Tag Archives: fire video

Here in "The Noke", our brothers and sisters were also faced with battleing two fires ... one residential and, the second; a commercial multi-alarm fire.

We’re fighting on all fronts here in “the Noke”. Our biggest battle right now has Retired Battalion Chief Bobby Slayton fighting to recover. I’m afraid his condition has not improved. Actually, he was moved earlier today to  Pallative Care  in room 1040. The family is now accepting visitors in moderation. Mikey Overacker has some great shots of Chief Slayton’s retirement ...

Reports say a candle and Christmas tree are to blame for a fire on the 8th floor. See the video below for the Austin news coverage..

  I’ll post more on the fire a little later. Engine #6 arrived with heavy fire showing from the “Charlie” side of the house of origin. They had flame impingement to the exposure on the “Bravo” side due to high winds from the west. Temperatures were in the mid teens with a wind chill factor making it to feel near ...

Ok, to begin with; tomorrow is going to be a busy day. The morning will be anyway. Tomorrow is our annual “vacation sign up day”. In the firehouse, we sign up for our “vacation” and “holidays” a year in advance. Time to clean the ol desk off and figure out the days we need… Here in the City, sign ups ...

As usual, some of the posted stories on the house fire in Roanoke on Monday morning are not entirely acurate. I’ll try to set the story straight and throw in a few more pics. Rhett posted a nice piece over on the Fire Critic , unfortunately; some of his facts were off (imagine that Statter). Here’s the video again…   We (Engine ...

I’ve been calling my new house “lucky 13” and her name held true again yesterday. We should have been the “working fire” engine but instead was the 1st to roll in. An 81 year old man, who usually needs a wheel chair or walker to get around; was alerted by smoke detectors and escaped without injury. I posted the local ...

We were 1st in to work on a fire earlier today and our local news station had some good video obtained from a neighbor. I'll have more in the morning ... until then, check out the local news coverage here...