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    Technology Marches On

    Update on alertcalifornia.org This system, as described above, is now up to 1300 camera sites. It is expected to be "complete" at 1800 sites as blind spots are gradually eliminated. The system is based at the University of California San Diego. The annual budget is around $14 million per year...
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    11/11/26 Brooklyn 4th Alarm 10-60 Box 3741

    I assume they are using both GPS and GPS Denied search mapping.
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    FDNY Manual of Radio Procedure Section 11.10 November 1958

    Selected (by me) highlights: 1.4 Brooklyn KEB 525/ Queens KEB 526 on same frequency 154.37 Mc. 1.7 Walkie Talkie Equipment range 1-2 blocks to 1 mile Weight 11 pounds 2.3 Chief Officers Shall: Establish Field Headquarters whenever all companies assigned on first alarm are operating 3.0...
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    Looking back - do you remember

    Don't laugh. there are at least several televangelist ministers who got their start down the road of shiny suits and Rolex watches by preaching on Sunday morning at some drive-in movie theater. One of his kids would run post to post with the collection plate.
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    TACTICAL USE OF FIRE HYDRANTS.

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    11/6/26 Pittsburgh City PA, Structure Fire

    Wow! I'm surprised that this didn't make the national news. First due Engine 20 on Baldwin Road has a small isolated still alarm district comprised of the Hays/Lincoln Place areas across the Monongahela River in southeast Pittsburgh. I don't recall ever hearing them get a job...
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    Tough Morning For Kids- Houston Edition

    https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-heights-townhome-fire-neighbors-catch-children-third-floor/285-ae26b69c-da02-435a-9f85-a4a858f1052b https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/11/05/father-critically-injured-after-family-narrowly-escapes-3-story-house-fire-on-houstons-north-side/
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    Television from a different time

    Only $19.95! Did you flash the tin? Or tell the guy you had a hook with Shirley Chisholm?
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    Chicago Halligan at work

    That's one reason why he's a dues paying member of IAFF Local No 2.
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    Chicago Halligan at work

    Known as the forcible exit procedure.....
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    Fort Apache The Four-One

    Too bad Keith Richards wasn't on the route.
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    Television from a different time

    No Ups! No Extras!
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    Fort Apache The Four-One

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    We Found the Dumbest!

    It took a while, but we finally tracked him down. https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/houston-bering-drive-wrong-apartment-shooting/285-6c607398-2d59-46a9-be1b-de6c205a73bf
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    10/28/26 Bronx All Hands 10-77 Box 2169

    I thought that storing an e-bike in public housing was a crime. If so, that would create the predicate for other crimes like endangerment, injury to a child, etc. And what politician can resist a TV camera?
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