Tag Archives: Willie Wines

 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 ...

It's why those folks came up to me and told me someone was still inside .. they knew we'd go get em.

We had a Captain’s meeting today and our Chief updated us on a briefing that he had recently given our City Council. Kind of a “State of the Department” if you will. Our “numbers aren’t that bad.  In my mind, there were 2 “stand out” categories… “Dollar Loss” … in 2010, we had around 3.6 Million Dollars in fire damages.  ...

I posted some time back about a friend of mine I call “snow bird”. His real name is Adam Fleming but “snow bird” works too. Anyway,  in the previous post .. “A Helmet tip to our Northern Brethern” I mentioned how Snow bird was building a custom bar from a 1988 Pierce Arrow Fire truck. The truck once belonged to ...

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  ...

Ok, it was more like a "slide" rather than a grab ... plus we did require a little help from "The Deuce" .

Back safe, sound and somewhat relaxed. I know I had a few of ya wondering with my last post ... ok it was more of a "rant" than a post.

I worked and extra shift yesterday (the 2nd half of it anyway) at Station #3. Rhett needed the day off so he could go to some kind of dance contest. Now, he put on like it was for his daughter but I know the truth.

I’m sure you’ve all see or at least heard about it by now. IBM has created a computer with near human like attributes. The computer competed against 2 humans on the hit TV game show Jeopardy…. yea … it won. Danny Groner over on The Huffington Post wrote “Watson’s Jeopardy! Win: What did we Discover?”   In his article, Groner wrote   ...

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