6/29/2020

Last Resort Fire Department Pump Training 1994

Some Video of the last Resort Fire department doing pump training.

6/22/2020

Central & Buchanan Recycling Fire 1996

Going through some old VHS tapes sent to me by my dad. Found this on
one of them. This is a copy of a copy and had some major hiss in it which I removed.

6/16/2020

Department Profile Phoenix Fire Department Early 90's

Going through some old VHS tapes sent to me by my dad. Found this on one of them. not sure when it was released but after 1991. This is a copy of a copy and had some major hiss in it which I removed. Filmed back when Brunacini was Fire chief. There is some stutter in the video towards the end so it's not you.

2/19/2020

Phoenix Fire Department 1975 Fire Critique

I found this several years ago while going through my dad's stuff. It is a copy of a mimeograph and so the quality is not the best. It was published in late 1975 or early 1976. I do not know who illustrated it. If you know tell me. It contains information on the following fires:

Here are some excerpts:
 
 
I did what I could to clear up the badly discolored paper but getting all the drawings to look better would have taken day or weeks. You can download the entire PDF 132 pages from here. It is on dropbox and when it asks you to login or create an account click "no Thanks, Continue to View"
Then Click Download in the upper right corner.


8/09/2017

Bob Guildig Passes away

Sometime before midnight 8-8-2017 Bob Guildig Passed away at the skilled nursing facility he was living at. Bob had battled Alzheimer's and vascular dementia since 6-2012. He was moved from Seattle to Phoenix after complications from an operation for Colon Polyps. He made a good recovery but vascular dementia quickly began to take his mind from him. Dementia took from Bob his vast encyclopedic knowledge of the Phoenix Fire department from 1956 to 1985 (when he moved to Seattle). Towards the end he did not recognize me are anyone else in our family. Throughout his stay in the nursing facility he never lost his snarky attitude, and once asked another resident (while sitting at the dinner table) "Well what do you think? Numbnuts!". His last words were to a nurse on 8-7-2017 "you're a very pretty lady." There will not be a funeral and he will be cremated in his Uniform he made when he lived in Seattle and owned his own fire truck.

He leaves behind 6 children and 7 grand children. 





6/16/2017

1st Alarm Working Fire 42nd Street and Mullberry



I saw the smoke from this on the way home from the grocery store, I got there before anyone else and parked in a location away from where they would run a hose from the corner hydrant.

Engine 13 was first due on this fire that started in an empty house under renovation, unknown what the cause was. Fire was still going when I left but the police were on their way and the neighborhood was clogged with cars.