Today Engine 8 on Huger street celebrated their 100 anniversary of service today. Current members and former members were on hand today to celebrate and to remember their times in the "Ghost house" What a great day in the Charleston Fire Department as we take time to reflec...
The Charleston Firefighter Association plans to donate $500.00 dollars to a Parkinson's disease charitable organization in the very near future. We want to show our administration and all of our citizens that we stand by our chief and will support him as much as we are able too. Chief Carr has...
Charleston Fire Chief Thomas Carr knew he had Parkinson's disease when he took the job in November 2008, but he felt it wouldn't stop him from helping a fire department struggling to rebuild after it lost nine of its own.
Charleston Fire Chief Thomas Carr
Carr, 56, revealed his battle with t...
Brothers, and Sisters,
I would like to extend a very Merry Christmas and a healthy, safe,and profitable New Year from my family to yours.
This past year we have accomplished a lot ,and have much more work to do. Together we were able to negotiate the furloughs with the administration th...
Yesterday you received an email from the mayor citing the city’s budget situation for next year and the need for employees to assume some of the burden through the use of furlough days. The mayor left the timing of the implementation of the furloughs of fire fighters to the fir...
