Firemen Volunteer In Florida
When the Florida Emergency Management Agency requested
assistance in extinguishing the brush fires running rampant through
the state recently, the NIH Fire Department was ready to help. Fire
fighters (from l) Lt. Trevoir Forrester, Paul Donaldson, Lt.
Christopher Mattingly, and Thomas Kellum volunteered through the
Maryland Emergency Management Agency to assist in putting out
the fires. On July 7, the group, joined by Southern Maryland fire
fighters, drove to Florida in the NIH Fire Department's pickup truck.
This "convoy" worked in the forests every day, while taking meals
and resting in a shelter across the street from Daytona International
Raceway. Despite intense humidity, the mediocre facilities of the
local fire department, and the menace of dead, burned-out trees
falling over, the volunteers' efforts were successful enough for them
to return on July 16, 3 days earlier than originally expected, said
team members.
The firemen worked hard to prevent scenes like below, left. Many homes were lost as brush fires swept from woods to residential neighborhoods.
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