Comments on: Byrneville Home Destroyed In Early Morning Fire

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:35:39 +0000

actually that’s still a Bluff Springs home despite the name of the road, the name just means it goes to Byrneville

By: Sandra

Sandra — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:38:53 +0000

Boy you folks are kinda touchy. I’m a professional firefighter and was once a volunteer firefighter. We tend to play with each other when we burn one down and yes even the pro’s are chimney savers now and then. I have many friends that are volunteers and am proud of them and what they do. Prayers to the occupants of the house and xanex to everyone else.

By: just peachy

just peachy — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:05:32 +0000

Did you know that fire departments are rated not only according to their training programs, but by how many structures they save? This one counts against them even though they had no chance of saving the structure. That means you pay more for your home insurance if it is located in your fire department’s radius. Support your local fire dept.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:11:48 +0000

another help would be a smoke detector which would loudly alarm for a minute or two and then dial 9 1 1 and a recorded message would be “A smoke detector at this address has sounded for two minutes without being reset. It is possible a fire is happening and nobody is home or conscious.”

That would help in cases where people are gone to work, on vacation, at church or too incapacitated to move.

Send the royalties on the device to William

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:07:37 +0000

REGARDING:
“The house was completely involved when the first firefighters arrived on scene. The brick home was gutted by the blaze.”

You can’t fix what you don’t know is broke.

If you don’t know a house is on fire, you can’t put out the fire.

Years back I heard sirens coming down the road. A friend asked,”what’s that mean.”

“It means somebody’s house just burned down.”

Then it turned into our neighbor’s property.

I was wrong, it was their car which had just burned up. This is also hard to avoid when you have fuel lines and a fuel pump feeding a fire, not their fault.

One the other hand, you can not count the number of houses the fire department has saved because you don’t know how many would have burned up had they not put out the grass and woods fires before they got to your house.

That counts too.

Still, a solution to the fact nobody knows a fire is out of control would be nice. I propose infra red cameras on top of cell towers, scanning for heat signature of fires. For really good protection, add lasers for spectrographic analysis to identify fires with home based fuel such as vinyl.

Nobody has this so far, so talk someone into developing it.

David surrounded by fuel

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Wed, 05 May 2010 01:20:31 +0000

To Sandra: Maybe you should think before you write. This is in a rual area and at 3 am most people are a sleep. So thats why the heros were not able to save this house. They were not notifed in time. Hope the “Chimney Savers” never have to come to your house. These men and women put their lives in danger just to help out they are volunteers. More people should do things like this to help out. Thank God for them. So once again THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE!!!!!! Sorry to the family for the lost of their home.

By: The voice of common sense

The voice of common sense — Wed, 05 May 2010 01:12:13 +0000

Dang, I’m so sorry for your loss, Juanita.

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:05:51 +0000

I’m sorry for there lost hope someone in there area will help them…Don’t knock the firefighters if you have never been there

By: me

me — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:53:52 +0000

Chimney savers to the rescue!!!!

SERIOUSLY?!?!?!?!?
If you think you can do better, maybe you should go join your local volunteer fire department. Our firefighters did an outstanding job, considering this house was gone even before they got the call.

By: William

William — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:51:52 +0000

>> Sandra wrote: “Chimney savers to the rescue!!!!”

Really, I think our firefighters deserve more credit than that. I’m on scene at almost every house fire in North Escambia, and they work efficiently, professionally and normally are able to save a home or limit the amount of damage.

In this incident, no one in the neighborhood noticed the fire at 3:00 in the morning until the house was already a total loss. By the time someone called 911, it was way too late to save the house.