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It' always something! First it was stealing copper wiring. Then it was stealing catalytic converters for platinum. Now it's stealing grave markers for bronze. Scrap bronze sells for around $3 a pound, and around $8.7 billion were sold last year. Drug users are responsible for most of this...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/01/15/10-units-destroyed-in-large-apartment-fire-in-north-houston/ This is in Engine 84's still district. After the first alarm, it's gonna be a long wait for help A good friend of mine worked as a paramedic at Station 74 out there years ago. He...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/01/14/homeless-man-charged-with-arson-in-fire-that-burned-down-abandoned-church-docs-say-man-started-fire-to-keep-warm/ In addition to homeless, they might add crazy. It was 60 degrees and sunny when he torched the place.

https://www.khou.com/video/news/local/beltway-8-back-open-after-hazmat-response-to-tanker-fire-near-beechnut/285-96cfdada-de41-4b43-8599-ab7d84e46c16 https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/memorial-city-mall-evacuated-ammonia-leak/285-d6c8f92b-3877-49ed-94e3-c3abd6c468d5 On Sunday morning...

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/building-fire-west-loop-south/285-3685d58e-67fe-4c17-8770-11bc0d2cd691 This building used to be the United States headquarters of ARAMCO, aka Saudi Aramco, owned by Saudi Arabia and is the largest oil producer in the world. They moved out several years...

Did any Senators think to ask about when Mack is gonna start making fire trucks again?

Speaking of ripping, according to the national news media, I see the Philadelphia Shipyard is going from desolate to the busiest shipyard in the United States. Started before the Revolutionary War, it was an important part of the birth of the United States Navy . It was building one ship per...

AI finally found this...It was 2007 in Porter, Texas and 42's had to get a Coast Guard helicopter to complete the job. I forgot that.

These folks must have relatives in Texas. I'm guessing it was five to ten years ago about fifty miles northeast of Houston. This guy's exotic pet bird gets loose and flies into nearby woods where it lands way up in some tall tree. The dope, frantic about his stupid bird, climbs up the tree to...

3511's observations are correct. Everyone knows price controls are terrible yet rent control persists. The problem in New York is there are more renters than landlords voting. It has been said that the only thing more effective than rent control to destroy housing stock in a city is aerial...

Congratulations to her. She'll do just fine. She has taken a lot of unfair criticism for not having any firefighting command experience. People forget that previous Fire Commissioners have included the Brooklyn Postmaster and a brother-in-law of the New York Governor. So we know the bar for...

Has the new Mayor had a chance to see his Fire Department in action protecting his citizens yet? Has the new Mayor checked on or visited his injured Firefighters?

I think this right down the road from the old Quaker Meeting House.

Crowded occupancy, no sprinklers, alcohol, young people, sparklers (1000 degrees F). Who thought that was gonna end well? When I posted John Davidson's biography here several weeks ago, I didn't think the next episode would be so soon.

This used to be part of Allegheny City (now the North Side) until annexed into Pittsburgh in 1907. Then on Sandusky Street, Engine 6 and Truck A became PBF Engine and Truck Co 46 in the Fifth Battalion. In 1952 they moved into new quarters at 507 Union Avenue at East Ohio Street. My good friend...