InciNotes

10/20/2025

10/20/2025

Fire Engine 30 belonging to the San Diego Fire Department's Station 30, was stolen Saturday afternoon, according to the San Diego Fire Department.

10/19/2025

10/19/2025

Texas

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=122144998538710995&id=61571329861070

10/19/2025

https://fb.watch/CR08Gwzh1D/?mibextid=wwXIfr

10/19/2025

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10/19/2025

Check out the Great video: Playing with Fire. Follow the link⬇️
https://youtu.be/A6QfMdKCkzE?feature=shared

10/19/2025

Lithium battery ignites on Air China flight in mid air, horrifying passengers as flames burst out in cabin

Air China said in a post on Weibo that “a lithium battery in a passenger’s carry-on luggage stored in the overhead compartment spontaneously ignited.”

10/19/2025

Never Forgotten

WILDFIRE LINE OF DUTY DEATHS IN HISTORY
On this date in history October 19th, 1949 Firefighters David Keeney, Bruce Weatherbee and Rudy Gaub with Cal Fire (CDF) were involved in an apparatus accident in Butte County, California. Keeney died at the scene and Weatherbee and Gaub would die of their injuries in the following days at the hospital.

10/19/2025

It appears Texas is beginning to re-enter fire season. During the 2024 Smokehouse Creek Fire, Western Fire Resources fought fire in and around Canadian. After 2 days of firefighting, and saving at least 2 homes and 1 dog, we were instructed to stand down by Texas A&M Forest Service. The reason was a minor technicality in the way contracted resources can be compensated.

Texas A&M Forest Service has a no-interest 2-year loan to fund the use of Federally-contrected firefighting aircraft in between Legislative sessions. The fix is to simply amend this agreement to include ground resources as well.

In April 2024, we provided testimony at the Smokehouse Creek Fire Congressional Hearing as to how to fix this and make contracted wildland fire services available locally and throughout the state. Though the fix would have further encouraged private-sector investment in wildfire response, ultimately saving taxpayer money, and more importantly greatly increasing available initial attack capacity statewide, the Legislature failed to address this during the recent main and special sessions.

As a result, 3 engines, 1 water tender, 4 dozers, and 1 road grader that would otherwise be available for local response in and around Canadian, Texas, or statewide, will once again be stood down and not allowed to engage wildfires.

The solution to our wildfire problem is to involve all resources. We can no longer rely only on government alone.

10/19/2025

More than 50 million brace for tornadoes, destructive winds as fall storm pounds South

Warm, humid air surging north from the Gulf of Mexico collided with a powerful cold front sweeping through the nation’s midsection.