Tag Archives: Virginia

As a firefighter, do you waste your time getting bystanders to turn off their cameras? Do you think it is illegal for bystanders to record events? If you do think it is illegal, do you think Firefighters have the authority to stop it?

From my sources, four firefighters were injured when their apparatus rolled over in Bedford today. All four were transported to area hospitals by ground or air. Bedford FD Engine 1 is a 2007 Seagrave Marauder II.

Many of you know that along with FireCritic.com and some other web sites, I was the creator of VAFireNews.com. The site began in 2006 when I realized that there wasn't any site of its form in Virginia. For the past 6 years, I have updated the site regularly with Fire and EMS news from across the State.

Already this year, I have family or fire service trips scheduled for Nashville, Gatlinburg, Columbus x2, South Dakota, Aruba, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Chicago, DC, Denver, and New Jersey. Let me know if you want to meet up and I will tell you when I will be in town!

This could be make it or break it to see if Willie and I can share the same stage and talk...and make sense. I am an optimist, so my thoughts were that we would get up there and everything would work itself out.

For all the coverage you are looking for on the earthquake in Virginia please check out VAFireNews.com (another site I run). I am updating there as more information comes in. Currently, the coverage includes live streaming video, links, news, and data on the earthquake

Check out this raw video from Bedford, Virginia. The firefighter with the helmet camera slips down the attic fold down stairs and continues down the basement stairs to the basement floor. He was then found and assisted out of the house. The fire occurred on February 10th. The helmet camera video was uploaded yesterday. Below the helmet camera footage is some news video from the fire when it occurred.

3 banger in Alexandria, helmet sticker controversy in Albuquerque, application woes in Austin, fire service product reviews, the Firemom weighs in on Ohio Senate Bill 5, Hosed humor on volunteer firefighters, bonus fire footage from Westerly, Rhode Island,firefighter fired after stealing, and Ed Schultz and Harold Schaitberger weigh in on firefighter pension attacks....check it out!

Jake tells great stories about fires fought in Richmond. Many of the firefighters Jake writes about were true characters. Firefighters who stand out in their personalities and abilities. The firehouse tales told in the book are ones that firefighters across the Nation can relate... and that if they were to happen this day in age we would be fired.

I am mostly posting this because Wines was in on the fire and the fact that we don't get much video of our fires. There aren't any buffs in the area like in the Northeast. We take what we can get and every once in a while a neighbor films a short video like the one below.