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We are regretfully announcing the sudden retirement of current Fire Chief as seen in the Daily News article here. Our highly revered and respected Fire Chief Mike Dutton “retired” after 10 years of faithful service to the Fort Walton Beach FD. Chief Dutton helped to continue in keeping the Fort Walton Beach FD a Dept. of “1st’s” (in many things) as it always has been, mostly by  implementing the 1st Advanced Life Support FD in the county along with the 2 man special Rescue truck in the downtown district. Chief you will be missed.

   In other news The FWB Firefighters regret to announce that, along with Chief Dutton, went the county special operations unit and it’s assetts. FWBFD is no longer in the position to staff and or operate the unit as effectively as under Chief Dutton’s previous leadership. Chief Dutton was instrumental on bringing that unit to the city and participated heavily on it’s operation even on the state level. Again his lack of participation with that vital assett prompted the removal of the unit from our headquarters. It is now stationed @ OCWFCD St-2. FWBFD members are committed to continue to participate in the truck operations county wide and beyond.

A-Shift T-6 & R-6 responded to an occupied dwelling in the early morning of Feb 26th. Unfortunately heavy fire was through the roof upon arrival of FWBFD companies. A story of the fire from the Daily News here Photo care of Daily News. More to come…

Conditions shortly after arrival

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A Shift gets working structure fire first due. E-7 arrived to find heavy involvement of a small house off of Green Acres Rd. Check out the links of the Daily News story here

This is a graphic intense video(use discretion around young viewers) of the resulting horrors of drunk driving. For everyone’s sake this Christmas if you drink please call a cab. We see this all too often…

E-1, E-7, E-3 and others managed a working structure at appx. 300am last shift in OCW E-1′s first due area. E-1 arrived with moderate smoke showing in a 2k sq. ft dwelling. Upon interior investigation a fire was discovered luckily nobody was home at the time and the house was saved. E-7 was able to assist with search and truck work. Good stop by E-1!

A busy couple of shifts for the “A” lately. Last shift on the 1st T-6 & R-6 were dispatched to a cardiac arrest. The pt. was found in full cardiac arrest, unresponsive, by arriving crews and due to paramedic medicine coupled with quick actions by both crews a pulse was recovered and the man was able to make it to the cath lab at FWBMC.

Later that evening at dinner time T-6 was alerted to a structure fire on the far west end of our district(OCW E-3 & MEFD E-11 1st due) and arrived on scene to do some truck work, venting windows, forcing doors, securing utilities, and conducting a search. Luckily everyone got out of the house safely and E-3 made quick knock down of the bedroom fire. Check out the photos on NWF Daily News here

First thing this morning at shift change once again T-6 was alerted for a structure fire in OCW’ss 1st due area behind the autozone on Racetrack road for a working townhouse fire. T-6 arrived and was assigned rapid intervention, ventilation, and search for hidden fire on the 3rd floor. OCW E-1 made a great stop on the fire with help from Eglin FD. Check the story and photos from the NWF Daily News here

The boys from the “A” are challenging the other shifts, surrounding firefighters, and all our friends to a friendly “stache bash”.

Check out the facebook page below and join up now!

Stachetoberfest

Negotiations for this years contract are done and over with for this year. It was agreed by the Firefighters, staff, & city management to renew a 3 year contract basically status quo idea being protecting the manning on the fire engines first and foremost. Firefighters and staff have worked diligently to educate city council of the importance of maintaining our staffing here at the FWBFD. There will be no raises for the upcoming year( and for some time) as we try and work with the city to continue to provide the very best care and essential services meanwhile keeping men & women on the trucks for safe work environments. Thanks to the hard work of the E-Board, city management, & council we will continue the very best fire service in the south county!

Attention all residents and business owners withing the City limits of FWB.

Make sure to attend our local budget meetings to express your support of the current agenda-ed budget in order to keep our emergency services intact!

Special Council–Budget

Wednesday, September 08 2010, 5:30pm

5:30 pm

Location : Council Chambers

B-shift had a working structure fire in a motel room downtown a few days ago. Upon dispatch it was reported that multiple victims were entrapped. Upon arrival of Bat-6 heavy fire was reported from one room. T-6 made a quick knock on this single room fire and confined it to the room of origin while R-6 forced adjacent doors and alerted occupants of the emergency. A second alarm was called and brought E-7 down to help with overhaul. Thanks to OCW E-3, OIFD E-4, MEFD E-11 for their help.

More photos and video soon!

NICEVILLE — A contractor working near a manhole fell into it Monday morning at around 11 a.m.

A group of 15 Okaloosa County special operations firefighters(FWBFD A-shift), trained in confined space rescue, assisted Niceville firefighters in the 45-minute rescue. The man was eventually removed from the hole via another underground exit by FF Morgan & FF Corrigan.

The man injured his ankle in the 20-foot fall and was taken to Twin Cities Hospital.

Also last shift T-6 had a small car fire and managed to get a couple of photos…

C-shift Truck 2, Engine 7, Battalion 1 and Battalion 6 responded to a MVA at the interesection of 189 and 85 near Eglins main gate. A sandrail/dune buggy was approaching the intersection when the light changed and his brakes failed. This resulted in a T-bone collision with the sandrail driver suffering a broken leg and becoming trapped in the vehicle. The crews utilized the sawzall to cut away the bars to free the occupant who received ALS care while still in the vehicle.

C-shift downtown crews rescued one of our feline customers today…Daily News ran the story here.

No job too big or small for our City Firefighters!

FF Dan Corrigan

FF Crystal Adams

Last 2 shifts have been busy ones with working dwelling fires on both the B & the A. E-7 & T-6 both assisted OCW on the B fire which was a commercial occupancy fire and the A which was a residential dwelling & just so happened to be during last nights City budget meeting. Check out the story’s below:

B-Shift commercial

A shift Dwelling