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    Christmas 2025

    Some background context for you "boys"! Christmas week it's supposed to be temperatures in the upper 70's in Houston.
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    Dramatic Grab Early 70's Bronx

    As a kid, Buddy lived at 1585 Odell Street while the Old Man worked an 8 hour platoon at Rescue.
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    Dramatic Grab Early 70's Bronx

    Anthony A. Croce Appointed 5/1/37 Badge # 7246 The uncle?
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    John Davidson, Now 84, Cheated the Red Devil

    Yesterday was Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday. Of more interest, it was John Davidson's Birthday also. On May 28, 1977 Davidson , a well known entertainer, actor, and TV personality was the headliner at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky. He was just about to go onstage when a...
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    Vietnam MIA's...Dialing For Dollars

    As always, the troops are trapped in geopolitical imperatives over which they have no control. The National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia observe that the U.S. has done trade deals, favorable tariffs, and military understandings with Vietnam. Vietnam...
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    Vietnam MIA's...Dialing For Dollars

    The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency estimates there are more than 1500 MIA's from the Vietnam War. Since 2016 that agency has spent $86 million, but resolved only 25 cases. Vietnam used to be a French colony so the country has a well developed bureaucracy skilled in producing paperwork. The...
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    The Ventures/Days of Doo Wop

    Long before the Blues Brothers Band, I heard Sam and Dave and their Twelve Piece Soul Band do "Soul Man" in 1970 at the Fillmore East on Second Avenue and East 6th Street. Although I had no idea who Steve Cropper was, I must have heard Sam and Dave yell "Play it Steve!" through the marijuana...
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    The Ventures/Days of Doo Wop

    Steve Cropper 1941-2925 World Class Guitarist You first heard him in the Mar-Keys Top 10 pop hit "Last Night" in 1961. The you heard him at Sun Records and the mastermind at Stax Records in Memphis. And, of course, The Blues Brothers Band. "PLAY IT, STEVE!"
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    Dallas woman stabs supply line at Structure fire

    Does she hate all men....... or just her father?
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    Balto City Recruit arrested after threatening fellow recruits- he was armed

    Years ago in Houston, two guys on the B Shift at Station 3 got into it. In front of everyone (including the captain), one told the other he was gonna kill him; who spent the rest of the shift locked in the watch office. Something had to be done. Nobody wanted this hothead on their shift. In a...
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    Oswego, NY Third Alarm Burns Wall Street

    Maybe the third time is the charm
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    Houston Third Alarm / Mayday

    https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-condo-fire-plaza-verde-three-alarm-firefighter-mayday/285-64678c09-b433-4cc4-b1a9-3eb86ecfe595 And in other news...
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    Houston FF’s seriously injured in crash

    https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/fire-abandoned-building-westheimer-hillcroft/285-39d925ff-cd96-4f14-b521-b1540cd501e9 https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/house-fire-del-monte-river-oaks/285-d0978352-7fdd-42bf-978e-0f3cc8003989
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