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Comment on Of Fire Tower & Volunteers by New England’s Fire Service Heritage: Fire Lookout Towers « New England F/R/EMS News Notes

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:17:12 +0000

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Comment on Ah, I’m liking this new PPE by M303871

M303871 — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:05:18 +0000

I don’t think that picture is from the Kent fire

Comment on A few tidbits on the old Connecticut Fire Crews by KEVIN GRADY

KEVIN GRADY — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:12:41 +0000

DEP iNTERSTATE CREW WAS FIRST MOBILIZED DURING THE 1979 FIRE SEASON (2 TRIPS-WASHINTON STATE,CALIF.). DIDN’T GO AGAIN UNTIL 1985 (BIG SUR). AGAIN IN 1986(OREGON),THEN 1987(OREGON), AND YES ,YELLOWSTONE IN’88 (WENT WITH NEW YORK AS A STRIKE TEAM). DIDN’T NEED TO GO TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR (TO FILL OUT CREWS) UNTILTHE EARLY 90′S. CREW REMAINS ABOUT 50% PRIVATE SECTOR FOLKS TO THIS DAY. DEP ALSO WAS ABLE TO GET SOME INDIVIDUALS SPECIALIZED TRAINING OVER THE YEARS AND THEY NOW GET INDIVIDUALOVERHEAD ASSIGNMENTS ON WESERN FIRES (STRIKE TEAM LEADERS,DIVISION SUPERVISORS, HELITACK, ETC.

Comment on Groton, MA Fires 8/31 by logicalfirefighter

logicalfirefighter — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:49:08 +0000

there is no fire bug..its dry….plain and simple

Comment on Of Fire Tower & Volunteers by The Wooden Nutmeg » Esocheag, RI Fire Tower

The Wooden Nutmeg » Esocheag, RI Fire Tower — Sun, 02 May 2010 01:19:02 +0000

[...] show me that they are cost effective. There are some volunteer staffing programs around the nation (see this post), and it makes me wonder if you compromised with the State maintaining the towers and retired (but [...]

Comment on Meanwhile during the 1942 Conn / RI fire complex… by The Wooden Nutmeg » Last few days of April, 1942

The Wooden Nutmeg » Last few days of April, 1942 — Sun, 02 May 2010 00:01:39 +0000

[...] smaller brush fires in the region that were proving difficult to extinguish due to re-kindles (see this post), there were at least two very large forest fires burning in Eastern Connecticut in the days before [...]

Comment on Massachusetts downsizing Bureau of Forest Fire Control by The Wooden Nutmeg » More on Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control Staffing

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:51:38 +0000

[...] Following up on this earlier post. [...]

Comment on History: Various notes on the 1942 Sterling / Coventry Fire by admin

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:46:16 +0000

Some more interesting leads on LaCasse to follow up:

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May 15, 1942 – LaCasse, the father of one child, to two buildings in Plainficld on Jan. 19, 1941, and April 5, 194′.’.. The warrant accused him starting a fire in a barn onApril ‘?1 and two land fires on April 30, and attempting to start three land fires on 10 in Sterling and Plainfield. …
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May 23, 1942 – Arsonist Begins j Long Prison Term I ( trom P.icr I.) ! which LaCasse was sentenced after he ple.ided RUiliy did not concern! forest [ires. They were for setting! with loss of S14.000, nnd another: fire to a crain storage nnd railroad I station building In Plainfield in January. …
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Comment on History: Various notes on the 1942 Sterling / Coventry Fire by admin

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:37:26 +0000

More information:

LaCasse served nine years in Connecticut prison, after which he was sent for trial in Rhode Island:

Putnam Man Leaves Jail Faces Rhode Island Trial
The Hartford Courant (1923-1984) – Hartford, Conn.
Date: May 8, 1951
Start Page: 6
Pages: 1
Text Word Count: 73

accused of setting the Rhode Island-Connecticut forest fires of 1942. ‘ Judge Robert E. Quinn of Superior Court ordered the tests after Lacasse had pleaded nolo to eight indictments charging statutory burning. Lacasse was returned here after serving nine years in Connecticut for …

Comment on Incident: Alton, NH Christian Conference Center by The Wooden Nutmeg » Alton, NH firefighter arrested for arson

The Wooden Nutmeg » Alton, NH firefighter arrested for arson — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:17:10 +0000

[...] he is not accused currently in the large fire that claimed 40 cottages in Alton, NH last April, which was called in originally as a brush fire, an Alton Firefighter has been charged with four [...]