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This report comes, in its entirety, from the CalFire website
CROTCH FIRE!! CalFire Reports the Facts
July 25th, 2008
Groin fire Incident - Men sentenced
Posted: 25 Jul 2008 01:54 AM CDT
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., July 21 (CFN) — Two Men sentenced in groin fire case
Summary - Groin fire - Basic Information
Incident Type: Crotch fire
Location: Elliot Tuleja’s crotch located somewhere in the San Luis Obispo area
Cause: Crotch fire as a joke Jan. 18
Injuries: Tuleja was treated for serious burns to his groin area
Charges: The two California men were charged for crotch arson and ordered to spend time behind bars for setting a friend’s groin area on fire as a joke, officials said.
Convicted: Matthew Craig Pillers, 22, and Jack Brent Nicholas Keiffer, 19, did not contest felony charges of causing a fire that led to great bodily injury, court officials said.
Planned actions: Pillers was ordered Thursday to spend two years in state prison after turning down a sentence of 270 days in County jail with a probation period.
Pillers said he would rather go to prison than be on parole and probation simultaneously.
Keiffer was ordered to spend 45 days in a county jail, 100 hours of community service and substance abuse education, prosecutors said.
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MISSION STATEMENT
The United States Wildland Firefighters Associations mission shall be to work on behalf of it's Wildland Firefighter and support personnel membership and to enhance their careers by
Listening to our members and understanding those issues which are important to them.
Assisting individual members in resolving employment issues.
Supporting legislation at the national,state and local level which furthers our member interests.
Speaking out on behalf of our members and promoting the honor and integrity of our profession.
*******************************************This report comes, in its entirety, from the CalFire website
CROTCH FIRE!! CalFire Reports the Facts
July 25th, 2008
Groin fire Incident - Men sentenced
Posted: 25 Jul 2008 01:54 AM CDT
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., July 21 (CFN) — Two Men sentenced in groin fire case
Summary - Groin fire - Basic Information
Incident Type: Crotch fire
Location: Elliot Tuleja’s crotch located somewhere in the San Luis Obispo area
Cause: Crotch fire as a joke Jan. 18
Injuries: Tuleja was treated for serious burns to his groin area
Charges: The two California men were charged for crotch arson and ordered to spend time behind bars for setting a friend’s groin area on fire as a joke, officials said.
Convicted: Matthew Craig Pillers, 22, and Jack Brent Nicholas Keiffer, 19, did not contest felony charges of causing a fire that led to great bodily injury, court officials said.
Planned actions: Pillers was ordered Thursday to spend two years in state prison after turning down a sentence of 270 days in County jail with a probation period.
Pillers said he would rather go to prison than be on parole and probation simultaneously.
Keiffer was ordered to spend 45 days in a county jail, 100 hours of community service and substance abuse education, prosecutors said.
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This case has finally brought some closure for alot of us in the wildland fire family. And it is my hope that the families of our five brave men who died on that October day Will finally have some peace and closure in their lives.
This fire...
I KNOW THAT SAN JOSE OFFERED TO HAVE A WAGE FREEZE SO TO HELP THE CITY.
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HISTORY OF THE FIRE PLUG
Here is the story of the fire plug. Back before even horses pulled the steamers, and a set of irons meant taking your vitamins, the term fire plug was born. In the cities, the earliest water mains were made of hollowed out logs. I have seen the remnants of these under the streets of my own city (Winston Salem, which was founded by the Moravians).
The call went out for a fire, and the fire fighters rushed to the scene with their great new hand pumper. There only PPE was a helmet and a bucket. The buckets were required by law to be in each and every home and business and maintained by the owners. When fire fighters arrived they had to know the location of the water mains. They had to frantically dig a hole down to the main. They then took an auger and bored a hole in the water main and allowed the hole to fill with water. Then the hard suction pump went in, priming was done, and water would flow.
By then all that was left of the original burning building was the chimney, front steps, and foundation. But a lot of work would be done to keep the fire from spreading to other structures.
When it was all done they had to stop the water. So a wooden plug was fashioned and driven into the bored hole with a wood mallet. Today our mallets are hard rubber, the pumpers driven to the scene, but we still fight the red devil with the wet stuff.
Stay safe
Here is the story of the fire plug. Back before even horses pulled the steamers, and a set of irons meant taking your vitamins, the term fire plug was born. In the cities, the earliest water mains were made of hollowed out logs. I have seen the remnants of these under the streets of my own city (Winston Salem, which was founded by the Moravians).
The call went out for a fire, and the fire fighters rushed to the scene with their great new hand pumper. There only PPE was a helmet and a bucket. The buckets were required by law to be in each and every home and business and maintained by the owners. When fire fighters arrived they had to know the location of the water mains. They had to frantically dig a hole down to the main. They then took an auger and bored a hole in the water main and allowed the hole to fill with water. Then the hard suction pump went in, priming was done, and water would flow.
By then all that was left of the original burning building was the chimney, front steps, and foundation. But a lot of work would be done to keep the fire from spreading to other structures.
When it was all done they had to stop the water. So a wooden plug was fashioned and driven into the bored hole with a wood mallet. Today our mallets are hard rubber, the pumpers driven to the scene, but we still fight the red devil with the wet stuff.
Stay safe
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