon arrival and
required defensive operations. Two victims were found, one fatal
and one transported to UNC burn center. Shift change brought
additional firefighters and private vehicles to the scene as "A"
shift relieved "C" shift personnel.
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HOT SHOT
MON AUG 14
SUBMITTED BY ALBERTSON FIRE DEPARTMENT
MOUNT OLIVE - The Pleasant Grove
Fire Department along with Albertson and Oak Wolf responded to a
working tobacco barn fire with ten other barns endangered. PG
Engine 1 operated at the rear of the barn while Albertson Engine
1 operated at the front. PG Engine 2, Tanker 1, Albertson Tanker
1 and Oak Wolf Engine 1 and Tanker 1 responded. Units performed
a water shuttle operation supplying the two attack units.
Albertson Engine 2 was at the water point. The fire was
controlled in thirty minutes.
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HOT SHOT
MON AUG 14
SUBMITTED BY MIKE POROWSKI, CFP-3419
CHARLOTTE - Members of the
Charlotte Fire Department are seen rescuing workers that were
stranded on rigging while installing a piece of artwork on the
side of a high rise building in Uptown Charlotte last week.
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Building Used by Fire Department
Burns
MON AUG 14
READER SUBMISSION
TRENTON - A fire on August
3rd destroyed a building on King Street in Trenton. A building that
was used for years to cook pigs for the annual Trenton Fire
Department auction and pig picking burned to the ground. Thirty
firefighters from the Trenton, Phillips Crossroads and Cove City
Volunteer Fire Departments responded to the blaze, which was caused
by hay bales that were being stored within the walls of the
building.Timmy Pike, Jones County
Emergency Services Director and Investigator for the Fire Marshall,
determined the fire started when rain dripped down into the bales of
hay. "Because of spontaneous combustion, the fire eventually
started," Pike said. "There was no electricity in the building and
no proof of any sort of foul play."
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