Kentland Bypassed on Fatal Crash; Baltimore Report; Cold Case in AZ Hits Home; More Powerful Than Your Normal Speeding Fire Truck
Kentland VFD provided this photo of last night’s working fire on West Forest Road. Kentland
They still were allowed to run a fire last night in Kentland. Engine 331 and Rescue Engine 33 were dispatched to the apartment fire on West Forest Road. That fire was in Kentland’s first due area.
But yesterday morning, when Kentland also had crews for both pieces, no one left the building for a deadly crash, with two trapped under a van, despite Kentland being the second closest to the scene and having the nearest extrication unit. And as STATter 911 has learned it didn’t matter that the incident commander specifically asked for Rescue Engine 33.
This is all part of the policy put in place after Kentland refused Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Chief Lawrence Sedgwick’s latest order to put a BLS unit at Station 33.
As for any move to solve this problem, all we know is that lawyers on both sides continue to talk.
Baltimore report.
It had been talked about for much of the week, now you can read the report into the investigation and the issues surrounding the training fire that killed Baltimore City Fire Department recruit Racheal Wilson.
Cold case in Phoenix.
The Arizona Republic’s cold case of the week is one near and dear to firefighters. Investigators are still looking for an arsonist in the March, 2001 supermarket fire that killed firefighter Bret Tarver.
Private fire protection in Idaho.
Firegeezer looks at how some Idaho property owners have a leg up on the neighbors when fire strikes.
Also, I neglected to point out LightRock’s column on hot topics for fire chiefs as they met this week in Atlanta. Still worth reading.
The rest of the world.
If you ever were interested in how they sell fire trucks elsewhere in the world, check out this video on the “Savior”. It is supposed to have the “power of 7 fire trucks”. Now if we can just find a firefighter with similar capabilities.
We told you earlier in the week about the death of former DCFD Chief Burton Johnson. The Washington Post has an obituary today.
