Last Resort Fire Department Pump Training 1994

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

Easter Chandler House Fire

Fire Scene Drawings IX

Last one.

12-17-1961 2nd st., and Dunlap, Phoenix

12-20-1961 3rd st., and Moreland, Phoenix

 12-24-1961 Central and Jackson, Phoenix

 12-28-1962 Myers-Lieber Sign Co. 525 w. Monroe, Phoenix

Fire Scene Drawings VIII

09-16-1961 Central and Hidalgo, Phoenix

 09-24-1961 1st ave and Jackson

 10-07-1961 4th ave and Indian School rd., Phoenix

Fire Scene Drawings VII

09-3-1960 U.S. Salvage, 3rd st. and Henshaw (now Buckeye), Phoenix

09-10-1961 Smith Pipe and Steel, 19th ave and Roosevelt, Phoenix

 09-16-1961 19th ave and Madison, Phoenix

Fire Scene Drawings VI

08-07-1962 Central and Marshal, Phoenix

 08-10-1958 Gil-Bart's 15th st and McDowell, Phoenix

08-20-1961  Unknown

Fire Scene Drawings V

06-19-1961 19th ave, and Bethany home rd., Phoenix

06-25-1960 Sunny Slope High School

06-28-1962 Jug Laundry 43 ave and Indian School Rd., Glendale

Fire Scene Drawings IV

06-06-1961 7th st. and Fillmore, Phoenix

06-07-1961  Grand Ave, and 31st Ave, Phoenix

 06-17-1962 7th st, and Glendale, Phoenix

Fire Scene Drawings III

05-10-1961 30th st and McDowell, Phoenix

 05-24-1962 Central and Midway, Phoenix

 05-31-1962 Grand Ave and Palm Lane, Phoenix

Fire Scene Drawings III

04-28-1960 4th Ave and Jackson, Phoenix

04-28-1962 24th st. and Campbell, Phoeinx

 05-01-1961 Central and Indian School rd., Phoenix

Fire Scene Drawings II

04-09-1962 534 W. McDowell

04-16-1961 16th st and Washington (across from the fire that happend on 04-07-2015)

04-24-1962?

Fire Scene Drawings I

We found these while rummaging through my dads stuff in storage recently. I will be posting the drawings ever couple of days or so. I do not have any more information than what is on the drawings since my dad does not remember them (Alzheimer's). They seem to be fires that happened between 1958 and 1962. In one drawing (not posted yet) there are green dots showing where my dad took pictures from, where those pictures are is unknown. The paper the drawings were on had badly discolored with age and whenever possible I have corrected the colors.

01-17-1961 Mesa 1st and McDonald

02-07-1961 5th ave and Watkins

03-12-1961 Sun Valley Silk Screen 29th ave and Osborn

Fire Books

My Father is going in to a Memory care facility and I have several hundred books to sell if anyone knows of a fire buff club or swap meet happening in or around Phoenix please let me know.

Blueberry passes away

If you ever read the tawdry book "B-Shifter: A Firefighter's Memoir" there is mention of a person known as "Blueberry". If you were anywhere in the vicinity of station 12 in the 90's you would have seen him: A "crazy looking" person decked out in a reflective vest and a pile of "emergency" paraphernalia. That was "Blueberry" or as he was really known as: Robert "Bobby" Lewis Begay.

He passed away on December 17, 2015.

Car-B-Que on the 24 on ramp off of Ellsworth loop

Sorry best I could get with a cell phone and the road blocked by those meddling coppers.