Tag Archives: CFD

This version of the Station Project is a little different from the others in that I was not able to personally assist with the project, but my brothers and sisters at my volunteer department did. The department, Chilhowie Fire & ...

Four years ago tomorrow, the fire service lost one of its best. Johnny Earl Morphew, Jr. was killed on his way to work during the early hours of January 28th, 2009. Morphew was a great asset to emergency services across ...

Professionalism means acting appropriately and in a manner that is acceptable and careful. Applied to the fire service, a professional is not whether or not you are paid or volunteer. That is a topic that often brings out the most ...

In the fire service, we tend to take things for granted. Over the past few years, I have learned as firefighters, we constantly stress to the members of the public different safety measures they need to take. It is a ...

Today is our first shift back after having four days off here in the Model City. Of course, I ended up working two of the four days for some of my brothers that covered shifts for me during my November ...

Yesterday was my last shift in this series, and it made out to be a busy one. I had twelve hours off on Friday and was able to decorate the house with my girlfriend. Since I wasn’t working the full ...

“Firefighter Karl Joseph, Engine 207″…Ding! “Firefighter Richard Kelly Jr., Ladder 11″…Ding! “Lieutenant Steven Bates, Engine 235″…Ding! The bell sounded just after the reading of the name and assignment of the FDNY member around each of the climber’s necks. We were ...

The air was cold, the wind was whipping, and around 70 runners gathered on Church Street in Uptown Charlotte at the foot of the Duke Energy Center. The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Run was about to start and FDNY ...