Cary Open House - Legeros Fire Blog Archives 2006-2015 Legeros Fire Blog Archives 2006-2015 - Cary Open House « The Next Police Chief… » Airport EMS Cary Open House 04/20/07 33 W - + 13 - 9 We're told that there's an open house at Cary Station 7 on Wednesday, April 25, from 9:30 to 12:00. Watch for the guy in the Hawaiian shirt. Maybe even the late-riser will be there. Man, why did it have to be on a C-shift day?! Silver - 04/21/07 - 11:22 just stop in any time… come on you know the deal [CFP 7021] (Email) - 04/21/07 - 11:37 I know, I know, but I wanted to be there on “the big day” Shev!!! I’ll stop in though. What shift are you on? Silver - 04/21/07 - 11:43 shoot me an email [CFP 7021] (Email) - 04/21/07 - 16:09 Mike I work at station-7, hope you can make it out there. I got a engine-7 shirt for ya if you would like one. If your there I will hook ya up with one. The station has turned out to be really nice, take some cool pics for us we would really appreciate it. TBA - 04/25/07 - 00:24 Name: (real name Remember personal info? preferred) Yes E-mail: (optional) No Web Site: (optional) Comment: / Textile Comment moderation is enabled on this site. This means that your comment will not be visible on this site until it has been approved by an editor. To prevent spam we require you to answer this silly question What are the FIRST TWO LETTERS of the word 'fire'? (Register your username / Log in) Notify: Yes, send me email when someone replies. Hide email: Yes, hide my email address. Small print: All html tags except <b> and <i> will be removed from your comment. You can make links by just typing the url or mail-address. https://www.legeros.com/ralwake/photos/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=0843[10/14/2019 7:26:35 PM] Airport EMS - Legeros Fire Blog Archives 2006-2015 Legeros Fire Blog Archives 2006-2015 - Airport EMS « Cary Open House » Nine Months and 46 Ye… Airport EMS 04/20/07 88 W, 1 I - + 18 - 8 Where has Six Forks EMS been hiding their airport unit all this time? Inside a warehouse at 6901 Mt. Herman Road. The 10,816 square-foot structure was built in 1972 and obtained by RDU in 1990. It's served Six Forks since October 2005 and presently houses a 12-hour unit. Two boats and a light trailer are also parked inside. We're told there's talk of a nearby Lumley Road lot being donated for a permanent EMS facility. The land would be free, but a building would have to be built. Click to enlarge: Isn’t there a unit at the airport during the night? Wakefirefighter - 04/21/07 - 16:40 From http://www.sixforksrescue.com/sf-about.h.. “We operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year utilizing four ambulances during peak hours and two ambulances during off-peak hours.” Presumably those two “night ambulances” are at Station 1 and Station 2, and not at the airport. Legeros - 04/21/07 - 16:42 Need an ambulance at night? Mapquest times to RDU from… Six Forks EMS Station 1 – 12.3 miles Six Forks EMS Station 2 – 12.5 miles Wake EMS Station 4 – 9.7 miles Cary EMS – 12.7 miles Bethesda Fire/EMS Station 1 – 8.0 miles Parkwood Fire/EMS Station 1 – 9.6 miles Parkwood Fire/EMS Station 3 – 5.4 miles (they have an ambulance at #3, right?) etc. Legeros - 04/21/07 - 16:49 At night, Cary EMS responds to the airport/Brier Creek area from Morrisville. CJS (Email) - 04/21/07 - 17:42 Also, about the airport situation… the ambulance that Cary staffs in Morrisville is at Morrisville Station 2 (I’m not sure — that’s not my area of concern usually), but that station is not far from RDU, I-40, I-540, and Aviation Parkway… I’m sure that it’s closer to the call sometimes than 1273 because of traffic… But nothing beat the response from the old EMS 6 into the Airport grounds… CJS (Email) - 04/21/07 - 19:13 From Mapquest, more distances to RDU... Morrisville Station 1 – 5.1 miles https://www.legeros.com/ralwake/photos/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=0844[10/14/2019 7:26:37 PM] Airport EMS - Legeros Fire Blog Archives 2006-2015 Morrisville Station 2 – 4.3 miles Six Forks EMS Station 3 – 3.1 miles Old EMS Station 6 – 2.0 miles (estimated) Original EMS Station 6 – 1.5 miles (estimated) Legeros - 04/21/07 - 22:33 Name: (real name Remember personal info? preferred) Yes E-mail: (optional) No Web Site: (optional) Comment: / Textile Comment moderation is enabled on this site. This means that your comment will not be visible on this site until it has been approved by an editor. To prevent spam we require you to answer this silly question What are the FIRST TWO LETTERS of the word 'fire'? (Register your username / Log in) Notify: Yes, send me email when someone replies. Hide email: Yes, hide my email address. Small print: All html tags except <b> and <i> will be removed from your comment. You can make links by just typing the url or mail-address. https://www.legeros.com/ralwake/photos/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=0844[10/14/2019 7:26:37 PM] Nine Months and 46 Years Later - Legeros Fire Blog Archives 2006-2015 Legeros Fire Blog Archives 2006-2015 - Nine Months and 46 Years Later « Airport EMS » Airport Calls Nine Months and 46 Years Later 04/21/07 518 W - + 13 - 15 Thus ends the Great Reading. This month Mike finished a research project of reading (or skimming) each day's newspaper between January 1, 1867 and December 31, 1912. Merely 16,801 days worth of newspapers including the Daily News, Daily Sentinel, Daily Standard, Daily Telegram, News & Observer, Observer, Raleigh News, Raleigh Times, and Weekly Standard. The papers were read on microfilm at Olivia Raney Local History Library (ORL) and usually on Monday and Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings. It was more skimming than reading, really, with only the local news sections studied carefully. And even then it was watching for the larger headlines and more obvious news items. The keywords, of course, were "fire" and "fire department" and "firemen." And with so much railroad activity at the time, there were plenty of false positives on the last one. Each year took between two and four hours to browse. (Though only two or sometimes three hours of browsing was possible at a single sitting. Eye strain.) The fewer articles to copy, the faster the browsing. Some 1,850 articles were scanned and subsequently printed at Kinkos. (The process of scanning and printing actually involved scanning the article as a JPEG image, saving the JPEG file to a flash drive, taking the flash drive home, copying the JPEG files to a computer, generating a Word document with the JPEG images displayed one per page, generating a PDF version of the Word document to submit to Kinkos, submitting the PDF document on the Kinkos site, picking up the printed pages at Kinkos, writing the date and newspaper name on each page, incorporating any notable facts from each page into the RFD history web pages, and merging each page with whatever article pages Mike already had.) The project was started after consuming a collection of newly donated research materials at ORL. These were the notes and papers of the great Wake County historian Elizabeth Reid Murray. They included boxes, plural, of Raleigh Fire Department information. Mike had volumes of information himself, but Ms. Murray's files had dozens and dozens of new dates and facts and references. And particularly about the hand- and horse-drawn era. See, for a couple years, Mike had been working on a "mini book" about the volunteer era of the Raleigh Fire Department. It covered 1880 to 1912, a span chosen at it matched Mike's research materials. He even released the first two chapters. Part 1 was posted to the blog in February 2006 and the Part 2 was posted to the blog in July 2006. Well, the discovery of the Murray Collection put a halt to that project. There was now additional source material to review and compile and incorporate. The new material included a number of newspaper dates, which sent Mike back to the microfilm machines. So, he started skimming articles in the 1880s and 1870s and late 1860s. And he soon found himself browsing entire years. Well, one thing led to another, and he just decided to keep reading. So eight months and 46 years later, he's learned more than he ever expected to learn about the volunteer era of the Raleigh Fire Department. To be continued. Name: (real name Remember personal info? preferred) Yes E-mail: (optional) No Web Site: (optional) Comment: / Textile Comment moderation is enabled on this site. This means that your comment will not be visible on this site until it has been approved by an editor. To prevent spam we require you to answer this silly question https://www.legeros.com/ralwake/photos/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=0845[10/14/2019 7:26:39 PM] Nine Months and 46 Years Later - Legeros Fire Blog Archives 2006-2015 What are the FIRST TWO LETTERS of the word 'fire'? (Register your username / Log in) Notify: Yes, send me email when someone replies.