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Date: 12/1/2012 Time: 22:10 hours Location: Original address: 8 Rose St. Actual location: 350 Main Street, Bert Humphrey and Sons Auto Repair District: Danbury Fire Frequency: Danbury Fire & EMS Units: 1st Alarm: Car 30, Engine 21, 22 and Truck 1 2nd Alarm: Engine 23, Squad 24, Volunteer Engine 8, Squad 7 and Danbury Fire Marshal Volunteer Companies On Standby: Padanaram Hose Co. #3, Independent Hose Co. #4, Wooster Hose Co. #5, Citizens Hose Co. #6, Water Witch Hose Co. #7, Beckerle Hose Co. #9, Germantown Hose Co. #10, Beaver Brook Fire Co. #11, Mill Plain Fire Co. #12, Miry Brook Fire Co. #13, King St Fire Co. #14 Weather Conditions: Cloudy, light drizzle, Fog Writer: peterose313 Description: Original dispatch was for 8 Rose St. Car 30 arrived on scene and found heavy smoke coming from the area of a large warehouse building with fire in the rear. Immediately a 2nd alarm was transmitted. Structure was a 2 story wood frame vacant, former auto body shop. Units from first alarm went to work as soon as they arrived o/s. They found heavy fire coming from a "turret style" room on the 2nd floor. Appeared as if squatters had been living there as several mattresses were found. An interior attack failed due to the amount of debris found inside the structure. Command had them go defensive and Engine 23 was able to k/d most of the fire with its deck gun along with multiple l/s/o. Danbury Battles Late Night Blaze Fire damages former auto repair shop Photos By Rob Fish

Here's some more that someone else shot. Photos are by Rob Fish (rob.fish@sbcglobal.net)

Date: 12/1/2012 Time: Approx 08:00 local time Location: Sasago Tunnel - Chuo Expressway in Koshu, Japan Departments: Police, Fire, EMS Description: Parts of the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway have collapsed leaving cars and people trapped in the tunnel and causing a fire. 7 people are reportedly trapped in the tunnel and 1 woman has reportedly been able to make her way out of the tunnel with minor injuries along with a reporter for the public broadcasting channel NHK. Fire officials are unsure as to how many cars are trapped and or on fire. CCTV inside the tunnel showed that approx 100 ft of the tunnel collapsed on the Tokyo bound side of the expressway. The tunnel is a twin bore and approx 2.7 miles long and 1 of the major highways out of Tokyo. Fire brigade is still trying to extinguish the fire. There are also reports of a mudslide that triggered the collapse of the ceiling of the tunnel. Links: Japan Sasago Tunnel Collapse 'Traps Cars' Cars Trapped In Tunnel Collapse Outside Tokyo Japan Tunnel Collapse Leaves Motorists Trapped Inside Writer: peterose313

That guy involved in the stand off was quite entertaining for the time I was listening to it.

Those are probably better than mine, I got there slightly late and was in a rush to set up once I heard the bag pipers. There wasn't really a break either so I never really got the right composition/framing.

Just got back from the parade, not a very large turnout from the community. I was located on Commerce Street. It was pretty cool though, I think next year they should make it bigger if they do it again and maybe a little earlier. I will have photos up sometime after the holidays, I have about 200 concert photos to edit first.

Have you seen Alaska State Troopers? Talk about seeing it all

Great stuff, really interesting to see rigs and such from other countries. Def keep posting, you got some really cool stuff there and I look forward to seeing more from you in the future.

Mt. Pleasant has bought at least 1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/72131699@N00/7158257277/

See if this link works. It should bring you to the dept website page for the parade. This provides more info, specifically the parade route. Orangeburg FD Holiday Parade

Date: 11/24/2012 Time: 2210 hours - on going Location: 65 Main Street - Columbia Hotel District: Leominster Frequency: Leominster Fire Channel 1 & 3 Units:Leominster, Fitchburg, Lunenburg, Lancaster, Shirley, Townsend, Westminster, Sterling, Gardner, Ayer and Devens, West Boylston FD's, National Grid, Leominster PD Weather Conditions: Partly Cloudy, Cold Reporters: x4093k Writer: peterose313 Working fire in a 100 x 100 3 story mixed commercial. Crews found heavy smoke coming from the hotel upon arrival. By 2230 hours there was heavy fire throughout the building and the command struck a third and fourth alarm. At approx 2233 hours the rear of the structure collapsed leaving 1 ff with minor injuries. 23:30 - Multiple EMS units O/S staging area, advised to send 3 buses to IC for orders 23:31 - IC advises additional collapse is likely, all units to stay back 23:43 hours: Command requesting 2 additional engines http://www.rightnow....3815577160.html

It's still not running smooth. It works if I click on the edit and then hit the refresh button and click edit shout. I still can't just type what I want and then click edit shout with no hassle. The "clear" button doesn't work either.

According to News 12 and various other news sources, the engine was donated to Broad Channel VFD. It was also filled with supplies Edit: Here's a link to a story in the Post. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sleepy_hollow_gives_fire_truck_to_u3TeoiLpgw2JjChCMjiyXN

Great shots, keep up the good work there!

Absolutely, would definitely be interested to see more.

Wasn't sure if that was a normal vehicle for them or not. Thought so myself but figured it couldn't hurt to ask.

I can't even do that anymore. I click on edit and after I type in my edit once the little box pops up, nothing happens with I click "Edit Shout."

Nice shots, thanks for sharing. Just curious, what "American vehicle' are you trialiign?

I second that

Don't forget about twitter too!

Great photos Seth, looks like you had some really nice light too. Love the lighting on the engine in the 2nd to last pic (red tarrytown one) and of the Tarrytown guys working.

Date: 11/16/2012 Time: Approx 1330 hours CST - on going Location: 3101 Wood Drive x S. Jupiter Road Garland, Texas Frequency: Garland Police and Fire (Fire Talkgroups Dispatch 595 / OPS-1 656 / OPS-2 688 / OPS-3 720 / EMS-1 944. Police Talkgroups North-1 48 / North-2 3664 / South-1 80 / South-2 3696) Units Operating: Garland Water Department, Dallas County Health Department, Garland FD w/ Hazmat, Garland EMS, Garland PD, Dallas Fire-Rescue w/ Hazmat, OSHA Units on Standby: American Red Cross, Granger Recreation Center Weather Conditions: Sunny, Warm, High of 64 deg Description Of Incident: A truck was reportedly offloading methanol and toluene in the unloading area and caught fire, which has been contained to that area. Chemical plant owned by Nexeo Solutions. Large chemical tanks heating up and venting. Smoke plume, currently stuck at 7,000 feet due to an inversion and is moving West from a 5 knot East wind, can be seen all the way into Dallas. Nexeo reports the pit is 80x80 and 4' deep with about 80,000 gallons of flammable liquid in it. No smoke/fire inside the warehouse but large number of chemicals on east side of the warehouse. No immediate reports of injuries but officials have evacuated the area in a 1/4 mile radius. Crews are having issues with water pressure. Crews are going to try and dyke the run off in the creek to keep it contained and to test the run off to see how much product is in. FAA has approved a no fly zone due to the smoke and hazardous chemicals in the air. FF's are spraying water on the surrounding tanks and in the area of the fire strictly to make an attempt at cooling them. Water is not being sprayed at the water for the fear of creating a spillover 1648 hours: Foam is not appropriate at this time due to the heavy amount of fire still showing. There will be too much run off if used at this point. Chief is reporting that it looks like it's starting to die down (hopefully) but still A LOT of fire. 1700 hours: fire is darkening down quite a bit now and as soon as it becomes more of a surface fire, they'll start foaming it. 1806 hours: About 8' of fire still showing on 1 side, shutting down water to see what they got. 1810 hours: Engine 10 is getting ready to deploy a foam blanket. Chief is trying to figure out his next course of action. The pit has vents on each side and is trying to figure out what the foam will do for them. 1818 hours: Starting water back up for foam operations. 1820 hours: Fire should be out in a few minutes but on west side of building there's some broken water pipes near the pump house that need to be shut off because they're just adding to the water run off. Engine 10 has a half tank of foam. 1822 hours: Fire is contained at this time, Dallas engines can be released but would like to keep their Hazmat. Operations are having to shut it down to fill the foam tank up again. 1834 hours: Beginning to overhaul and various Garland units can be released as well as the Dallas Hazmat and Battalion. 1839 hours: Engine 9 is loading up about 700 feet of 5 inch hose and could use some manpower to help 1908 hours: Fire is picking up a bit again and foam blanket is gone 1931 hours: Railroad can open their lines now, reports of people's bunker gear being contaminated from the fire. Most of the gear can be washed themselves but a couple pairs of gloves are going to have to be replaced or loaned. 1937 hours: Command is reporting they need about 5 pairs of gloves and about 5 more buckets of foam just in case of flare up. Fire appears to be out at this time though. 1944 hours: A few more units are being released, including the ambulance and in a few minutes the Dallas engine can be released from standby in Garland's Station 9. Reporters: peterose313 NOTE: ALL TIMES REPORTED ARE IN CENTRAL STANDARD TIME http://www.nbcdfw.co...-179720031.html http://thescoopblog....n-garland.html/

According to Joe Rao/ News 12 Westchester the t hreat has diminished. The storm will be heading out to sea and pose no significant coastal threat to US mainland

It's been happening in Yonkers too. There's been people posing as representatives from your bank and were sent out to take photos of your house so they can "check for damage" from Sandy. This person had an unmarked white van and when asked for ID, they can't come up with any.

From an organizational standpoint, I think it was a smart move. It's definitely an improvement, I have no complaints.