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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.

A Boeing 777 (for example) is designed to be able to safely land with two blown tires on the main gear. https://simpleflying.com/boeing-777s-main-gear-12-tires/

https://www.oaoa.com/local-news/dark-day-for-odessa-one-firefighter-has-died-5-injured-in-sunday-fire/#google_vignette https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/isai-huerta-dies-odessa-new-details-fire/513-dd448403-8b1f-4604-b521-0e236d02ed6c

Most people know about the Pacific Palisades fire in LA on 1/7/25, but forget about the Eaton Fire on the same date 34 miles east in the San Gabriel Mountains at Altadena. The fire burned 14,120 acres and 9,418 buildings. There were 19 deaths The Palisades Fire burned the homes of millionaires...

The criminal trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, accused of starting the Pacific Palisades fire last year, began last week in Federal Court in LA. He is charged with three felony arson counts. He is accused of starting the fire in a Santa Monica Mountain outlook early on 1/1/2025 because he...

The Novelis aluminum plant finally resumed production last week. FoMoCo must be so happy. Novelis is based in Atlanta and is a subsidiary of Hindalco Industries in India. They presently have a new aluminum automotive sheet rolling mill under construction in Alabama. It is scheduled to begin...

Way back in the day when I was a vollie, my company responded one morning to an electrical fire in a floor tile supply store in a shopping center. The minor fire was in a coffee maker plugged into a wall box right next to the back door. A genius on the pumper puts it out with a dry chemical...