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Recent Events of Interest  The Buies Creek Fire Department
regretfully announces the passing of Eddie Wood on July 25, 2008.
Eddie was a part-time firefighter for Buies Creek for the past five
years. Eddie was also a full-time paid member of Erwin Fire
Rescue. Eddie had 20 plus years service in the fire rescue field
including service in Wake, Johnston, Wayne, and Harnett Counties.
Funeral services are at Rose and Graham Funeral Home on Monday 7-28
@ 11:oo am. Eddie is survived by his mother, brother, and 2
daughters. Please keep his family in your prayers. Buies
Creek Fire Rescue is thankful for Eddies service and friendship.
Eddie touched many lives in his years of service and will surely be
missed by all.
             March 11th At 1213 hrs Erwin (district 5) requested B-875 respond mutual aid for a working woods fire at 1 Crab Apple Ln. Our brush truck responded with 2 personnel and were told to drive through a ditch which resulted in our truck becoming a stationary water pump. The boys did well, they stopped the fire spread on that side then when the fire was out they got a gentle tug out of the ditch using the winch on one of the engines at the scene. They were at the fire for about 1 1/2 hrs. Units on response: BCVFD B-875 EFD E-541, E-546, E-542 CGFD B-671 March 7th BCVFD units were called to 685 Main St. for a gas/odor investigation. E-822 arrived on scene & had residents complaining of their Carbon Monoxide detector going off. Units investigated situation and nothing was found using the fire department's 4-gas monitor as well as the CO monitor. IC (805) cancelled any other units and spoke with the residents about the situation. All units cleared after 35 minutes. Units on response: BCVFD E-822, E-842, A-851 Harnett County EMS M-6 February 28th Another structure fire at 0125 hrs we were called to 134 Country Meadow Ln. Units arrived to find fire in the kitchen. Fire was quickly contained and units returned to service after 1 1/2 hrs. Units on response: BCVFD E-821, E-842, E-841, R-881, A-852 CGFD E-641 Harnett County EMS-3 February 27th Around 1630 hrs our pagers sounded for a residential structure fire at 135 Randall Ln. BCVFD officer 808 checked en route to the scene and arrived to find single wide mobile home with a working fire in the kitchen. E-821 arrived and pulled a 1 3/4" pre-connect line. By the time they got to the fire it had died in size. 808 had shut the oven door and shut the front door to cut off the air supply which pretty much stopped the fire. Fire personnel ventilated the structure and turned scene over to property owner. All units cleared after 1 hour. Units on response: BCVFD E-821, E-822, E-841, E-842, R-881, B-875, A-852 CGFD E-641 Harnett County Fire Marshall #5 Harnett County EMS M-6 Harnett County Sheriff's Office February 17th Around 1500 hrs Buies Creek firefighters were alerted to a residential structure fire in our Auto-aid area with Lillington fire department at 600 W. Old Rd. E-842 responded with 5 members & was the 4th due company. C-763 checked on scene with smoke showing from the eves. Chief 701 established command and had units continue emergency traffic. E-741 crew located source of fire which was a electrical outlet. E-842 crew arrived in time to assist with a little bit of ventilation before being released. Units on response: LFD E-741, E-742, E-743, R-781, C-763 BCVFD E-842 Harnett County EMS M-4 February 15th BCVFD received a report of a residential structure fire at 1501 Chesterfield Lake Rd. at 1418 hrs. 806 arrived on scene and cancelled all units. The fire was from a propane company burning off unused fuel in a 1,000 gallon LP tank. All units returned to service. February 10th At 2314 hrs BCVFD was dispatched to a small grass fire in the 2000 block of Oak Grove Church Rd. B-875 & E-841 responded. B-875 marked on scene of 2 small working grass fires beside the road 800 established command & advised that B-875 & E-841 could handle same. Units extinguished the fire & cleared February 10th       Shortly after 1200 hours today BCVFD was struck out for a grass fire on Neils Creek Rd. at Wendy Ln. B-875 was the 1st unit to arrive and found a large broom straw field on fire being pushed by extremely high winds in the first few minutes of the call the fire spread from 4 acres to 10. 805 established command and requested mutual aid from District 7 (Lillington) and 11 (Summerville) for engines and brush trucks. E-841 was 2nd due and assisted in the black with fire attack on the fires flanks. E-821 & E-842 were 3rd due and set up water supplyon the roadway using the hydrant adjacent to the fire's location. E-743 & B-1171 arrived and were put to work assisting E-841 & E-875 on the North side of the fire. 808 had personnel stretch 400' of 1" forestry hose connected via gated wye to 400' of 2 1/2" hose off E-821 to prevent any fire spread on the South side of the fire. Forestry 1 arrived and had the helicopter assist, but the bird experienced mechanical problems with the drop doors on the water tank. The tractor plowwas brought in to help contain the fire. Afteran 1 1/2 hours units were diverted to Johnson Farm Rd. to set up structure protection since the fire was still being fueled by high winds and was racing to the East. The plow was put in the woods and had difficulty connecting the plow lines due to a swampy area in the woods. This resulted in the fire jumping the line 2 times.At 1545 hrs District 9 (Angier) was requested and they brought E-943 & B-971 to assist, District 5 (Erwin) was moved up to our station to provide coverage. At 1600 hrs District 6 (Coats-Grove) was requested for additional manpower at the scene. The Harnett County Mobile Command Post also arrived at that time and command operations were moved inside there. The fire jumped the plow line the final time at 1615 hours and units were moved to protect 2 houses and several barns where the fire burned right up to them. The 2nd forestry plow arrived at 1800 hrs and the fire was finally contained at 2045 hrs. All mutual aid was released at 2100 hrs and the last BCVFD unit at 2130 hrs. The fire burned 82 acres and endangered 3 houses and 8 barns. Thanks to the 57 firefighters who responded and the neighboring departments for all you help. Also during this call we ran 6 other grass fires and smoke investigations, but there was nothing major on those. Units on response: BCVFD E-821, E-822, E-841, E-842, B-875, R-881, A-852 LFD E-743, U-785 SVFD B-1171 ABRFD E-943, B-971 CGFD U-685 EFD E-541 Forestry 1, 4 and 2 plows Harnett County FM-6, FM-1 w/ Command Post 1 Harnett County EMS-3 Harnet County Sheriff's Department January 14th Tonight the BCVFD Board of Directors approved the truck commitees recommendation to purchase a replacement for truck 841. The new 841 will be a KME International 7400 commercial chassis. It will feature the KME Challenger body with full size compartments similar to E-822. The committee went with a 1250 gpm Hale pump. BCVFD looks forward to the delivery of the new engine late this summer January 13th At 0504 hours Buies Creek Volunteer Fire & Rescue 1st & 2nd duty responded to the Sheriff Johnson Rd. with cross streets of Main St. & Mitchell Rd. for a single vehicle MVA. 805 on-scene establish command & advised 2 patients with a possible trauma one, then he requested Life Flight. 851, 852, EMS-3 handled patient care district 6 was cancelled by command. Fire units assisted with patients and set up traffic control. Command held 822 to assist with lights for SHP investigation. 851 met Duke Life Flight at Betsy Johnson Regional Medical Center to fly out their patient, 852 delivered 2nd patient to ER staff at BJRMC. Units on response: BCVFD 851, 852, 822, 881, 875 Harnett County EMS-3 CGVFD 651 |
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