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    Botetourt County Fire Chief Resigns; Only on Job One Year

    ShareTweet In Botetourt County, near Roanoke, the countys first paid fire-EMS chief has tendered his resignation after being on the job for only a year. Carr Boyd’s appointment wasn’t widely
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    How About a Free Gift For Yourself This Year? FireCritic.com’s 12 Days of Christmas

    ShareTweet By now, I know that most of our Virginia friends (and probably a lot of you out-of-state as well) are familiar with Rhett Fleitz (FireCritic.com) and Willie Wines (IronFiremen.com).
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    Former Occoquan-Woodbridge-Lorton fire chief dies

    ShareTweet WOODBRIDGE, Va. – A former chief of the Occoquan-Woodbridge-Lorton Volunteer Fire Department died Tuesday at Washington Hospital Center after a brief illness. Richard “Ricky” Arrington, 55, known at OWL
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    Buena Vista Fire Engine Involved in Wreck

    ShareTweet   Photo via Robert Foresman, Rockbridge Co. Emergency Services Mgr. A Buena Vista Fire Engine was involved in a single vehicle accident today. Two firefighters were on the apparatus
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    Mayday radio traffic: Two-alarm house fire in Fairfax County, Virginia. Lieutenant falls though third floor.

    ShareTweet This is from a two-alarm house fire yesterday evening in Fairfax County, Virginia. The fire was reported at 7:47 PM in the 6600 block of Forsythia Street in Springfield. At about
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    Portsmouth – Warehouse Fire with Explosions

    ShareTweet Wavy.com: PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Portsmouth fire crews responded to a warehouse fire that sparked around 2:45a.m. Friday morning along Columbus Avenue. When firefighters arrived in the 1400 block
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    Firefighters hone skills in massive Bedford training exercise

    ShareTweet BEDFORD – Volunteer firefighters raced into a smoking training center Saturday in Bedford to perfect their skills. Though the victims were so-called “Rescue Randys,” dummies weighing about 180 pounds
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    Challenging fire at Newport News auto shop. Close Call for Firefighter

    ShareTweet NEWPORT NEWS–  A wrong step caused a firefighter to fall into a pit during a commercial fire. The fire was at Rick’s Auto Repair, on the corner of 39th and
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    Former Volunteer Pleads Guilty to Impersonating Fire Marshal

    ShareTweet Former Manassas Volunteer firefighter Orlando J. Matsumoto, 23, of Nokesville, pleaded guilty in Prince William County General District Court Friday to impersonating  public safety personnel. Continue reading… Former Volunteer Pleads
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    Augusta County to tighten fire loan process

    ShareTweet Augusta County is thinking of tightening up the rules for volunteer fire companies’ withdrawals from its revolving loan fund. Going forward, fire departments seeking loans should make sure an
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    Bloxom Firefighter Funeral: ‘David left us in full flower’

    ShareTweet PARKSLEY — Hundreds of Eastern Shore of Virginia residents from all walks of life gathered Friday to mourn 30-year-old Bloxom Volunteer Fire Company Rescue Lieutenant David R. Chew Jr.,
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    LODD – Fatal Wreck Claims the Life of Bloxom Firefighter David Chew Jr.

    ShareTweet Bloxom VFD Chaplain and Northampton County Dept. of EMS Medic David R. Chew Jr. died in a single vehicle accident this morning around 11:30am. The wreck occurred  on Nelsonia Road
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    Pendleton is city’s first paid female firefighter

    ShareTweet The Martinsville Fire Department has its first paid female firefighter. Samantha Pendleton, 22, started in the part-time position July 1. There have been female volunteer firefighters with the department
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    Buchanan Fire Chief Arrested

    ShareTweet Serving a warrant Friday afternoon from Roanoke County, deputies from the Botetourt County Sheriff’s Office arrested Billy Joe Carter, 34, chief of the Buchanan Volunteer Fire Department, on a
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    4 Alarm Apartment Fire in Woodbridge

    ShareTweet OWL VFD responds to four alarm fire.   Woodbridge, VA July 5, 2012 — 6:52pm Occoquan-Woodbridge-Lorton Volunteer Firefighters responded to the report of an apartment fire at 1395 Eisenhower
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