Posted on August 6, 2010. JOHNSON CITY, TN- The reality of the massive apartment complex fire that destroyed 20 units and everything inside was still sinking in Thursday with displaced residents. Fire officials were on scene all day Thursday sifting through the debris, searching for what caused the devastating fire and where it started. Fire [...]
Submitted by Amy Maxwell. Posted on July 31, 2010. HAMILTON CO, TN- A family has lost everything due to a house fire today. At noon, a neighbor called 9-1-1 today reporting a house fire at 13207 Back Valley Road. Sale Creek Volunteer Fire Department (VFD) responded and arrived on the scene reporting the house was [...]
Posted on July 16th, 2010. CHATTANOOGA, TN- The city of Chattanooga has been sued for allegedly failing to extinguish a fire that eventually destroyed a home in East Brainerd. The Circuit Court suit, that asks $3 million in damages, was also filed by Norma O’Neal against Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company. The lawsuit states that [...]
Posted on July 16th. NASHVILLE, TN – The Tennessee Fire Chiefs Association presented Germantown Fire Chief Dennis Wolf with the Fire Chief of the Year Award for 2010. Wolf received the award July 13 during the association’s banquet in Nashville.Chief Wolf received the award in recognition of his contributions to the fire service in Tennessee through [...]
Posted on July 14th, 2010. HAMILTON COUNTY, TN: At about 8:40 AM, Tuesday, July 13, 2010, the Tri-Community Volunteer Fire Department responded to a report of a possible residential structure fire at 8815 Point South Lane. Engine 1245 arrived on the scene minutes later and reported a single story wood frame house about 50 percent [...]
Posted: July 12th, 2010. This will be my first submission to the First Due Blog Carnival. The Fire Critic is hosting it this time, and we were asked to write about the minimum standards for firefighters. More information can be found at The Fire Critic’s First Due Blog Carnival. This is my first time writing [...]
TENNESSEE- Submitted by Eric Wilson. Posted on December 30, 2009. Heritage Fire Equipment sold Crawfish Valley Fire Department a Cascade Unit featuring a HYPRES Compressor, Cascade System and Fill Station. It is in an 16’ enclosed trailer with interior lighting, and additional SCBA storage. For more information, please contact: Ken Ezell, Middle TN Sales with Heritage [...]
MORRISTOWN, TN- A woman died and a man who was attempting to save her life suffered smoke inhalation late this morning in a fire at Townview Apartments on North Henry Street in Morristown, firefighters and police confirmed. Terry Rathbone, who lives at the apartment complex, identified the victim as his mother, Betty Rathbone. The man [...]
OAK RIDGE, TN — The Oak Ridge Fire Department held a contest during Fire Safety month to see which Woodland Elementary School class would come up with the most Home Escape Plans. Teacher Tracy Bradshaw’s first-grade class — known as the Bradshaw Bunch — won the contest. According to information she supplied to The Oak Ridger, the [...]
WALKER COUNTY, Tenn. — Fire departments should consider rollover protection for crew areas when upgrading or buying new fire apparatus, NIOSH investigators say. Investigators are making the recommendation after a Tennessee firefighter was killed in a December 31, 2008, apparatus crash that left him pinned upside down with the roof collapsed around his head. [...]
