* Firefighter Nation is carrying a story that keeps popping up every now and then from different locations, this time it’s Oklahoma City. The local turnpike authority is issuing traffic tickets to fire engines that are traveling on the turnpike to return to their first-due districts following emergency calls. They have the report and a video on it HERE.
This story caused Firegeezer to recall an almost-identical situation last year in Liverpool, England HERE. Except they were making the FF’s pay the tolls out of their own pockets.
* Dave Statter at STATter911 has been sticking close to the strange story from Oklahoma involving the highway patrol trooper and the Creek Nation paramedic, with what seems to be a never-ending story that has a new chapter every day.
Today’s breaking news is the release (finally) of the entire dashcam video taken in the trooper’s car and embargoed for so long by the OHP. Dave has posted the updated release HERE. After watching it, I have even less respect for that badge-heavy trooper than I had yesterday. Hooray for the paramedic whose main concern at all times was protecting his patient’s well-being. See if you don’t agree.
* FireNews.net covers the 1st responder happenings in North Carolina, and publisher Jeff Harkey visited this week’s National Urban Areas Conference that was held in Charlotte. He reports on the conference along with photos taken in the exhibit hall, including a link to his Flickr page containing more pix HERE.
* Bill Gabbert at Wildfire Today took some pix at a firefighting exhibit this week, too. He stopped by the South Dakota State Fire School and got THESE SHOTS. Geezers will look at the picture of the “new technology” showing the pre-connected hard sleeve and no doubt be reminded of the “squirrel-tail suctions” from the 1930′s (and earlier).
* Mick Mayers at Firehouse Zen has been writing a series about fireground credentialing that is well worth your time reading. His blog is designed to make you think, rather than just read, and this series-in-progress will be just right for your Sunday morning perusal (during the time that you used to use reading the Sunday paper. Nobody does that anymore). So get a fresh cup, relax and read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5. (I’ll have to write to him and tell him the story of the bogus ambulance squad that patrolled the Capital Beltway around Washington, D. C.)
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