Quick takes
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Fire to the left. Fire to the right: The view from Riverside, CA with fire on both sides of 91 and traffic still moving. Click here for our links to live coverage and details from the Southern California fires and click here for the excellent updates from FireGeezer.
Vigil for Detroit’s Walter Harris: Snow and tears fell in front of Engine 23 & Squad 3’s quarters in Detroit Sunday night during a candlelight vigil for FF Walter Harris. As we have been reporting since Saturday morning, FF Harris died when the roof came in while he was fighting a fire in a vacant house. Click here for more.
Apparently this wasn’t one of Ford’s better ideas: A TV station in Cleveland looks at the problems with Ford’s 6-liter diesels used in a number of ambulance fleets. Details are here.
Overnight fire, with rescue in Baltimore County: Police went on the scene with fire showing and a report of people trapped at a house fire around 2:00 AM in Woodlawn. Firefighters found and removed a woman from the burning home. Video, pictures and details from Pikesville VFC photographer, Michael Schwartzberg. Click here.
Six killed in Nigerian pipeline fire: Click here for some details on an oil pipeline fire that killed six workers. Clearly not as bad as the one in Lagos last May that killed 100. See that video.
I can’t help it, I am easily amused: My video of the day features two items today’s firefighters don’t leave home without.
Anti-social blogger tries out social network: Just another way of saying I have become a member of Firefighter Nation. Already I have the proprietor of the site denying the claims I made about him. Read what I wrote. See my FFN page.
