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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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