A mid-week scan of the fire and rescue blogosphere brings these items of interest:
* STATter911 has the puzzling story of a St. Louis County FD that has just fired to people and suspended two more for “harassment.” What makes it puzzling is that nobody has ever said that they were harassed. Here’s a hint: One of them is the president of the Local. Read the rest HERE.
* VAFireNews has a refresher course in when to use fog vs. smooth-bore nozzles. You learned this a long time ago. HERE’s a good chance to review it and knock the rust off your skills.
* EMS1 is carrying a strange story about a doctor who wrecked his car, then became so combative with the medics that the police had to taser him several times. The family says he’s done this before. Read the STORY.
* West Coast 911 News is reporting on the high injury rate so far this year on the California wildfires. Last week CalFire had 10 FF’s burned in three days. This led to the issuing of a statewide “safety stand down” order to more than 10,000 forestry firefighters. Read the full REPORT.
* FirefighterSpot has squashed that elusive bug that kept some people with older IE browsers from playing the videos. Now we can all enjoy them again, including a neat one taken from a fire engine that made the right decision at the railroad crossing HERE.
* The U. S. Senate has been conducting hearings on the state of the Federal wildfire preparedness and WildfireToday was doing some live-blogging of the speechifying. Read his reports HERE.
* FireNews.net’s new page format is paying off. You can get to a lot more recent news stories now and he’s filled it up with lots of good postings HERE.
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