ShareTweet Our staff is back at it after a busy week at the 2013 Virginia Fire Chief’s Association’s Expo & Symposium. It was good to see many of you on
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ShareTweet Roanoke City firefighters (B-shift) were busy with a 3 alarm fire at General Truck Repair in Northwest Roanoke. The fire destroyed the building which is located at 1919 10th
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ShareTweet By VAFireNews.com Editor Rhett Fleitz The video is below Today at work, my crew had the fortune of heading out to Family Day at the Roanoke Regional Training Center.
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ShareTweet Company 2 was dispatched to assist Company 3 (Buchanan) with an overturned tractor trailer on fire, over embankment and possible entrapment. W-2 & S-2 responded within minutes of dispatch
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ShareTweet LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE! Yes folks, it is that time again to converge at the Roundhouse (Roanoke Civic Center) for the Annual Guns N Hoses Hockey game. The
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ShareTweet Roanoke County Fire Station #9 is wearing pink during October. Check out more crews wearing pink here and submit yours today! From left to right: D. Sizemore, D. Lacy, J.
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ShareTweet Roanoke County Station 5 A-shift are wearing pink during October. Captain Dean Peroulas is 3rd from the right. He allowed us to post the picture. A side note that
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ShareTweet Some of the information below is from Roanoke County Fire & Rescue press releases Two apartment fires in the Cave Spring area of Roanoke County have killed one, injured
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ShareTweet On Sunday, August 14th the Vinton Fire Department was dispatched to 426 W Cleveland Ave in the Town of Vinton. Information submitted by Captain Keith Ball Press Release from
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ShareTweet Info and images from Jim Hylton Fire Lieutenant and VDFP Adjunct Instructor Congratulations to the 20 members of the Roanoke Firefighter Rookie Class #14. The class graduated on July
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ShareTweet The Virginia Department of Fire Programs (VDFP) presented the “Driver Pump Operator†class for the Roanoke Regional Training Center. The class is pro-board certified and has five days of
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ShareTweet Roanoke Fire-EMS Department Press Release: Parts of Washington County, VA were devestated by yesterday’s powerful tornados. A request from the State on behalf of Washington County has been submitted
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ShareTweet 20-year-old Jeremy Ferris is working alongside men he admires. Firefighters. “I was surprised at first,” Ferris said. “When she told me at first I thought she was joking,” said
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ShareTweet ROANOKE COUNTY, VA –After 53 years of service, the Mount Pleasant First Aid Crew will no longer exist.Roanoke County Board of Supervisors member Mike Altizer said low recruitment numbers,
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ShareTweet Photos by Rhett Fleitz unless otherwise noted. Scroll down for the photos. There is a news video at the very bottom. Roanoke Firefighters battled a fire at the Days
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