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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?

Local laws are superseded by state mandates. This allows insurance companies to say "No defensive zone, you ain't getting any home owners insurance". "Oh...Well...since you put it THAT WAY!...I guess I'll go ahead and get the changes done." Fire-resilient landscaping is expensive and business...

California is finally refining a response to the wildfire problem that is requiring involvement of homeowners; who have the most to lose. This involves the concept of spaces around the homes Three zones around the house are defined as Zone 0 (0 to 5 ft,), Zone 1 (5 to 30 ft.), and Zone 2 (30...

Baby steps....1/64 inch at a time...just like breaking in a new pair of leather shoes. Other collapse news:

Sorry boys....This ain't the law west of the Pecos River!

The magic phrase is automatic aid. For purposes of fire department classification rating, the Insurance Services Office (ISO) does not consider mutual aid, only automatic aid, for the fire department portion of the calculation of the Class (fire alarm and water supply the rest). Automatic aid...

Margaret Hamilton, aged 90, indispensable for putting an American on the moon, died on September 30, 2026 RIP In the Spring of 1967 Entropychaser was taking a course in college named Computer Science. In class, the professor would fill two blackboards (just like in the movies) with math...

In 1844, Samuel Morse first demonstrated his telegraph and associated code. In 1845 the first firebell-watchtowers in NYC were built. In 1845 Moses Farmer invented a bell-striking device for fire alarms. In 1850 Charles Robinson first uses a Morse telegraph to transmit a fire alarm in NYC and...

Elite mountaineer Jimmy Chin has written a book; "Rules to Live By: How Extraordinary Lives Define What Really Matters." "When the chances of failure are so high and the margins of success are so low, and to chase something that is deeply meaningful to you, that is so core to who you are, and...

For those of us who broke in out in the country with a rural firehouse across from the church and the post office/grocery store in the early 1960's: - The house siren going off during Sunday School or at 2:00am scaring the daylights out of everyone and getting the dogs barking. - A call during...

If that's the corner building at Amsterdam Avenue and West 178th Street, I buffed a third alarm cockloft fire about two in the afternoon in, I think, 1979. There was a tower ladder set up on Amsterdam. I watched the coupling of the supply line blow off the TL and narrowly missed hitting a member.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code_abbreviations

Why not just call the firehouse and ask them if they've got a picture of the rig on the wall in the kitchen?

https://beyondtheflamesandmore.home.blog/2020/04/26/slip-and-pitch-a-brief-history-of-the-50-foot-wheeled-escape-ladder/