In the fire service, there isn’t a day that goes by that someone is not giving someone else a hard time. It’s what we do. It’s how keeps our minds off the darker part of the job. It’s also not ...
Read More »Busy Night for SWVA and Northeast TN Firefighters
Fighting fires is a physically demanding activity for career and volunteer firefighters that answer the calls that come in. On January 6th, the cold temperatures that moved into the Tri-Cities area of Southwestern Virginia and Northeast Tennessee made things much ...
Read More »UPDATED: Kingsport Firefighters Battle Structure Fire in Freezing Temperatures
Around 1800hrs, Kingsport Firefighters were alerted of a possible structure fire at 1616 C street in the Highland area. Upon arrival, firefighters found a residential structure with heavy smoke and flames visible. The temperatures tonight in Kingsport are in the ...
Read More »Citizens Remove Victim From House Fire In Kingsport
Around 3PM this afternoon, Kingsport firefighters were dispatched to a possible structure fire on Martin Street. As Engine 5 arrived on-scene, they had heavy smoke visible from a residence. Fire crews on C-shift made an aggressive interior attack to keep ...
Read More »Apartment Fire Displaces Several Families In Kingsport
Today started off just like any other shift, but then again…they usually do. I got shipped out to Station 7, our HazMat station, to work with the “glow worms” out here since we had a brother call out sick. When ...
Read More »New Apparatus and Visitor from Germany
What a day it has been! We came back on shift today from our four day break, and have been busy, busy, busy. New Engine In Service To much surprise, a few days ago our new Engine was placed in ...
Read More »Remembering A Fallen Brother: Earl Morphew
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 ...
Read More »First Due with Cpt. Iceman, Goose, and Maverick
Apparently, the website has been a topic of discussion amongst several of the guys at my department recently. I have stayed away from the contriversial topics, and I will continue to because that is not what I want people to get ...
Read More »Firefighters Battle Mobile Home Fire in the Model City
This evening around 1500hrs, Kingsport Fire units responded to the 900 block of Tranbarger Drive in the Lynn Garden community for a reported structure fire. Upon arrival, crews found a mobile home with smoke and flames showing. They were able ...
Read More »Response: Vehicle Fire VS Structure Fire
Last night, I was on-shift while Engine 2 received tones for a vehicle fire. While responding, the crew was notified that the vehicle was next to the residence and the fire had quickly spread to the exterior of the house. ...
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