Share Attention Firefighters across the Commonwealth. We are bringing back “Around the Station” feature!!! This feature is a very plain and simple idea that we had success with on the old site. All you have to do is send in a photograph of your crew at the station, training, on a call, or wherever and [...]... Read More »
Share The Lynchburg Fire and EMS Department is remembering five fallen heroes killed in the Main Street Fire of 1883. The department dedicated a plague honoring the men at the Presbyterian Cemetery on Grace Street in Lynchburg. Grave markers for the firefighters have worn down over time, becoming difficult to read. Read More Lynchburg Fire [...]... Read More »
Share A lot of high school and college graduates are wondering at this time of year, how they are going to parlay all of that education into a meaningful career. Dan Gordon faced similar questions four years ago when he graduated from Hampden-Sydney College with majors in French and History. “I haven’t used either one [...]... Read More »
Share Donnie West, Assistant Chief of the Black Creek Volunteer Fire Department, was recently named by Wachovia Securities as a “Second-Half Champion.” The awards honor the achievements of inspiring citizens who have made significant contributions to society or achieved ambitious personal goals after reaching the age of 50. At 50, West tackled the physical challenges [...]... Read More »
Share Sixty-four members of Loudoun County’s Fire–Rescue companies and several of their support staff were honored at the Annual Fire and Rescue Services Awards Banquet, held May 14 at the National Conference Center at Lansdowne. The Loudoun County Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Committee and the Loudoun County Fire and Rescue System sponsored the event. In [...]... Read More »
Share HANOVER, VA (WWBT) – Firefighters from all across the area gathered Thursday for a training exercise. The Central Virginia Technical Rescue Team consists of 100 firefighters from Hanover, Henrico, Chesterfield, and Richmond. In just the past nine months NBC12 has covered three major incidents that Central Virginia’s Technical Team has had to respond to: [...]... Read More »
Share Written by: Lt. Brad Dougherty You are the driver operator of Engine Company 15 you are operating your apparatus at a working apartment fire at 1233 Impeller Drive. The fire is a room and contents fire in the bedroom on the 5th floor located in apartment 502. You have connected two fifty foot sections [...]... Read More »
Share Informative video from the Virginia State Firefighter’s Association. 9257 Old Turnpike Road Culpeper, Virginia 22701 888.640.5655 http://www.VSFA.org... Read More »
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Share An elderly woman died this morning after a small kitchen fire in her Lagomar home, officials said. Firefighters responded to a smoke alarm at the home in the 2500 block of Entrada Drive just before 10 a.m., said Battalion Chief Tim Riley, a spokesman for the fire department. They quickly extinguished a small fire [...]... Read More »
Share A packed house turned out Tuesday night to watch the outcome of the Lynchburg city budget vote. City employees, primarily from public safety, and their supporters filled City Council’s meeting room as officials prepared to cast their final vote on the new budget taking effect July 1. Seven speakers — four of them public [...]... Read More »
Share May 26–Jim Soderberg was in intensive care, recovering from the moment his heart stopped beating. After several days in an induced coma, he was awake and talking. His wife, Peggy, asked if some of the men outside his room, who’d been there almost nonstop since Jim was admitted, could visit. “Are they relatives?” the [...]... Read More »
Share Fire investigators will have to determine if a candle is to blame for a fire that raged through a Woodbridge home Saturday. Firefighters were called to 14118 Randall Road, just off East Longview Drive, after 5 p.m. when several 911 callers said they saw flames shooting from the two-story home. “All we could see [...]... Read More »
Share Lynchburg’s police officers and firefighters were the subject of special pay raises not extended to other city employees in 2004 and 2005, respectively. Equal treatment for all municipal employees has been a point of debate recently as city departments prepare for a 3 percent across-the-board pay cut. The public safety division — in particular [...]... Read More »
