Check out this image of a determined Palestinian. Check out some more great photos here.
The photo description:
Unrest in the Middle East
A Palestinian man tries to extinguish a fire that started after youths threw a petrol bomb during clashes with Israeli police in Jerusalem’s Old City on Oct. 25.
Yannis Behrakis / Reuters
This weeks Saturday Hotshot is courtesy of a STATter911 who found it on LiveLeak. Supposedly from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Watch how close the guy is walking near it when it explodes.
Firenews.net is the source of this weeks Saturday Hotshot. Click here or the picture for the full story.
KANNAPOLIS – The Kannapolis Fire Department responded to a structure fire on Hyde Street on September 5th.
The fire was reported at 10:34 hours. Heavy smoke was seen on the horizon as units responded.
Battalion Chief-1 arrived on the scene and advised a working fire in a single story, wood frame residential structure.
Submitted by: Captain Brad Jordan, Kannapolis Fire Department Photo courtesy of FireNews.net
The Saturday Hotshot comes to us via WildfireToday.com. The image is by Wally Skajil although I am not sure the original publication it was in. The fire is the “Station” Fire in California, one of many burning right now.
Wally Skalij photo. August 27, 2009.
This photo comes via PhillyFireNews.com and FirstWestChester.org where you can read more about this arson fire in a vacant dwelling. The First West Chester Fire Company has a ton of images from this fire on their site.
Check out this fire in Italy. Three host of fire-fighting fire in gasiło Novotel Street. 1. August in Italy.
Photograph: Peter Wittman źródło: Fotorzepa Source: Fotorzepa
Apparently the FD and PD enjoy free health care upon retirement in Fort Wayne, Indiana. This is something that every Fire, EMS, and Police employee should enjoy! Unfortunately, most of us are not that fortunate. Raise your hand if you are staring down the barrel of free health care upon retirement. I didn’t think so. That would be a great benefit in the time of losing the little benefits most of us have.
Fort Wayne FD and PD fought hard to retain the benefit recently and won! City Council voted no to an ordanance that would have cut the free health care upon retirement. The Council Members agreed that the benefit was not FREE but EARNED! Kudos to them. As a matter of fact, only the council member who brought it up voted for it. However, that is no reason to slouch. If Council had seen that no one showed up or no one cared they probably would have voted for it.
I have one question though. How many police officers and firefighters were on hand to show their support of a no vote? Mark the working shift off the list. How many who were off duty were there. I cannot think of many things in life that would have been more important to me that showing up for that meeting to make sure they knew who they were taking from.
That is what we have to do! We have to be there, we cannot afford to sit back and hope that our other brothers and sisters will take up the fight for us. We have to be there in person…all of us…as one!
Here is the video:
Ok, I know that it is Sunday (technically Monday now) but I couldn’t go without posting a hotshot for Saturday. Again I give you a video in lieu of a photo. It is hard to find great photos, although I have something coming up on that soon. Look for a new top ten list soon. I have about a dozen of them in the works.
This weeks Saturday hotshot is of a fire in Catasauqua, PA. The really cool thing about this fire is that you have two views of the fire at just about the same time. Check out the videos below (description follows each video).
Great use of 2 1/2″ line for knockdown, 1 3/4″ for maneuverability, and vertical ventilation. It seemed like great Engine work and Truck work going on together!
In the afternoon hours of Sunday August 9,2009 Catty station 2 was hit for the house fire at the corner of 14th and Race sts. Command arrived onscene and quickly struck a second alarm for the well involved first floor. NVP was on of the first camera crews onscene and captured the fire from before the initial attack was made until it was knocked down.
Catasauqua Station 2 was dispatched at 1615 hours to a house fire at 722 Race St. Chief 202 arrived on scene and found heavy fire in a 2 1/2 story S/F/D and signaled a working fire then struck the 2nd alarm. Engine 212 arrived and stretched a line to the front of the building and connected a water-supply at the corner of 14th and Race. Ladder Co. 231 took position on the ‘D’ side of the building on 14th Street and went to the roof to open up. Heavy fire was venting from all the windows on the first floor side ‘D’ and some upper windows.
The bulk of the fire was darkened down on the initial hit from the entry team. Whitehall truck 6 positioned itself in the front of the building.
The second alarm was struck at 1617 hours for North Catasaqua Engine 18, Whitehall Engine 1, Whitehall Engine 2 (R.I.T.) and Coplay Air unit 5. Special- called to the scene was Whitehall Truck 6 and Engine 3 and Han-Le-Co Engine 33.
How is this for a hotshot? She looks pretty darn hot to me! This hotshot comes from Rowan County, North Carolina.
Photo by Greg Summitt, Courtesy of FireNews.net
Six firefighters have died in wildfires in Spain. Video coverage is below. The image is from here.
This weeks Saturday Hotshot is a video rather than an image. I make the rules, I can change them anytime I want! Actually, I never said it had to be an image. For decent coverage of the fire with all the links you want to reports, video, and photos check out Statter911.com here.
A massive 19th century mill burst into flames Wednesday afternoon in Lewiston, Maine. There is a partial collapse at 1:14 in the video above. Police are looking for teenagers who may be behind the fire. Embers started fires in other buildings.
This week we are welcoming the newest column (weekly post) titled Saturday Hotshot. Enjoy.
INFERNO: Firefighters battle a fire raging at Darwin River (above) and (below, right) the furious blaze bears down on a Berry Springs rural firefighters’ vehicle. Pictures: BRAD FLEET
As seen in the photo above (Story Here), Australia’s Bravest get to work on a fire in Darwin. I don’t know about you but I like to fight fires this big with a hell of a lot more water than that. Then again, I am an Urban Firefighter and don’t (fingers crossed) have to worry about woodland fires such as the one depicted in the photograph…lucky me.
See the Northern Territories Volunteer Bushfire Fighters online here.
RESIDENTS had to evacuate their homes yesterday as a raging fire ripped through their back yards in Darwin’s rural area.
Many were forced to watch the devastation from the safety of the roadside as flames “as high as the rooftops” came within metres of their homes.
Plumes of dark smoke quickly filled the sky as the blaze erupted in a paddock behind homes and businesses, including a service station, along the Stuart Highway at Coolalinga, about 30km south of Darwin, about 11am.
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