Fire Scene Drawings III

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

04-28-1962 24th st. and Campbel, 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.

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.