Fast Moving Brush Fire Threatens Homes                            

A warm Saturday Afternoon got a little tense for some residents in the Orange Blossom Estates Area. A stiff breeze fanned flames and pushed a fire quickly to about three archers before firefighters gained ground on it. Units from West Sebring, De Soto City, The City of Sebring, Sun N Lakes, and Florida Department of forestry spent all afternoon mopping up the area that flared up a few times through Monday Afternoon; no houses were damaged during the incident. More information about Saturdays Fire Can be found on The Highlands Today Online at http://www2.highlandstoday.com/news/highlands-news/2012/may/13/firefighters-fight-two-saturday-fires-ar-403266/ .

Pictures by Firefighter Max Sherwood

Firefighters Participating: John Muha, Zach Muha, Matt Muha, Truman Bush, Luis Rodriguez

FF Matt Muha uses the JAWS of life

As we shared in previous articles training is the number two priority at West Sebring and only falls number two behind operating safely the way we train. Keeping with our goals and priority’s five more of West Sebring Firefighters just finished a 40 hour class in Vehicle Extrication. The class sponsored and taught by Highlands County Fire Services was designed to cover the basics in safety at an accident scene, stabilization, and extrication.  Utilizing both classroom and hands on training to include basic hand tools, air bags, stabilizing struts and hydraulic tools.

This class was great class, our members had a great time and learned a lot. It was a great chance to go out and practice the skill we were learning and now we are better trained to assist our citizens on the ever busy highways of Highlands County.

A Junk Yard Care after the training begins.

A school bus on the top of a car for training

Responding Departments: The West Sebring, Leisure Lakes, De Soto City, Sun 'N Lakes North, Sun 'N Lakes South, Highlands Lakes, Lake Placid, Placid Lakes, and Highlands Park volunteer fire departments, and the Highlands County Fire Service

Photo courtesy of Rhonwen Gavagni a Highlands Park Firefighter

 who was flying over the Fire Sunday Morning.

 Sunday morning brought another tough day of chasing fires around Highlands County, Units from all around the county worked all afternoon to contain several brush fires and a residential structure fire in the Lake Placid area.

Residents are again reminded that we are in an extremely dry time and that we must all participate in keep our community safe. More information about this can be found at www.Firewise.org .

For more information about these calls visit the News Sun or Highlands Today Online, links provided.

http://www.newssun.com/041812-ct-Wild-fires

SOLD!!!

A few weeks ago we reported that the decision had been made to sell Engine 11. West Sebring selected the services of Firetech.com to advertise the sale. From the initial posting of the it took less then 36 days to sell the truck. Chief Mann wanted to thank Firetech.com, Troy Volunteer Fire Department who purchased the truck.