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 Storms … high winds, rain and hail blew through Roanoke this evening andleft a trail of debris behind. Around 2pm this evening we received a call that a roof had blown off a building … yea right. We run this address all the time so I know it’s a complex of brick apartments. I’m thinking we’ll get there to find ...

This video of a fully involved house fore in the 500 blk of Middle Road in Buena Vista, Va. was taken by cell phone and uploaded to You Tube.  It appears that the video was shot before any water was put on the fire. Some very brief local coverage can be found   HERE Also check out Buena Vista’s web site  ...

Get out your Bush Gear boys ....About 30 homes were evacuated in Campbell County due to a wild land fire.

This past Wednesday, a Rocky Mt. Va Grand Jury decided not to indict driver Terry Valentine on charges of vehicular manslaughter, reckless driving and failure to yield. WDBJ 7 news has the story below. The fatal accident happened this past July while Chief Dillon and Firefighter Altice were responding to a report of a structure fire. You can find coverage ...

“Fire Boy” Rhett Fleitz..aka The Fire Critic is on scene of the multi-alarm fire in Roanoke. Rhett reports that the building remains heavily involved with fire and Roanoke’s bravest are at work. The roof has been cut, ladders are up and master streams flowing. As if the job isn’t hard enough, our brothers and sisters have even more to deal ...

Crews are on scene of a multi-alarm fire on Orange Ave. in Roanoke, Va. The fire is located in a vacant (under construction) 3 story hotel. Local news coverage can be found  HERE  and HERE. I will post further details and photos when available.  “Fire Boy” Fleitz has his gumball light mounted in the mini-van and is en route for on-scene ...

  Local coverage from the early morning blast is below. 2 remain in critical condition … more to follow as available When I tried to find a pic of “sucking hind tit”, nothing came up that I could use here … you can only imagine what did… ANYWAY … here it is day #1 of 2011 and already The Fire ...

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 ...

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...