my right foot fell beneath the pumper….. I was in the Fire Department for about 1 year and was 18 years old, my company responded to a district call for a dumpster fire. The dumpster was found to be directly adjacent to a taxpayer building so we tried to react quickly when pulling up at the scene. I...Read More
A weird close call happened on our shift yesterday. We had a single engine respond to a forklift leaking propane. Upon arrival, our E3 found heavy black smoke coming out of an open overhead door of a large commercial warehouse, type II construction. The occupant says We cant get the propane leak shut off, and...Read More
On a Monday afternoon in January of 2005, at 2:53 Harlan Township firefighters were dispatched to a reported explosion at near 8480 Achterman Road just outside the small Village of Butlerville in Warren County Ohio. Fire Chief Andy Mitten, first to arrive on the scene checked out the area but was unable to locate the...Read More
By Tom Ross, Staff Reporter Wednesday, January 12, 2005 Bob Maddox, chief pilot and co-owner of Mountain Flight Service, said he became uneasy about the status of the Yampa Valley Air Ambulance about 50 minutes after it took off from Steamboat Springs Airport at 9 p.m. Tuesday. The Beechcraft King Air E-90, with a pilot...Read More
On a Monday afternoon in January of 2005, at 2:53 Harlan Township firefighters were dispatched to a reported explosion at near 8480 Achterman Road just outside the small Village of Butlerville in Warren County Ohio. Fire Chief Andy Mitten, first to arrive on the scene checked out the area but was unable to locate the...Read More
Our Duty Truck and a Chief were dispatched to a report of a Power line down in a busy intersection in our town. Upon arrival we found a transmission line down on the ground and arcing. We immediately shut down the intersection and kept people away from the area. Our dispatch contacted the Power company....Read More
