VANDERBURGH CO., IN (WFIE) - The Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office confirms Jeremy Tighe, an 18 year-old firefighter for McCutchanville Fire Department, died on scene when a fire truck overturned Wednesday night.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Interesting E_mail I got, Had to pass it on
While walking down the street one day a Corrupt Senator (that may be redundant) was tragically hit by a car and died.
His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.
"Welcome to heaven," says St.. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you."
"No problem, just let me in," says the Senator.
"Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from the higher ups. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity."
"Really? I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven," says the Senator.
"I'm sorry, but we have our rules."
And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.
The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course.
In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.
Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the
expense of the people.
They played a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and the finest champagne.
Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who is having a good time dancing and telling jokes.
They are all having such a good time that before the Senator realizes it, it is time to go.
Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises.
The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens in heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him, "Now it's time to visit heaven...”
So, 24 hours passed with the Senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time
and before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.
"Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity."
The Senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: "Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell."
So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell...
Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage. He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls to the ground.
The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulders.
"I don't understand," stammers the Senator. "Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?"
The devil smiles at him and says,
"Yesterday we were campaigning,
Today, you voted.."
Vote wisely on
November 6, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Another Backdraft, Smoke Explosion Video caught in tape
Not too explosive, but a serious situation none the less. A lot of heavy smoke showing and with FF inside the use of a hose line on the roof comes into question? Just prior to the explosion or what ever it was they were directing a hose line to the roof area. The explosion occurs at 6:20 in the video, you have to watch close to see the helmet fly off.
Uploaded by mabas21 on Feb 17, 2012
Crews were dispatched to a reported house fire at 402 Madison In New Chicago on 02-17-12, On arrival smoke was showing and a working fire was declared. Crews quickly stretched lines into the house to knock the fire down and a hole was cut in the roof of the living room/entrance. Shortly after the hole was cut there was a violent explosion that blew an officers helmet off his head and blew the leaves in the lawn. We are unsure what the explosion was. There were three members in the structure when this happened and all were ok. One other member suffered an asthma attack while fighting the fire and was treated on the scene. The Lake County Fire Investigators Team was requested to the scene to assist with cause and origin.
Odd in the News and on the Web
Firefighters Left without Rescuing Man
FOX 4 News
DALLAS - Dallas Fire Rescue has launched an internal investigation over the handling of a fire call on Sunday. Firefighters responded twice to the same condominium where a disabled man died. Angry neighbors claim the first responders left without ...
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Gilbert crews training to tackle fires at hoarders' homes
Arizona Republic
20, 2012 10:08 AM Gilbert firefighters will take on specialized training geared to battling the extremely hot fires that typically rage at the debris-filled homes of hoarders. Stacks of newspapers, cans and other trash form veritable walls between the ...
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Nine firefighters injured in Jersey City five-alarm blaze, officials say
NJ.com
By Charles Hack/The Jersey Journal Enlarge Michael Dempsey/The Jersey JournalFirefighters battle a five alarm fire that broke out at the corner of Fairmount Ave. and Monticello Ave. in Jersey City on February 19, 2012. Michael Dempsey/The Jersey ...
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Firefighter hurt, families displaced in Cicero fire
Chicago Tribune
A Cicero firefighter was injured and two families were displaced after an afternoon fire today in the west suburb, officials said. According to Cicero town spokesman Ray Hanania, the firefighter was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, ...
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Volunteer fire departments get creative for resources
Chillicothe Gazette
Colerain Township firefighters empty water from a tanker into a portable dump tank during a drill in October. Colerain's fleet of vehicles largely has been paid for through state and federal funding — dollars that have become more elusive in recent ...
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Fire Department Safety Officer Resource
Video: FDSOA Introduces Second Online Safety Officer Program
The Fire Department Safety Officer Association announced the addition of a second online training program, this one targeted to health and safety officers.
The Fire Department Safety Officers Association recently announced the addition of a second online training program, this one targeted to health and safety officers. According to spokesman Bob Colameta, the FDSOA originally partnered with the Public Safety Education Network to create an online incident safety officer course. The success of that program led to the development of the online Health and Safety Officer Course, which is designed to dovetail with Occupational Safety and Health in the Emergency Services 2nd edition, written by James S. Angle.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
News on the Web
Obama Proposes Cuts to SAFER, AFG, USFA
The President's spending plan calls for money for the D Block and an increase for wildland fire initiatives.
Chicago Fire Commissioner Hoff Plans to Resign
One source called Hoff's resignation "imminent" and said it's for personal reasons, not because of any differences with the new mayor.
Volunteers fight fires without basic safety equipment
Rural firefighters are fighting fires wearing gumboots because there is not enough basic safety gear, a report has revealed. Boots, helmets, gloves and other equipment have to be shared, and some stations lack "a basic level of equipment necessary for ...
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25 years later, firefighter's death in EvCC arson weighs on family, comrades
HeraldNet
They all loved diving into fires, said Somerville, who retired in 2000. He was at the college that night. He remembers some of the firefighters' helmets melting from the heat as they escaped the building. He remembers Parks being loaded into the medic ...
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Boy found dead after firefighters rescue woman from Far South Side fire
Chicago Tribune
A boy was found dead in an attic crawlspace several hours after firefighters rescued a woman from a Roseland neighborhood house fire this morning, fire officials said. A woman, 66, was rescued from the home in the 10700 block of South Prairie Avenue, ...
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Follow up on the dog that WAS rescued?
dog bite news anchor - Bing News LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- A Colorado man's dog is alive thanks to a firefighter who pulled the dog out of an icy pond on Tuesday, but may be put down after biting a news anchor on a live interview.
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Dogs Bites News Anchor's Face on Live TV
What should have been a feel-good news story soon became anything but when Kyle Dyer, an anchorwoman at NBC's KUSA Denver affiliate, was bitten in the face by…The Hollywood Gossip· 2 hours ago
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Dog rescued by firefighter bites news anchor in interview
ksl.com -
Rescued dog bites TV anchor during broadcast
Difference Between Then and Now
George W. Bush speech after capture of Saddam Hussein:
The success of yesterday's mission is a tribute to our men and women now serving in Iraq . The operation was based on the superb work of intelligence analysts who found the dictator's footprints in a vast country. The operation was carried out with skill and precision by a brave fighting force. Our servicemen and women and our coalition allies have faced many
dangers in the hunt for members of the fallen regime, and in their effort to bring hope and
freedom to the Iraqi people. Their work continues, and so do the risks. Today, on behalf of the nation, I thank the members of our Armed Forces and I congratulate 'them.
Barack Hussein Obama speech, Sunday, May 1, 2011:
And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of my war against al Qaeda, even as I continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network.
Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by my intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan . And finally, last week, I determined that I had enough intelligence to take action, and I authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice.
Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad , Pakistan .
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Recue captured with the aid of a Helmet Cam–Classic Kid hiding in a closet!
A camera attached the helmet of an Alameda County firefighter captures the rescue of a child from a burning building in California. The camera is being used to review fire procedures. Alameda County firefighters rescued three children from a fire Tuesday morning and it was all captured on a helmet-cam.
Watch Video and full story at KGO-TV
A mother dropped her child from a second-story railing and into the arms of a firefighter, according to KGO-TV.
On the Net and In the News–Dogs, Ice, and Training
Pet oxygen masks can save animals' lives in fires
San Jose Mercury News
(AP Photo/Alden Pellett, file) Firefighters in Ocala, Fla., found Hanna, a 2-year-old Siamese cat, lying in a smoky bedroom, unconscious and not breathing. Believing her dead, they carried the cat outside. Then Hanna moved her head.
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'Big balls of fire' Fighting aircraft flames at FSCJ
Jacksonville Daily Record
The “Aircraft Rescue Firefighting Facility” would join the existing maritime “Burn Ship Facility” at the center, which trains firefighters in battling maritime fires. Its address would be along Fire Fighter Memorial Drive.
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API storage tank project upgraded for more realistic training at Brayton Fire ...
TEEX News
COLLEGE STATION - The API Storage Tank Fires project #45 at Brayton Fire Training Field has been upgraded to enhance the training for firefighters who respond to incidents involving fires at flammable liquid storage facilities.
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Testing fire suppression products
6abc.com
February 7, 2012 (WPVI) -- These products claim to put a fire out in seconds, but do they work? For our test we enlisted the help from firefighters at the Bucks County Department of Public Safety Training Facility in Doylestown.
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Firefighters rescue dog from frigid water in Avon
Vail Daily News
Eagle River firefighter Jesse Monaghan is in the orange, rescuing a family pet that fell through the ice on Avon's Nottingham Lake. The dog happened to fall through when firefighters were training for winter ice/water rescues.
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Dog rescued from icy pond, firefighter and dog's owner react
9NEWS.com
LAKEWOOD - A man's dog is alive thanks to a West Metro firefighter who pulled the dog out of an icy pond on Tuesday afternoon. Max is an 85-pound Argentine Mastiff, a breed known as a hunting dog. Max's owner says he was doing his business off-leash on ...
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Seems someone got it Right
Now true more then ever, did you get the change you wanted, if not then it’s now time for a real change, if nothing else vote for something but not for what we have had for the last three years. Seems no one listens to history? What worked before may work again. If it isn’t broke don’t fix it!
Dog stays with fisherman who broke through
February 7, 2012 - 8:41am
Prudent anglers heed a sheriff's warning posted at the north access of Lake Washington in Le Sueur County in south-central Minnesota and walk to their fishing spot Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 in Manketo, Minn. In the background, other fisherman prepare to move their permanent shelter from the lake. Unseasonably mild weather has created unsafe ice conditions on many Minnesota lakes this winter.
WHEATON, Minn. (AP) — A fishing outing turned deadly for a western Minnesota man.
The body of 50-year-old Charles Krauth was recovered from Mud Lake, just west of Wheaton in Traverse County. Sheriff's deputies found the man's dog and four-wheeler near the spot where he broke through the ice Sunday. Family members became concerned when he failed to return from ice fishing.
Authorities tell KSTP-TV (http://bit.ly/yP1vy1) the ice was only about one inch thick.
Information from: KSTP-TV,http://www.kstp.com - From The Brainerd Dispatch
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
About Time–This has been a known hazard for some time while
MODERN DAY BUILDING CONSTRUCTION CATCHES THE EYES OF NEWS INVESTIGATORS
Fire departments are worried as rescues become more dangerous in newer homes. Experts estimate the time it takes to save a house built after the mid-1990s is shorter than in older homes due to the materials used to build modern homes.Last summer, Todd Miller was fighting a fire inside a Blaine house. While crawling on his hands and knees inside the main floor, the unthinkable happened."I opened up the hose nozzle to put the fire out and all of a sudden I could feel the floor start to give way," Miller recalled.In an instant, the floor disintegrated and he was falling through flames as he tumbled into the basement. Against all odds, he managed to find his way through the thick smoke to a door where his colleagues came to the rescue."That light-weight construction, you just never know what it's going to do," said Miller.That house, like thousands of others built over the past 15 years, was constructed using engineered materials. They are light weight, super strong and a big cost savings -- but it seems no one anticipated how dramatically they would change the dynamics of house fires.Firefighters agree that escape or rescue is now a much trickier proposition in newer homes, and the likelihood of massive damage to property is far greater.Communities like Blaine, which have lots of newer homes, have seen the downside of lightweight construction.According to Fire Inspector Jeremiah Anderson, with from the Spring Lake Park, Blaine and Mounds View Fire Department, floors and roofs can collapse rather quickly with the newer building materials.Roofs are built of truss systems with gusset plates holding everything together, but the plates don't penetrate the wood deeply, making them more apt to pop off when they get hot. Also, floor joists are made up of compressed wood, which is much thinner than standard 2x10's. FOX 9 Fire Test. How concerned should you be if your home is made of these new materials? To find out, the FOX 9 Investigators set up a test burn with the help of the St. Paul Fire Department.The experiment involved two different floor assemblies. One used 2x10s and plywood materials that were commonly used in homes built before the 1990's. The other is made up of engineered I-joists capped with chip board, the lightweight construction materials. View Images of the FOX 9 Fire Materials Test The FOX 9 team and St. Paul firefighters stacked concrete blocks about 6 feet high to support the four corners of the floor assembly. Then, a couch was placed underneath to mimic a miniaturized, unfinished basement to serve as fuel for the fire. A mannequin and two hundred pounds of sand were also placed on top of the floor to simulate the weight of a person.In the first test, which intended to see how the modern "lightweight" construction materials held up in a fire, it only took about a minute before the flames from the couch reached the support beams of the floor. After another 45 seconds, the floor was burning as if it had been doused in gasoline. The flames chewed through the beams in about 2 minutes, and then one of the beams broke apart.After about four minutes, the floor could no longer support the weight of the test dummy. It fell through the floor so quickly even St. Paul Fire Chief Tim Butler was surprised."This was like burning a piece of gasoline," he said. "Almost every home built in the last ten or fifteen years is constructed just like this."The second test burn also used a similar couch as fuel, but the floor in the second experiment was made of solid wood 2.10s, not engineered I-joists. These were common construction materials in houses built before the mid 90s -- and there's a huge difference between the two tests.In the second controlled burn, it took about 9 minutes until our dummy on top of the floor fell through -- more than doubling the time the lightweight materials could withstand. What Can You Do?So what should you do if your house is built with lightweight materials and not legacy lumber?Fire Chief Nyle Zickmund retrofitted his house in Blaine with sprinklers. A few years ago, his fireplace overheated and ignited some materials inside a wall. The fire then spread to the engineered truss system that supports the floor. However, thanks to the sprinklers, the damage to the chief's home wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been."With this system, we could have a sprinkler-controlled fire here and I'd still be in the house tonight," said Zickmund. The cost of installing a sprinkler system in new home construction can average about $1 to $1.50 per square foot, but the estimates rise to between $3 and $3.50 for existing homes. Fire officials say there is a misconception about sprinklers all going off at once in a home and flooding the entire house, but that is not true. Sprinkler systems are designed to activate by individual sprinkler heads, meaning only those near the heat source would activate, specifically dousing the area of the fire.Homeowners with unfinished basements can also put sheetrock on the exposed floor joists in order to reducing the time flames could get into those areas in the event of a fire. Smoke Detectors Perhaps now more than ever, it's important to make sure your home has working smoke detectors. As the FOX 9 Investigator's experiment so graphically demonstrates, houses made of light weight construction materials can burn much faster than those built of legacy lumber, and a smoke alarm gives you a much better chance to get out quickly. Read the whole story at Firefighter Close Calls and at My Fox Twin Cities
Rare rescue–Good use of technical Rescue & Mutual aid though M.A.B.A.S.
Firefighters send pipe and tubing up to help clear sand from around a worker at DuKane Precast in Naperville after he fell into the half full hopper on Monday morning. | Brian Powers~Sun-Times Media
A supervisor for a Naperville concrete company remained hospitalized late Monday night with what were described as non-life-threatening injuries, after being partially buried that morning in a sand silo. The supervisor, William Ortiz, 37, was listed in good condition at Edward Hospital in Naperville on Tuesday morning, spokesman Keith Hartenberger said.
Crews from 22 public safety agencies joined members of the Naperville Fire Department in the rescue operation at Dukane Precast, 1805 High Grove Lane, in the Burlington Northern Industrial Park on the city’s far west side. Rescuers were called about 11:23 a.m. Monday to the company’s headquarters. Dukane Precast manufactures prefabricated cement slabs for buildings under construction.
Fire Capt. Dave Ferreri said firefighters found Ortiz buried up to his waist in “a hopper full of sand.” “We don’t know how he got in there,” Ferreri said, adding it was his understanding workers were never supposed to be inside any of the hoppers.
Ortiz was extricated from the sand sometime between 3 and 3:15 p.m., “after about a four-hour rescue,” Ferreri said.
Fire Bureau Chief Kevin Lyne said in a news release that members of Naperville’s Technical Rescue Team climbed up the catwalk and found Ortiz buried to his waist in the sand mixture and worked to keep him from sinking deeper.
The rescue operation involved getting Ortiz into a harness and then using vacuum-type machinery from Naperville’s Public Utilities Department to remove some of the sand surrounding him, so that he could be freed without further injury. At least two truckloads of sand were taken out of the bin during that effort.
“The Fire Department is slowly, slowly taking the sand out of the silo,” Christman said Monday at the scene. The supervisor “is conscious, he is OK.”
Among the departments that sent units to the site were Addison, Aurora, Bloomingdale, Bolingbrook, Carol Stream, Downers Grove, Elburn, Geneva, Lisle-Woodridge, North Aurora, Oak Brook, Plainfield, St. Charles, Sugar Grove, West Chicago, Wheaton and York Center. Also on the scene were Naperville Police Department squad cars and the city’s bus-sized Emergency Management Agency Mobile Command Unit. Most of the vehicles were still on the campus more than two hours after the fire department issued the general alarm.
A police official who declined to be identified said the reason for the size of the response was not immediately known. One emergency responder was seen carrying a heart defibrillator into the building, but it was not known whether the device was used.
Wonder if they likely used a The Rescue Vac – Along with the utilities vacuum - truck Rescue Vac is an integrated rapid debris removal system that utilizes a two-phase procedure to perform the fastest collapse, entrapment, and engulfment ...
Found news of interest on the Net
Man charged with drunken driving in fire truck crash
Chicago Tribune
None of the victims -- including three children and four Chicago firefighters -- suffered life-threatening injuries when the truck, responding to a fire call, collided with a mid-size sedan at Halsted and 128th streets, police said.
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Police, firefighters hailed for rescues in North Side fire
Chicago Tribune
Police officers and firefighters rescued several people, including a critically injured 3-year-old girl and a man using a wheelchair, from a North Side apartment building Friday, officials said. Four adults, including a police officer, ...
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Retiring firefighter surprised by woman he delivered 28 years ago
9NEWS.com
GREELEY - After being a firefighter since 1979, Don Forster has a lot to reflect upon. As a Lieutenant, he has tragedies and triumphs. "I know two instances where I personally, you know, pulled someone from a burning building," Forster said.
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Obama plan would hire vets as cops, firefighters
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday announced measures to hire Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to restore national parks and work as police and firefighters in a bid to cut veterans' above-average unemployment rate.
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Fire guts landmark church in central Illinois
Rockford Register Star
By Anonymous AP Athens Fire Department spokesman Bob Dowell says firefighters battled the blaze for more than eight hours before they left the scene early Saturday. Dowell says the former Athens Christian Church was destroyed.
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Monday, February 6, 2012
Upgrade of Radio system in the Lakes Area on it’s way
Fire departments receive grant approval for new ... - Brainerd Dispatch
by Jennifer Stockinger
Fire departments in the Brainerd lakes area are getting closer to having the new 800-megahertz radio system in place that will allow them to serve and protect citizens in an even more efficient fashion.The new radio system uses digital technology ... The fire departments included in the grant are Brainerd, Crosby, Crosslake, Cuyuna, Deerwood, Emily, Fifty Lakes, Garrison, Ideal, Ironton, Mission, Nisswa and Pequot Lakes. Stunek said Brainerd would have had to pay ...
Sunday, February 5, 2012
LODD Reports
Flint, David M.
Edinboro, Pennsylvania
02/02/2012
Initial Summary:
While returning to the fire department, Fire Chief Flint passed away from injuries he suffered in a motor vehicle crash when another vehicle coming from the opposite direction crossed over the center line. Assistant Fire Chief Sharon Petri, a passenger who was riding with Flint at the time of the accident, was injured and remains hospitalized. Investigation into the incident continues by local and state authorities. Incident Location: 6-N East of Fry Road (USNG: 17T NG 6944 3688)
Haase, Sr., Doug
St. Charles, Missouri
02/01/2012
Initial Summary:
Firefighter/Engineer/Paramedic Doug Haase, Sr., passed away while on duty from a cause still to be reported. Incident Location: 1550 S Main ST, St. Charles, MO (Station 2, USNG: 15S YC 1834 9442)
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