Recent content by entropychaser

A disagreement on the fireground? I am shocked...shocked! I only heard the stories, but I would have loved to have seen the late Dick Hannon provide a critique, in person, to some hapless Assistant Chief about his fireground command decisions.

The Novelis aluminum plant in Oswego, as noted above, sustained serious fires on September 16 and November 20, 2025. Right now, repairs are expected to completed by late June. Direct damages are expected to cost at least $255 million. It is hoped that full production will be on line by...

Of course...Tell us who has the axe to grind that's more important?

Hey! Less work for the meter maids.

Sorry Loo. Your overpriced Philadelphia lawyers would be wasting their time. "We don't need no gun control around here." "What we need is thug control."

This afternoon: https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-police-officer-wreck-midtown/285-fa748c36-735b-4f9b-806c-856eabca39a9 About thirty years ago, the building directly behind this building that got hit- on the Milam Street side- was a commercial plumbing outfit. One evening after...

James Paul McCartney was born on June 18, 1942 in Liverpool, England. His father James was a volunteer fireman during the war with the Nation Fire Service. One story circulating was that Paul's father was not present when he was born because he was fighting fires caused by a bombing raid that...

That documentary was tough to watch. I lasted about an hour. It did have great video which put you right in middle of desperate people, in way over their heads, looking for help that was never going to come. My brother lives in LA (three doors down from the Garcia House of Lethal Weapon 2...

As of last month, 74% of properties in the Pacific Palisades were vacant with no permit to rebuild. 4% had been sold.

327 men and women of the London Fire Brigade region lost their lives during WWII hostilities. Over 3,000 were injured and 662 Brigade facilities (out of 875) were damaged or destroyed. The worst single loss occurred on Sunday April 20, 1941 (Hitler's birthday) when a parachute bomb landed on...

Those new owners can expect to be deluged with all sorts of personal injury, wrongful deaths, and property damage lawsuits for failure to secure the premises.

A stove? That's gonna take more than a shopping cart to get it to the recycling yard.

I'd say Herbie is reading this list upside down. Looks like we need to reopen the 5th or maybe the 9th Division (who, as I recall, had no administrative duties). Put them in Robert Moses' old office underneath the Tri-Borough Bridge.

Seems to me that if rank by promotion means anything, Then the ABC needs to grab his mask and get up to the point of attack where he works every day. Would Battalion Chief George Patton let Acting Battalion Chief Beetle Bailey run the show?

Thanks! My older sister has the same birth date. My mother must have been the human Stonehenge of the Epiphany.