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Kerrville telecommunications center for Kerr County- population 53,000, land area about four times that of New York City Dispatches: Kerrville FD four stations 12 to 14 on duty, 10 volunteer fire companies, Four to six staffed EMS units Police: Kerrville PD, County Sheriff, County Constable...

In the beginning........ In the mid-1950's, my father and Matt Radnofsky worked in a team at the Aeronautical Medical Equipment Laboratory within the Naval Air Material Center adjacent to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Their function was to create, test, and with manufacturers like Goodyear...

Tell those guys they're gonna need a bigger boat. Several years ago north of Houston, some poor dope was killed when he hit a tree down the block from his house in a Tesla. The NTSB estimated it required 30,000 gallons to put out the subsequent fire.

The Palisades Fire arsonist's trial has ended in a mistrial. Going after that loser always seemed like an attempt to direct blame away from the City. Things are gonna really turn ugly. The mob will want someone's head. Politicians will do everything in their power to make sure it isn't one of...

Does Billy Joel need to write another verse? Probably not.

Lol! Quite a show.....or quite a circus? From what I know over the last 50 odd years (back to the former vollie house on England Street) 46's has always been a hand full for some poor chief; not including firefighting. And the best part- second or third due (depending on which side of Fannin...

48 hours down the road, HFD is still operating five engines, two ladders and one medic on the scene. HazMat 22 is still here, but their quarters are just over on Harrisburg Blvd and 78th St. Present heat index is 109 degrees. Seems like a great opportunity for the junior members to get some...

Since they are firefighters, EMS crews in Houston usually have their turn-out gear in a compartment on the ambulance. When the need arises, they can function as a RIT unit as well as satisfy the OSHA two-in-two-out rule.

The next great improvement looks to be right around the corner- led , of course, by the military. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has partnered with NIH and biotech firms to produce artificial blood. This is manufactured in a lab and would at first be liquid and could be...

To impress the world visitors here for the FIFA World Cup, HFD is fighting a huge tire recycling plant fire in East Houston. The fire came in at 1500 hours yesterday when the heat index was 112 degrees. There's no significant exposures and the smoke plume is blowing north and is only creating a...

As of this week, 66 homes have been rebuilt in the Eaton Fire damaged area and another 1,665 are under construction; 16 months after the event. In addition to the usual bureaucratic roadblocks, homeowners are finding out that their insurance replacement policy wouldn't build a replacement. To...

Ask AI on Google carefully written specific questions about the information you are looking for. It may require recrafting the enquiry several times to get AI to understand and look in the right spot. You may be surprised. Good Luck.

One of the features of all species in Nature is that parents teach the next generation how to survive (succeed). We can now remove that feature from New York's next generation. Business organizations already know how to deal with this issue...

Happy Juneteenth! Before it became a national holiday, this day was always a strange one for Houston first-responders. It would be crazy busy and no one would have a clue why. So it joined the mythology of full moons, payday Friday, and that Third of July that fell mid-week. And today it's...

I guess the Knicks Victory Parade will be a 10-39 also, but only a Code 1.