Friday, March 18, 2005

THE FIRST MEDICS

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Paramedics - 1970s Vintage Ambulance Vintage Ambulance Roughly three-quarters of all runs for today's Arlington County Fire ...

IN THE LINE OF DUTY

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UPDATED AUGUST 2008 Firefighters struggle to reach Capt. Archie Hughes Hughes Theodore Miller More than 40 years ago, an Arlington County ...
Friday, February 11, 2005

PENTAGON FIRE - 1959

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UPDATED JULY 2015 Scenes from 1959 Pentagon fire : Smoke pushing from basement; Capt. Charles Theodore and a soot-covered Capt. Leon ...

DARING ROPE RESCUES

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On June 11, 1959, a game of Cowboys and Indians ended for 12-year-old Bobby Saunders with a plunge into a deep hole at a construction site i...

DAYS OF DISASTER - 1949 & 1982

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Recovery of Air Florida wreckage By Vinny Del Giudice Editor, Arlington Fire Journal In 1949 and 1982, airliners crashed into the Potomac Ri...

HIGH RISE INCIDENTS

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1973 Skyline Disaster - Bailey's Crossroads Retired Fire Captain Robert Cuff used to joke that up until the 1980s, Arlington was just...

TANKER ABLAZE! - 2004

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Arlington County firefighters battled a spectacular petroleum tanker fire and explosion near the Pentagon before dawn on Dec. 22, 2004, and ...

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS - 1928 & 1970

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Tragedy struck long ago on the banks of the Potomac River, near an amusement park called Arlington Beach. The park, which featured swimming,...

MUTUAL AID

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Runaway train at Union Station - 1953 DC Riots - 1968 Historic mutual aid runs to Washington, DC: Fisher's Night - 1928 Fir...

FIRES AT RADIO ARLINGTON

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Fire department records from the 1920s and 1930s list a variety of fire alarms at Radio, Virginia – a neighborhood named for the old U.S. ...

DECADE BY DECADE

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UPDATED MAY 2008 Murphy's Five and Dime - 1968 SUPERMARKET FIRE – 1953 Two hours after closing on Feb. 21, 1953, fire swept the S...