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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.

Wed December 31, 1947 9:40 am responded to 10-2998-3 Inhalator at E 43 civilian 11:13 am Signal 65-2 Dep Chiefs in all Divisions shall cause all available personnel of units in their Divisions to start immediately the opening of curb lane from company quarters to sewer catch basins & to...

I'd like to say I've never made that mistake. I can't. I'd like to say I used Luhn's algorithm to notice the error. I can't. As part of how the trivia world works, the Luhn algorithm is what your credit card company uses to verify your card number. They only need the last number on your card...

Nice pre-arrival photos Can that possibly be the correct Box number? I can think of three Baltimore County stations (11, 1, 14) who could beat those companies into 31's district.

Saturday Dec 27, 1947 8:15 am Members left quarters to clear streets and hydrants of snow. 8:30 am Lieut Phelan left quarters to supervise 12:00 pm Members return 1:16 pm Signal 65-2 Comm Quayle requests former members of the FD volunteer their services for the removal of snow from in front of...

The Christmas Blizzard of 1947....You guys are getting off way too easily! On December 26, 1947 NYC received 26 inches of snow (more than the Blizzard of 1888). Then, on New Year's Day it got a 40 hour ice storm which caused 4,000 fire alarm boxes to fail while coated with ice. Signal 6-6-6-6...