Share Your VAFireNews.com Editor Rhett Fleitz will by broadcasting live from FDIC. Rhett is the co-host of Firefighter Netcast with John Mitchell. Firefighter Netcast is “Live radio and podcasts for firefighters”. Our show schedule can be found here. We will be taping discussions with some fire service personalities as well as streaming live radio from [...]... Read More »

Share First Due Blog Carnival Episode 1 “I Am A Firefighter Because…” – The Fire Critic Check out the first ever Blog Carnival for Fire Blogs. The First Due Blog Carnival was thought up by many fire bloggers and the 1st episode went live today! Follow this link for the entire post. You get to [...]... Read More »

Share Editors Note: For those of you who do not know it, I am also The Fire Critic. I run the blog along with VAFireNews.com and some other sites. I felt compelled to share this story from FireCritic.com and give everyone an account of why I became a firefighter. I hope you enjoy! Below is [...]... Read More »

Share The entire webteam here at VAFireNews.com has been hard at work to bring you the best in Fire and EMS news coverage here in Virginia. We have added a new feature to our homepage….VIDEOS! Currently we will run all Youtube videos on the right hand sidebar just below some of the advertisements.——> Be sure [...]... Read More »

Share This past year has been a huge year for VAFireNews.com. At the beginning of the year we polished off the reformatting of the site to the wordpress interface. This move created many new benefits for the readers as well as me the editor. Last month, I put the finishing touches on what I will [...]... Read More »

Share A message from the Editor: I would like to welcome all of you to the brand new VAFireNews.com. I have spent the better part of the past two months searching for the new look of the site and have spent the last two weeks implementing it. There is still some work to be done, [...]... Read More »

Share Readers, It has now been just over a year since I moved VAFireNews.com to wordpress. I am ecstatic over the the progress made with the site and the submissions I have received over the past year. The site continues to grow in readership as well. The look I picked in the beginning (what you [...]... Read More »

Share I have been busy working hard here at VAFireNews.com headquarters. I have been updating the site with some of the features that everyone enjoyed before we went to this new template. Take a look at what I have accomplished. First of all, let me say that if you have anything to share, or anything [...]... Read More »

Share Thank you all for bearing with me. I have finally figured out why the site has been loading so very slow at times. Some of you all probably didn’t notice it at all, others of you it probably pissed you off a lot! Either way, the site will load a lot quicker for you [...]... Read More »

Share Here is an incomplete list of Twitter users from across the Fire and EMS World. These are must reads for many in the Fire and EMS Service. The information posted on Twitter by these guys/gals is a great tool for keeping up with what is going on in our service.  As always, if you [...]... Read More »

Share Get your news via Twitter. We here (ok me) at Prinston Media are always seeking new ways to make your lives easier. We have recently made the necessary adjustments on Twitter so that you can follow along on Twitter for all of the news from this site, VAEMSNews.com, and VirginiaFireEMSJobs.com. Every hour, the servers [...]... Read More »

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Share Prinston Media (the parent company to this website) is currently offering a special on advertising. Receive the first month free with a 3 month advertising contract. Did you know that you can currently advertise on VAFireNews.com, VAEMSNews.com, or VirginiaFireEMSJobs.com for as low as $50 a month? With this promotion, you can now advertise on [...]... Read More »

Share While this milestone may seem small for some, it is much appreciated at the VAFireNews.com headquarters. Ever since our big redesign going live back in November, we have been rebuilding our audience. Our traffic decreased last year during the redesign which took a little longer than usually becuase I decided to “try” to take [...]... Read More »

Share VAFireNews.com has been actively networking in order to keep up with its readers around the internet. Most recently, we created a group on Linkedin for VAFireNews.com. We also have created a Facebook Group, Facebook Page, and Firefighter Nation Group. We have had a profile on MySpace for sometime, but we do not actively update [...]... Read More »