Pictures from Cameron, Louisiana

Here are some images of the team deployed to Cameron, Louisiana. The guys are a part of a large contingent of Firefighters from all across the U.S. The team is operating the EOC in Cameron. The images are courtesy of Chief Tartaglia.

Here 1st Lt. Chuck Swecker and Captain Allen Austin enjoy some lunch.

Some ambulances awaiting calls in Cameron.

This picture and the ones below show the destruction that still exists in the wake of Hurricane Rita.

Here is a picture of Captain Wallace. The Captain is down in Cameron with Captain Bishop, Captain Pope, Captain Austin, 1st Lt. Swecker, Battalion Chief Manuel, and Battalion Chief Ferris. This team is the third team to be deployed from Roanoke Fire-EMS to assist with Hurricane Relief. The first team deployed to Johnsons Bayou, Louisiana and the second team deployed to Florida. The team currently deployed will be returning December 19th, just in time to spend Christmas with their Families.

Take the Time to Surf the Net

Today, an odd post. I know I have my loyal readers out there, and I appreciate that. I was out of town yesterday. A group of Firefighters went to MD and DC to check out Diesel Exhaust Systems. I had the chance to photograph a couple of DC firehouses. I will post on that soon. Probably tomorrow. I am busy today with work.

I will be at the Airport tonight pushing snow, if it falls, otherwise I will be just sitting on my butt making half decent money. Since our lovely meteorologists are on top of things. We will either get hammered by snow, and I will be busy pushing snow, or nothing will happen like last week.

Either way, I will probably not be able to give you all a lot to read. I will point out some sites that I have talked about in the past. Take the time to check them out. First start with Local 1132 and The Maurice Wiseman Project. Check out the RFFA News Wire, and sign up for the email subscription on the right sidebar. Then move on to the Complete Online Listing of IAFF Locals, you will be able to check out hundreds of Local websites there. Follow that up with a reading of FIREWHIRL, and Firefighters Blog. Then check out this funny compilation at Chronicles of a Paramedic/FF. If that is not enough, just take a gander at the right and read some of the blogs on the blogroll. They either have something to do with Firefighting, EMS, or Roanoke. Least of all, you can always send me an EMAIL or post a comment below if you have a question, or an idea for a post. Likewise if you have news worthy of posting here let me know.

If you know of a site, or you operate a site yourself, and you think I might be interested in it let me know.

FDR at Fire Station #1

President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Engine 1

Thanks to Capt. Wines for the picture

That is right folks, this is a picture of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Engine 1 out front of the current Fire Station 1 Downtown Roanoke. FDR was in town for the opening of the Salem VA Medical Center around 1940. I had heard of this picture existing and recently recieved the picture to scan and add to the digital database for The Maurice Wiseman Project that the RFFA has begun over at www.local1132.org. If anyone has anything to add about this visit feel free to leave a comment.

Battalion Chief Bobby Slayton has 40 years in the Department

Chief Bobby Slayton

Picture courtesy of Captain Wiseman taken January 1991.

This is Battalion Chief Bobby Slayton. Chief Slayton was hired December 6th 1965. Bobby now has 40 years of service with Roanoke City. Forty years is not commonly heard of this day in age. Although when Chief Slayton was hired it was very common for Firemen to stay for 30+ years. Numerous men have stayed past 40 years. The longest I have heard of or have documentation of is about 42 years.

Chief Slayton is currently assigned as the Battalion Chief of B-Shift Northside. The Chief's son Zach Slayton was hired in 2003. Just to put Chief Slayton's tenure in perspective the next closest man on the seniority list is Captain Yearout, who was hired in 1973.

Johnson Bayou Remembrance Sticker

Remembrance Sticker for Johnson Bayou, Louisiana

The holidays are now among us here at Roanoke Fire-EMS. We are all preparing to have wonderful times and memories with our families and friends. However, our neighbors in Johnson Bayou, LA are still struggling from the havoc created from hurricane Rita. The deployment team has been in contact with the fire chief in Johnson Bayou ever since our return. It's a slow go. Very little assistance has still come and they don't expect the electricity to be turned on until Feb. 2006. The supporting department we are, I'm asking for some holiday donations to continue our support of our Gulf Coast friends.

I have created a "REMEMBRANCE" sticker for Johnson Bayou, LA.
The stickers come in two sizes. A medium sized window decal or a smaller helmet sticker. It will come in royal blue and white. I will fax the design to all stations to see.

Donations Window sticker $3 Helmet sticker $1

I have already ordered a limited number. If you are interested, please contact me so I can order more. Delivery will be in 5-10 days.

Remember, it is the holidays and Roanoke Fire-EMS is always helping someone's dreams come true.

Thank you, Lt. Chad Riddleberger Station #2C"

Feel free to contact me as well and I can pass the information along to Chad.

IAFF Local Listing

The RFFA has just released its newest project. An online database of the IAFF Locals with websites. Once completed, the list will include every Local of the IAFF. The Local's are listed numerically as well as by State. If you have any to add, change, or delete please let us know.

You can use this site to check out what other locals are doing across the U.S. and Canada.

Check it out at http://www.local1132.org/iafflocallisting.htm.

FDNYtrucks.com (The Largest FDNY Apparatus Site on the Web!)

FDNYtrucks.com (The Largest FDNY Apparatus Site on the Web!)

Check this site out for a large collection of FDNY firetruck pictures as well as pictures of badges from the various stations in FDNY. The badges have the different fire house names/nicknames of the stations of the FDNY.

Technorati tags: FDNY, FDNY Firetrucks, FDNY Firehouse Names, Fire Trucks, Pictures of Fire Trucks

A Firefighters Message:

This can be found floating around the internet, in emails, and in print:

This pretty well sums it up. Please feel free to share it as you see fit.

I wish you could know what it is like to search a burning bedroom for trapped children at 3 AM, flames rolling above your head, your palms and knees burning as you crawl, the floor sagging under your weight as the kitchen below you burns. I wish you could comprehend a wife's horror at 6 in the morning as I check her husband of 40 years for a pulse and find none.

I start CPR anyway, hoping to bring him back, knowing intuitively it is too late. But wanting his wife and family to know everything possible was done to try and save his life. I wish you knew the unique smell of burning insulation, the taste of soot-filled mucus, the feeling of intense heat through your turnout gear, the sound of flames crackling, the eeriness of being able to see absolutely nothing in dense smoke-sensations that I've become too familiar with. I wish you could read my mind as I respond to a building fire, Is this a false alarm or a working fire? How is the building constructed? What hazards await me? Is anyone trapped?. Or to call and ask what is wrong with the patient? Is it minor or life threatening? Is the caller really in distress or is he waiting for us with a 2x4 or a gun? I wish you could be in the emergency room, as a doctor pronounces dead, the beautiful five-year old girl that I have been trying to save during the past 25 minutes, knowing she will never go on her first date or say the words, "I love you Mommy", ever again. I wish you could know the frustration I feel in the cab of the engine, squad, or my personal vehicle, the driver with his foot pressing down hard on the pedal, my arm tugging again and again at the air horn chain, as you fail to yield the right-of-way at an intersection or in traffic.

When you need us however, your first comment upon our arrival will be, "It took you forever to get here!" I wish you could know my thoughts as I help extricate a girl of teenage years from the remains of her automobile. What if this was my daughter, sister, my wife or a friend? What were her parents reaction going to be when they opened the door to find a police officer with hat in hand?

I wish you could know how it feels to walk in the back door and greet my parents and family, not having the heart to tell them that I nearly did not come back from the last call. I wish you could know how it feels dispatching officers, firefighters and EMT's out and when we call for them and our heart drops because no one answers back or to here a bone chilling 911 call of a child or wife needing assistance. I wish you could feel the hurt as people verbally and sometimes physically abuse us or belittle what I do, or as they express their attitudes of "It will never happen to me". I wish you could realize the physical, emotional and mental drain of missed meals, lost sleep and forgone social activities, in addition to all the tragedy my eyes have seen.
I wish you could know the brotherhood and self-satisfaction of helping save a life or preserving someone's property, or being able to be there in time of crisis, or creating order from total chaos. I wish you could understand what it feels like to have a little boy tugging at your arm and asking, "Is my Mommy okay?", not even being able to look in his eyes without tears from your own and not knowing what to say. Or to have to hold back a long time friend who watches his buddy having CPR done on him as they take him away in the Medic Unit.

You know all along he did not have his seat belt on. A sensation that I have become too familiar with. Unless you have lived with this kind of life, you will never truly understand or appreciate who I am, we are, or what our job really means to us...I wish you could though.

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Fire at 1200 block Hamilton Terrace

News from The Roanoke Times -Fire damages house in Roanoke; 1 dog dies:

Fire damages house in Roanoke; 1 dog dies

No one was home at the time of the blaze, which was put out in 15 minutes.

By David Harrison
981-3349
The Roanoke Times

Firefighters rescued one dog but were unable to save another one from a fire that tore through a Southeast Roanoke house Friday afternoon.

Firefighters arr
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ived at the house in the 1200 block of Hamilton Terrace about 4:45 p.m. to find fire and smoke inside the two-story brick house, said Roanoke Fire-EMS spokeswoman Tiffany Bradbury. No one was home at the time of the fire, which caused roughly $25,000 worth of damage, Bradbury said.

Technorati tags: Fire in Roanoke, Roanoke Times, David Harrison, Southeast Roanoke

3rd Team Deploys for Hurricane Relief Effort

Roanoke Fire-EMS has been called upon by EMAC once again to deploy a Hurricane Recovery Team to Cameron Parish, LA. This group of Fire-EMS personnel will serve as an Incident Management Team running the EOC in Cameron - a community still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.

The Hurricane Assistance Team consists of: Battalion Chief Audie Ferris, Battalion Chief Roger Manuel, Captain Alan Austin, Captain David Bishop, Captain Anthony Wallace, Captain David Pope and 1st Lt. Chuck Swecker.

The team will leave on Saturday, December 3 for a 17 day deployment. Their planned return date is December 19.

You can see from the map where Cameron is. The first team was deployed to Johnsons Bayou (also on the map). This gives you reference. The first team that went down had stopped in at the Cameraon EOC to check in, but primarily worked in Johnsons Bayou.

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Revisiting a fire at 8th and Marshall SW

Here is a picture of an A-shift fire I was on a couple of years ago. I had traded time with Rob Humphreys. I was on Engine 8 as part of the second alarm on the house that is on the ground behind us. The house beside it had a lot of fire damage as well.

Pictured sitting Clockwise from front left is FF Mike Pruitt, Capt. Gary Conners (Ret.), Lt. Bill West, FF Danny (moose) Hughes, 1st Lt. Chad Riddleberger, Capt. Scott Mutter, Lt. Tracy Blevins, Lt. Tom Mougin, Lt. Jamie Brads, FF Greg Fulton, and Capt. Willy Wines.
Standing in the back L-R are FF Barry Kincer, Lt. Rhett Fleitz, Lt. Richard Patterson (Ret.), Bat. Chief Audie Ferris, In the very back looking the other way is Lt. Carl Jones (Ret.).


I recieved this picture from Capt. Wines. He let us borrow a couple of things to make copies for The Maurice Wiseman Project. If you all have anything you would like us to have to copy, etc. please let me know. Likewise if you would like to assist in the collection of Historical data drop me a line. We could use some help.

Lt. Randy Obenchain Retires

Photo taken January 8, 1991

Lieutenant Randy Obenchain will retire Monday, November 28th. Randy, the brother of Battalion Chief Billy Obenchain, will retire with 27 years of service. Randy came to work for the Roanoke Fire-Department on January 2, 1979. When he was hired he was stationed at Fire Station #3 for about 3 years. Randy spent 5 years at Fire Station #1 from 1984-1989. Later after he was promoted to Lieutenant in 1989 he returned to Fire Station #3 for 10 more years. Randy has been a reliable Lt. that numerous other pump operators have looked to for answers, training, and assistance. Randy is currently stationed at Fire Station #14 where he has been assigned for almost 7 years.

Randy, we hope you enjoy your retirement. You will not be forgotten when you are gone. I am sure there will be stories told for years about you and some of the things you got away with. God Bless you and your family.

If you would like to stop by #14 and wish Randy well, you can do so on Monday, November 28th. There will be light snacks and refreshments served from 1300 till 1600 hours.

There will be a Retirement Dinner on December 8th at 1830 hours at Jersey Lily's. Everyone is invited.

Photo circa 1982-1984, Engine 6
L-R FF Jimmy Poindexter, Capt. Maurice Wiseman, FF Randy Obenchain

Fire at Bishop's Used Auto Parts Unlimited

Special thanks to Captain A.P. Wallace for the Picture.

Tonight the Roanoke Fire-EMS Department responded to fire at Bishop's Used Auto Parts Unlimited located at 2012 Salem Ave. SW. Engine 3, Engine 9, Engine 5, Engine 7, Ladder 7, Ladder 1, Battalion Chief 1, Battalion Chief 2, Medic 9, Medic 3, RS-1, Chief 3, and Service Truck 2 responded for the fire. The Companies had problems obtaining decent water supply due to the poor hydrant quality in the area. An exposure was protected on side 3, 2/3 corner, as well as two vehicles on side 1 of the structure.

I arrived right behind Ladder 1 and when I got there most of the roof had already collapsed into the structure. Unfortunately I did not have my camera with me. I just happened to have stopped by the Union Hall on my way home, when the fire was toned out several blocks away. I did manage to take some photos with a camera from one of the Chiefs on scene. There were some other amateur photographers on scene as well. I hope to have some pictures posted tomorrow.

The Ladder Pipe on the reserve ladder truck (121') was used as well as numerous 2 1/2" handlines. The deck gun was used on Engine 7.

I will have more information to follow once I receive it.

Here is the link to the Roanoke Times article. You can check out the video from WSLS here.

More photos courtesy of Captain A.P. Wallace

An online education for Firefighters

Firefighters tell me all the time that what I do online with this blog and the RFFA website must take a lot of time. The answer is yes and no. This blog takes time to find interesting things to report on and write stories etc. Luckily I get a lot of help from sites like Firehouse.com, the Firehouse Forums, Fire Engineering, The Roanoke Times, The Times-Dispatch, even other blogs like Firewhirl and the Firefighter Blog, and political/news blogs like Blog from on High or Brian Patton.org. However it does not take long to post this information. A lot of these posts only take a matter of minutes thanks to the Blog This button I use with Firefox. I made the switch over to Firefox instead of Internet Explorer due to the add-ons I can use with Firefox. Firefox, by the way, is free to download.

The RFFA website is a different story. This website began, for me, as a learning experience. I had never even thought of building a website. After all the blog is an easy to use interface that only requires a little bit of html knowledge to customize the look for what you want. Mike Rose had been the past webmaster of the RFFA website, and he had a good product. However with all of the work I was doing on the history and MDA, I wanted something more. So I began my first website. Those of you who checked it out early might have noticed that it changed look several times before I decided on the template we are using today. I do have to admit, I get a lot of help with the site using Macromedia's Dreamweaver, which I just now noticed that there is an upgrade to Dreamweaver 8, sounds interesting.

The websites have grown too. I add a little bit here and there to the RFFA website. The Maurice Wiseman Project just recently made it's debut. This project is a more in depth and focused project than the history, including timeline, which I had authored prior.

I continue to add daily to this blog. I am quickly reaching 300 posts and the blog is not even a year old. I constantly hear from local Firefighters who say the site is great and to keep up the good work. That is enough to keep me on track. I will continue to bring stories, photos, history, etc. to you.

I have been told it would be neat to get everyone's picture, like Wiseman did up until the mid 90's. I agree. If you see me at a station, ask. I usually have my camera. I don't mind taking a few pictures. That is what we need to continue the history of the Department.

If you know of news that you think should be on here let me know, send my pictures. If you run a fire, email me a brief synopsis.

A little more technology...

If you are like me you have a home computer with bookmarked pages, or a favorites list. However when you are using a remote computer, at the station or wherever, you don't have access to these favorites. Well now you do. Sign up for Delicious, an online bookmark site. You can add your bookmarks as you surf the internet. You can view my Delicious here. Although you should remember that it is public domain, so if you are into something kinda kinky, you might not want to add it to your Delicious.

If you would like to sign up for your own blog (FREE) or would like to set up an account (also FREE) so that you can post comments to this blog or others using a username then check out Blogger/Blogspot. It really is easy to use. There are all types of blogs out there like political/news blogs, family blogs, career blogs, personal blogs, Departmental blogs, City blogs, you name it, someone blogs it.

Some bloggers even make money off of their blogs through Google AdSense. Basically you get paid if your sight refers traffic to Google Ads. You can see the Adsense at the top of this blog. If you want you can check out certain Companies who place ads on Google relating to the Fire Service. At first I thought that this was a gimmick, but actually it works. It hasn't for me, but other blogs out there are actually making money off of the blogs. Pretty neat I think.

Google has offered a lot to the blog community. You can now specifically search blogs using Google Blog Search.You can also search blogs through Technorati, which is basically a dedicated search engine for blogs.

There are sites who will count your page hits for free also. The one I use mainly is StatCounter. I just recently signed up for Google Analytics which is proving to be a great source for checking my stat's. The one I use still and started with is SiteMeter. I found this to be a decent stat site, although I think that StatCounter has more to offer.

For picture hosting check out Flickr and Picasa (another product of Google).

I am sure that there are a lot of other things I use online that I just cannot think of right now. I have to say that thanks to the Just another Day in Roanoke Blog, I am kept up on the latest Technology. Keith, of Just another Day in Roanoke, also runs the Forgotten Roanoke website.

If there are any Firefighters or any body else out there who are thinking about starting a blog but just aren't sure of how to start. Let me know, I would be glad to help you out. You can email me at FireFleitz@adelphia.net.

St. Patrick's Day with St. Baldrick

I was reading a post over at the LAFD Blog about a true hero, the son of a firefighter, who recently lost his battle with cancer. This young boy was a big fan of Superman and has apparently earned the nickname of his hero.

I learned about a fundraiser for cancer patients throughout the World. It is called The St. Baldrick's Celebration. The celebration started in New York by some business men and has raised $7 million to date. The LAFD celebrates this each year and raises money for the great cause.

Basically money is raised by sponsoring an individual to shave his/her head, oh yes women do it too. The LAFD has been doing this for years apparently. I had not heard of this event until reading their post.

The reason why I bring this up is to challenge you, the Firefighters of Roanoke City to come up with an event for St. Baldrick's. That's right I am asking you to come up with an event. Some of you might ask why I don't just do it. Well I will tell you. I don't have the time. You see for the past several years I have organized most of the charity events within the RFFA. Now I am going to be the Sec./Tres. This will not stop me from helping with these events. I plan on being at every event I am able to get to. However there are plenty of you guys out there who sit by and let everyone else do everything. Why not grab a couple of buddies and make this happen.

You can rest assured that I will be the first person in line to have my head shaved. You heard me, big ears and all will be sticking out farther than ever without any hair to conceal it.

So there it is, a challenge to act. A challenge to help out.

Operation Turkey Drop

I had the pleasure of spending Thanksgiving at my house with my Family. In the past, if I had the day off, the family usually packed up and drove to Nashville or Richmond to be with either my family or my wife's family. So this year was a little different, hopefully beginning a tradition of at least every couple of years being able to have Thanksgiving at our house with our Family.

The same goes for Christmas, although I did not get so lucky this year, I will be working on Christmas Day.

Firefighters across the nation deal with this every year. They knew when they signed up for this rather thankless job, that they would be giving up Birthdays, Anniversaries, Holidays, Vacations, etc. because of the schedule.

This year the Firefighters were not forgotten on Thanksgiving. From what I understand Roanoke County, Salem, and Roanoke City Firefighters were all served a Thanksgiving meal by Volunteers this year. The meal was called Operation Turkey Drop.

I would like to say this to the Volunteers, who provided and served my Brothers and Sisters in the Roanoke Valley, it is you who we are Thankful for. People like you make our job worth doing. The gesture of feeding the Firefighters on Thanksgiving will last a long time. It truly shows a sense of community among the Firefighters and the public.

Hall of Flame Fire Museum

Hall of Flame Fire Museum:

The Hall of Flame Fire Museum and the National Firefighting Hall of Heroes, located in Phoenix, Arizona, has almost an acre of fire history exhibits, with over 90 fully restored pieces of fire apparatus on display, dating from 1725 to 1969. Most of the exhibits are American, but we also have pieces from England, France, Austria, Germany, and Japan. The Hall of Flame sponsors the National Firefighting Hall of Heroes, which honors firefighters who have died in the line of duty or who have been decorated for heroism.
The Hall of Flame is sponsored by the National Historical Fire Foundation, which was established in 1961 by George F. Getz, Jr. The Hall is in Phoenix, Arizona at 6101 East Van Buren St. It is open Monday through Saturday from 9 to 5, and Sundays from Noon to 4.

I spent about an hour navigating this site the other day. The site offers a lot of pictures of the artifacts that the Museum owns. I wonder if there is anything from Roanoke in the Museum. Sounds like a roadtrip. Although I am not sure the next time I will be in Pheonix. Anyways check out the site it is very interesting.

Technorati tags: Fire Museum, Hall of Flame, Museum of Firefighting, Antique Firetruck, Fire History

Feuerwehr Weblog

Feuerwehr Weblog:

Check out this site for some insight to Firefighting and training in Europe. There are some decent pictures explaining what is going on.

The ladders (italian ladder) are four ladders made of wood. we use it for raise up in places in which we cannot arrive with mechanical car ladders (for example, very small streets, or internal building places). We mount them using 4 firemen team: two put them bodies to support the base ladder, one give the other pieces and one raise up and mount the pieces. It is the best training exercise for italian firemen. During the fireman's school we arrive to mount and take apart it in less than 90 seconds. The Italian ladder is 12,5 meters high. Each piece weight is about 15-18 kilograms.

You have got to see this picture attached to this caption. This blog is from Denmark I believe. Either way, they do things differently there. Check it out. You might be able to translate the entire blog. I will have to check with my more Technologically Advanced buddy over at Roanoke Found.

Technorati tags: Firefighter, Fire, Denmark Firefighter

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue - Blog

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue - Blog:(click here to read the whole article)

More Than Just a Number

By Captain Jose A. Nochea

On the 4th of September of this year during my Sunday CR tour at station 29, a group of us, including some from the fishing trip were at it again. We decided to have a special dinner for a special someone, and the guest list quickly grew. The guest of honor turned out to be retired chief Indy Morgado and his wife, along with Bob Palestrant, Manny Morales, and Danny Cardeso who was OPS south that day. The planning of the menu was decided early in the day to be cooked by Cesar Perez Abreu and myself. Caldo Gallego (Galicean Bean Soup), pork shoulder, rice, and plantains. Once we sat for the meal, it was again another golden moment in the making as we listened to the old timers tell stories about the old days at station 7 involving Indy as a newly promoted Captain and later as a CFO at Battalion 5-A. Manny Morales was probably the most colorful one, and all of the stories started with the words “Remember The Day That”.

As you read this article, I am sure that you are probably thinking of a number too, your number, the number of your station, the station that you identify yourself with sooner or later in your career if you stay out in the field long enough because these are not just numbers, they are symbols that identify each station with its own character that help maintain traditions of brotherhood among others. Each fire station is an extension of the great family of the department and it is also a symbol of pride for many. Go to almost any fire station around the county and you will find stickers on the trucks, T-shirts, and baseball caps that represent the style of that station with the number right in the middle of it all. These numbers are the ones that inspire the bond that most of us maintain with each other as we work together and then play together on our days off. Our station numbers are the first ones to come out when starting any conversation as we often tell war stories about those calls that some may call “a good call”, but are usually the really bad ones.

I just happened upon this blog today. I found it interesting. The story, which I have posted part of above, tells a lot about the Firefighters who work for Miami-Dade.

This got me to thinking about a question that someone asked me the other day. They asked me why is the morale of the Firefighters low here in the Roanoke Fire-EMS Department. Ok, loaded question right. So I was thinking as I read this post from Miami. I thought wow, I think I can count on one hand the amount of guys in this department right now who have been where they are stationed for more than 10 years. I have been here almost 7 years and have already been stationed at 4 different stations on 2 different shifts. There are Firefighters who have seen a different station about every year.

I don't think I need to explain this for you all to understand what I am getting at. What I will say is this: There is a certain level of Pride, Brotherhood, Honor, and Respect when a Company is kept together longer than a couple of months.


Check out this blog for Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

Technorati tags: Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, Firefighter Pride