Winston-Salem Fire Chief Trey Mayo found himself in the national spotlight last year when a potentially explosive fire threatened the community around the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant.
The Winston-Salem Fire Department is offering free house numbers to city residents as part of its push to improve fire protection during Fire Safety Month in October
"If we had to do it all over again, we would've done a mandatory evacuation and we would have declared a state of emergency," fire Chief Trey Mayo said.
The caller, a man with a clipped accent originating from somewhere in the former British Empire, sounded alarmed but not overly so. Curious or perhaps concerned are better descriptions.