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.

Second Alarm Working Fire 29th Street and Washington

It's been a Looooooooong time since my last post. I just have not been to any fires.

My sister texted me about this one. It started about 1:30pm.

Responding units: Engine 1, Engine 4 , Engine 5, Engine 8, Engine 11, Engine 12, Engine 29, Engine 61, Rescue 11, Car 99, Car 957 North, Public information Officer 3, Resource Management 50, Squad 8, Ladder 1, Ladder 11, Battalion Chief 1, Battalion Chief 2, Battalion Chief 5, Battalion Chief 8, DC1, SDC, Fire Investigator 12, Fire Investigator 13, Command Resource Vehicle, Command Resource Vehicle A, Command Resource Vehicle B, Command Resource Vehicle C, Command Resource Vehicle D, Utility 29 and Phoenix "take the fun out of everything" Police.

 

What would Brunacini say? "When the ladders go up, the building comes down."

I miss the old PFD when they fought fires and didn't "tend them".

 

All the local news is reporting about is that the stupid worthless lite rail was not running.



3 in 1 House fire 27th street and Willetta

Its been a long time since I have been to a fire. I was going home today and as I was exiting the freeway I saw smoke. It looked like it was near Mcdowell and 27th st. I headed that way and as usual PFD beat me to it, as well as the police.

The house was going pretty good with flames coming out the front, but as you can see in the video it was being put out as I got there.

The Good old Days of the 2-11 Association

I was going through some old papers and found an envelope that contained these gems. It seems that back in the 60's you had to ask permission to monitor the Phoenix Fire Departments transmissions. How this would be enforced is beyond me, especially back then, but whatever. The request was printed on what looks like Vellum or Parchment. The response was in bad shape, very dark, and hard to read.

The Request

The Response.

Oh and this blog is not dead, I just have no way to chase fires, because of my job and such.