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    FDNY Vetting

    The Dental exam requirement started with Department buying horses. Luckily for you guys, they dropped the mandate to obtain only geldings.
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    FF Arrested 🤦

    As if the work place wasn't dangerous enough already!
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    JoAnne Chesimard Gone.....Good Riddance

    Hold on Loo; think of this post like that cod liver oil your mom gave you when you were a kid- good for you. First, that article reflected what a whole bunch of people think who, nine months ago, were running the US government, Also, in 2016 a sitting US President used up a whole lot of...
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    JoAnne Chesimard Gone.....Good Riddance

    I'd refer you to the thread title.
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    JoAnne Chesimard Gone.....Good Riddance

    It's a free country and some people see things differently, https://www.thecollegefix.com/black-student-alliance-hosts-day-long-celebration-for-cop-killer-assata-shakur/
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    JoAnne Chesimard Gone.....Good Riddance

    Joann Chesimard (Assata Shakur) died on 9/25/25 at age 78 in Havana, Cuba. A cop killer on the run from the law since 1979: couldn't outrun Father Time. https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/joanne-deborah-chesimard/download.pdf https://pub.njleg.gov/Bills/2024/SR/23_I1.HTM...
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    Oswego, NY Third Alarm Burns Wall Street

    On September 16th a fire struck the Novelis aluminum plant in Oswego, NY. This plant produces 40% of the aluminum sheet metal used in the US automotive industry. It is expected that the plant will be offline for repairs until next year. Replacement of aluminum sheet inventory will require...
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    Houston Hi-Rise Explosion

    https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/fire-explosion-texas-street-downtown-houston/285-66a5d686-7298-4355-9079-fe04f80e2c94
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    Houston Hi-Rise Explosion

    HFD has responded to an explosion on the 17th floor of a hotel under construction downtown about two hours ago. This was reported as a boiler explosion with five burn injuries. Since it's 91 degrees out today, it certainly wasn't heating the occupancy. This building at Texas and Austin is a...
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    10/1/25 Bronx All Hands 10-60 Box 2154

    Robert Moses/NYCHA were the largest and best known, but they were not alone. In St Louis was the Pruitt-Igoe Project- the architect's next design project was the World Trade Center in New York. In Chicago was the Robert Taylor Homes and Cabrini- Green Project (among others). Mercifully, they...
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    10/1/25 Bronx All Hands 10-60 Box 2154

    Interesting pattern of structural failure. Isn't the only gas source at the bottom of the shaft? Is this a structural failure first with gas problem afterwards? Where is the structural steel? Were the adjacent apartments compromised?
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    (9-28) Newark, NJ, Fourth Alarm Fire

    Grump, just like the dope who reads the news on TV, all I've got is the printed NFD fire alarm stations and assignments from 1957.
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    (9-28) Newark, NJ, Fourth Alarm Fire

    From 1957: Station 3148 Bloomfield Ave. and Webster Street First Alarm Engines 9, 23, 4, 5 Ladders 2, 7 BC 3, Dep 3 Salvage Wagon 1 Second Alarm Engines 22, 2, 7, 28 Ladder 6 BC 1, Rescue Squad 1 Searchlight 1 Relocations E8 to 9, E17 to 15 L2 to 9 Third Alarm Engines 13, 11, 20 Ladder...
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    ANOTHER WAR YEARS VET PASSES.

    Sorry for yet another loss, Cap! To quote my late good friend Captain John McGinnis from 25 Engine of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire: "It's tough when you get to that age where the only exercise you get is burying your friends."
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    VINTAGE FDNY WAR YEAR LIDS

    Rudy Kaminski...Ladder 7
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