Firefighter Close Calls | Firefighter Close Calls is the home of the Secret List. The worlds most visited website focused exclusively on firefighter survival

Home of the Secret List

4 NC FIRE RIGS DAMAGED IN 3 WRECKS OVER THE WEEKEND

 Brian Kazmierzak    July 22, 2020    No Comments

Four Davidson and Randolph County firetrucks were damaged in three separate accidents over the weekend.

The Westside Volunteer Fire Department in Asheboro responded to a multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 73/74 northbound near Vision Drive on Friday night. At around 9:30 or 10 p.m, a vehicle hit their firetruck in the back, said Chief Racil Williamson.

No one was injured in the accident, but the truck is out of commission, Williamson said.

The Linwood Rural Fire Department in Davidson County responded to a two-vehicle collision on Interstate 85 south near mile marker 86 early Friday morning. They were using the firetruck to block the left lane, and at around 5:30 a.m, a car struck their truck.

The back right corner of the fire truck was damaged, and the truck is unusable, said Linwood Fire Chief Terry Leonard. Leonard said the person who hit the car was severely injured in the crash and was airlifted to Wake Forest Baptist Health.

Around 8:30 or 9 p.m. Saturday, the Fairgrove Fire Department of Thomasville and Guil-Rand Fire Department of Archdale were responding to a scene in a residential area at Courtney Lane when a car hit the door of the Guil-Rand firetruck.

The Fairgrove truck was scratched, and the Guil-Rand truck had minimal damage.

Both trucks had their lights on at the time of the accident, said Chris White, Assistant Chief of the Guil-Rand Fire Department.

No one was injured in the crash.

Leonard said these accidents are becoming more common and that it can be more dangerous for firefighters to respond to a wreck than a house fire.

“It’s getting out of hand,” he said. “When you see a light flashing, move over.”

White also asked drivers to pay more attention and emphasized that his biggest concern is safety.

“Trucks can be replaced,” White said. “As long as the guys are safe, that’s the main thing.”

 News, Struck By

==
FIREFIGHTER
CANCER
==
PROSTATE & RELATED
CANCERS
INFORMATION:

also check the most current issue of the secret list

Click Here

Sign Up for Secret List

For Email Newsletters you can trust.

Please Visit
Our Sponsor

GordonGraham.com


YOU NEED THIS BOOK!
(Trust Us)

400+ PAGES.
90+ CONTRIBUTORS!
100% of the royalties from the sales of "PASS IT ON" will be donated to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the Chief Ray Downey Scholarship Fund.
CLICK ABOVE TO ORDER YOUR COPIES TODAY!


 

Pass It On: The Second Alarm

BillyG-book-170


 

Posters

Click to Print

In Memory Of

fdnyClick this patch

helmet

ragusa

Click Here for The 9/11 Widows’ and Victims’ Families Association

ssc

Click Here: Skyscraper Safety Campaign

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Apparatus
    • Crashes
    • Struck By
  • Close Calls
  • Contact Us
  • Drills
  • FF Cardiac Health
  • FIRE & EMS CIVIL DISORDER
  • EMS Close Calls
  • Fire Communications
  • Firefighter Cancer
  • Firefighter History
  • Firefighter Staffing
  • Gallery
  • LODD Calendar
  • Modern Fire Behavior
  • NIOSH Lessons Learned
  • NIOSH LODD Reports
  • Pass It On
  • Behaviorial Health
    • Behaviorial Health Resources
    • Behaviorial Health Information
  • Safety and Survival
  • Secret List
  • SOG’s
Submit Your
CLOSE CALLS /
NEAR MISS

 

LODD STATS

YearTotals
202359
2022101
2021139
202096
201957
201885
201793
201689
201586
201494
2013101
201283
201181
201087
200993
2008118
2007118
Tweets by @alertpage

Search Site

Contact Info

Email BillyG
[email protected]

Email Weekly Drill
Suggestions to

[email protected]


Copyright © 2003-2023

Copyright Disclaimer: This non-commercial, non-profit and free use website is for the exclusive purpose of firefighter safety, health and survival. All photographs in these posts are either submitted or from aggregate Google and are used in the postings for the purposes of education, satire, and parody, criticism, news reporting, research, and scholarship consistent with 17 USC §107 and never due to intentional or malicious misuse of a copyright.