Suffolk Fire and Rescue meets several fires

Suffolk, Va. (Wavy) – it was a busy weekend for Suffolk Fire and Rescue. The crews have worked four fires in the last 48 hours, including two brush fire, a landfill fire and a duplex fire in the Bute Street.

Firefighters in station 1 in Suffolk were occupied, but everyone remains ready to react to the next call.

While 10 were there on their side, we saw that in action.

“So we are lucky enough to have two equipment rates that the department issued us. So if you come back from a call with Dirty Gear, make your second heel and make it prepared, ”said Capt. Travis Saunders.

All hands were the engines on the deck and ensured that their uniforms were clean.

“We never know what we will get, but as soon as we return to the train station, it's pretty much all hands on deck. So we will help each other to clean the rig, wash a hose, to pack the hose and to get back into service for our next call, ”said Michael Thomas, Master Firefighter and paramedic.

Suffolk Fire and Rescue were ready to go and reacted to successive calls.

“It is definitely exhausting, physically exhausting and mentally exhausting for the boys and girls in the department,” said captain Travis Saunders.

“It was a very windy day, the complicated things. Wind -driven fires definitely offer us problems. So they had a very exhausting day, ”said captain Travis Saunders.

In the early Sunday morning, the crews responded to the reputation of reports on smoke and fire at a landfill. From a brush to landfills, Capt. Saunders too that both are difficult.

“You cannot use the apparatus in certain places, so you have to stretch your long hose to reach the fire, and then the residences are the same: different constructions, different layouts, different streets,” said capt. Travis Saunders.

The crews cleared the scene of the landfill fire shortly before 10 a.m. on Sunday.

After the fire of the landfill, Suffolk Fire and Rescue had a house fire in the button Street, which replaced 8 people.

“We had caught crews, changed bottles and did not even pay off their facial facility and went inside again to fight the fire,” said captain Travis Saunders.

Even with a hard weekend, SFR says that all firefighters are always ready to help the community.

“We train for such things,” said captain Travis Saunders.