Kentland Claims PGFD Wants to Crush Volunteers; Recurring Theme in Messages From NOVA FFs; SC Fire Video; All was not Well; Chiefs Gone Wild
Click on picture to see GoUpstate.com’s video of the Spartanburg, SC funeral home fire. Arson is suspected. SConFire.com has details below.Kentland has new deadline. Says to STATter 911 that PGFD wants to “crush the volunteers”.
Kentland VFD provides letter to STATter 911 outlining its response to new deadline set by PGFD Chief Lawrence Sedgwick. PGFD Chief Spokesman Mark Brady said this afternoon that the department would not have a comment for STATter 911 about this latest development in the Kentland situation.
Well rescue, the rest of the story: Unruly crowd; Police in trouble; Shots fired.
Speaking of Kentland, its website has an account that you don’t want to miss of last Saturday’s well rescue in Oxon Hill.
Cardiac arrest on train.
9News Now reporter Bruce Johnson filing from an AMTRAK train to New York this morning after a passenger went into cardiac arrest.
D.C. firefighters burned.
Also from our website, information on a row house fire that injured two firefighters.
Open message to Alexandria, VA’s new chief.
An open and anonymous message to Alexandria Fire Department’s new chief says there are issues that he should address. The message is very similar to claims made by scores of firefighters about Fairfax County and appear to be issues the new chiefs will have to confront. We have made Alexandria Fire aware of the message and have given them an opportunity to address it, but at this point have declined.
Then there were 9.
A ninth firefighter has filed suit against the Board of County Commissioners in Frederick County, MD. The main claim is compensation inequalities. Details at fredericknewspost.com.
Arson suspected in funeral home fire.
SConFire.com has links to the update on Thursday’s Spartanburg funeral home fire.
Monster trucks runs amok, hurting many.
The plan was to get some free publicity for an auto parts store. They got the publicity. But these aren’t the images that would help your business. More than a dozen people were hurt in DeKalb, Illinois. CNN also has video of the crash.
Union official has suspension reduced for trashing chief.
Huntsville City Council reduces fire captain’s suspension from 144-hours to just 24. Still being looked at as a free speech issue.
Sheriff deputy/firefighter dies in fire in own home.
SConFire.com has more on this story from Winnsboro, South Carolina.
Other fire/EMS sites.
FireGeezer.com trys to convince us there is a new siren for ambulances. And don’t miss LightRock’s talk about the shape and health of firefighters. At least he didn’t mention fat reporters.
Firefighter Hourly makes the case for a training division in Charleston and reports that audio from the June 18th fire Sofa Super Store fire will be released at 4:00 p.m. today.
Fire chief gone wild.
Former Fieldale, Virginia fire chief enters guilty plea after making some unauthorized purchases with a department credit card. Included were 3 VHS tapes. One of them was a “Girls Gone Wild” video. I have two questions. 1. Did he call them training tapes? 2. Who buys VHS anymore?
