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Drive-By Vandal Shoots Into Fire Station
IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, a vandal fired gunshots into the Glenn Springs-Pauline fire station that disabled two of the three firetrucks.
The destruction happened sometime between late Friday night and Saturday morning last weekend and the sheriff says that the perp was using a .40 cal. handgun. The shots were well placed because they were sent through metal bay doors directly into the radiators of the two affected trucks, one of which is a 1-yr.-old tanker. Nobody was in the station at the time.
WHNS-TV Greenville filed this video report:
The Spartanburg Herald-Journal reports:
“I think they knew what was behind here because they aimed it to where it would go right at our radiators,” (Fire Chief Brent) Peeler said.
“Right now, I’ve got some neighboring departments on stand-by,” Peeler said. “We’ve got another station, so we’re still in pretty good shape. We’re still ticking at 100 percent, but it does hamper the emergency if we have one.”
Peeler estimated at least $6,000 in damages, though he was still waiting on an estimate from the department’s insurer.
WYFF-TV Ch. 4 also reports:
The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office is investigating, but has no leads. The fire chief hopes going public about the crime will encourage someone to come forward and identify the shooter. ”Don’t know why somebody would’ve done this to us,” Chief Brent Peeler told WYFF News4’s Mike McCormick. The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office is investigating, but has no leads. The fire chief hopes going public about the crime will encourage someone to come forward and identify the shooter.
“It almost appears they picked the bay they wanted to shoot and placed the bullet exactly where they wanted it to go,” said Peeler. “Right through the radiators and cause a lot of mechanical damage.”
They found the bullets laying underneath the trucks.
apparatusfiregeezer on 23 Sep 2009
Who Wrote These Specs?
THE SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, SHERIFF’S OFFICE got one of those nifty mobile command centers last year. With the help of a Homeland Security grant, they took delivery of the $625,000 truck late last year. It is designed to be a regional command post to coordinate fire, police and rescue agencies at major disasters. But there’s just one thing wrong … it’s too heavy to legally operate on California highways.
The deputies noticed something wrong during a training exercise when the vehicle started leaning and didn’t go back to level. Putting two and two together, they decided to take it to the truck scales where they learned that the real axle was carrying 2,060 lbs. over the legal limit.
The command center was built in Ohio where it’s legal to operate as well as at most other states, so it wasn’t caught at first. The sheriff dept. also increased the rear axle load by ordering two large air conditioning units and the camera mast to be located on the rear of the vehicle.
Plans are made to drive the truck back to the builder where they’ll install a tandem axle at no charge to the sheriff. But the county will have to pay about $8,000 for the costs of transporting it out and back – three drivers and their food and lodging expenses for the 11-day portal-to-portal assignment.
Sacramento TV News10 has this video report complete with an interior tour:
The Lodi News-Sentinel reported today:
Fred Gerling, owner and founder of Gerling & Associates, said in a phone interview Tuesday from Ohio that California’s 20,000-pound limit applies only to commercial carriers, not emergency vehicles.Sheriff’s spokesman Les Garcia disagrees, citing Section 35550a of the California Vehicle Code, which states that the gross weight of any one axle of a vehicle shall not exceed 20,000 pounds except for those carrying livestock.
Redistributing the command vehicle’s weight by more than 2,000 pounds will cost Gerling an estimated $9,000 in parts and $5,000 in labor.
“As owner, I basically care to err on the side of satisfying my customers,” Gerling said, adding that he wants San Joaquin County to be a repeat customer.
Gerling said that the sheriff’s department accepted the vehicle in June 2008 and was delighted with the product, but now he’s dealing with different sheriff’s representatives who insist on reducing the axles’ load to 20,000 pounds.
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apparatusfiregeezer on 08 Sep 2009
Fire Engine Gets That Sinking Feeling
Updated with fresh video. Scroll down.
Update #2: It’s out! Scroll down.
A LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE ENGINE STRAYED OFF COURSE this morning and tumbled into a sinkhole created by a water main break.
KNBC-TV is reporting that the truck is still slowly sinking into the pit.
City fire units and Department of Water and Power repair crews were at the scene of a water main break that is gushing water near the intersection of Hartsook Street and Bellingham Avenue, located east of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and south of Magnolia Boulevard in North Hollywood, according to city fire Capt. Rick McClure. The break was reported about 5:20 a.m., McClure said.
The fire truck blundered into it and was left with its back half protruding at a 45-degree angle.No injuries were immediately reported.
KTLA-TV has posted this video taken from their helicopter:
This is the third major water main break in the past four days in that same area.
Update, 4:30 pm:
It goes in a little deeper, but that mighty battery keeps the lights flashing:
Update #2, 6 pm Eastern:
Shortly after 1 pm Pacific time, a heavy-duty wrecker successfully retrieved the sinking fire engine from the sinkhole.
Los Angeles Times
AP / Nick Ut photo
The fire engine was in the neighborhood checking on the flooding call when the driver felt that the road was unstable. They were in the process of backing out from the danger area when the weight of the truck caused it to fall through the undermined pavement. Road authorities believe that a car’s weight would not have triggered the collapse. All four firefighters escaped safely through the windows as the water and mud began pouring into the cab.
apparatusfiregeezer on 29 Aug 2009
Fire Engine vs. Auto Leaves 2 Dead in K.C.
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, PUMPER 18 WAS RETURNING FROM A CALL shortly after 4 am this morning and was only 100 ft. from their firehouse when a Camarro auto smashed into it. The driver of the engine saw the car coming right at him and made a sharp turn to try and avoid the collision, but the car barreled into the side of the engine anyway.
The crash was so violent that the type of car wasn’t readily apparant at first. Two passengers in the car were killed immediately, one of them was the mother of the car’s driver. She was 47 yrs. old and the other passenger who was in the back seat, a 32 yr. old woman was killed also. The driver was a 24-yr.-old man who is listed in “extremely critical” condition.
WDAF-TV Ch. 4 has this video report from the scene earlier:
None of the four firefighters was injured except one of them was checked for some rib pains and released.
apparatusfiregeezer on 21 Aug 2009
A Different Kind of Mutual Aid
THE NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES OF WATERVLIET AND GREEN ISLAND, New York, have entered into a pact to share a new aerial truck. The mayors of the two Albany-area towns announced at a press conference yesterday that they have agreed to share a 2009 Sutphen 95-foot ladder truck that cost $859,000.
WXXA-TV Ch. 23 covered the press conference with this video report:
So far, details haven’t been released on the payment-sharing agreement or who will be operating the truck. Firegeezer will attempt to find out and update this report.
Update, Aug. 27:
Green Island provided $50,000 toward the $859,000 price of the aerial ladder truck. The village also supplied $17,000 worth of equipment for the truck.
apparatusfiregeezer on 16 Aug 2009
7 Injured in Chicago Ladder Truck Crash
WHILE RESPONDING TO AN AUTOMATIC ALARM Saturday, Chicago, Illinois, Ladder 16 was involved in a collision with an automobile a few minutes before 5 pm Central time. The car carrying two people struck the aerial and caused it to veer off into a traffic-light pole.
Chicago Sun-Times / Stewart
The two people in the car were seriously injured and all five firefighters were transported to the hospital as well. Four of them were treated and released and one was kept overnight for observation.
The police have not yet disclosed what exactly happened to cause the wreck, but they have cited the driver of the car with failure to yield to an emergency vehicle and driving with no insurance.
Firegeezer will update this report when more information is available.
WGN-TV has this brief, early video report:
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