Wow. old thread. Well for a update I got through EMT, Medic and Fire school and have been working for Boca Raton Fire Rescue for about 2 years.
Also got my confined space tech and advance extrication tech tickets
Bocafire.net
Recent action shot:
That looks like a burner! did it vent it self through the roof or was it burning up the back wall thru a window?
BTW any of you guys trade fire patches? if so i'm interested in trading.
last week we got a call for a woods fire with a neighboring dept. come to find out it was not only woods it also had involve 3 mobile homes and two out building and a little over of an acre of woods all in 100 degree heat it took 7 depts to help us out.
the paper write up---Seven fire stations help subdue fire
By J.D. Walker -- Staff Writer, The Courier-Tribune
Posted: 08/17/07 - 12:05:58 am CDT
LEVEL CROSS — Monstrous heat and a persistent blaze pounded firefighters and EMS personnel Thursday in a fire at 710 Providence Church Road. At one point, seven fire stations and two EMS units were on scene.
Five responders had to be transported to Randolph Hospital for heat exhaustion, including three firefighters and two EMS workers, said Level Cross Fire Chief Stephen Russell. All were reported to be in good condition Thursday evening.
“It was rough on all the firefighters out there,” he said. “People need to know that when it’s 100 degrees outside, for the firefighters working in full gear, it’s got to be over 300 degrees inside that suit.”
Firefighters from Randolph County’s Level Cross, Randleman, Climax,
Franklinville andGuil-Rand fire stations and Guilford County’s Pleasant Garden and Pinecroft/Sedgefield fire station responded to the blaze, Russell said.
Randolph EMS and Piedmont EMS of High Point were on the scene. Countless volunteers and off-duty emergency workers also helped, he said.
Russell said the fire appeared to start behind a home at 710 Providence Church Road around 2 p.m. Owners of the property are listed in county tax records as Beysi H. Granados and Jorge L Rivero.
Russell said the exact circumstances are still under investigation. However, the blaze appeared to have started in the woods and then spread to nearby outbuildings and mobile homes that were used for storage.
The fire continued onto a neighbor’s property where the outbuildings that ignited were filled with antiques, Russell said. Officials and volunteers were at the site until after 8 p.m., he said.
Emergency workers were the only people injured in the incident. Russell said neither the homes or homeowners of the two properties involved were harmed. The cause and cost of the fire are still under investigation.
Conditions in the county and state continue to be hazardous for fire dangers. No measurable rain has fallen in Randolph County this month and less than one-quarter of an inch fell in the month of July, according to records at Weather.com. The last appreciable rain fell in June. Rain gauges registered just over 4 inches that month.
The federal drought map shows that severe and extreme drought, the second and third worst categories of the five-category system, now covers 74 counties in North Carolina. Severe drought, which last week stretched from the mountains into the southern Piedmont, now blankets almost all of the Piedmont and stretches into the coastal plain just east of Interstate 95.
Randolph County is among counties now listed under severe drought as are Chatham, Davidson, Moore and Montgomery counties.
Extreme drought now covers most of the mountain counties. As of last week, 94 counties were experiencing some form of drought. Only six counties in far eastern North Carolina — Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Pamlico, Tyrrell and Washington — remain out of drought classification although they are abnormally dry.
On average, North Carolina communities have received between 50 and 75 percent of the normal rainfall for this time of year, according to a report from Gov. Mike Easley’s office. The dry conditions have kept firefighters busy with 351 wildfires in August, more than double the average number of wildfires for this month in North Carolina.
Russell said, to his knowledge, no burning bans have been announced in Randolph County or in the state.
“But as dry as that vegetation is out there, people don’t need to be burning,” he said.
Contact staff writer J.D. Walker at 626-6118 or email her at .
but certs as of now are Nat. FF1, RIT theory, Confined space training, Hazmat tech, National first repsonder and probely some more which I cant think of right now lol
we have a 2000 e-one ladder 75 ft.
