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    The Houston Twin

    One of the members who died on 9/11 was Keithroy Maynard, He was assigned to Ladder 122, but detailed to Engine 33 for the tour. I believe his father was a former Captain at Engine Company 47. At the time, his twin brother Kevin worked in Houston for Continental Airlines. Afterwards, he did...
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    9/14/26 Queens 10-75 Box 4512

    In Houston, this is how they decide when a fire is under control: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hhuXdWXZsAY
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    9/12/26 Bronx 10-21 Box 4451 Mutual Aid Pelham Manor

    Hey! That just might work. Back at the beginning didn't Squad One answer 10-75 Signal citywide for a while?
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    9/12/26 Bronx 10-21 Box 4451 Mutual Aid Pelham Manor

    How come they didn't send the Superpumper to this? Looks like the perfect solution to the problem. Were the tires flat, or is that asset too important to be allowed outside the city limits?
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    Miami Plane Crash 9/6/26 1400 hours

    So much for the Crew Resource Management that was sold to the fire service.
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    La Habra CA (LA County) Hazmat Incident 9/8/26

    It was long before 1970. In 1948 my father-in-law started college in Pasadena. He joked that he was there a year before he realized that the San Gabriel Mountain range was just north of campus.
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    Two Dead, Hundreds Evacuated in Greek Island Wildfire 8/16/26

    In 2007, wildfires almost destroyed Olympia, where the Olympic Games where first played. The Greek government recently passed regulations requiring fire protection measures for Greek antiquities. Now, over 60 Greek archeological sites, some dating back to the Bronze Age, now have built in fire...
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    Miami Plane Crash 9/6/26 1400 hours

    The definitive comment
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    Manhattan 2026 First Due and Greater Alarm Statistics

    Let me explain it another way- If you are from out of town and want to stay in a nice hotel in a nice neighborhood, you go to the Eighth Battalion. If, on the other hand, in the old days, you were a sailor off a newly docked boat from Timbuktu, sober enough to not get hit by a locomotive along...
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    Looking back - do you remember

    Economists would characterize that activity as the best and highest use of an asset.
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    Did They Move 103 Back To Staten Island?

    Urban renewal never stops in East New York! The place now looks like Mayberry Wonder if they were going to Aunt Bea's house,
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    8/27/26 Bronx All Hands Box 4075

    I'll bet EMS has tougher runs then that. Last week in Houston...1400hrs in the afternoon...school day....102 degrees out...HFD had 87 active incidents in progress...couple of building fires winding down, 8-10 still alarms; everything else EMS. The most recent on the list was an EMS call in far...
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    ERS & Pullbox in service

    I vaguely remember that FDNY released a review of ERS-no contact response policy history from years ago. And I vaguely remember that over "thousands" of no contact alarms, there were five (5) actual fires; all of which were reported by telephone within 200 seconds after receipt of the ERS signal.
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    Woman Jumps to Safety in Tower Ladder . . . Berlin Germany 8/15/26

    Heaven knows why, but Chicago purchased a 135' Morita aerial on a Hendrickson chassis in 1975 (Shop# E-197). It was quartered at Truck Company One on S. Wells St. in the Loop. They got rid of it in 1987 due to unsafe riding positions. Shortly after they got the rig the Captain of Truck One...
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    FDNY vs MTA MVA

    Is it too late to get on the bus (and I'll even pay the fare)? Asking for a friend.
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