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“If you want to be a clown” Remembering Roanoke City’s Chief Billy Obenchain
The following poem is read at the beginning of every Roanoke City Recruit School and has become the unofficial creed of the Roanoke Fire / EMS Department. “If you want to be a clown, you’d better be...
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Early photos … Roanoke’s Bravest battle house fire and a lot of catching up..
Yea … I’m alive and I know that I have a lot of catching up to do. All the “expressions” fit …. Busy as “a one legged man in an ass kicking contest” .. as ”a cat covering up sh**” …. a ” two ….ummm …...
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Back to the grind stone and another “Trick of the Trade”
Well, 4 day is over and it’s back to the ol grind stone at Lucky #13. This last break BLEW by and I mean that literally. The winds have been between 40-50 mph this week! I’ve already lost one barn to...
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Back to duty ….
Well, vacation is over and I’m back to duty. I was kinda hoping for a slow day but in the Fire Department, that’s always a gamble. Our Battalion Chief is off on vacation this cycle (Sat, Mon, Wed) so...
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If you Want to be a clown ….Remembering our fallen and another LODD in...
photo from Roanokefirefighters.com Sadly, reports are in of another Line Of Duty Death (LODD) in Massachusetts. Brother James “Jim” Rice , an 11 year veteran of the Peabody Massachusetts Fire...
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Going to the funeral isn’t enough ….
Follow IronFiremen.com on Face Book, Click HERE and “Like” Rhett wrote a post back in June of 2011. The title was ” Go to the funeral … you OWE it to them ” (click the title for a link to the post)....
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Messing with the “Po Po”, Company Pride and a fire kicking Ass!
I know I’m behind on posting but I’ve been trying to get things squared away in preparation for Rhett and I hitting the road again this weekend. I’m VERY excited. We will be speaking at a Fire...
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