I heard Cencom dispatch Bourbon Fire to a Motor Vehicle Accident, aka MVA, on eastbound I-44 just west of the Bourbon Overpass around 11 am on January 23rd, so I grabbed my camera and drove up there. I came in on the North Service Road, but once I got just out of town, I saw that the black smoke, figured out this was going to be closer to the South Service Road, and drove over to the south side of the interstate. Turned out to be just west of Dillon Garage…Highway Patrol was on scene and one of the firefighters told me they believed this started as a pursuit that resulted in a collision with another vehicle, both the small truck and passenger car leaving the interstate, crossing the southside median, the South Service Road and then winding up in a yard.

Firefighters determined soon after this, that putting the truck fire out would require the use of foam, since the gasoline tank was obviously leaking and fueling the fire, so they set about hooking up the foam eductor system…

Rumor had it at the time, that the driver being pursued, bailed out of the vehicle and ran south away from the interstate on foot, additional officers were searching the area near Bourbon Lakes to find him. Medics worked on the other patient, who was further up on the bank of the yard just west of the accident scene, seen in the first photo above.

First video shows Bourbon Firefighters waiting for their high expansion foam eductor to mix in with the water to produce the bubbles…

AVI 60 MVA Rollover With Fire 217 MM EB 44 2023-102

Second video shows firefighters continuing to extinguish the fire with the high expansion foam hoseline…

AVI 60 MVA Rollover With Fire 217 MM EB 44 New Yrs Day 2023

The truck was carrying a couple of ladders on a rack in the bed, lost them while rolling several times as it came off the interstate….

Early on the morning of December 28th, 2022, Sullivan Fire District was dispatched to a Garage Fire at 414 Watson Road. I woke up and dressed for warmth, as it was bone chilling cold outside, and drove to the scene, arriving just ahead of Captain Ray Enloe`s crew in Pumper 854. Sullivan Police Officers were on scene when I got there, and I walked to the back of the residence where the resident was explaining that his pickup was inside the garage, that was well involved with heavy smoke coming from the building….

Ray`s crew arrived soon after and approached from the west side of the building…Firefighter Zac Martell on the preconnect hoseline…

Ray arrived to back him up after doing a walk around, and after they made a good knockdown of the fire from the west side….

….Ray decided they should make entry thru the garage doors, so they moved the hoseline back around the residence to the east side and prepared to make entry….

…I should prob note here that no other Sullivan units responded to this call other than Chief Eric….

I left shortly after this last photo, St Clair Fire District arrived as I was leaving….

Sullivan Fire District and MoBap EMS responded to a vehicle accident that occurred under the West Overpass at the 225 exit of eastbound I-44 on October 16th. It was dispatched as a rollover and appeared the vehicle rolled over the guard rails and struck one of the columns supporting the overpass. When I arrived, I observed a male standing on the side of the vehicle, appeared to be an SUV, and was holding one of the doors open…

167 Rollover into Center Columns West Overpass in Sullivan 2022-1016

Sullivan Fire District was dispatched to assist Cuba Fire District with extrication of a semi truck driver that left the eastbound lanes of I-44 about a mile east of the Hwy UU Overpass, in the area of the 212 mile marker. The semi struck a tree and overturned. When I arrived, I drove over to the North Service Road to photograph the accident, there was a long line of fire trucks parked on the shoulder with a few large wreckers mixed in here and there…..

It took firefighters quite a while to extricate the driver from the cab, the trailer believed to be on top of the cab, making things tougher for firefighters and medics to deal with….and once they did, a medical helicopter landed on the eastbound lanes and medical crews transferred the driver to the air unit….

AVI 58 Semi Crash Into Tree EB 44 at 211 MM East of Cuba 2022-1004.AVI

Sullivan Fire District was dispatched to a mobile home fire on Highway 185, south of Sullivan,  just south of Highway A in the 35,000 block of 185,  in the evening hours of Sept 15th.

On their arrival, firefighters discovered the trailer burned to the ground and no one around. Firefighters extinguished the few flames remaining, cancelled mutual aid,  and had Crawford Electric respond to the scene to check for electric…this turned out to be one of many trailer fires in this area….