ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY
ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY - 75 years ago today on April 28, 1941 - The large forest fire that occurred in Marlow and Stoddard. In 1941, the infamous Marlow-Stoddard fire burned 24,000 acres during the last three days of April before a freak May 1 snowfall extinguished the blaze. The fire started at a Marlow sawmill engaged in sawing some of the 500 million board feet of lumber salvaged statewide from the four billion board feet of pine timber blown-down during the '38 hurricane. The Marlow-Stoddard fire was the largest fire to feed on the fuel of hurricane debris.
ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY
ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY - 23 years ago today - Roadhouse Restaurant fire on Route 100 N in Wilmington. Multiple towns helped fight the fire.
BUSY WEEK FOR OUR DISPATCH CENTER
From April 17, 2016 through April 26, 2016 at 0600 hours, the dispatch center dispatched 558 incidents. These ranged from medical calls to multiple alarm brush and structure fires throughout our system and beyond that we sent help mutual aid. The multiple alarm fires add even more of a work load to the dispatch center then what the 558 incidents show because we are dispatching multiple towns to the same incident. The week was one of the busiest in recent times. Some of the larger fires require a great amount of "behind the scenes" work to plan out the resources that can be sent. Many times we had to plan resources for different multiple alarm brush fires. We also need to make sure that there are resources available and in service and placed strategically around our system geographically. I have a great amount of respect and admiration for our dispatchers who all performed professionally and methodically and never once missed a beat with the work load presented to them. We also had dispatchers manning a Field Comm. Trailer provided by Cheshire County Sheriff's Department in Stoddard for the brush fires.My sincere thanks to all of them! MAC-3, Deputy Chief Redin
HOW IMPORTANT IS MUTUAL AID
Mutual Aid given and received. Just an example of how important mutual aid has been this past week.
Putney covering West Weathersfield Vt yesterday. Photo by Eric McGowan.
Wilton and Milford staging in Peterborough last week during the brush fires in Stoddard. Photo by Brett French.
STODDARD FOREST FIRE 4/21/2016
Some photos of the forest fire in Stoddard on 4/21/2016. Photos by Colby Howard.
WESTMORELAND HOUSE FIRE 4/21/2016
Route 63 at Butterfield Hill Rd. Photos by Bob Bartlett.
ANNUAL MEETING & GUEST SPEAKER BOSTON FIRE COMMISSIONER FINN
The annual meeting of the Southwestern New Hampshire District Fire Mutual Aid system will be held April 20th at the Best Western Hotel on Winchester Street in Keene, NH. A display of apparatus will be held at 1730. Guest speaker, Boston Fire Commissioner Joseph Finn will do a presentation on the 2014 Beacon Street 9 alarm fire where 2 Boston firefighters died in the line of duty. The presentation will start at 1830. The annual business meeting will start promptly at 1930. Light refreshments will be available.Please try to attend this worthwhile presentation and our annual meeting. All personnel are invited, not just fire chiefs and fire officers.
FIREFIGHTER SAFETY/PPE/SCBA CLASS
STODDARD FOREST FIRE 4/17/2016
As seen from Pitcher Mt. Fire Tower. Photo by Keene Sentinel Photographer Michael Moore.