Tag Archives: Roanoke County Fire / Rescue

The words no Firefighter wants to hear, "MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY" was transmitted last week at a house fire in Roanoke County (Va). "MAYDAY" is the term Firefighters use when their life or safety is in jeopardy and they are unable to remove themselves from the situation.

I just learned tonight through Face Book what “TBT” means. In case you too didn’t know, it means “Throw Back Thursday”.  People are reaching “back” and posting old pictures etc. Things that they may have posted before. They are “throwing” it back to the “old” days. In the past year, I too have re-posted some older articles for whatever reason ...

Captain Dillon is an "aggressive" firefighter who has seen more than his fair share of work. When he says it was a "hot" one, what he means is that it would have melted the paint off the gates of hell ...LOL.

Rumors are ABUNDANT! We are hearing of a member having either resigned or haven been fired, a Captain on or off of administrative leave, inappropriate text messages, pornography, a DUI, revoked licenses, a picture of a moose with 2 assholes and even that there is no such thing as the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus! WTF? I wish I could elaborate more but apparently, a "gag order" has been issued and nobody can tell me exactly what it is that I'm not supposed to talk about.

Apparently, 29 year old Harmony Rose has left the Adult movie industry, is now living in Va. and aspiring to become a nurse. She has also joined the Cave Spring Volunteer Rescue Squad and some folks aren't too happy about it.

"He said Tuesday that if an emergency services director assumes control of a scene "there are going to be a lot of hurt feelings and busted noses."

Chief Houff was the Battalion here on C-shift as well and even though he works for the County, we got to see each other a lot. Not just work either .... Chief Huff stayed by Billy's side everyday of his fight. It was a true testament to BROTHERHOOD.

LMAO …. I have SO much content and “directions” I could go in for a great post. Of course, my regular readers know that the one thing that I don’t tolerate is “fretting” so I guess I’ll shoot it to ya straight. It’s been a busy summer for me but for some reason, these last few weeks have really taken ...

We’re winding down a fairly busy cycle. It’s been a good week but I’m ready for our 4-day break! I think Randy is looking forward to it as well. This week’s training centered around “calling the MAYDAY”, “Search and Rescue” and “Vent Enter Search”. Of course, we caught our normal run load and had some cleaning to do in between… ...

Today is Sunday and the last day of our cycle …. we start 4 day break tomorrow! For us, it’s been a  relatively quiet cycle. Our Brothers out in the County haven’t been so lucky. A local man was killed this weekend after going back into his burning home to retrieve some clothing. The fire happened in the Cave Spring ...