Baltimore 2nd alarm (and rally info): This fire on Ostend Street Friday morning left one firefighter with minor burns. Firefighters point out the closest engine company, Engine 55 in Pigtown, was closed for the day. The rotating closures and the budget cuts are behind today’s rally as firefighters march from the Baltimore City Fire Museum (old Engine 6 on Gay Street) to City Hall at 5:00 PM. IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger is scheduled to join IAFF locals 734 and 964 (officers) WJZ-TV has the story.
VIDEO ADDED – DC & Sarasota officials signed ageement to allow new Florida chief to remain District employee: STATter911.com now knows what happened to allow Sarasota County Chief Kenneth Ellerbe to stay on the rolls of the DC Fire & EMS Department in able to enhance his retirement pay. We even know a DC assistant fire chief and the city’s head of human resources approved Kenneth Ellerbe’s leave without pay status. What we don’t know is why this was allowed to happen, especially since Chief Dennis Rubin originally declined to sign the deal. We are also trying to determine the benefit for the city to engage in a formal personnel exchange arrangement to fill a fire chief’s slot in Florida. The DC Fire & EMS Department and the DC Department of Human Resources aren’t exactly filling in the blanks on a lot of unanswered questions. One question from a STATter911.com reader is one we hadn’t thought of: Will the DC Fire & EMS Department now offer this arrangement to every firefighter who may be almost a year short in reaching retirement age? Click here for the latest, including Wednesday’s 6:00 PM report for TV.
Also in Sarasota County, Florida, a 911 problem causing a 20 hour delay: Listen to the audio and read the details on why help wasn’t sent to a man later found dead in North Port, Florida. Click here.
Construction workers make rescue at Beltway vehicle fire: Raw video from the air, pictures from the ground and the story from Scott Broom on yesterday’s save after an SUV crashed and burned on the Capital Beltway near College Park, Maryland. Construction workers pulled a woman from the burning vehicle.
Rape charges dropped against Bourne, Massachusetts deputy chief: Paul Weeks is eager to go back to work and his bosses want him on the job as soon as possible. The rape charge against the deputy chief has been one of many dramas involving Bourne’s fire department in recent months. While the papers say they don’t identify rape victims, the victim in this case declined to prosecute citing “marital privilege”. Read more.
NEW – Developer on home confinement after off-duty firefighter shot: We were a little late in telling you about the arrest in the off-duty shooting of a Milton, Massachusetts firefighter in an apparent road rage incident. Read about the charges against a well known developer.
Anthropometry, a word Dave has never heard before: Ann who? Dave showing his ignorance on reading an interesting press release from the Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service. MCFRS will be working with NIOSH in using anthropometry to to “improve the fit and performance of equipment that interfaces with the body”. Anthropometry “is the science of measuring the human body”. Read the release.
Fire chief and city sued by landlord: Readers in Utica, New York alerted us to this story about a fire in September that killed four people, but Firegeezer already had this interesting case well covered. Click here.
Firefighters replace money stolen in Salvation Army robberies: IAFF Local 660 in Charlotte, North Carolina has donated $6000 to make up for some men going around to Salvation Army kettles trying to steal Christmas. Read the story.
Also on STATter911 …
- DC fire chief faced sexual harassment claim in Sarasota County, FL. Washington Times questions why Kenneth Ellerbe wasn’t fully vetted by Mayor Vincent Gray. – March 6, 2012
- Chief Kenneth Ellerbe responds: Live interview this morning discussing sexual harassment claims when chief was in Florida. – March 8, 2012
- Raw video: Mutual aid between the U.S. & South Korea., – August 13, 2012
- Quick Takes: March 12, 2012. – March 12, 2012
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WTF is the deal with the FF trying to destroy the aerial ladder? This is why there is where the 3:1 safety factor is important.
is the 3:1 safety factor where 3 idiots who know nothing about firefighting make a comment about safety before one person can make a relevent comment???
WFT I am at a lost for words… where to start
no operator on turn table, fire overlapping stick… better get it tested, ladder opeartor must have a been an engine ff from the operation jerkyness.
FF on roof with no way off — so glad the engine companies got water on fire just before big trouble.
Interior crews must have done a super job.
at a lost for more words.
Baltimore tries to convince everyone they are progressive…Good Ol’ Boy system…stuck fighting fire with a 1960′s mentality
It is Truely Amazing. None of you were there but everybody knows a better way to do it. If your so good at being fireman. Why dont you go take the test and Show everbody how its suppose to be. Until your a part of this Dept, shut the hell up and let the Brothers do their job.
Man you people are real quick to judge without having all the info! 1st off, when we pulled up we just had light smoke in the front, the bulk of the fire was in the rear. The 1st due engine was closed and the 2nd due engine had a problem getting water. The video doesn’t show that, nor does it show the 2nd aerial in the rear. I had 3 ways off that roof if I needed. There was never any direct flame contact to the aerial, I was closer to the fire then the aerial was, just a little soot on the tip.
2w5 if you had a clue about the situation you would re evaluate your ignorant comment. On arrival light smoke showing. Baltimore runs a four man truck company no personnel to leave at the turntable. And there was a ladder to the roof in the rear at the opposite end of the group of homes. as for the person operating no clue who it was but they were not from the truck company they need to be retrained. Now go stand out on the front lawn bail water and save a foundation.
ok firefighters of the year… maybe if you are so lost for words you prolly shouldnt talk at all …. no operator at the turntable because he is on the roof doin his job….fire overlapping the stick, that will happen it is a FIREFIGHTING tool stuff will happen ….good point on and engine man on the turntable tho… thatse because it is an engine man that was helping, see we might be stuck in the 60s with our firefighting mentality but we get the job done…. enjoy talkin the fires out in the county….
MAn you guys make me laugh. All you guys talkin like, “OOOOHHHH Brother Bluto, theres fire lappin over the roof, OOOOhhh theres fire under neath them, OOOhhhh the ladder is close to the flames!!!” Ya can tell you’re all engine co guys from the sticks. Welacome to the world of The Truck Company, thats what Truck Companies do.
I suggest you all take your little blankie or your safety vest and go take a nap. Mommy will make it all OK, dat big bad fire scared us Mommy.
Once an ENgine Co Vollie, always a Engine co vollie.
lol tradition i guess people forgot what that is