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https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/01/01/fireworks-blamed-for-new-years-day-apartment-fire-that-displaced-dozens-in-west-houston/ And the first multiple shooting of the New Year-...

Last Job- E34/L21 First Job- Sq 1/L105 First Multiple-Brooklyn/Crown Heights

In 1900: Ladder 17 (with Fuel Depot 21) - 589 East 143rd Street Ladder 18- 84 Attorney Street Ladder 19- 886 Forest Avenue Ladder 17 Boundaries- Harlem River, 144th Street, Willis Avenue, 138th Street, Alexander Avenue to Harlem River. Ladder 19 Boundaries- East River and Cabot Street, to...

Let me talk you in off the ledge Hoss. - This spill was at least 8 to 10 miles from Galveston Bay. - The environmental crazies and their friends in the news media were disappointed with the facts. - It wasn't in the DuPont rat poison plant in LaPorte, - Never trust water that doesn't have an...

https://abc13.com/post/galveston-man-helped-rescue-survivors-deadly-plane-crash-visits-hospital/18331349/ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w-tT5mF-Sfs

Your story of the Jennings Street Collapse (33-2739 6/6/1974) shows the collapse of the telegraph system It is said that the capacity of the system was three signals per minute. Consider an alarm where two companies on the box are unavailable. The dispatcher has to look at the assignment card...

In 1900, Engine Company 50's quarters are listed as 749 East 166th Street. Engine Company 50's boundaries are: 165th Street, 3rd Avenue, 173rd Street, Park Avenue and 173rd Street and Clay Avenue, Belmont Avenue and Jerome Avenue, to 165th Street.

The computer assisted dispatch system (Starfire) was activated citywide on 10/13/77. In general, this eliminated the need for the boro call procedure. CAD had the ability to rapidly identify available companies nearby (at least those AIQ) and dispatch them in conjunction with the voice alarm...

I don't know who came up with the concept of the "Blue Hulk", but the great Pete Ortell did the graphics for "Big Blue" on the rig at least for the 1979 Mack R and the patch. Pete also did the graphics of Hagar the Horrible running with a burning candle on the 7th Division rig when Deputy...

Bloomfield...I used to live two blocks away back in the day! The home box was 573- Liberty Avenue and South Winebiddle Street. although they could have used 558- Osceola and Cypress Streets. Then, the running assignment was Engines 6, 8, 28, 8 Truck, BC 3, and Squads 3 and 8. Depending on who...

Engine 97 was established in 1931. In 1957, Engine 72 was moved from Downtown to become the second section of Engine 41. Engine 66 was still a fire boat. I am unaware of Bronx ever supplying engines on a boro call. Into the War Years, the Bronx CO frequently had problems providing engine...

Thanks for the above information Ig. All I can say is strange...curious....interesting. It certainly raises questions. All within six months in 1968? At that time the "War Years" was just getting underway and everybody was still "running off the bells". On 1/11/68, temperature was below...

Crazy morning in northeast Houston. Since this job at 0256 hours, HFD has had two other working building fires and a fatal auto- bicycle accident in the same area. None of them were in 19's still alarm district. Those cedar choppers from East Texas aren't accustomed to that much excitement.

Ever any boro calls to or from the Bronx?